Neterion | Partners | Industry Groups

The Citrix vision is a world where anyone can work and play from anywhere. To make this vision a reality, IT must transition from the slow, static, costly paradigm of application deployment to the responsive, agile, efficient approach of application delivery. With a strategic and architectural approach to application delivery, IT can become an enabler to business change rather than a road block. This will become a defining issue for IT over the next decade.

More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and customers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.6 billion.

Since its launch in 2007, Citrix Ready has become widely accepted throughout the Citrix community and by Citrix customers, resellers, and distributors. Citrix Ready provides product branding, an online product catalog, technical benefits and joint solution marketing opportunities to partners who have successfully completed verification testing. Verification testing is performed by the partner and results are reviewed by Citrix to confirm solution compatibility.

Neterion is proud to be a Sun PartnerAdvantage Principal Partner. Click here to link to Sun's partner directory.

Sun's PartnerAdvantage Initiative brings together Sun and its best of breed partners worldwide to deliver proven solutions that reduce cost and time to market. The PartnerAdvantage Initiative addresses your business objectives by helping to reduce risk and speed time to implementation of solutions that help lower your total cost of ownership and increase the productivity of your assets.

The Community Source program provides industry partners with an opportunity to collaborate with VMware on the ESX Server source code under a royalty-free license. Partners have the ability to use source access to contribute shared code or use ESX Server interfaces to create binary modules through a collaborative development model. An architecture board comprised of technical architects from the partner community and VMware will influence the evolution of ESX Server and drive the definition of new interfaces. This approach combines the best of commercial software and open source models to drive open collaboration while preserving the ability of partners to build differentiated, intellectual property-protected solutions. Read more on the Community Source program at: http://www.vmware.com/communitysource/

Formally established in February, Blade.org provides collaboration and tools to ISVs and business partners looking to reach new markets and customers for blade-based technologies, representing the world's fastest growing server market segment. Blades provide an opportunity for cost savings as companies are able to collapse servers, storage devices, networking infrastructure and security appliances into a single location in the datacenter.

The mission of the Ethernet Alliance is to promote industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on both existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management.

The Ethernet Alliance will provide resources to establish and demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability of IEEE 802 Ethernet products and their management.

The objective of the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB) is to create a specification that defines mechanical, electrical and low-level enclosure management requirements for an enclosure controller slot that will support a variety of storage controllers from a variety of independent hardware vendors ("IHVs") and system vendors. Any storage controller design based on the SBB specification will be able to fit, connect, and operate within any storage enclosure controller slot design based on the same specification.

The IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries. The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., although the organization is most popularly known and referred to by the letters IEEE. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others.

Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.

Neterion was the first member voted in the RDMA Consortium in 2002. The RDMA Consortium is an open industry forum chartered to develop architectural specifications necessary to implement products that provide RDMA technology over TCP/IP. Membership information, contacts for respective founding companies and other RDMA Consortium materials can be found at http://www.rdmaconsortium.org.

The iWARP Consortium is formed from a group of companies dedicated to ensuring product interoperability using the emerging iWARP standards. This consortum is part of the University of New Hampshire's Research Computer Center's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The UNH-IOL provides services to bring together academia and industry to facilitate the adoption of new standards-based technologies. The iWARP Consortium will create advanced testing tools, suites of compliance tests, and allow companies to participate in "PlugFests" -- all with the aim of fostering the adoption of iWARP standards by ensuring interoperability.

What is PCI?

Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) delivers I/O functionality for computers ranging from servers to workstations, PCs, laptop PCs and mobile devices. PCI is also a standard, relying on a high-performance I/O interconnect to transfer data between a CPU and its peripherals. The PCI standard is defined for chip-level interconnects, adapter cards and device drivers. Its success as a standard is a result of its cost-effectiveness, backward compatibility, scalability and forward-thinking design.

Formed in 1992, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is the industry organization chartered to develop and manage the PCI standard. With over 900 members, the PCI-SIG effectively places ownership and management of the PCI specifications in the hands of the developer community. A Board of Directors comprised of nine people, each elected by the membership, leads the PCI-SIG.

The PCI-SIG fulfills its charter by continuing to promote innovation and evolve the PCI standard to meet the industry's needs. Through interoperability testing, technical support, seminars and industry events, the PCI-SIG enables its members to generate competitive and quality products.

The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise. With its proven certification methodology and conformance testing expertise, The Open Group is the international guarantor of the interoperability that single economic entities require to achieve independence.

Boundary-less Information Flow achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner

The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of boundary-less Information Flow achieved by: