Caution Partners: there is currently a special offer on licenses for Citrix XenServer 6.2, the first source completely open version of this product. By implementing a solution XenServer 6.2, you will only help your customers save money, but they also provide a continuous path to cloud computing when they are ready to migrate. Learn more about the value of open source XenServer and how it supports ongoing collaborative development of technology that will continue to benefit all.
sources An open society of its software and it gives finally reached wider market penetration and increased sales. It seems cons-intuitive, but Citrix believes that is just what will happen with XenServer 6.2, the first version completely open source product.
The open XenServer supply and make available while providing care, paid commercial version, Citrix aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Draw small and medium enterprises and cloud providers interested in the free version, thus expanding the scope of XenServer
- address the growing opportunity of the second source hypervisor in the market cloud and data center, where iT administrators are looking for low price, but have complete alternative to the more expensive hypervisors like VMware
- Encourage upgrading of commercial version offering the "insurance policy" for maintaining the Citrix software, knowledge base and other benefits
- Helping partners sell the commercial product with simplified pricing by CPU-socket (aligned with the cloud and virtualization industry practice) and a single edition instead of several, and competitive prices
Equally important, open source gives partners, developers and complete, the client's public visibility in the ongoing development and future of XenServer, leading to better collaboration, new features and exciting innovations third parties - such as NVIDIA Synergy vGPU Grid showed. Community portal XenServer.org provided by Citrix offers a source code access and opportunities for collaboration.
Scott Lindars, Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Platforms Group, commented: "I like to compare this Red Hat Enterprise Linux approach, a commercial version, as opposed to the free Linux available People can choose. the basic source product, open but many will opt for the supported version as protecting their business environments. "
strategy Cloud
in strategic level, Citrix XenServer wants to present as the best platform for customers migrating to or adopting a cloud strategy. With XenServer in place, the first organizations focused on server or desktop virtualization in their data centers will be able to seamlessly move their workloads to the cloud.
special price until the end of
to align with the Citrix XenServer 6.2 launch, Citrix has designated promotional price of $ 199 on new licenses annual XenServer 6.2 for a limited time. Qualification for the promotional price requires customers to purchase a XenServer 6.2 Annual maintenance contract license and software. This promotion has become available to all customers July 25, 2013, and is available until December 31, 2013. All applicable standard discount programs. Note that this promo price can not be used for XenServer 6.2 perpetual licenses or any other version of XenServer.
Further information about this special offer can be found in the notification of the requested document, as well as other resources, including key messages, FAQs and talking points for XenServer 6.2 and open source strategy. Visit XenServer Success Kit today.
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