Wednesday, November 15, 2017

A Great Time to Take A Look at XenServer Enterprise!



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A Great Time to Take A Look at XenServer Enterprise!
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Good afternoon everyone,

As we make our way through the last quarter of the year, I wanted to remind the community of the significant progress the XenServer team has achieved over the last 18 months to make XenServer the awesome hypervisor that it is today!

While many of you have been making the most of your free XenServer hypervisor, I would like to take this opportunity to review just a few of the new features introduced in the latest releases of the Enterprise edition - features that our customers have been using to optimize their application and desktop virtualization deployments.

For starters, we've instrumented automated updates and live patching, features that streamline the platform upgrade process by enabling multiple fixes to be installed and applied with a single reboot and in many cases, no reboot whatsoever, significantly reducing downtime for environments that require continuous uptime.

We've also worked with one of our partners to introduce a revolutionary approach to securing virtual workloads, one that is capable of scanning raw memory at the hypervisor layer to detect, protect and remediate against the most sophisticated attacks on an IT environment. This unique approach provides an effective line of defense against viruses, malware, ransomware and even root kit exploits. What's more, this advanced security technique complements security mechanisms already implemented to further strengthen protection of critical IT environments.

Providing a local caching mechanism within the XenServer hypervisor enables our virtual desktop customers to dramatically improve the performance of their virtual desktops, particularly during boot storms. By caching requests for OS image contents in local resources (i.e., memory and storage), XenServer is able to work with Provisioning Services to stream contents directly to virtual desktops, reducing resource utilization (network and CPU) while enhancing user productivity.

Expanded support for virtual graphics allows our customers to leverage their investments in hardware from the major graphics vendors and enable GPU-accelerated virtual desktops that effectively support graphics-intensive workloads.

Designing, developing and delivering features that bring out the best in virtualization technologies... that's our focus. And thanks to the invaluable insight and feedback provided by this community, will continue to be the driving force behind our innovation efforts.

Interested in evaluating the features described above, click here.

Until next time,

Andy

 


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