Citrix XenServer Now Factory Integrated on Dell PowerEdge Servers

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced the availability of Citrix XenServer™ software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge™ servers. Building on the announcement made on October 23, 2007, Citrix and Dell Inc. have partnered to make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all sizes. The initial products now available to Dell customers worldwide include the Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition and Citrix XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition as part of factory-integrated solutions designed to make it even easier for customers to begin implementing their virtualization strategies. The Citrix XenServer Dell products are the only virtualization solutions to feature integrated Dell management agent technology. As a result, customers can use the same familiar Dell OpenManage System Management software on their existing Dell servers to help increase server and storage utilization. By coupling Citrix XenServer with Dell’s PowerEdge servers, the companies bring built-in, easy-to-use virtual machine installation and management to millions of Dell customers worldwide.

“We already use Citrix XenApp for application virtualization, so selecting Citrix XenServer for server virtualization was a great choice because it simplified our end-to-end virtualization strategy from the datacenter to the desktop,” said Scott Stanaland, Network Administrator, C.C. Dickson Company. “XenServer integrated with Dell servers is a win-win because now it is even easier. And it is a great value-add to have a single management console for our virtualization needs.”

Citrix XenServer is a simple, efficient way to virtualize servers and help deliver a dynamic data center—a flexible, aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. By factory-integrating Citrix XenServer into Dell PowerEdge platforms, Citrix and Dell will provide a simpler deployment and management environment that speeds adoption of flexible, cost-saving server virtualization technology, making it the optimal choice for virtualization on Dell systems. Highlights include:

• Quick Start-up – An embedded hypervisor and intuitive interface into Citrix XenServer Dell Editions ensure easy installation.
• OpenManage Integration – The only virtualization solution integrated with Dell OpenManage, Citrix XenServer management console allows users to monitor and manage physical and virtual machines from a single console, with simple drag and drop controls.
• High performance – With a thin layer of code, true 64-bit hypervisor architecture anduse of hardware virtualization optimization from Intel® and AMD®, Citrix XenServer enables customers to realize high performance with little overhead.
• Cost-effective Live Migration – The XenServer Dell Enterprise Edition does not require additional management licenses or hardware, and upgrades are as simple as a license key. As a result, advanced virtualization features unique to Citrix XenServer, such as live migration on Dell’s MD3000 direct attached storage arrays, are more accessible and simpler to use.

“Dell is dedicated to simplifying IT for our customers and our partnership with Citrix enables us to further ease the complexity of virtualization,” said Rick Becker, vice president of solutions, Dell Product Group. “The power of Citrix virtualization software with the affordability of Dell solutions can help customers quickly leverage virtualization technology with minimal risk and immediate return-on-investment, while knowing they can easily upgrade to a larger solution as their requirements increase.”

“We have been using Citrix XenServer with an MD3000i storage array and found it to be a cost-effective solution for advanced virtualization functionality,” said John S. Lawler II, systems administrator at ATS Ohio Inc. “The integration of XenServer with Dell servers will further simplify our adoption and deployment of virtualization and we are excited to go to the next level of this technology without worrying about increased complexity.”

End-to-End Virtualization

After implementing Citrix XenServer, Dell customers can easily take advantage of Citrix’s application and desktop virtualization solutions to make their IT infrastructure more flexible and dynamic. Citrix XenApp™ for application virtualization stores all Windows applications in a single central store in the datacenter and delivers them to end users on-demand via innovative application virtualization technology. Citrix XenDesktop™, scheduled to be available May 20, is the industry’s first comprehensive, fully integrated desktop delivery system, moving beyond the limitations of existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) point solutions to ensure the simple, secure, fast delivery of Windows desktops to any office worker over any network.

“Citrix XenServer is a simple and effective way to virtualize servers for customers of all sizes, but as the only integrated virtualization solution to provide built-in support for Dell OpenManage, we make it even easier for customers to reap the benefits of server virtualization,” said Peter Levine, senior vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix. “It is an exciting time for virtualization technology as it becomes a natural extension of the hardware platform, enabling companies of all sizes to easily and affordably increase server and storage utilization, while reducing equipment and energy costs.”

Citrix XenServer has also been tested and certified on Dell PowerVault MD3000, MD3000i and EqualLogic storage arrays, providing Dell customers with a proven solution for their storage and server virtualization needs. Announced today from Citrix partner Egenera is the Dell PAN™ system, with integrated Citrix XenServer management, providing a complete disaster recovery and high availability infrastructure virtualization solution for large enterprise data centers.

Pricing and Availability

Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition and Enterprise Editions are available now. Pricing for PowerEdge servers integrated with Citrix XenServer is available at www.dell.com/poweredge. More information, including self-running demos of the new product, are available at www.citrix.com/dell and www.dell.com/citrixnow.

Citrix recently made virtualization even more accessible with its new per-server licensing model for Citrix XenServer. As a result, customers can now deploy an unlimited number of virtual machines or guest operating systems on each physical server for a single low price, regardless of whether it has one, two or four CPU sockets.

About Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, is an enterprise-class solution for virtualizing application workloads across any number of servers in the datacenter as a flexible aggregated pool of computing resources. With the new Platinum Edition, XenServer becomes the first and only solution on the market to address both virtual and physical servers, making the entire datacenter more dynamic.

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 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 7,680 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

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