All Posts Tagged With: "xensource"

Citrix Unveils XenDesktop 2.0

Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 was unveiled at Citrix Synergy 2008, with the company also revealing some previously unannounced details about the complete XenDesktop product line, including the release of a new Express Edition offering free desktop virtualization for up to 10 users, and new Enterprise and Platinum Editions.

20May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

$500 Million For XenSource, Where Did All The Money Go?

In August of last year, Citrix and XenSource agreed on an acquisition price of $500 million in a mixture of cash and Citrix stock. The deal came trough in late October of 2007. Now 7 months later, Philip wonders where all the money went.

17May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Xen Summit Boston, Partial Schedule Announced

Stephen Spector has just announced the current agenda for the upcoming Boston Xen Summit.
Ian Pratt and Keir Fraser will kick off the event with an overview of the Xen roadmap.

12May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

KVM vs Xen, Who Will Win The Fight?

As KVM is gaining more and more popularity by being adopted in several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, the battle between different virtualization technologies continues to be interesting. Meanwhile, Ian Pratt and Benny Schnaider are using strong words against each other.

9May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Xen API Project Announced

Stephen Spector, Xen.org community manager has just announced that he’s calling for the community willing to work on completing the existing Xen-API specification.

28Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Xen 3.2.1 Released

Keir Fraser has announced the availability of Xen 3.2.1 and 3.1.4, both bugfix releases in the Xen 3.1 and 3.2 series. The 3.2.1 release contains architectural improvements and new user-visible features.

27Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

IDC Virtualization Forum West: Simon Crosby (Citrix / Xensource)

Simon Crosby (CTO Citrix / Xensource) presented at the IDC Virtualization Forum West event in San Francisco. Here’s what Brian Berliner, investor, Open Source pioneer and the creator of the Concurrent Versions System, interested the most.

9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

The Present And Future of Xen

Over the past few months, a number of people have been vouching the idea that Xen’s development and adoption is slowing down because of the Citrix’ acquisition. Is it? A look at the present state and future of Xen.

7Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Citrix Releases XenServer 4.1, Simplifies Pricing Policy

This sure took a while: Citrix finally upgraded XenServer yesterday with the 4.1 release, adding some 50 new features for the first major version upgrade since Citrix acquired XenSource last August.

1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

The Current State of Open Source Virtualization

We’ve started by looking back at a decade of Open Source virtualization, and in this second part of the series we’ll tackle today’s landscape (last updated in March 2008).

26Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 5 comments | Continued

Looking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization

A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.

10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Preinstalled Hypervisors And The Future of Operating Systems

Jay Lyman from the 451 Group wonders about the future of the Linux Distributions in the Virtualization arena.

5Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued
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