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08/07/2007, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Speaker:
Simon Crosby, CTO, Citrix Systems Inc.
The open source Xen project has hit the headlines a great deal as the various Linux distributions bring their Xen-based products to market. Millions of copies of Xen have been distributed, and Xen is now used to virtualize demanding production workloads in major enterprises such as Amazon. What's the next step for Xen? Should it focus on better integration in Linux, or add features that strengthen its play as a platform hypervisor? What is Xen's real edge in the market against Microsoft's forthcoming hypervisor and the popular proprietary VMware products? How do customers want to consume their virtualization? Xen as a platform hypervisor lacks the fit and finish of VMware's ESX, but do customers want to consume virtualization from their OS vendor instead, and if so, is VMware relevant, and why is Microsoft so late? This session will answer all of these questions and more.
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