Citrix, HP, Intel collaborate for server virtualization solutions

BENGALURU, INDIA: Citrix Systems in collaboration with strategic partners HP and Intel reinforced its commitment to help customers achieve business benefits from server virtualization solutions through Citrix XenServer.

Integrated into Intel-based HP ProLiant servers, Citrix XenServer enables businesses of all sizes to lower costs, improve productivity and better allocate resources across their server environments.

Sharing a common vision, Citrix and HP have been collaborating since 1996 to enable customers to implement and manage a virtualized environment with ease and efficiency.

Both companies work together to provide customers with joint engineering solutions, supported by a dedicated HP team cooperating with Citrix sales, operations, marketing, consulting, integration services and technical development.

“Despite the tremendous business benefits that virtualization offers, industry estimates show that fewer than 15 percent of all servers are virtualized. Our partnership with industry leaders such as HP and Intel reflects our commitment to create greater awareness of the benefits of end-to-end virtualization technology,” said Nabeel Youakim, VP—Marketing Pacific region, Citrix Systems. “With over 50 percent of all Citrix installations running on HP servers, it is a great testament of our synergistic partnership,” he added.

“With Citrix and Intel, HP is broadening its reach to customers who appreciate the ability to integrate BladeSystem and ProLiant servers with Citrix XenServer and our ProLiant Virtual Console. With XenServer, HP expects our joint value to increase for customers looking to further accelerate their business growth,” said Aman Dokania, Director and GM—Infrastructure Software, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

The strategic partnerships of Citrix with HP and Intel have resulted in the creation of two virtualization packages that help to increase server and storage utilization in a consolidated server environment. With these tools, customers can provision new virtual servers and storage in a matter of minutes versus hours or days to provision physical servers and storage, and dynamically allocate virtual machines (VMs) between different types of systems to suit their business requirements.

The Citrix XenServer HP Select Edition, part of the HP ProLiant iVirtualization offering, allows for faster implementation, ease-of use for HP ProLiant customers utilizing XenServer, and leveraged investments in HP management tools such as HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) for remote server management.

By tightly integrating XenServer into ProLiant platforms, Citrix and HP provide a simpler deployment and management environment that speeds adoption of flexible, cost-saving server virtualization technology.