With the help of the company's recent release of its new, feature-rich XenEnterprise v4 server virtualization platform back in August, XenSource was able to watch its customer growth nearly double in Q3. Today, XenSource reached new milestones at the company and announced that it had signed its 1000th customer. New XenSource customers include ASIERUS, Carsdirect.com, Cornell University, McKesson, Miami Herald, M With the help of the company’s recent release of its new, feature-rich XenEnterprise v4 server virtualization platform back in August, XenSource was able to watch its customer growth nearly double in Q3.Today, XenSource reached new milestones at the company and announced that it had signed its 1000th customer. New XenSource customers include ASIERUS, Carsdirect.com, Cornell University, McKesson, Miami Herald, Microsoft, Polycom, Postini, Raytheon and Sleek Networks.At the same time, XenServer and the freely available XenExpress products also experienced record customer traction. The company said that it had received more than 25,000 downloads of XenExpress in Q3. In addition to the rapid customer adoption of its commercial products, XenSource also experienced significant traction with server vendors for its XenExpress OEM Edition product line. To compete with VMware’s recently announced VMware ESX Server 3i product, XenExpress OEM Edition is designed to allow customers to acquire servers with XenSource virtualization built into the server which is then supported by the OEM.“Since introducing XenEnterprise v4, we’ve seen significant adoption from customers worldwide,” said John Bara, VP of marketing for XenSource. “As more organizations move towards server virtualization to improve the performance and operational efficiency of their data centers, they’re realizing that XenSource is a powerful choice and has a high performance, easy-to-use feature set that meets all of their virtualization needs.”Customers like Alex Brown, sr. network engineer, Georgia Public Broadcasting, were looking at virtualization solutions to better manage server sprawl, increase server utilization, decrease lengthy deployment cycles and to help create their test environment. Mr. Brown said that XenEnterprise v4 solved all of these pain points for his organization. He said, “The cloning features eliminated our server sprawl and reduced the server deployments for our web team from a few days to less than four minutes. XenEnterprise has increased our utilization rates and helped us create a top-rate test environment.” Software Development