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 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: 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]
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]
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...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
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]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 review
Reviews The ability to manage VMware virtual machines is also scheduled to be included at that time, with support for XenServer VMs to follow a little later. On the downside, you can't dynamically allocate resources to virtual machines, or migrate virtual...
[February 28, 2008, 11:11]
Citrix Rebrands Presentation Server As XenApp 5
News Its new name shows that the tool now sits firmly in a family with XenServer and XenDesktop. Citrix's flagship Presentation Server software was revamped and renamed on Monday. From now on, the software will be known as XenApp 5.
[August 26, 2008, 18:30]
Symantec Goes Virtual With Backup
News Symantec's vice president for product management, Pat Hanavan, said that the company was looking at supporting Citrix's virtualisation platform XenServer. Symantec announced on Monday the upgrade of its two core Backup Exec products, which now...
[September 15, 2008, 16:57]
Vizioncore Updates VConverter Virtualisation Tool
News It works with Microsoft, Virtual Iron, VMware and XenServer environments, enabling customers to migrate workloads between the platforms. Virtualisation-management specialist Vizioncore announced a new version of its physical-to-virtual and virtual...
[September 15, 2008, 14:55]
Rivals Launch Competing Virtualisation Products
News XenSource's Windows-specific virtualisation product is called XenServer. XenSource and Virtual Iron, two companies trying to profit from adoption of open-source Xen virtualisation software, announced free new versions of their products on Monday.
[December 12, 2006, 8:42]
I Wandered Lonely As An Unmanaged Cloud Service
Blog The company says that its product is currently managing over 3,500 VMware and XenServer virtualisation deployments. Would you be suspicious if a piece of software claimed to be the first product capable of monitoring the “entire” enterprise...
[November 12, 2008, 7:47]
Virtualisation: The Race Is On To Corner The Market
Articles Citrix bought XenSource in 2007 and adopted its XenServer products. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft be enough to dislodge VMware from its place at the top of the tree? Virtualisation is perhaps the hottest topic in...
[September 18, 2008, 16:11]
