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Tuesday
15Jul
Citrix versus the Xen community
July 15, 2008 By Dan Kusnetzky (ZDNet Blogs)
As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I’ve seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the media.
Thursday
17Apr
Virtualisation security threatened: XenSource
April 17, 2008 By Tom Espiner (ZDNet UK)
XenSource and VMware, two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments.
Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration.
"Virtualisation can challenge an IT organisation's infrastructure, which suddenly becomes dynamic," said Crosby. "You can shift a workload from server A to server B, but if the security policy doesn't follow, [virtualisation] has broken it. That's a challenge."
Thursday
07Feb
Citrix moves to integrate XenSource’s technology
February 7, 2008 By Dan Kusnetzky ZDNet Blogs)
Now that Citrix has completed its acquistion of XenSource, one would expect an announcement in which the company tried to put all the pieces together into an integrated story. Can you guess what the company just did? Right, presented an integrated story. Since the two companies worked together in the past and both of them had strong relationships with mutual partners, the integrated story line is better than one would think.
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Virtualization Xen Citrix Monday
17Dec
Virtualization's crusader
December 17, 2007 By Andrew Conry-Murray (InformationWeek)
Given all the excitement about the transformative power of virtualization, you'd think the hypervisor had already conquered the world. In fact, it has barely planted its flag on the borders of business IT: About 10% of all servers have been virtualized, leaving vast numbers untouched.
Enter Simon Crosby. Once a tenured professor at Cambridge University, he's traded the ethereal heights of academia for the cutthroat arena of high tech, driven by the belief that "virtualization has got to be everywhere," he says.
Monday
03Dec
Citrix' virtualization touted as solution to desktop TCO crisis
December 3, 2007 By Virtualization News Desk (Sys-Con)
Credit Suisse is pushing Citrix and its XenSource acquisition as the natural solution to the "corporate-desktop-as-serial-cost-offender" problem. It says Wall Street is fixated on server virtualization and is overlooking the nascent desktop virtualization market that Credit Suisse thinks will be worth at least $1.5 billion by 2011, representing 25.6 million users or 5.7% of the professional desktop installed base. It's forecasting that Citrix' upcoming XenDesktop will be worth $150 million by then, only 10% of the market but it really thinks it can capture a third and lower desktop TCO by 40%-50%.
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Virtualization Xen Citrix Friday
16Nov
A virtual conversation (with Simon Crosby)
November 16, 2007 By James Maguire (ServerWatch)
There's no doubt about it: Virtualization is hot. Make that, red hot. Virtualization vendor VMware, whose IPO in August has rocketed upward, recently reported its third-quarter profit tripled from a year ago. Research firm IDC forecasts that the virtualization market will double between now and 2011, to a robust $11.7 billion annually.
An emerging company at the center of this molten sector is XenSource, which Citrix acquired by for $500 million in August. XenSource develops server and desktop virtualization software for Window and Linux environments. At the core of the firm's technology is the open source Xen hypervisor.
Helping guide XenSource in this period of rapid growth is Simon Crosby, the company's CTO and one of virtualization's most ardent evangelists. Recently, Crosby answered some questions about the future of virtualization, the company's partnership with Microsoft, and its competition with VMware.
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Virtualization Xen Citrix Tuesday
06Nov
Centrify to deliver seamless Active Directory integration for Citrix XenServer
November 6, 2007 By PR Newswire (Sys-Con)
Centrify Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, today announced it has joined the Citrix XenServer Technology Provider Program and has added support for the Citrix XenServer platform version 4 of its flagship solution, Centrify DirectControl.
Monday
29Oct
Citrix puts XenSource to work for desktop virtualization
October 29, 2007 By Charles Babcock (InformationWeek)
Citrix Systems has started to reveal plans for its $500 million acquisition of virtualization software supplier XenSource, laying out the first two products it will base on the Xen hypervisor. On the desktop, in particular, things could get interesting quickly. Citrix plans to make it easier to virtualize desktops for thousands of employees, letting companies tap an array of options.
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Virtualization Xen Citrix Thursday
25Oct
XenSource: Xen hypervisor made for servers, not OS
October 25, 2007 By Paula Rooney (ZDNet Blogs)
In spite of its close partnership with Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell, XenSource’s CTO maintains the virtualization hypervisor belongs in server hardware — not in the operating system.
Speaking at Interop in New York, XenSource CTO Simon Crosby said the slim, trim Xen hypervisor in products such as the company’s newly launched XenCenter OEM Edition is a more natural fit in hardware than in infrastructure software.
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Xen Monday
10Sep
Microsoft management app to support VMware, Xen
September 10, 2007 By Peter Galli (eWeek)
Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on virtualization leader VMware on the management tools front, releasing its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 product to manufacturing.
The Redmond, Wash., software maker also plans to support some third-party virtualization software, including VMware and open-source Xen, in the next version of the product.