Citrix Systems Introduces Citrix Ready Open Storage Program

Citrix Systems announced the new Citrix Ready Open Storage Program.

The company said the new program makes it possible for third-party storage vendors to certify interoperability of their products with Citrix XenServer, using the company's StorageLink technology.

Because Citrix StorageLink technology is also available for the Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V platform, these certifications apply equally to servers virtualized with Hyper-V, ensuring interoperability between XenServer, Hyper-V and storage systems. Charter members of the Citrix Ready Open Storage Program incorporate more than 20 major storage vendors, including Brocade, CA, Dell, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI, Microsoft Corp., NetApp and Symantec.

"With the StorageLink capabilities in Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, Microsoft customers will be able to obtain even more value from their existing investments," said Zane Adam, senior director of virtualization and System Center, Microsoft Corp. "By enabling our customers to use the high performance storage array capabilities with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, it makes it even easier for them to integrate virtualization into their existing IT frameworks, and allow them to create more scalable, manageable and agile virtual infrastructures."

Citrix Systems is a provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service technologies.

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