Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix’s Virtualization Management group, contacted me after reading the post, Citrix versus the Xen community, to clear up some misconceptions that he thought were the basis of ...

Citrix has introduced updates to XenServer, its free virtualization platform, and to Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V, its virtualization management package. The new 5.5 release of ...

Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in ...

Rackspace has built its Windows-based cloud service on top of Citrix’s XenServer hypervisor, rather than the more basic open source version of Xen, and plans to move its whole cloud infrastructure ...

Virtualisation software house Citrix Systems' Xenserver hypervisor has been certified for use on IBM System X and BladeCenter Servers. 'The rigorously pre-tested configurations enable customers to ...

Citrix aims to beat VMware at virtualization. A year ago it bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and switched the Citrix business focus to ...

Citrix XenServer is a commercial implementation of the open source Xen virtualization solution. Citrix has extended the base Xen engine with management tools and tightened up various components ...

Yesterday was a good day for Citrix and the virtualization community. Citrix launched XenServer 5.5, its free and feature rich server virtualization solution, as well as its advanced toolset called ...

In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday ...

XenServer’s hardware support was second only to that in Novell’s Xen implementation, which has a slight advantage because it runs on any hardware supported by the Novell SLES 10 Linux distribution.

The new pricing allows customers to deploy an unlimited number of virtual machines per server at a single price, and applies to all editions of XenServer, including of XenServer 4.1 that was also ...

Citrix Systems Inc. has announced the first new releases to its server virtualization product line since it acquired XenSource Inc., an enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure system provider, last ...