"As adoption of virtualization technologies accelerates, demand is growing for an integrated end-to-end virtual infrastructure solution that includes reliable and secure delivery mechanisms as well as automated desktop and datacenter provisioning processes. Citrix offers this range of technologies, giving organizations a comprehensive virtualization infrastructure that creates a computing environment far more flexible, dynamic and responsive to business change," said Lou Shipley, group vice president and general manager, management systems group, Citrix as he officially unveiled the new Citrix Provisioning Server solution yesterday.

Based on the innovative OS-streaming technology acquired in its January purchase of Ardence, Inc., Provisioning Server enables IT organizations to dynamically stream datacenter and desktop operating systems and workloads to both virtual and physical machines from a central location.

The new solution enables more agile and cost-effective delivery of applications and desktops, and provides an ideal complement to the company's recently announced acquisition of virtual infrastructure vendor XenSource.

Provisioning Server will enable organizations to stream a server OS and workload from network storage to bare-metal or virtual servers in the datacenter, and a desktop OS and workload to virtual desktops and LAN-connected diskless PCs on-demand. By streaming a server OS and workload on-demand - rather than physically loading them on each server - Provisioning Server increases IT flexibility, reduces the need for backup servers, cuts energy costs and streamlines IT management.

"Adding OS and workload streaming functionality to our existing array of datacenter, desktop and application delivery options further demonstrates Citrix's leadership in delivering the applications our customers need, when they need them, wherever they are located," Shipley added.

"By streamlining both datacenter and desktop delivery, Citrix Provisioning Server will provide significant economic and productivity benefits for enterprises. The simplified management and increased flexibility will deliver long-term benefits," he said. 

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Red Hat's CTO Brian Stevens heads a diverse and industry-savvy faculty of speakers at the upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West, including:

Kevin Brown - President and CEO, Kidaro
David C. Christian - Founder & CTO, MindBridge
Kevin Epstein - VP Products, Scalent
Andrew Hillier - CTO & Co-founder, CiRBA
Arthur Hitomi - CTO & Co-Founder, Endeavors Technologies
Gordon Jackson - Virtualization Evangelist, DataSynapse
Peter Linkin - Senior Manager Data Center Marketing, Cisco
Bob Lozano - Co-Founder & Chief Strategist, Appistry
Tim Pacileo - Executive Consultant, IT Strategy
Matt Quinn - SVP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Ben Rudolph - Director of Corporate Communications, Parallels/SWsoft
Erik Troan - CTO, rPathx
Rin Ure - Performance Engineer, Verio
Alex Vasilevsky - Co-Founder & VP of Technology, Virtual Iron
Roland Wartenberg - Director of Virtualization Strategy, SAP
Jack Wilson - Enterprise Architect, Amerisure


Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 is co-located with the 12th International SOA World Conference & Expo -  and that event too has a heavyweight faculty, including:

David Chappell - VP and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle
Raymond Feng- Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Marc Rix - Lead Architect, SAIC
Deepak Alur- VP of Engineering, JackBe
Alain Gendre - Head of SOA Solution Division and BPM Program , ILOG
Sastry Malladi - Technology Evangelist, eBay
Matt Mihic - Chief Architect & VP of Engineering, Rearden Commerce
Michael Pellegrini - Principal Architect , Active Endpoints
Matthew Quinn - Sr. VP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Jesus Rodriguez - Chief Software Architect, TwoConnect
Rakesh Saha - Lead Developer for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Francois Depayras - VP of Marketing, Ensim
Kyle Gabhart - Director of SOA Technology, Web Age Solutions
Gaspar Petrosyan - Principal Solutions Architect, ClearApp
Rami Jaamour - PM for SOA Solutions, Parasoft
Jonas Jacobi - Co-Founder & CEO, Kaazing
Sajindra Jayasena - Senior Software Architect, Virtusa
Sanjaya Karunasena - Enterprise Architect,  WS02
Paul Lipton - Senior Architect, Intellectual Property and Standards Group, CA
Dan Malks - VP of Application Platform Development, JackBe
Sekhar Sarukkai - Co-Founder & CTO, Securent
Rich Schreiber - EVP, Nastel
Ian Thain - Senior Technical Evangelist, Sybase
John Woolbright - SVP & CTO of Synovus Financial

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