Despite the controversy with supporters of other virtualization platforms, Xen.org, the community behind the development and updating of the more popular open-source hypervisor, continues his tireless work giving us the 4.1 version.
Citrix XenConverter is the solution of the house in Fort Lauderdale for P2V and V2V can work with multiple formats including vmds, VHD, XVA and OVF.
Citrix has finally released the new version of XenServer, the bare metal hypervisor in the house of Fort Lauderdale. Citrix XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 adds some interesting news.
Cisco has published an interesting architectural paper in which certifies Citrix XenDesktop on its platform Unified Computing System (UCS) combined with NetApp storage.
The partnership between SAP and Citrix is old and you can find documents of mutual support based on knowledge of both vendors. But recently, SAP has certified XenServer as a platform on which to run their applications on virtualized systems, Novell SUSE Linux Server.
In mid-September, Citrix has released an update to its flagship product "orchestration", a framework for the automation of processes of a series of products, not just Citrix: Citrix Workflow Studio is now available in version 2.5.
One of the most obvious shortcomings of Citrix XenServer is the support for Ubuntu Linux distributions. But XenServer is a hypervisor extremely versatile and with some changes, the installation of supported Linux distributions becomes quite simple.
DataCore Software, a company known for its storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony has been certified by Fujitsu.
In an old post on the Citrix community blog I found the reporting of this interesting product for trasfrormare a server in a small iSCSI SAN.
From 4 to 8 October Citrix will move to Europe for a week. A double event, the Summit and Synergy Partner for end users in Berlin. The event everyone has been waiting a long time.
Already in May, PHD Virtual announced the upcoming availability of its backup solution as well as VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer also. Finally the product is available.
He was gone too long since acquisition and to not be too far behind, Citrix has decided to end the month of August with the acquisition of VMLogix.
With the release of XenServer 5.6, Citrix announced the upcoming availability of a new virtual appliance dedicated to licensing. A few days ago was released the Citrix License Server VPX.
Many still remember PlateSpin PowerConvert: This product has been divided into three different solutions (Migrate, Protect and Forge) that now Novell is preparing to upgrade.
Gartner has published its first Magic Quadrant on virtualization on x86: here are some considerations.
