Citrix XenServer
Unlocking the Power of Virtualisation
29th of April 2008
Agenda
• 09:30 Introduction
• 09:45 Market Opportunity for XenServer – Roger Baskerville
• 10:40 Architectural Overview – Marc TR
• 11:00 Refreshments
• 11:20 Make the case for XenServer with Platespin - Jason Jackson
• 11:50 Virtualised Storage powered by Datacore – Keith Joseph
• 12:20 XenServer Variants – Marc T R
• 12:40 Ten Minutes to Xen – Marc T R
• 12:50 How DNS Arrow can help you in this Business
Housekeeping
•Phones/PDA’s to silent please.
•Wifi available
•Slides will be made available after the event
•Q&A at the end
But before we begin…..
Let’s Look At Another Market
• Expensive
• Sophisticated capabilities
• Few games take advantage
of power
• Aimed at hard core gamers
So Who’s Winning?
• Makes the experience much easier
• Better price point
• Increased the overall market
“ Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader against the established … brands. But analysts can be in error ”
$ 9.22M
$19.94M
Increasing the overall market
Wii bowling knocks over retirement home
“The residents, most of whom have never picked up a video game
controller in their life, suddenly can't put the things down.”
XenSource
•Acquired by Citrix 22/10/07
•Independent moderator of Xen Project
•Produced the Commercial releases of XenServer
•Founded by Ian Pratt – who initiated Xen
Xen or XenServer
Xen XenServer
Cost Free Later……
Support Little/None Fully Supported
Complexity Highly Complex Dead Simple
Citrix XenServer
• Makes the experience much easier
• Better price point
• Addresses the whole market
“Easy-to-use, feature-rich offering is quickly catching up to its main rival”
Computer Reseller News Product Review–8/12/2007
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