Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application
delivery infrastructure, today announced the availability of Citrix
XenServer™ software factory integrated on Dell
PowerEdge™ servers. Building on the announcement
made on October 23, 2007, Citrix and Dell Inc. have partnered to
make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers
of all sizes. The initial products now available to Dell customers
worldwide include the Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition and Citrix
XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition as part of factory-integrated
solutions designed to make it even easier for customers to begin
implementing their virtualization strategies. The Citrix XenServer Dell
products are the only virtualization solutions to feature integrated
Dell management agent technology. As a result, customers can use the
same familiar Dell OpenManage System Management software on their
existing Dell servers to help increase server and storage utilization.
By coupling Citrix XenServer with Dell’s
PowerEdge servers, the companies bring built-in, easy-to-use virtual
machine installation and management to millions of Dell customers
worldwide.
“We already use Citrix XenApp for application
virtualization, so selecting Citrix XenServer for server virtualization
was a great choice because it simplified our end-to-end virtualization
strategy from the datacenter to the desktop,”
said Scott Stanaland, Network Administrator, C.C. Dickson Company. “XenServer
integrated with Dell servers is a win-win because now it is even easier.
And it is a great value-add to have a single management console for our
virtualization needs.”
Citrix XenServer is a simple, efficient way to virtualize servers and
help deliver a dynamic data center—a flexible,
aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. By
factory-integrating Citrix XenServer into Dell PowerEdge platforms,
Citrix and Dell will provide a simpler deployment and management
environment that speeds adoption of flexible, cost-saving server
virtualization technology, making it the optimal choice for
virtualization on Dell systems. Highlights include:
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Quick Start-up – An embedded
hypervisor and intuitive interface into Citrix XenServer Dell Editions
ensure easy installation.
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OpenManage Integration – The
only virtualization solution integrated with Dell OpenManage, Citrix
XenServer management console allows users to monitor and manage
physical and virtual machines from a single console, with simple drag
and drop controls.
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High performance – With a
thin layer of code, true 64-bit hypervisor architecture and
use of hardware virtualization optimization from Intel®
and AMD®, Citrix XenServer enables
customers to realize high performance with little overhead.
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Cost-effective Live Migration – The
XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition does not require additional
management licenses or hardware, and upgrades are as simple as a
license key. As a result, advanced virtualization features unique to
Citrix XenServer, such as live migration on Dell’s
MD3000 direct attached storage arrays, are more accessible and simpler
to use.
“Dell is dedicated to simplifying IT for our
customers and our partnership with Citrix enables us to further ease the
complexity of virtualization,” said Rick
Becker, vice president of solutions, Dell Product Group. “The
power of Citrix virtualization software with the affordability of Dell
solutions can help customers quickly leverage virtualization technology
with minimal risk and immediate return-on-investment, while knowing they
can easily upgrade to a larger solution as their requirements increase.”
“We have been using Citrix XenServer with an
MD3000i storage array and found it to be a cost-effective solution for
advanced virtualization functionality,” said
John S. Lawler II, systems administrator at ATS Ohio Inc. “The
integration of XenServer with Dell servers will further simplify our
adoption and deployment of virtualization and we are excited to go to
the next level of this technology without worrying about increased
complexity.”
End-to-End Virtualization
After implementing Citrix XenServer, Dell customers can easily take
advantage of Citrix’s application and desktop
virtualization solutions to make their IT infrastructure more flexible
and dynamic. Citrix XenApp™ for application
virtualization stores all Windows applications in a single central store
in the datacenter and delivers them to end users on-demand via
innovative application virtualization technology. Citrix XenDesktop™,
scheduled to be available May 20, is the industry’s
first comprehensive, fully integrated desktop delivery system, moving
beyond the limitations of existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
point solutions to ensure the simple, secure, fast delivery of Windows
desktops to any office worker over any network.
“Citrix XenServer is a simple and effective
way to virtualize servers for customers of all sizes, but as the only
integrated virtualization solution to provide built-in support for Dell
OpenManage, we make it even easier for customers to reap the benefits of
server virtualization,” said Peter Levine,
senior vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Management
Division, Citrix. “It is an exciting time for
virtualization technology as it becomes a natural extension of the
hardware platform, enabling companies of all sizes to easily and
affordably increase server and storage utilization, while reducing
equipment and energy costs.”
Citrix XenServer has also been tested and certified on Dell PowerVault
MD3000, MD3000i and EqualLogic storage arrays, providing Dell customers
with a proven solution for their storage and server virtualization
needs. Announced today from Citrix partner Egenera is the Dell PAN™
system, with integrated Citrix XenServer management, providing a
complete disaster recovery and high availability infrastructure
virtualization solution for large enterprise data centers.
Pricing and Availability
Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition and Enterprise Editions are
available now. Pricing for PowerEdge servers integrated with Citrix
XenServer is available at www.dell.com/poweredge.
More information, including self-running demos of the new product, are
available at www.citrix.com/dell
and www.dell.com/citrixnow.
Citrix recently made virtualization even more accessible with its new
per-server licensing model for Citrix XenServer. As a result, customers
can now deploy an unlimited number of virtual machines or guest
operating systems on each physical server for a single low price,
regardless of whether it has one, two or four CPU sockets.
About Citrix XenServer
Citrix XenServer, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family,
is an enterprise-class solution for virtualizing application workloads
across any number of servers in the datacenter as a flexible aggregated
pool of computing resources. With the new Platinum Edition, XenServer
becomes the first and only solution on the market to address both
virtual and physical servers, making the entire datacenter more dynamic.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most
trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000
organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to
users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest
cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies
and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of
thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately
7,680 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual
revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.
For Citrix Investors
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