For Businesses Switching from VMware to XenServer or Hyper-V

By Stephanie Jordan
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Last week Citrix Systems, Inc. announced a new program called “Project Open Door” that offers advanced virtualization management along with free support, training and conversion tools to customers switching servers from VMware ESX or vSphere to Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

According to the company, more than 70 percent of enterprise customers are now using multiple hypervisors in production, and over the past 30 days the number of large enterprise customers who have activated XenServer for production use has more than doubled, representing 20 percent of the Global Fortune 500. It also reports that the goal of Project Open Door is to make it easier for customers who want to switch out existing VMware servers for the rapidly growing XenServer and Hyper-V platforms by offering virtualization management for both environments, along with free support, training and conversion tools to make the transition as simple as possible.

The Project Open Door promotion will be effective worldwide from October 1 - March 31, 2010.

Published October 19, 2009