Citrix announces Project “Open Door” for customers who want to switch from VMware to XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V

Introducing Project Open Door

Project Open Door helps ensure customers looking to expand their datacenters
with XenServer or Hyper-V have a smooth transition. Through March 2010,
customers who switch existing VMware servers to XenServer or Hyper-V, and add
Citrix Essentials for advanced virtualization management, will receive
additional technical support, training, and conversion tools from Citrix at no
cost. 

Citrix Essentials enhances the XenServer and Hyper-V platforms by adding
powerful storage integration through Citrix StorageLink technology, automated
lab and stage management and dynamic workload balancing. This combination
enables broad interoperability that makes it easier for customers to manage
virtual machines across heterogeneous virtualization environments throughout the
full application lifecycle, from lab and testing to production. 

Customers Worldwide Moving to XenServer

With one in five enterprise customers now using XenServer2, production
deployments are growing rapidly across all industry segments. According to the
Burton Group, using Citrix XenServer with Citrix Essentials meets 100 percent of
the required features for enterprise production deployment. By switching servers
from more expensive solutions to XenServer, customers have found that they not
only get powerful, enterprise-class virtualization at a far lower cost, they are
better equipped to future-proof their virtualization infrastructures for the
coming wave of cloud computing. Customers who recently made the switch to
XenServer include companies of all sizes, across multiple industries: 

"The choice to go with Citrix came down to performance," said Michael Gilbert,
director, IT Divisional Services, Randstad Professionals, a leading global
provider of professional employment services. "The 64-bit architecture simply
outperformed anything else out there, and that had real world implications in
terms of saving costs on additional hardware. Obviously, the price difference is
nice, but it`s really the performance that matters. As we take XenServer deeper
into the environment we are constantly finding new applications for the
technology. For Randstad, leveraging virtualization for disaster recovery
purposes is the next on our list." 

"Our first foray into virtualization with another vendor resulted in a host of
complaints from users regarding the performance of their applications," said
Scott Richards, systems engineer, Zions Bank, a regional financial services
leader with more than 500 offices across 10 US states. "At that point we had a
choice to either return to physical or try again with XenServer. In our `last
ditch` effort to capture the promise of virtualization we tested Citrix and have
been very pleased with the results. Not only have we reduced our hardware
footprint and server sprawl but we have also been able to obtain higher levels
of application availability, all while meeting the needs of our end user
customers. Without XenServer we would have had to revert to the days of
underutilized and expensive physical infrastructure. For Zions Bank, it has been
a win-win situation all the way around."

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