Virtual IT firm XenSource recently decided to improve its virtual IT abilities just as it was sold to Citrix for $500 million.  The company has started challenging market leader VMWare with its new virtual IT solutions.  John Bara, vice president of marketing at XenSource recently participated in an interview and confirmed that XenSource had a lot of work to do to catch up in the billion dollar virtualization market controlled about 75% by VMWare.  Still, the virtual IT firm has more than 600 commercial accounts.  

The recent acquisition of XenSource by Citrix will give the virtual IT firm increase resources, distribution channels and an account presence.  Despite increased capabilities, analysts still predict that VMWare will continue to rule in the foreseeable future.  

The new advanced management features offered by XenEnterprise v4 are XenMotion, XenCenter, Xen64, XenResourcePools and XenAPI.  All these features will help improve solutions for those interested in increasing their capabilities with virtual IT.  XenSource and Virtual Iron, technologies that both use Xen for virtualization both have experienced improvements in Intel and AMD processors that make them more functional in a Windows environment, according to research analysts.  Resource management features that include the virtual machine migration into new enterprise virtualization solutions will be added.     

The three main virtual IT players now that will work within the enterprise environment for Windows and Linux are XenSource, Virtual Iron and VMWare.

Added By:  Joshua Feinberg