Sunday, July 26, 2009

What is Xen?

The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. (more)

Xen.org releases Xen 3.4 - The Yankee Groups Third Annual Virtualization Survey reports a significant increase of commercial Xen-based solutions which represent 17 percent of total market share.

"I think Xen is a great product. It is easy to use. But most importantly is the very active community around it...", Werner Vogels,CTO Amazon.com from his video interview on Virtualization.com

http://www.xen.org/

Xen In the News
Computerworld
, USA
- Jun 15, 2009
- Jun 15, 2009
... massive update to VMware's flagship hypervisor and management toolset that will put significant pressure on Microsoft and the Xen development community. ...
Heise Online
, Germany
- May 20, 2009
- May 20, 2009
A new version of the free Xen hypervisor is now available to download. Xen is a kind of "super operating system" which works directly with the hardware, ...
Forbes
, USA
- Jun 16, 2009
- 11 hours ago
One organization or company does the hypervisor (Xen, VMware ( VMW - news - people ), Citrix, Parallels), the virtual layer on top of the hardware. ...
SearchServerVirtualization.com
, USA
- Jun 09, 2009
- Jun 09, 2009
Oracle's own virtualization product, OracleVM, is based on the Xen hypervisor. Sun's xVM virtualization product -- long delayed and now slated to be ...

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