Citrix Essentials released !
Citrix Essentials product line consists of five broad categories of capabilities:
- Automated lab management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering throughout the application lifecycle, from development labs into the production environment.
- Advanced storage integration featuring Citrix StorageLink™ technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to a virtualized environment.
- Dynamic provisioning services for the on-demand deployment of workloads to any combination of virtual machines or physical servers from a single golden image.
- Workflow orchestration for the simplified scripting to automation of key management processes.
- High availability for the automatic restart and intelligent placement of virtual machines in case of failure of guest systems or physical servers.
Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V was designed specifically to address the growing share of Citrix and Microsoft virtualization environments in corporate datacenters, while enabling easy interaction with existing servers that have already been virtualized with other third-party products.
“With three quarters of servers still not virtualized, the server virtualization market is still wide open. We believe XenServer and Hyper-V will be the two fastest growing virtualization platforms in this space going forward, each appealing broadly to different segments. Citrix is aligning its server virtualization strategy around adding significant value to these two high growth platforms, helping customers achieve more manageable, scalable and agile datacenters in a way that leverages their existing investments in the most efficient way possible.”
- Peter Levine, SVP and general manager, Virtualization Management Division, Citrix Systems
