PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 13, 2007 – XenSource, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class virtualization solutions based on the high-performance open source Xen virtualization platform, today announced several new integrated solutions made possible by the release of XenEnterprise™ v4. With the secure, remoteable XenAPI feature, XenSource partners are provided with an SDK and DDK, as well as a storage back-end SR API for vendor specific enhanced storage functionality.
“It is the XenSource strategy to offer customers the highest-quality and most feature-rich solutions by partnering with industry-leading ISV companies, said Frank Artale, VP of business development at XenSource. “XenSource focuses entirely on building the best, highest-performance virtualization platform and then leverages this rich partner ecosystem to offer customers best-of-breed solutions to meet their specific needs.”
New solutions coming to market based on XenEnterprise v4 include:
Citrix Desktop Server integrated with XenEnterprise provides customers with a centralized management infrastructure for delivering desktops dynamically from the datacenter as a secure, on-demand service, resulting in lower operational costs, decreased risk, and an improved end user experience. “We’ve found XenEnterprise v4 to be a robust and high performance virtualization platform that is easy to configure and ideal for virtual desktop delivery, Mick Hollison, vice president of Desktop Delivery at Citrix Systems.
With XenEnterprise v4, software developers can now use rPath’s rBuilder and rBuilder Online to create XenSource Virtual Appliances (XVA). Virtual appliance best practices are automatically incorporated into the process, and the ability to create the XVA format for XenEnterprise v4 has been fully integrated and tested. “With native support for XenEnterprise, rBuilder is now the fastest and most reliable way for developers to harness the power of XenEnterprise. Hand-crafted appliances simply can't compete with world class build automation and application lifecycle management,” stated Brett Adam, vice president of engineering for rPath.
The Compellent Storage Center SAN builds on its Dynamic Block Architecture to deliver a scalable, virtualized storage system designed to effortlessly integrate with XenEnterprise V4 environments, which lowers overall costs with automated tiered storage, boot from SAN, thin provisioning and remote replication over IP. "With the newly available storage API, Compellent's storage virtualization technology can be easily and seamlessly integrated with XenEnterprise to significantly reduce the time needed to implement XenSource virtual servers," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing for Compellent.
The integration of VMLogix LabManager with XenEnterprise provides XenSource customers with a reliable, feature-rich and cost-effective virtual lab management solution for enterprise software delivery. The solution allows developers, testers and support engineers to easily create, share and deploy multi-machine build, test and support environments. “Our partnership with XenSource and integration with XenEnterprise v4 underscores our commitment to provide customers with enterprise-class virtual lab automation for accelerating global software delivery, consolidating and improving utilization of lab infrastructure, and eliminating virtual and physical machine sprawl,” said Ravi Gururaj, founder and CTO, VMLogix.
INSYSTEK® provides XenEnterprise customers with the ability to manage virtual and physical infrastructures. INSYSTEK’s distributed services architecture provides unparalleled levels of automation, compliance, accountability, serviceability, and efficiency. “We are excited to be partnering with XenSource to provide enterprise solutions to customers looking for superior virtualization platforms that will increase their server/desktop utilization and reduce IT cost,” said Alex Turner, founder and CEO, INSYSTEK.
Platform VM Orchestrator™ is now fully integrated with XenEnterprise. Built on Platform Computing’s proven grid technology, it is a complete VM solution that offers best of breed dynamic resource management, and self-service functionality all from a common web-based management console. “XenSource is quickly becoming a leader in the virtualization space. Platform VM Orchestrator extends XenEnterprise’s core capabilities and delivers policy-based dynamic resource management, and self-service management functionality,” said Jingwen Wang, vice president of products, Platform Computing.
SteelEye LifeKeeper Protection Suite monitors, replicates and recovers critical applications and data residing on either physical servers or within XenEnterprise-based Linux and Windows guest OSes. “As a major advocate of virtualization technology, SteelEye congratulates XenSource on this very important milestone,” said Bob Williamson, senior vice president of products, SteelEye Technology. “XenEnterprise v4 delivers a virtualization platform offering advanced features that any organization deploying Linux and Windows applications within a guest OS should investigate.”
VirtualAppliances.net will enable the creation of XenEnterprise-ready, self-contained XVA Virtual Appliances providing instant application deployment in a nano-sized package. Designed with regular computer users in mind, virtual appliances make application deployments on XenEnterprise easy to install and operate. “As content providers in the virtualization marketplace we are very pleased with the quality of XenEnterprise v4, the reliability of the platform and the ease of installation and management,” said Stephen Dennis, president of VirtualAppliances.net.
A complete list of XenSource Technology Partners and related solutions can found on the XenSource website at http://www.xensource.com/partners/find_partner.html.
For customers seeking to reduce the number of under-utilized servers in their IT infrastructure, XenSource virtualization products help dramatically reduce server hardware and operating costs through savings on power, space, cooling, and system maintenance. Offering high performance virtualization within an easy to use virtualization platform, XenSource supports both Windows and Linux servers. XenSource products are based on the Xen™ hypervisor, and offer easy to use Windows and Linux virtualization solutions with built-in virtual machine lifecycle management, at breakthrough price and performance. XenSource products are being adopted worldwide in enterprises to increase server utilization, support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of ownership.
XenSource is the leading provider of enterprise virtualization solutions based on Xen™, founded by the inventors of the open source virtualization engine known as the Xen™ hypervisor. Companies worldwide deploy and trust XenSource products to increase resiliency and reliability of their business operations, improve the speed and agility of their IT investments, improve security and 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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