Announcements
Join 4.6 Release Candidate Testing on September 1, 2015 Although the Xen Project performs automated testing through the project’s Test Lab, we also depend on manual testing of release candidates by our users. Our Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production. It is
Events
This year’s Xen Project Developer Summit is over! We had two days packed with highly technical sessions that were attended by 120 delegates. Our sessions have – as always – been very interactive with lots of discussions during and after the talks. Of course we did also have lots of time
Announcements
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.3. We recommend that all users of the 4.4 stable series update to this latest maintenance release. Xen 4.4.3 is available immediately from its git repository: xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=
Releases
Today we officially welcome Alibaba as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member. On the heels of the company announcing a $1 billion investment in its cloud computing unit Aliyun, we’re excited Aliyun is also committing to Xen Project virtualization. As the cloud computing unit adds new data centers
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Company Leverages Open Source Virtualization to Power Online Marketplaces and Aliyun Cloud Services San Francisco, August 13, 2015 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced Aliyun, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a new Advisory Board member. Xen Project
Commentary
Docker is certainly the most influential open source project of the moment. Why is Docker so successful? Is it going to replace Virtual Machines? Will there be a big switch? If so, when? Let’s look at the past to understand the present and predict the future. Before virtual machines,
Technical
The Rumprun unikernel, based on the driver components offered by rump kernels, provides a means to run existing POSIX applications as unikernels on Xen. This post explains how we got here (it matters!), what sort of things can be solved today, and also a bit of what is in store
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The security threats we’re facing today are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Rootkits, and malware taking advantage of kernel and 0-day vulnerabilities pose especially serious challenges for classic anti-malware solutions, due to the latter’s lack of isolation: they’re typically executing in the same context as the malware they’re
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What New Things Are Coming for the Cloud? It’s not enough to know what today’s cloud looks like. You need to develop an eye toward the future of the cloud as well. The Xen Project is proud to organize this conference for architects and users of clouds and
Announcements
Docker’s popularity and usefulness in cloud systems architectures is evident, having won over countless developers. Yet, it’s not a replacement for mature, proven and security-hardened virtualization technologies that support many of the world’s largest clouds in production. So, while developers clearly want to take advantage of container
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Company to Present its New Open Source Project at Xen Project Developer Summit and ContainerCon SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2015–The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced a partnership with Hyper, a company offering an open source project that allows developers to run Docker images
Commentary
In this industry, everyone seems to talk about innovation, but very few platforms exist which foster innovation. More times than not, “innovation” is simply a buzzword used by some marketing campaign to hawk something about as novel as twenty-year-old accounting software. Innovation does occur, of course. But often