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Citrix XenServer. Unlocking the Power of Virtualisation 29 th of April 2008. Agenda. 09:30 Introduction 09:45 Market Opportunity for XenServer – Roger Baskerville 10:40 Architectural Overview – Marc TR 11:00 Refreshments 11:20 Make the case for XenServer with Platespin - Jason Jackson
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Citrix XenServer Unlocking the Power of Virtualisation29th of April 2008
Agenda • 09:30 Introduction • 09:45 Market Opportunity for XenServer – Roger Baskerville • 10:40 Architectural Overview – Marc TR • 11:00 Refreshments • 11:20 Make the case for XenServer with Platespin - Jason Jackson • 11:50 Virtualised Storage powered by Datacore – Keith Joseph • 12:20 XenServer Variants – Marc T R • 12:40 Ten Minutes to Xen – Marc T R • 12:50 How DNS Arrow can help you in this Business
Housekeeping • Phones/PDA’s to silent please. • Wifi available • Slides will be made available after the event • Q&A at the end
Let’s Look At Another Market Expensive Sophisticated capabilities Few games take advantage of power Aimed at hard core gamers
So Who’s Winning? Makes the experience much easier Better price point Increased the overall market $19.94M “ Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader against the established … brands. But analysts can be in error ” $ 9.22M
Increasing the overall market Wii bowling knocks over retirement home “The residents, most of whom have never picked up a video game controller in their life, suddenly can't put the things down.”
XenSource • Acquired by Citrix 22/10/07 • Independent moderator of Xen Project • Produced the Commercial releases of XenServer • Founded by Ian Pratt – who initiated Xen
Citrix XenServer Makes the experience much easier Better price point Addresses the whole market “Easy-to-use, feature-rich offering is quickly catching up to its main rival” Computer Reseller News Product Review–8/12/2007