Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, and Dell Inc. today announced a partnership to make server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all sizes. By offering Citrix XenServer™ OEM Edition across Dell’s PowerEdge server line in the coming year, the companies will bring built-in, easy-to-use virtual machine installation and management to millions of Dell customers worldwide.
“Our goal is to simplify IT for our customers. By integrating standards-based software such as XenServer on our server platforms, we’ll be able to remove the cost and complexity associated with virtualization technology-delivering choice and flexibility while making it ubiquitous for customers of all sizes,” said Rick Becker, vice president of solutions, Dell Product Group. “This is a simplified, business-ready solution where customers can install and manage virtual machines almost immediately upon start up, then easily upgrade to a broad, multi-server solution as soon as they are ready.”
"We are pleased to sign such a significant agreement with Dell. This agreement will leverage Dell's leadership in the server market, providing Citrix XenServer products with broad reach into the millions of Dell customers worldwide," said Frank Artale, vice president of business development for Citrix Systems. "Helping customers achieve ten minutes to Xen has been our goal from the beginning, and an embedded hypervisor helps further simplify virtualization by allowing customers to work with their existing server vendors and providing them with a frictionless experience."
As part of the agreement, Citrix XenServer will support Dell OpenManage™ and Dell will offer the more comprehensive multi-server Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition as a standalone product or as an easy software license key upgrade from the embedded XenServer OEM Edition. Additionally, XenServer OEM Edition and XenServer Enterprise will be tested, qualified, and supported by Dell.
This offering with Citrix and XenServer reinforces Dell’s drive to Simplify IT and deliver complete business-ready virtualization solutions to customers with server and storage offerings designed from the ground up to be optimized for virtualization deployments. Dell virtualization and assessment services help customers design and implement practical, reliable and comprehensive virtualization solutions for current and future needs with lower TCO and a single point of accountability.
“Dell has created a valuable addition to its servers by including Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition as part of its solution,” said John S. Lawler II, systems administrator at ATS Ohio Inc. “I have watched the product mature at a head spinning rate over the past year and continue to be excited at what the future holds with product enhancements and expansion of the entire XenServer product line.”
Citrix XenServer OEM Edition is fully compatible and license-key upgradeable to Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition. Introduced in August 2007, Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4 includes XenMotion™ for live migration of running virtual machines; XenCenter™, a scalable, resilient virtual infrastructure management framework integrated into every host; an open, standards-based XenAPI that enables ISVs and OEMs to develop add-on solutions for XenServer Enterprise Edition; and, a powerful 64-bit hypervisor that supports both 32- and 64-bit enterprise workloads.
To ensure an easy upgrade and uninterrupted access to these added-value features, both Citrix XenServer OEM Edition and Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition will be resident in firmware on the system.
Pricing and Availability
Dell expects to begin shipping servers embedded with Citrix XenServer OEM Edition in Q1 2008.
Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4 is available now. Pricing for Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition starts at $1,599 for an annual subscription license per dual socket server, and $2,499 perpetual license per dual socket server. Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition can also be purchased directly from Dell or an authorized reseller. For more information, visit: http://www.dell.com/virtualization.
About Citrix XenServer Virtualization Products
For customers seeking to reduce the number of under-utilized servers in their IT infrastructure, Citrix XenServer 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, Citrix XenServer products supports both Windows and Linux servers. Citrix XenServer 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. Citrix XenServer products are being adopted worldwide in enterprises to increase server utilization, support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of ownership.
About Dell
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About iForum 07 - The App Delivery Expo
Now in its tenth year, the Citrix App Delivery Expo is the industry’s largest conference focused entirely on application delivery infrastructure, bringing together thousands of business leaders, IT managers and technology leaders from around the world. Application delivery infrastructure best practices will be highlighted in more than 60 sessions, including keynotes and general sessions from analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Yankee Group, as well as industry leaders like Accenture, Dell, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP. The conference also features 15 enterprise customer presentations, vendor exhibits, technology labs, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions, and product demonstrations. The event will present thought leaders and cutting-edge technology behind some of the hottest trends in the market, including virtualization, desktop delivery and application networking. Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, from October 22-25, 2007, the Citrix App Delivery Expo will also feature keynotes by Citrix executives including Mark Templeton, president and CEO. More information is available at http://www.citrixiforum.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.
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