1. Citrix XenServer
Unlocking the Power of Virtualisation 29th of April 2008

2. 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

3. Housekeeping Phones/PDA’s to silent please. Wifi available
Slides will be made available after the event
Q&A at the end

4. But before we begin…..

5. Let’s Look At Another Market
Expensive
Sophisticated capabilities
Few games take advantage of power
Aimed at hard core gamers 5

6. $19.94M $ 9.22M 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 6

7. 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.”

8. 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

9. Xen or XenServer Xen XenServer Cost Free Later…… Support Little/None
Fully Supported
Complexity
Highly Complex
Dead Simple

10. 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 10