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,
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For those of you interested in how Microsoft and IP works… http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10215905-16.html
Citrix Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems. The base Satori components are released by Microsoft as the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V, and provide support for paravirtualized XenLinux guests running on Hyper-V.
From Simon Crosby’s Citrix blog posting We’ve Open Sourced Our Optimized VHD Support: Today Dutch Meyer of UBC, and Jake Wires of the Citrix XenServer storage team in Vancouver submitted our implementation of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in
I am back from the OSBC 2008 event in San Francisco and wanted to share my notes from the sessions I attended as well as some thoughts on the overall event. Feel free to add any comments on the material and I will answer your questions. Notes from Day 1