A challenge for any cloud installation is the constant tradeoff of availability versus security. In general, the more fluid your cloud system (i.e., making virtualized resources available on demand more quickly and easily), the more your system becomes open to certain cyberattacks. This tradeoff is perhaps most acute during
t’s a fast-moving world. I turn my back for a moment to log onto my XenDesktop, and before you know it, the Planet turns to KVM for Cloud Virtualization. Suddenly all those Xen, VMware and Hyper-V users must have switched to KVM overnight! Impressive. I quickly check the XenServer
From Simon’s blog post at http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/03/29/Open+Source+does+not+mean+Interoperable+or+Compatible Derrick Harris at GigaOm has written an interesting, and unfortunately confusing piece which illustrates the frequent confusion between openness, interoperability and compatibility. His thesis is that the
Virtualization interview with Simon Crosby – http://virtualization.ulitzer.com/node/554197?page=0,0 Virtualization security discussion – http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1354642,00.html#
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Virtualization Division and I did an interview with Linux Magazine Brazil. The final article is at http://linuxmagazine.uol.com.br/images/uploads/pdf_aberto/LM_52_24_27_04_corp_citrix.pdf. The article is in Portuguese but translates fairly well with online tools.
From Simon Crosby’s Citrix blog posting We’ve Open Sourced Our Optimized VHD Support: Today Dutch Meyer of UBC, and Jake Wires of the Citrix XenServer storage team in Vancouver submitted our implementation of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in
I recently met Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica and author of Virtualization for Dummies, at the HP Open Source Financial Market event where he was the moderator of the virtualization session that I represented Xen.org on. We spoke about his recently released book and I offered to promote it
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
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