Xen Community: I am getting ready to start development of the Xen Solution Search Tool that will be a part of the new Xen.org site. This tool will allow customers to easily search and find a variety of solutions from companies and individuals providing services and products based on
I have just posted Ian Pratt’s slides from LinuxWorld at http://www.xen.org/files/IanPrattlinuxworld-xen-Aug2008.pdf. Feel free to take a look…
For those of you wanting to see the slides from Simon Crosby’s LinuxWorld Keynote, here they are. Entitled “Data Center of the Future: How the Delivery of Technology Will Change”, Crosby’s keynote focused more on Xen, its standing in the market and related news than on the future
Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
IBM just announced they are spending $400 million to create two new data centers for cloud computing research. From the article: “Using a slick combination of off-the-shelf, open-source virtualization technologies (Xen) and their own management (Tivoli), IBM could be well-positioned to open their resources more broadly…”
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 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: I am looking to build an online search tool that allows Xen customers/prospects to search for solutions using/based on Xen. The search tool would take the prospects to a web page with content maintained by the solution provider – open source or proprietary. I believe adding this
There has been some recent blog postings around about the death of Xen; very amusing to read…Simon Crosby responds to these blogs in his typical manner at http://community.citrix.com/display/~simoncr/2008/07/02/Xen+is+Dead!+Long+Live+Xen!. As the blog postings also relate to
Interview with Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur who are leading the Xen training class on Sunday at USENIX. http://blogs.usenix.org/atc08/?p=8
I read a blog posting on the web today at zdnet with comments from Ian about Xen and KVM. I don’t normally post any type of “political” thoughts on this blog but I thought Ian’s comments are worth reading for the community. You can read the article at