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XenServer 5 review
Reviews Much like the market-leading VMware ESX server, XenServer is a hypervisor that loads and runs directly on a bare server, rather than as an application on a host OS. More details on XenServer editions are available on Citrix's web site.
[November 18, 2008, 10:40]
Citrix releases major XenServer upgrade
News Citrix has pushed out promised updates to XenServer and to Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V, the first major upgrades since it made XenServer a free product in February. As part of its announcement on Tuesday, the company also launched...
[June 17, 2009, 15:29]
Citrix XenServer now available free of charge
News Citrix on Monday announced that its enterprise-ready XenServer application is now available at no charge, a move the company hopes will help boost adoption of its open-source virtualisation platform. The free version of XenServer is now available...
[March 31, 2009, 17:21]
Citrix offers cut-down XenServer for free
News Citrix on Monday upped competition in the virtualisation market with the announcement that it will provide a version of its XenServer hypervisor for free. Users can get a single server instance of XenServer, said Simon Crosby, chief technical...
[February 23, 2009, 13:47]
Citrix will offer free XenServer, reports say
Blog On Wednesday it appeared that Citrix was about to declare that it was offering its flagship virtualisation software, XenServer, for free, a move that might immediately revitalise the company’s presence in the virtualisation market.
[February 19, 2009, 12:45]
Citrix updates XenServer and Essentials
News Citrix has introduced updates to XenServer, its free virtualisation platform, and to Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V, its virtualisation management package. The new 5.5 release of XenServer, which Citrix began offering as a free...
[May 7, 2009, 17:52]
Citrix releases cloud suite, new XenServer 5
News Citrix Systems has launched a cloud-computing suite based on its XenServer virtualisation technology, a new version of which was also released on Monday. It uses a new 'cloud edition' of XenServer for server virtualisation and all the products...
[September 15, 2008, 14:59]
Microsoft to support Citrix XenServer 5
News As a result of a new agreement, they will announce that Microsoft is validating version 5 of the XenServer hypervisor, Citrix's virtualisation software, for use with the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
[September 11, 2008, 16:47]
Citrix targets VMware users in switchover push
News Citrix on Wednesday announced a package of incentives to encourage companies to switch from VMware's virtualisation products to those supported by Citrix Essentials, the company's virtualisation management software — including its own XenServer or...
[October 15, 2009, 16:07]
Citrix: Cloud to carry Xen against VMware
News Even with something like XenServer, because there's a free version, we keep stumbling into customers — particularly people doing software as a service, where it all runs on XenServer Express Edition [the free unsupported version of XenServer].
[October 27, 2008, 14:35]
Xen: The start-up in Citrix clothing
News We can make sure that [Citrix's] Xen Desktop works well with XenServer, for example. As part of the process, Citrix made the XenServer virtualisation software central to its strategy, and appointed XenSource staff to senior executive positions.
[October 29, 2008, 6:47]
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualisation
News In addition, the hardware maker's Primergy rack and blade servers are now certified for Citrix's XenServer virtualisation software. The partners also plan to intregrate XenServer and Citirix Essentials for XenServer with Primergy server management...
[July 9, 2009, 16:21]
HP offers Parallels virtualisation on Integrity servers
News HP and Parallels (formerly SWsoft) are coming into a highly competitive market dominated by hypervisor-based vitualisation from companies like market leaders VMware and Citrix, with its XenServer. Parallels' containers partition an operating system...
[July 2, 2008, 17:26]
Bare metal hypervisors: a group test review
Reviews Citrix XenServer This is the maximum configuration possible for all the servers, except for XenServer, which supports up to eight virtual CPUs. Downloading XenServer from Citrix is simple. In today's market, VMware still retains dominant share, but...
[June 1, 2009, 0:00]
XenSource seeks to emerge from VMware's shadow
News XenSource's midrange product, XenServer v4, includes as standard features: XenCenter, a 64-bit hypervisor and XenAPI. XenServer v4 does not include XenMotion, but the previous limits on guest virtual machines (VMs) and memory will be removed, the...
[August 15, 2007, 14:15]
A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors
White Papers Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this paper present comparative results from an assessment of XenSource's XenServer virtualization product family using...
[January 30, 2009, 7:12]
Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
White Papers You'll discover how Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop work independently, and in concert, to dramatically reduce your carbon footprint as well as your power costs. Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for...
[October 7, 2009, 14:17]
When will virtualisation be real?
Blog You would think that Citrix would be ready for this kind of thing and have a Citrix XenServer story up its sleeve wouldn’t you? According to Citrix, “XenServer 5 changes the game in server virtualisation with unprecedented reliability, openness and...
[September 15, 2008, 20:11]
Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils
News There are four main offerings from the company now: Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix NetScaler and Citrix XenApp (what was Citrix Presentation Server). XenServer has a new version number, 4.1, is now available at four different prices...
[February 11, 2008, 15:44]
Dell unveils blade servers for virtualisation
News Dell offers a choice of three hypervisors — Citrix's XenServer, VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V — while the servers can be bundled with integrated support for Hyper-V. Dell has introduced two new blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and M805, geared...
[September 11, 2008, 17:50]
