Simon Crosby - Enterprise Grade Virtualization with Open Source Technologies

Simon Crosby, Ph.D. - Enterprise Grade Virtualization with Open Source Technologies

Agenda:

Simon Crosby, Ph.D. - Xen Architectural Overview and Deployment Best Practices

Virtualization is a new and hot item to the world of Linux and Windows. There have been, however, virtualization technologies for over forty years starting with the IBM emulators for mainframes and later with the CP67 and VM virtualizing operating systems.

Open Source operating systems like Linux offer the potential to make virtualization fast, easy and a commodity by introducing the required changes into the OS as part of the standard kernel. Fast virtualization with a low overhead, furthermore makes it possible for the first time to use it in production environments (rather than just test and development).

Xen, the leading Open Source virtualization technology has quickly become a standard adopted by many leading ISVs to build comprehensive data center efficiency and management solutions. This session will provide an overview of Xen and discuss best practices for deploying it to achieve enterprise grade virtualization.

Simon Crosby is the VP of Technology Strategy at XenSource and joined XenSource from Intel, where he was a Principal Engineer leading strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously Simon founded CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor. At CPlane Simon held the roles of President & CEO, Chairman, CTO and Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to CPlane Simon was a tenured faculty member at Cambridge University, UK, where he led research network performance and control and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents.

Members' Minutes

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• Describe their latest Linux discovery
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• Discuss Linux projects

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