XenServer goes platinum
- TAGS:Citrix, virtualization, XenServer
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Development, Enterprise Apps, Hardware
 Research from Gartner Inc. put the amount of data center servers that have been virtualized at 6% in 2007, growing to 14% in 2010. That means there's a lot of virtualization gold remaining to be mined in global data centers. In the case of Citrix Systems Inc., make that platinum. Next week the Ft. Lauderdale, Fla-based company will unveil its XenServer Platinum edition as part of the rollout of XenServer 4.1 in March. The Platinum edition will follow in April, says Phil Montgomery, senior director of product marketing. What makes Platinum edition special, he claims, is that it "links together the physical and virtual infrastructure." With it, he says, you can provision an unlimited number of virtual servers as well as move workloads from virtual to separate physical systems. He explains one use case where a developer might want to write and debug code in a virtual environment, then roll it out for full-blown testing on a different server. According to Montgomery, XenServer 4.1 is the first release of the virtualization tool since Citrix bought XenSource last year. He says the company has more tightly knitted it together with the Citrix Presentation Server, whose name will be changed to XenApp with next week's announcement. Pricing for XenServer Platinum starts at $5,000.
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