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Fortisphere Achieves Citrix Ready Status
Fortisphere, a leading provider of policy-based virtualization management software, today announced that its Virtual Essentials product suite has been verified as Citrix Ready for Citrix XenServer. Fortisphere is one of the first policy-based virtualization management providers to offer full XenServer support for organizations that want to more intelligently manage and grow their virtual infrastructure with Citrix virtualization technology.

Test and development environments are the launch pads for server virtualization into production environments. In a recent ESG survey, 46 percent of the current server virtualization adopters were running mission critical workloads on virtual machines and there is no sign of this trend slowing down, said Mark Bowker, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Fortispheres Virtual Essentials product suite provides users with a single interface for managing, tracking and enforcing polices in a heterogeneous hypervisor environment across the enterprise. This drastically simplifies the process of managing the virtualized infrastructure.

With its Citrix Ready verification, Fortisphere enables XenServer users to inspect, tag, track and report upon all virtual machines as they move throughout preproduction and production environments. Fortispheres solutions offer Citrix XenServer users key features such as configuration discovery, virtual machine tagging and the policy-based management required to build out a virtual infrastructure that operates efficiently, effectively and securely.

As our customers continue to grow their virtual infrastructure on the XenServer platform, the virtualization management layer is becoming more important to drive adoption, said Frank Artale, vice president, business development at Citrix Systems. As part of the Citrix Ready program, Fortisphere has been certified to work with Citrix XenServer, providing our customers with a powerful solution for addressing virtual machine sprawl, configuration automation and best practices enforcement.

The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that add the greatest value in Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure solutions. Fortisphere Virtual Essentials completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer. Customers can be confident that Fortisphere has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix XenServer. Citrix Ready products are featured in an online catalog at www.citrixready.com, and carry the Citrix Ready logo.

Fortisphere is dedicated to helping its customers overcome emerging management issues associated with their virtual infrastructures, said Mike Harper, president and CEO, Fortisphere. By providing our customers with more visibility into heterogeneous virtual environments, we are enabling them to enforce polices that ensure each and every VM is operating as intended. Together with Citrix, Fortisphere is providing unparalleled solutions that are driving virtualization adoption across the enterprise.

Published Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:40 PM by David Marshall
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