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Novell plays Casablanca in Virtualization Wars

On February 24th, Novell made an important virtualization announcement, but it wasn’t the one some of us thought it would be. Instead of announcing that it would be partnering closer with Citrix and Microsoft, Novell announced that it would be working with VMware to help ISVs (independent software vendors) build SUSE Linux Enterprise-based virtual appliances. [...]

February 24th, 2009 | Category: Citrix, Infrastructure, Microsoft, Novell, VMware, Virtualization | 2 comments

It’s Novell, Microsoft & Citrix vs. VMware with free XenServer

Now that Red Hat has shown its KVM cards in the great virtualization Texas Hold’em poker game, you can safely bet that Novell will soon be joining up with Microsoft and Citrix to try to shove VMware out of the game with Citrix’s free XenServer.

aw this virtualization shoot-out coming, and I’m not surprised to see [...]

February 23rd, 2009 | Category: Business, Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, VMware, Virtualization | 2 comments

Who’s buddying up closer with Microsoft: Novell or Red Hat?

I know for a fact that either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they’ll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don’t know is what, if anything, either one of them may be doing beyond that to further their virtualization partnerships with Microsoft.

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February 20th, 2009 | Category: Business, Citrix, Infrastructure, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, VMware, Virtualization | Comments are closed

Citrix, Microsoft, and Red Hat or Novell gang up on VMware

Citrix is about to put a world of hurt on its virtualization rival, VMware. Next week, Citrix will be announcing that it will no longer charge for its flagship virtualization program XenServer 5, and its new management program, Citrix Essentials, will support both Microsoft’s Hyper-V and XenServer.

This looks like a smart move to me. Virtualization, [...]

February 18th, 2009 | Category: Citrix, Infrastructure, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Operating System, Red Hat, VMware, Virtualization, Windows | One comment

Citrix to offer free XenServer virtualization

In a shot across VMware’s bows, Citrix will announce next week that it will be offering free licenses to its full XenServer virtualization program and new partnering with Microsoft to provide system management, Citrix Essentials, for Hyper-V and, in return, Microsoft’s System Center will support XenServer
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The virtualization wars are heating up. According to sources, Citrix [...]

February 18th, 2009 | Category: Citrix, Infrastructure, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Operating System, Red Hat, Server, Virtualization, Windows | 15 comments