Welcome to the August edition of the Axess Systems newsletter.  Many of you will be aware that this month, as well as being nearly as wet as July, has been a month of major IT buy-outs. 

Firstly, HP announced that it had secured a buy-out of smaller rival Neoware, leveraging HP into the Thin Client global leader seat.  Then, no sooner had the dust settled, this week, Citrix announced that it was acquiring leading virtualisation developer, XenSource, to form a new ‘super division’ to develop market-leading solutions to rival VMWare.

In this dynamic environment, here at Axess Systems, we roll with the changes and stay focussed on our key objective, which is to provide our customers with the best impartial advice, regardless of brand, to supply exactly the right product, or solution for them.

We hope you find this months newsletter useful and would welcome any suggestions or comments sent to info@axesssystems.co.uk

This week, virtualisation pioneer, XenSource, announced to it’s customers that it has agreed to a deal that will see it become one of the increasing number of Citrix acquisitions some time in the last quarter of this year.

With the increasing market enthusiasm and energy focussed towards virtualisation, it is clear that Citrix sought specialist core competencies in this arena.  XenSource has demonstrated pioneering work in virtualisation since its inception as an open source project at Cambridge University in 2002 and has built up over 600 commercial customers..

XenSource will become the centre of a new division within Citrix, focussed on virtualisation and management solutions, providing the market with most probably the best virtualisation for Windows customers.  Although XenSource will officially be part of the enormous Citrix portfolio that commands $1.6B in annual revenue, XenSource is negotiating independent oversight of the Xen project, to ensure a lack of strategic drift in its development, something that has allowed its innovative progression to this date.

XenSource will expand its efforts in server virtualisation and continue extensions to its XenSource v4 product line, something the company believes will make them extremely competitive against rivals such as VMWare.  With the financial and marketing capabilities of its new parent, together they will provide market leading virtualisation solutions from the datacentre to the desktop.

To learn how your organisation could benefit through virtialisation, call us FREE of charge on 0800 023 2226.

(XenSource 2007)

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Topics will include:
 End-to end view of application performance and availability throughout the enterprise
 Application server stability, integrity and exceptional quality of service
 Consistent and high performance infrastructure for optimised printing
 VDI.

Products covered will include:
 Citrix Presentation Server 4,5
 Citrix Access Gateway
 Citrix Desktop Server
 Citrix EdgeSight
 Citrix WanScaler

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Continuing the Citrix theme from earlier, our case study this month is from Cumberland School

Cumberland School is a Newham-based secondary school.  The school selected Citrix technology from Axess Systems Ltd to deliver educational tools and applications to pupils and staff - whether working from home, at school or from other remote connections, such as the local library. This project will help familiarise the school’s 1,250 pupils and staff with using a virtual learning environment. 

To get a better understanding of Citrix solutions and how they could benefit your organisation, call us FREE of charge on 0800 023 2226.

 XenSource Joins Citrix Portfolio

 FREE HP Thin Clients

 Axess Systems / Citrix Roundtable Event

 Case Study - Citrix Presentation Server & Access Gateway

 Win a 1GB USB Stick through our online store!

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