The Citrix XenServer Product Group plays the dual role of leading the open source Xen™ community, while simultaneously selling value-added enterprise solutions based on Xen technology. From its beginnings as XenSource, which was founded and run by the original Xen development team, the group is committed to nurturing and growing the Xen community, and dedicates a significant amount of its own engineering resources to developing open source technology to maintain the Xen hypervisor's position as the world’s fastest and most secure hypervisor.
In addition to its open source efforts, the XenServer Product Group develops, markets, and sells value-added solutions and services based on the Xen hypervisor, including enterprise grade virtualization infrastructure solutions. These solutions allow enterprises to realize the TCO savings that result from increased server utilization, server consolidation, and reduced complexity in the data center.
Xen technology is a catalyst for change in the industry. It is an open source standard for virtualization that unites vendors and customers alike around a single, enterprise-grade, secure and efficient hypervisor technology.
Our founding principle is to ensure ubiquitous adoption of the open source Xen hypervisor to catalyze the adoption of virtualization in the enterprise. A single Xen code base, wholly open sourced and developed openly by the Xen community, is key to delivering a standard that all players in the Xen ecosystem can rely on, reducing risk, speeding development and delivering maximum benefit to customers.