Natural disasters and business disruptions can cripple any organization. In today’s IT world, downtime and data loss is not an option. Companies must protect their IT and data investments from events that could shut their systems down and affect their bottom line. Using Citrix XenServer to protect your IT infrastructure, your organization will benefit from the XenServer features such as high availability, automated VM protection and recovery, and Site Recovery to reduce the amount of downtime due to disasters and to increase the productivity of your employees.

At the same time that virtualization solutions have facilitated the process of creating and maintaining computing resources, they have also added a level of complexity that can over-burden even the most organized IT administrator. With XenServer, you can take advantage of several features that allow your datacenter to operate with less human interaction. In doing so, you will be able to can dynamically scale-up and -down based your IT services on demand across your user population.

Today’s datacenter infrastructures are not limited to a single location or entity. They span multiple locations within an organization and can extend to the cloud as well. At the same time that datacenters are expanding, virtualization solutions are creating IT resources that are no longer tied to any single physical location. Citrix XenServer features distributed virtual switching which includes the tools necessary for you to create a multi-tenant, highly secure, and extremely flexible network fabric.

Centralizing storage functions and connecting them with the virtualization architecture allows IT administrators to leverage the power of existing storage functions to maintain virtual machine data, create multiple repositories to store data, and establish consistent management processes for both physical and virtual environments. Citrix XenServer with StorageLink enables you to integrate your existing datacenter storage network with your virtualization deployment.