Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills

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But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back

Citrix says it has returned to the mainstream server virtualization market with the release of XenServer 9.

The hypervisor was a contender in the early 2010s but struggled to compete with VMware and Microsoft. By 2014, analyst firm Gartner suggested Citrix had stopped trying to compete for workloads other than its own desktop virtualization and network security products.

Citrix kept the product alive without much fanfare for years and rebranded it Citrix Hypervisor. After a pair of private equity firms acquired Citrix in 2022 and folded it into an outfit called Cloud Software Group (CSG), XenServer became the name of both the product and a CSG business unit that announced its intentionto return to the mainstream virtualization market. XenServer didn't do much as a standalone entity other than to create a trial...

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