Pivot3 today announced a new solution for serverless computing based on open source Xen. You can learn more about their solution at http://www.pivot3.com/products/serverless-computing. Ian Pratt was quoted in their release: “Pivot3 has taken advantage of the openness and high performance of the Xen hypervisor
Congrats to the Xen.org community on winning an InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Award 2008. Xen was the choice for the Server Virtualization Category.
The next XCI Project meeting is set for August 12, 2008 from 1 – 2pm EST. Please send me an email if you are interested in joining in. The agenda for this meeting is not yet setup but I will update this blog posting with the agenda in a few days.
In an amazing video from Virtualization.com, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon thanks you – the Xen.org community for the great Xen solution. From Video: (1:30): How hard was it to integrate the Xen hypervisor into your cloud platform? Â “I think Xen is a great product. It is
On August 14th 2008 will take place, in Valparaiso – Chile, the 2008 edition of Chilean Debian Day. In this opportunity I’ll be there with a newbie-middle presentation about Virtualization technologies centered in Xen, its characteristics, benefits, examples of usability and, obviously, its community 🙂 Any other topic you think I
With Xen 3.3 in final testing, it is time to start thinking about what features you would like to see in Xen 3.4. If you have any ideas for Xen 3.4, please send an email to xen-devel with Xen 3.4 in the subject line. This will
The recent publication of the new Xen.org Trademark Policy has introduced the need for a Faithful Implementation Test (FIT) for people looking to receive the rights to use the Xen Trademark with their solution. I have created a short online survey to get community feedback on what should be
Xen Community: In an effort to clean up a large amount of spam attacks on the Xen Wiki, we have decided to create a special editors only file for the wiki. In order to edit within the Wiki, you will need to email me your Xen Wiki user name and
I received a great idea from Todd Deshane today about having a monthly call where anyone interested in presenting their latest Xen related research can give a 20 minute presentation followed by questions from the audience. I can use GoToMeeting or GoToWebinar to setup the call and have a dial-in
The Running Xen authors have informed me that you can now get a pdf version of their book. Go to the “Where to Buy” link at http://runningxen.com/buy-now to obtain the PDF version or from InformIT, go to http://www.informit.com/store/product.asp?isbn=0137144911 There
Xen Community: I received some great feedback on my initial web design proposal and have updated the documents. Please look over these versions and pass along your comments Xen.org Home Page Content Sections: Xen.org Home Page II.pdf Xen.org Tab/Page Structure (diagram): Xen.org Web Structure
The Program Committee has discussed the choice of primary language for the upcoming event in Tokyo and has made a change from the information I posted last week. The event will now be in English with Japanese translators available to allow for a larger global audience to attend. IT events