New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free for Everyone

Citrix Systems, Inc., the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer™ that will be offered free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment. While basic hypervisors have been free for years, most have had limited practical use in real world environments. With this new release, XenServer sets an entirely new standard for free virtualization with the addition of powerful new features like centralized multi-node management, multi-server resource sharing and full live motion. Dramatically lowering the entry price of virtualization also helps address today’s challenging economic climate by making enterprise-class virtualization far more accessible to businesses of all sizes, regardless of budget. Now in production in more than 5,000 enterprise datacenters worldwide, XenServer is a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, a comprehensive datacenter-to-desktop system that helps customers transform static datacenters into dynamic “delivery centers.” XenServer is powered by the same Xen® virtualization engine that runs most every independent cloud today, including the largest single virtualization deployment in the world. With more than 75 percent of corporate servers worldwide still not virtualized**, today’s announcement helps accelerate the adoption of virtualization by bringing the simplicity, scale and economics of the cloud to enterprise datacenter for the first time ever.

At least, vRD2009 is available!

One of the disadvantages in previous vRD versions, was the limited connectivity, being only to Windows Remote Desktops. vRD2009 now includes connection protocols for Citrix Ica, VNC, SSH, telnet and HTTP(s). Many functions of the open-source software tool mRemote are included in this release as well, as VisionApp acquired them in last year October. A new licensing model is available, making vRD even more competitive. The free version is suitable for small private companies, allowing three simultaneous connections and a maximum of 15 exportable connections, neither does it include remote database support.

Juniper enters Gartner’s Magic Quadrant on SSL VPN

Juniper Networks just released information on the new Magic Quadrant on SSL VPN from Gartner. Juniper was put in the upper right leader corner, displaying an exceptional ability to execute and a very good completeness of vision. Juniper delivers strong sales revenue in SSL VPNs and IPSec. In general, Juniper can sell more products at higher incremental revenue than any other company in the market. It is no surprise that the 11 other ranked vendors named Juniper as a threat. Year after year, Juniper’s products earn a high satisfaction rating and few complaints, given its high degree of market penetration.

McAfee, Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Secure Computing Corporation. McAfee is the industry’s largest dedicated security company and an industry leader in security risk management with the most comprehensive and integrated product offerings.

This pending acquisition represents a great win for Secure Computing and our partners. The combination will produce a company with an unrivaled security product portfolio and an organization with deep expertise in this rapidly growing market. Upon the addition of Secure Computing’s products and services, McAfee will be able to deliver the industry’s most complete network security portfolio, covering intrusion prevention, firewall, Web security, email security, data protection and network access control for small and mid-sized customers to the world’s largest enterprises. This will allow McAfee to offer a breadth and depth of technology on the endpoint, at the network and “in the cloud,” which its competition simply will be unable to match

Citrix XenServer 5 has arrived. Take the Tour!
Virtualization for every server in the enterprise.

Citrix® XenServer™ 5 has arrived with exciting new capabilities while retaining its legendary bare metal performance, open architecture and unmatched time to value. Take the XenServer 5 tour to access videos, white papers and on-demand webinars that address the challenges you face. Find out how XenServer 5 provides powerful, easy-to-deploy server virtualization, improves your application uptime and includes intuitive virtualization management via XenCenter.

Aladdin Knowledge Systems to Acquire the SafeWord Product Line from Secure Computing Aladdin Knowledge Systems, the global leader in USB-based strong authentication and password management solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire SafeWord Identity and Access Management solutions from Secure Computing Corporation. This transaction is subject to certain closing requirements and is expected to close at the end of August. The SafeWord acquisition is an exciting opportunity for both companies. SafeWord is well known as the one-time-password solution for leading remote access products from Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft and other vendors. SafeWord is a perfect complement to Aladdin’s successful eToken family of products and will enable the company to enhance its portfolio of USB and OTP devices, as well as PKI and token management software solutions.