Enterprise-grade virtualization with Xen
With Steve Hand, XenSource
Virtualization is a hot technology right now, because of the tremendous benefits it offers
to the enterprise.
Server virtualization leads to increased utilization by allowing users to put multiple
virtual servers on a single physical server. There are tremendous additional benefits
including increased manageability and security, which also apply to desktop clients.
Xen, the leading open source virtualization technology, has quickly become a standard
adopted by many leading ISVs and OEMs to build comprehensive data center efficiency
and management solutions.
Xen is hot because it outperforms all known hypervisors, is free and collaboratively
developed by a community comprising developers from over 20 major enterprise infrastructure
vendors, and it is more secure than any other hypervisor.
This presentation will review Xen's progress towards ubiquity, highlighting the opportunities
for vendors to build value-added solutions around Xen while remaining certifiably
interoperable with the offerings of other vendors in the Xen ecosystem.
It will highlight ecosystem solutions for storage virtualization, security and
manageability, developed by vendors around a single, common, open industry standard
code base: Xen.
Steve Hand is a founder and chief architect of XenSource, and a member of senior faculty at Cambridge University, UK, where he leads research in the areas of operating systems, storage, networking and security. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College and Visiting Faculty at Intel Research. He holds a BSc and MSc from University College Dublin and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is author of over 30 research papers and patents.