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Xen.org to build open standards cloud platform
News Xen Cloud Platform will form part of wider initiative aimed at bridging private clouds with public cloud services such as those offered by Amazon and Rackspace.
Tags: Cloud computing, Security, Virtualization, Xen, Novell Inc., Hypervisor, Xen.org, Cloud computing, network, Rackspace
Xen: The startup in Citrix clothing
Insight newsmaker Citrix exec Ian Pratt describes how the XenSource buyout has affected the virtualization company, and where Citrix is going with Xen-branded products.
Tags: Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Server platforms, Open source, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Client Virtualization, Xen.org
VMware's cloud proposition 'attractive'
News Vendor still has to win cloud providers over to its new "cloud OS", but the virtualization giant's lion's share of market is a big advantage, say analysts.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Forrester Research Inc., Virtualization, Xen, data center virtualization, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Cloud computing, Environment
Citrix and Intel collaborate on virtualization
News The companies say they will deliver desktop virtualization based on Intel's vPro and the Xen hypervisor.
Tags: Virtualization, Processors, Desktops, Acquisitions, Citrix Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Intel vPro, Xen, Hypervisor, Environment
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News The latest disruption to a high-profile cloud-computing service follows outages from other providers, including Google and Salesforce.com.
Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Google Inc., Xen, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, online retail company, software-as-a-service, data center
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
News Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free.
Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Hypervisor, performance, Hardware, processor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat publishes Fedora 9 preview
News The open source software maker has released the penultimate version of its free Linux distribution ahead of the full release next month.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Virtualization, Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Ubuntu, Hypervisor, Mozilla Firefox, processor
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News Red Hat releases a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualization based on Qumranet's KVM.
Tags: Virtualization, Linux, Servers, Desktops, Ethernet, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Tool, Beta
Red Hat begins testing virtualization line-up
News Beta tests begin on the new line of virtualization products based on Qumranet's KVM, which put Red Hat into direct competition with the likes of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.
Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Hypervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Enterprise Linux, Virtualization, Linux
Platform moves into cloud management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing releases cloud management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider.
Tags: Cloud computing, grid computing, Web services, Xen, BMC Software Inc., Quocirca, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud computing, Environment, Platform Computing Inc.
Intel motherboards suffer Bios flaws
News Chipmaker releases updates to address privilege escalation holes in a number of its motherboards, and says to its knowledge the flaws have not been exploited.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Rootkit, Motherboard, Flaw, BIOS Update, Environment, Server, BIOS, desktop
How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off
News With Yahoo counting on cloud computing to accelerate development, a behind-the-scenes IT guy like Shelton Shugar moves into the spotlight.
Tags: Cloud computing, Yahoo! Inc., Virtualization, software, Open-source Software, Apache Hadoop, Cloud computing, Server, corporate computing, Internet
Running Exchange Server 2007 in a virtual environment
Techguide In efforts to virtualize everything from the lowliest application server to the highest-end database server, Exchange servers look like scrumptious candidates. But do watch out for caveats.
Tags: Virtualization, E-mail servers, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Exchange, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Environment, Virtual Machine, unified messaging, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
Red Hat ties virtualization future to KVM
News The enterprise open-source software company is moving away from Xen towards its own KVM technology, as part of its virtualization strategy.
Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Machine, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Hypervisor, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, strategy, desktop
Novell releases Suse Linux Enterprise 11
News The latest version of the enterprise Linux distribution includes a full runtime environment for Microsoft .NET applications.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Novell Inc., Mono Extension, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Customer, Microsoft .NET, SuSE, SuSE Linux
