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Citrix's CSO explains XenSource's acquisition

You know, this CSO is more liek something I ought to be gunning for ;-)

Anyway here's what he has to say:

Why does acquiring XenSource make sense to Citrix right now?

We believe that virtualization as an enabling technology to really make the entire IT infrastructure far more dynamic and agile and the ability to move around the various components parts of applications is going to be hugely important aspect of IT infrastructure going forward. We see it as a key component of application delivery. Our whole vision at Citrix is about providing infrastructure to customers that can deliver any kind of applications in any kind of condition in a very dynamic and volatile world with great performance, great security and great cost savings. That is point number one. We believe this technology is a key enabling part of that. There are very few of these assets out there because this is deep science. And if it were not, you would see 40 companies out there trying to compete for it because it is such a hot space.


I can dissect this Q&A but with time we will see when definitive and newly bundled solutions will start rolling out. We ARE indeed anxious to see how the holes fill up.

Read on...

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