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Catching up with Atlantis Computing

I just managed to catch up with Max Gill, sales manager for Northern Europe at Atlantis to get his take on Summit & Synergy and the areas the business is focusing on for its customersHow do you think Synergy has helped customers looking at desktop virtualisation?Citrix has addressed four of the main barriers, in my opinion, to desktop virtualisation very well – complexity, cost, user ...

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The Growing XenServer partner ecosystem

 We are in the midst of a sea change in market acceptance of XenServer.  There are two reasons behind this:   the growing market share of XenServer and its acceptance as a high quality alternative to VMW and the fact that partners trust Citrix. In the past 18 months XenServer market share has grown from 4% to 11%. Customers recognize that free XenServer is far superior to the ...

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Xen and the art of Perfect Timing

I've spent the last day or so at Cannes meeting channel partners and customers who have been responding to the announcement that Citrix has declared XenServer virtual infrastructure to be absolutely free, and our additional annoucements of our  powerful value-added virtualization management capabilities in Citrix Essentials for XenServer and partnership with Microsoft to offer Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V.The response has been fantastic, and almost overwhelming.  Across the board, customers, analysts and ...

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XenServer 5 is here

And what a release it is. When we started this journey several years ago, the goal of the XenServer team was to create the industry's most comprehensive and open, bare metal virtualization solution on the planet. By nearly every measure, the XenServer 5 release meets or exceeds this objective. It's an entirely new approach to virtualization that makes the first-generation solutions look a bit ...

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Xen is Dead! Long Live Xen!

I was recently on a panel in Stockholm moderated by Brian Madden and Alessandro Perilli where, with Mike Neil, Avi Kivity, and Lance Berc, I enjoyed an engaging discussion on the future of virtualization.  The event was a great opportunity for the audience to dig into different products and vendor strategies and Brian and Alessandro allowed none of us to wriggle away from the real issues.  Definitely the ...

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