RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION
OPEN-E DSS V7 IS VERIFIED AS CITRIX READY
Open-E Data Storage Software V7 is Trusted to Enhance Citrix Networking
and Virtualization Solutions.
Atlanta, Georgia; Munich, Germany – July 24, 2013: Open-E announced today that its flagship product, Open-E Data Storage Software DSS V7 has been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready Program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix. Open-E DSS V7 completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenServer®, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility.
The Citrix Ready Program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that Open-E DSS V7 has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix XenServer in order to guarantee high-performance and stable and secure storage available through SAN and NAS protocols.
Open-E Data Storage Software V7 is a unified file and block-level storage management operating system, providing support for multiple 1GbE, 10GbE, Fibre Channel and Infiniband network interfaces. Open-E DSS V7 offers NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel (both target and initiator) functionality in a single application.
Open-E DSS V7 is designed for simplicity and ease-of-use, as demanded by SMB users, along with advanced features required by Enterprise users. These features include solutions such as the Active-Active Failover for iSCSI Volumes in high availability clusters, Remote Replication for disaster recovery and multiple scheduled Snapshots for data protection.
“As a member of the Citrix Ready Program, we are able to offer customers intelligent solutions that combine Open-E DSS V7 with Citrix XenServer,“ said Krzysztof Franek, CEO and president of Open-E. “The offering clearly demonstrates our plans to work closely with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem, in order to provide the highest quality experience for our customers.”
About the Citrix Ready Program
The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including XenDesktop®, XenApp®, XenServer®, NetScaler®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third-party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over partners who have demonstrated more than 22,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program, which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at http://www.citrix.com/ready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.
About Open-E
Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of IP-based storage management software. The Open-E DSS V7 and Open-E DSS V7 Lite line of products are aimed at the SMB and SME markets.
Open-E DSS V7 is a robust, award-winning enterprise storage application which offers excellent compatibility with industry standards (vast variety of supported hardware), and is the easiest to use and manage. Additionally, it is one of the most stable solutions on the market and an undisputed price performance leader.
Open-E has over 27,000 world-wide installations in Fortune 500 organizations in over 100 countries for over a decade and has received numerous industry awards and recognition from PC Professional, Tom’s Hardware, Storage Awards, PC Pro and more.
Thanks to its reputation, experience and business reliability, Open-E has become the technological partner of choice for industry-leading IT companies such as Citrix, Intel, LSI, VMware, and Adaptec.
For further information about Open-E, its products and partners, visit www.open-e.com.
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