Citrix and Novell Partner to Extend Customer Choice for Enterprise-Class Virtualization and Cloud Computing
February 18 2010 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) and Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:
NOVL) today announced a collaboration that expands choice for
customers through increased virtualization interoperability and new
assessment tools to help pinpoint the economically most
advantageous approach to virtualization. Through this new
partnership, Novell has certified SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server as
a “Perfect Guest” running on Citrix® XenServer® and both companies
will provide joint technical support to customers. As a result of
this agreement, the more than 4,500 enterprise applications
certified as Novell Ready for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are now
Citrix Ready® community-verified when running in a SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server guest virtual machine on XenServer.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the only Linux operating system
that has been optimized to be the perfect guest on all major
hypervisors, with outstanding performance when running on
XenServer. Now customers and cloud providers gain the added value
of the free XenServer as an enterprise-class virtualization
platform for Linux and Windows environments, providing them with an
expanded set of technologies and processes to run and manage
heterogeneous data centers.
In addition, Citrix will participate in the PlateSpin® Recon for
Assessment Program, which enables Citrix Solution Advisors (CSA)
channel partners and the Citrix internal services organization to
begin offering customers virtualization, server consolidation and
cloud readiness assessments using the Novell® toolset. PlateSpin
Recon from Novell is a data center workload profiling, analysis and
planning tool that combines consolidation planning with capacity
management to give customers an ongoing view of their physical and
virtual infrastructure. PlateSpin Recon takes the guesswork out of
complex server consolidation and capacity planning initiatives and
helps accelerate the move to virtualization.
“Our partnership with Citrix gives our many joint customers and
partners a better way to manage their virtual infrastructures,”
said Joe Wagner, senior vice president and general manager of
Global Alliances, Novell. “We are providing a deeper and better
integrated set of enterprise-class solutions that provide the tools
to make intelligent decisions on data center virtualization, and
the world-class infrastructure to run high-performance virtual
environments.”
“Working with Novell to offer a best-of-breed, open approach to
virtualization and management provides customers with not only the
best technology, but also the greatest flexibility in running and
managing virtual infrastructures, regardless of operating system,”
said N. Louis Shipley, group VP and GM, XenServer Product Group,
Citrix Systems. “Enabling the large SUSE Linux Enterprise customer
base to be certified on XenServer significantly furthers our
efforts to deliver XenServer as the best and most cost-effective
virtualization platform for enterprise and cloud
infrastructures.”
The collaboration between Citrix and Novell is strongly
supported by leading technology vendors across the IT community,
such as HP: “Customers require a seamless transition between
virtual and physical environments to lower their risk of system
downtime,” said Scott Farrand, vice president, Infrastructure
Software and Blades, HP. “This new capability from Citrix and
Novell, when combined with industry-standard HP ProLiant server
platforms, will allow organizations to simplify virtualization
management while extending the value of their hardware.”
Availability
The interoperability between SUSE Linux Enterprise and
XenServer, which is YES Certified™ through the Virtualization
Compatibility Program from Novell, is effective immediately. Access
to the PlateSpin Recon Assessment Program by the Citrix CSA
partners will be rolled out over the next two months. For more
information about Novell’s participation in the Citrix Ready
program, please visit:
http://www.citrix.com/ready/partners/novell.
About Novell, Inc.
Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT
management software that helps customers around the world reduce
cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and
ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT
environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For
more information, visit www.novell.com.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of virtualization,
networking and cloud computing solutions for more than 230,000
organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center™, Citrix Cloud
Center™ (C3) and Citrix Online product families radically simplify
computing for millions of users, delivering desktops and
applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location
on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest
Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises,
and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers
worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in
more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2009
was $1.61 billion.
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