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Abiquo Announces Verified Support for Citrix XenServer
Abiquo Enterprise Edition and Abiquo Community Edition are Both Citrix Ready
Redwood City, Calif. – November 4, 2010 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software provider, today announced that it is one of the first cloud management vendors to be verified as Citrix Ready® for Citrix XenServer® 5.6. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Both Abiquo Community Edition and Abiquo Enterprise Edition completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer®.
“We are pleased to partner with Citrix and provide Abiquo Enterprise Edition and Abiquo Community Edition as Citrix Ready solutions,” said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “Given the increasing popularity of Citrix XenServer, we wanted to make sure that both open source community users who want to deploy test environments as well as service providers who need to cost-effectively launch and manage cloud operations for their global 2000 customers can benefit from Abiquo’s unique business policy-driven cloud management solution running on Citrix XenServer.”
"Providing customers with openness and choice are key to realizing the benefits of cloud computing,” said N. Louis Shipley, group vice president and general manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix. "As part of our growing partner ecosystem, the Abiquo Cloud Management solution clearly helps enterprises and service providers embrace cloud computing by automating the operations across heterogeneous virtual datacenters.”
About Abiquo
Abiquo is the Enterprise Cloud Management software company. With Abiquo, organizations can use Business Policy to manage an entire, globally deployed, computing infrastructure comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.
About the Citrix Ready Program
The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp™, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community through implementation of new, innovative best practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.
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| Contacts: | |
| Candice Heidebrecht | Michele Moore |
| Abiquo, Inc. | Lois Paul & Partners |
| candice.heidebrecht@abiquo.com | michele_moore@lpp.com |
| +1 (650) 264-5905 | +1 (781) 782-5763 |
