Announcements
Great Session Lineup Awaits Attendees in New York City! It’s time to make your travel plans to New York City for the September 15 arrival of the Xen Project User Summit! The Lighthouse Executive Conference Center will play host to the only full day user-centric Xen Project event on
User Story
Both businesses and consumers rely on public clouds for a range of tasks and activities from collaboration and video streaming to gmail and Netflix. New companies are born with just a dozen employees, a laptop and an Internet connection practically overnight. This is all thanks to cloud computing. It’s
Events
Only last week, the Xen Project team was at OSCON where we launched Mirage OS 2.0 (event report to follow soon, but in the meantime check out the following sessions Nymote and Mirage, Floss Weekly on Mirage OS and Community War Stories) and now our Developer Summit is just
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Event to Discuss Virtualization Innovation and Best Practices With Cloud Computing and Security SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the presenters and full program for the Xen Project User Summit that gathers developers, integrators and power users for in-person
Releases
The first release of Mirage OS back in December 2013 introduced the prototype of the unikernel concept, which realised the promise of a safe, flexible mechanism to build highly optimized software stacks purpose-built for deployment in the public cloud (see the overview of Mirage OS for some background). Since then,
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Lightweight Mirage OS Improves Distributed Storage, Security and Networking Functionality for ARM-based Embedded Devices Portland, Ore. — OSCON — July 22, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the release of Mirage OS v2.0, which includes the industry’s first software framework that unifies cloud
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XCP is Dead; Long Live XenServer! Last year was a momentous year for all things related to the Xen Project. 2013 saw Xen Project become a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. It also saw the separate XenServer project become Open Source under the auspices of Citrix Systems. And,
Announcements
If you use — or are just interested in learning about — the Xen Project Hypervisor, you will want to mark your calendar now for two great events coming later this summer. September 15: Xen Project User Summit, New York City, NY The Xen Project User Summit is great for: * Users who
Announcements
We normally only cover news and information directly related to Xen in this channel, but we thought it might be useful to briefly expand our scope a bit to mention the recent discussion about the Docker security exploit. What’s the news? Well to begin with, a few weeks ago
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I’ve been release coordinator for Xen’s 4.3 and 4.4 releases. For the 4.5 release, I’ve handed this role off to Konrad Wilk, from Oracle. In this blog, I try to capture some of my thoughts and experience about one aspect of release management: deciding
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I am pleased to announce the schedule of the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014. The Project’s second annual developer event highlights best practices, user testimonials and advancements with the industry-leading open source hypervisor. Powering many of the world’s
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Virtualization Experts Come Together to Accelerate Xen Project Innovation With Microservers, Hyperscale Computing and Embedded Applications SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the presenters and full program for the Xen Project Developer Summit annual conference that unites developers, integrators