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Citrix XenServer Wins Gold in SearchServerVirtualization.com 2007 Product of the Year Awards, Virtualization Platforms Category
Thursday 31. January 2008 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 4.0 has been named the Product of the Year in the Virtualization Platforms category of the SearchServerVirtualization.com 2007 Products of the Year awards.
The Virtualization Platforms category recognized three products that have altered the virtualization landscape this past year. The awards are presented by the editors of TechTargets Data Center Media Group, and products are judged based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.
“Being recognized as the Product of the Year in the Virtualization Platforms category by TechTargets respected virtualization industry site validates Citrixs goal to simplify server virtualization,” said Phil Montgomery, senior director of product marketing, Citrix Systems. “This award highlights XenServer Enterprise Edition 4.0 as a solid, enterprise-class platform, ready to give the market leader a run for its money.”
Introduced in August 2007, new features in XenServer Enterprise Edition 4.0 include XenMotion for live migration of running virtual machines; XenCenter, a scalable, resilient virtual infrastructure management solution with an easy to use Windows user interface; a powerful 64-bit hypervisor that supports both 32- and 64-bit enterprise workloads; and, an open, standards-based XenAPI which enables ISVs and OEMs to develop add-on solutions for XenServer. The release also includes version 3.1 of the Xen open source hypervisor “engine” and leverages the latest hardware virtualization support features from Intel and AMD to deliver near bare-metal performance.
XenServer was also named Product of the Year in the Virtualization for Linux servers category by TechTargets SearchEnterpriseLinux.techtarget.com.