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SANTA CLARA » 12/10/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced today that Rankin County, which ranks among the top 10 percent of fastest-growing U.S. counties, has deployed Citrix® XenServer™ to upgrade, consolidate and maintain the county’s server infrastructure. XenServer is an open and powerful server virtualization solution that helps reduce datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy to manage IT service delivery centers.

The IT team for Rankin County, Mississippi serves more than 20 departments across disparate locations. Technology support across the county includes the 911 emergency call center, police officers on patrol and county government officials. Running out of space in the county’s server room and faced with aging hardware, Rankin County needed a way to make room for more servers to support the county’s IT needs while maintaining services around the clock. In response, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors funded a virtualization project that uses Citrix XenServer to provide a way to upgrade and update mission-critical server applications without any service outages or downtime.

“A majority of the county’s IT functions – sheriff’s office, emergency responders, 911 – are critical and need to be live and functioning 24-7,” said Billy Rials, Rankin County IT department manager. “I answer to users and to citizens of my county. When services aren’t available due to a computer glitch, that falls on my shoulders. Virtualizing the servers means users never have to quit working so citizens are not put in harm’s way.”

An interesting article illustrating how virtualization technologies have been used to empower this emergency services, it is great to see how end users are using the technology and what perceived advantages or benefits they have realized. That it works is all that matters to them, everything else is noise.

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