XenSource and Citrix Collaborate to Extend Xen into Windows Desktop Virtualization

XenSource and Citrix Collaborate to Extend Xen into Windows Desktop Virtualization

XenEnterprise to provide Windows desktop support for deployment within Citrix Desktop Broker

PALO ALTO, Calif. – October 23, 2006 – XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen™ hypervisor, today announced that it will work with Citrix Systems, Inc., to provide Microsoft Windows® desktop support for deployment within the Citrix Dynamic Desktop Initiative. The solution is a brokering solution which will operate with XenEnterprise, a commercially-packaged server virtualization solution based on the Xen hypervisor, to provision the appropriate virtualized desktop environment.

“We see strong demand in the desktop virtualization market for XenEnterprise which will be shipping with support for Windows XP this quarter. We also believe that the unique combination of XenEnterprise, Citrix Desktop Broker and the new processors from Intel and AMD present a very compelling proposition for any organization planning to deploy the solution today,” said John Glendenning, vice president worldwide sales at XenSource. “Citrix invented and established the whole market around a hosted Windows desktop and we are delighted to be working closely with them on this initiative.”

The relationship between XenSource and Citrix will improve how the Windows operating system functions on the Xen hypervisor by allowing for the Desktop Broker to determine the optimal desktop environment, enabling it to provision the appropriate virtualized desktop environment based on a number of factors including security, application type and user type. A user will be able to have their desktop provisioned through a Terminal Server or virtualized Windows XP-based environment. In addition to the technical interoperability, as a result of this partnership, Citrix and XenSource have joined each others partner programs to support the combined solution and further Xen virtualization.

“We are very pleased to have XenSource as a partner within the Citrix Dynamic Desktop Initiative” said Scott Herren, group vice president and general manager, Virtualization Systems Group at Citrix Systems. “XenEnterprise complements Citrix technologies extremely well.”

For more information, visit: www.xensource.com.

About XenEnterprise
XenEnterprise is a multi-OS virtualization solution for the enterprise market that offers all of the performance advantages of the Xen 3.0 hypervisor and enables enterprise IT groups to rapidly deploy the XenTM hypervisor. Based on Xen 3.0, XenEnterprise delivers a full virtualization solution for single or multiple operating system environments, including Windows and Linux. The benefits from increased server utilization result in efficiency and savings on data center management and operational costs.

XenEnterprise includes the following key features:
Easy to use: XenEnterprise offers Xen and guest operating system installers P2V tools and a comprehensive management toolkit into a single package to enable customers to quickly build and manage a running virtualization infrastructure.
Superior performance: XenEnterprise offers near-native performance and fine-grained resource control for guest virtual servers, and virtualizes all x86 operating systems, leveraging the hardware virtualization capabilities of Intel® VT and AMD® SVM enabled processors.
Lowest Total Cost of Ownership: XenEnterprise delivers dramatic improvements in server utilization, reducing capital expenditures and infrastructure management costs.

About Xen
The Xen hypervisor is the industry-standard open source infrastructure virtualization software created and maintained by the founders of XenSource, Inc., and developed collaboratively by 20 of the world’s most innovative data center solution vendors. Xen allows multiple virtual server instances to run concurrently on the same physical server, with near native performance and per-virtual server performance guarantees. The technology is being adopted world wide in enterprise datacenters to increase server utilization, support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of ownership.

About XenSource
XenSource, Inc. develops the leading enterprise grade platform virtualization solution, XenEnterprise™, based on the industry’s highest-performance virtualization technology, the open source Xen™ hypervisor. Founded and run by the Xen development team, XenSource products allow enterprises to realize the TCO savings that result from server consolidation, increased utilization, and reduced complexity in the datacenter. For more information, visit http://www.xensource.com.

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