XenServer 5 is here with loads of new features. They have optimized it to work more efficiently with XenApp, improved disaster recovery, lots of VM sorting tools such as tags, and lots more! Check it all out at http://www.xenserver5.com/
Recently, several sources have speculated as to whether or not Microsoft is planning to purchase Citrix. Some sources said that Microsoft would buy Citrix before VMware’s VMworld Conference, but clearly that did not happen. However, it is thought that an announcement, if at all, might be made in the next few days.
This raises the question…why? [...]
Earlier this week Citrix both announced and re-branded their flagship presentation layer virtualization product: “XenApp 5″ formerly Presentation Server (formerly MetaFrame). It touts lower price points, drastic performance improvements (up to 10x faster launch times), and a much better end-user experience. In addition, Citrix has now created a unified product line to handle all of [...]
Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days. This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic. Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]
This month, the Xen hypervisor was named the “Best of Open Source Software (BOSSIE)” award for the category of server virtualization from InfoWorld. This is a fairly high-profile accolade for Citrix to put in their portfolio. This is especially so, considering that open-source (Xen) is doing things at a very high level that Microsoft has [...]
Today Citrix has launched their new line of desktop virtualization product. It is available in 5 different editions: free express, standard, advanced, enterprise, and platinum editions. The free Express Edition offers virtualization for upto 10 users, and each edition adds more functionality. You can read more about these editions here. Definitely check out the free [...]
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced today the availability of Citrix XenServer virtualization software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdgeTM servers. It will be available in the Express and Enterprise Editions and will be the only virtualization solution to be fully integrated with the Dell OpenManage System Management software. For full details check out http://www.citrix.com/dell or http://www.dell.com/xenserver.
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The latest version of Xen Server (3.2.0) was released late last week. This new release adds many new features to its user community such as:
ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support
Limited PCI passthrough on new Intel and AMD virtualization based hardware
Xen Security Modules — XSM
Faster emulation of standard VGA modes
Available today in Tarball at: http://xen.org/download/
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