Xen Community: Did you know that Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored and hosted by Fujitsu is only $50 to attend? At that price, we should easily have a record crowd; unless you are also including airfare to Tokyo which might make it a tad more expensive :). So, to help
The Xen Summit North America event is currently scheduled for February 24 – 25, 2009 at Oracle HQ in Northern California. I am looking for individuals in the Xen Community who are interested in volunteering for the Xen Summit Program Committee for this event. The Program Committee will review all topic
To help drive attendance and awareness of the Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) event at Fujitsu we are doing a 2 month advertisement on the well read virtualization.info Japanese site to drive prospects to an information page at http://www.xen.org/xensummit_japan.html. If you are thinking
For those of you with calendars reaching into 2009, please reserve February 24 – 25 for the first Xen Summit 0f 2009 hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA. We are actively putting the schedule together for this event and will be calling for volunteers to work on the Program Committee
The Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) registration system is now active at https://www.regonline.com/xsasia08. For people who speak Japanese, please visit this site to assist with registration: http://xen.org/xensummit/How_to_register_Japanese.html. If you have any problems with the registration system, please contact me.
I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In the past, Xen Summits have been held every 9 months with the majority of them being in North America.
(English) Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 is fast approaching and the Xen Summit Program Committee is ready to review and accept your topic proposal for the event. The Committee is actively reviewing topics so please send your topic for consideration to stephen.spector@xen.org in either English or Japanese. All
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
(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 has completed the formation of a Program Committee and is actively looking for speakers interested in presenting their Xen work at this event. This 2-day event, November 20 & 21 at Fujitsu’s Labs, will be an in-depth examination of recent research, software development,
Yoshi Tamura from the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories in Japan gave a very interesting presentation on Kemari. Kemari is a new approach to cluster systems that synchronize VMs for fault tolerance without modifying neither hardware nor applications. Since virtualization puts an abstract layer between hardware and operating system, it also
(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored by Fujitsu is fast approaching and I am calling for Program Committee volunteers interested in reviewing all submitted topics and creating the event agenda. I hope to have at least 7 people on the Program Committee for this event so if you are interested,
Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly