Press Releases

Lightweight Mirage OS Improves Distributed Storage, Security and Networking Functionality for ARM-based Embedded Devices

Portland, Ore. — OSCON — July 22, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the release of Mirage OS v2.0, which includes the industry’s first software framework that unifies cloud and embedded deployments behind a safe, secure programming language, allowing developers to seamlessly build systems that span both embedded devices and public cloud services.  The latest release also includes support for distributed computation, networking and storage.

Virtualization Experts Come Together to Accelerate Xen Project Innovation With Microservers, Hyperscale Computing and Embedded Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the presenters and full program for the Xen Project Developer Summit annual conference that unites developers, integrators and power users for in-person collaboration and educational instruction. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014.

Semiconductor Company Leverages Networking and Security Legacy To Advance Xen Project Hypervisor on ARM® Roadmap

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2014–The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a semiconductor products company to enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, as a new Xen Project Advisory Board member.

New CentOS SIG Welcomes Developers Involved With Any Virtualization Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2014–The Xen Project community, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced it recently helped kickstart the new CentOS Virtualization Special Interest Group (Virt SIG) open to developers contributing to any server virtualization technology.

Xen Project Community Releases Update to Enterprise Hypervisor Software

Open Source Virtualization Software Includes Additional ARM Support and Scalability for Cloud and Mobile Environments

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2014–The Xen Project community, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced availability of the Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.4 with enhanced ARM support. The latest release also includes major performance and system scalability improvements for enterprise computing, such as mobile and cloud environments, where virtualization technology is increasingly in demand.

ARM server support and new security, performance and scalability updates headline the Xen Project 4.3 release

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2013 – The Xen Project, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the availability of Xen Project hypervisor version 4.3.

The Xen Project powers more than 10 million users across enterprise and cloud computing in addition to embedded and mobile devices. Xen Project is backed by some of the largest names in computing including Amazon Web Services, AMD, Google, Oracle, Intel and many other hardware and hosting service providers. The Xen Project open source virtualization platform is licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel.

Lightweight Mirage OS maximizes features for secure, cost-effective and high-performance cloud and mobile services

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2013 – The Xen Project, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the first release of Mirage OS. Mirage OS v1.0 is a unikernel for constructing secure, cost-effective and high-performance network applications that run across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. The Xen Project today is also announcing that ARM is joining the project.

 Amazon Web Services, AMD, Bromium, Calxeda, CA Technologies, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, Oracle, Samsung and Verizon affirm commitment to the Xen Project, look to Linux Foundation to provide infrastructure, guidance and collaborative network

SAN FRANCISCO {The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit}, April 15, 2013 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

Cambridge, UK 11/27/2012 – Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 (or short XCP), an industry-leading virtualization platform for companies to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds. XCP 1.6 strengthens its server virtualization feature set for datacenter consolidation and simplifies the path to cloud computing with advanced virtual machine migration, enhanced networking and security.

Cambridge, UK 8/9/2012 – Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.2, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective effort of a global development team representing many leading technology vendors, universities, and virtualization experts. This release is the culmination of 18 months of work, 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of code of development effort, by 124 individuals from 43 organizations.

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