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Citrix XenServer Unlocking the Power of Virtualisation 29th of April 2008
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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
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Housekeeping Phones/PDA’s to silent please. Wifi available
Slides will be made available after the event Q&A at the end
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But before we begin…..
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Let’s Look At Another Market
Expensive Sophisticated capabilities Few games take advantage of power Aimed at hard core gamers 5
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$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
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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.”
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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
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Xen or XenServer Xen XenServer Cost Free Later…… Support Little/None
Fully Supported Complexity Highly Complex Dead Simple
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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
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