Citrix Systems has announced its first new releases to its server virtualization product line since it acquired XenSource, an enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions provider, last October.
Citrix Systems is an application delivery infrastructure provider. Its new releases, Citrix XenServer 4.1 and Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition, make XenServer the first solution in the industry to address both virtual and physical servers, the company claimed.
The solution, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, is an enterprise-class tool for virtualizing application workloads across any number of servers in the data center.
The XenServer release comprises more than 50 new enhancements, Citrix said. These include improving the product’s ease of use, performance and increased support for enterprise storage systems.
Quoting industry estimates, Citrix said that with fewer than 15 per cent of all corporate servers expected to be virtualized by 2012, the ability to dynamically provision virtual application workloads across all servers in the typical data center creates a big advantage for XenServer customers.
A XenServer customer, Martin Selig Real Estate, has found the product useful. “We initially chose to implement Citrix XenServer to cut down on the hardware costs associated with multiple physical servers, and were quickly impressed with the other benefits that Citrix XenServer provides, including disaster recovery and scalability.
“Should one of our virtual servers fail, a new server can be built within the same Xen environment and within a couple of hours an image of the failed server can be restored and we move on,” said Matt Alisch, controller, Martin Selig Real Estate.
Citrix XenServer 4.1 is now available as a public beta version at www.citrix.com. In March, the final version) will be made available, the company said. Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition will be released by June.