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SAP to deploy Citrix virtualisation solution

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Citrix Systems, Inc., application delivery infrasturucture provider, announced that SAP AG would virtualise over 500 of its servers with Citrix XenServer by the middle of 2009. 

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SAP had also deployed Citrix XenApp application virtualisation technology to deliver more than 40 applications, including Microsoft Office and the SAP Business Suite software, to its entire user base. In total, there are more than 50,000 end users who access the XenApp infrastructure to work on tasks such as product development and support. In addition, SAP expected to receive the benefits that a combined XenServer and XenApp solution provided – such as streaming standardised workload images and superior management functionality – which the company anticipates would generate a 35 percent savings in terminal server costs.

In the first stage of the project SAP would roll-out the server virtualization solution onto 500 servers in the company’s Saint Leon Rot, Germany office. In the next phase, the servers that power worldwide training centres would be virtualised, followed by project management division with several hundred development, test, and support environments.  After the server virtualisation project in Germany would be complete, the roll-out would be carried over to SAP’s offices in Asia and the United States by the end of 2009.

N Louis Shipley, group vice president and general manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix, said: “We are extremely proud that SAP has selected our server virtualisation technology. This project is an excellent example of how an end-to-end virtualisation solution can help companies optimise their IT infrastructure and reduce their costs.”

Dietmar Bruder, vice president, SAP IT Infrastructure Services, said: “We were impressed by the performance benefits that the Citrix server and application virtualisation solutions provided. Our goal in implementing Citrix XenServer is to not only reduce the costs of our server infrastructure, but to also significantly lower its carbon footprint. By leveraging Citrix virtualisation technology we believe that in the future we will be able to cut SAP’s carbon emissions by up to 600 tonnes annually in addition to the immediate savings on hardware.”