Citrix’s virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo
XenServer, the Citrix spin-out that will offer a hypervisor and associated management tools for x86 systems, has teased a plan to lure VMware customers as well as a little more detail about its plans to operate as an independent entity.
The outfit’s offerings are based on the Citrix products of the same name – XenServer – and offer plenty of what’s needed to run a private cloud. XenServer, the product, is currently marketed as „Citrix Hypervisor“ – a change made before Citrix was swallowed by private equiteers, bundled into the „Cloud Software Group“ and chopped up into several discrete businesses.
XenServer has previously signalled ambitions to invest in and advance its eponymous products – a sensible ambition now that multicloud is the hot thing and on-prem private clouds are mundane – and made much of its licensing terms.
In recent social media posts, the outfit has teased a Q3 release of a „trial version“ of XenServer that „enables all the functionality of Premium Edition, including for the first time ever our closed-source components.
