 "Citrix, Novell Partner To Extend Choice For Virtualisation")
Citrix Systems and Novell have announced a collaboration that expands choice for customers through increased virtualisation interoperability and new assessment tools to help pinpoint the economically most advantageous approach to virtualisation. Through this new partnership, Novell has certified SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a ‘Perfect Guest’ running on Citrix XenServer and both companies will provide joint technical support to customers. As a result of this agreement, the more than 4,500 enterprise applications certified as Novell Ready for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are now Citrix Ready community-verified when running in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server guest virtual machine on XenServer.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has been optimised to be the perfect guest on all major hypervisors. Now customers and cloud providers gain the added value of the free XenServer as an enterprise-class virtualisation platform for Linux and Windows environments, providing them with an expanded set of technologies and processes to run and manage heterogeneous data centres.
In addition, Citrix will participate in the PlateSpin Recon for Assessment Program, which enables Citrix Solution Advisors (CSA) channel partners and the Citrix internal services organisation to begin offering customers virtualisation, server consolidation and cloud readiness assessments using the Novell toolset. PlateSpin Recon from Novell is a data centre workload profiling, analysis and planning tool that combines consolidation planning with capacity management to give customers an ongoing view of their physical and virtual infrastructure.
“Our partnership with Citrix gives our many joint customers and partners a better way to manage their virtual infrastructures,” said Joe Wagner, SVP and General Manager of Global Alliances, Novell. “We are providing a better integrated set of enterprise-class solutions that provide the tools to make intelligent decisions on data centre virtualisation.”
Availability
The interoperability between SUSE Linux Enterprise and XenServer is effective immediately. Access to the PlateSpin Recon Assessment Program by the Citrix CSA partners will be rolled out over the next two months.
 "National Digital Communications Policy: Telcos need to think out of the box to realise the vision stated in the policy")
 "Microsoft introduces virtualisation based security features for Edge on Windows 10")
 "Energy crisis can mar the progress of the Digital revolution")
 "National Digital Communications Policy: Telcos need to think out of the box to realise the vision stated in the policy")
 "Microsoft introduces virtualisation based security features for Edge on Windows 10")
 "Energy crisis can mar the progress of the Digital revolution")