Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software provider, today announced that it is one of the first cloud management vendors to be verified as Citrix Ready for Citrix XenServer 5.6. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Both Abiquo Community Edition and Abiquo Enterprise Edition completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer.

“We are pleased to partner with Citrix and provide Abiquo Enterprise Edition and Abiquo Community Edition as Citrix Ready solutions,” said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “Given the increasing popularity of Citrix XenServer, we wanted to make sure that both open source community users who want to deploy test environments as well as service providers who need to cost-effectively launch and manage cloud operations for their global 2000 customers can benefit from Abiquo’s unique business policy-driven cloud management solution running on Citrix XenServer.”

"Providing customers with openness and choice are key to realizing the benefits of cloud computing,” said N. Louis Shipley, group vice president and general manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix. "As part of our growing partner ecosystem, the Abiquo Cloud Management solution clearly helps enterprises and service providers embrace cloud computing by automating the operations across heterogeneous virtual datacenters.”