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102012

Citrix XenServer to Power 1&1 Internet Global Cloud Platform

World’s Largest Hosting Providers Standardizing on Citrix XenServer for Cloud Services
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Santa Clara, Calif. - Citrix today announced that leading Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet has designed its public cloud offering, Dynamic Cloud Server, on Citrix XenServer® technology, demonstrating significant momentum for the rapidly growing Citrix Cloud Platform Business. Fueled by the strong leadership and rapid adoption of open source Xen technologies, 1&1 Internet has strategically adopted Citrix technology for its public cloud computing solution. Citrix XenServer is now powering cloud services for four out of five of the world’s largest hosting providers.

With 11 million customers supported by five highly secure green data centers across Europe and the U.S., 1&1 Internet selected XenServer to provide a flexible infrastructure from which to launch its public cloud services. XenServer will make it possible for the global hosting company to deliver granular control of server resources using a proven cloud-ready virtualization platform to meet customer price, performance and scalability requirements.

1&1 Internet created its Dynamic Cloud Server on XenServer technology due to:

  • Product maturity
  • Open source code-base
  • Flexible pricing model
  • Citrix worldwide support and services

XenServer is a complete server virtualization platform built on the powerful Xen hypervisor. Xen technology is widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure virtualization software in the industry and is designed for efficient management of Windows® and Linux® virtual servers, delivering cost-effective server consolidation and business continuity.

XenServer serves as the virtualization platform of choice in a majority of the public clouds today. 1&1 Internet joins an impressive list of large cloud service providers that utilize Xen/XenServer technology including Amazon, and other private and public cloud offerings.

The Citrix cloud platforms portfolio is leading the industry in cloud computing build-outs, powering many of the world’s largest clouds. We are committed to open source solutions as the most viable path to cloud computing with both our open source Xen and Xen Cloud Platform offerings as well as our contribution of CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation.
- Sameer Dholakia

Group Vice President and GM, Cloud Platforms Group

Citrix

We wanted a partner who would support an open source mindset for ongoing product enhancements and XenServer delivered the right combination of features, performance and price to support 1&1 Internet in its strategy to build and scale our cloud computing service. Developing open sourced software is an important element to achieving our objective, which we see as an attainable and sustainable path for growing along with the cloud market. Xen and XenServer are technically sound platforms that continue to lead the way in functionality and performance. Combined with our significant internal resources, it was an easy decision to partner with them for our cloud virtualization platform.
- Michael Frenzel

Vice President

1&1 Internet

1&1 Internet, Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $3 billion. 1&1 was founded in 1988 and hosts more than 11 million domain names, while more than 70,000 servers run on the company’s five state-of-the-art, green data centers. 1&1’s global community is approximately 11 million customer contracts strong. The company’s North American headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA.

About Citrix

Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.

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Apache CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform currently undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

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Xen and XenServer are technically sound platforms that continue to lead the way in functionality and performance.
- Michael Frenzel

Vice President

1&1 Internet

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