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Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges

News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: security, challenge, virtualisation

[16 Apr 2008]

XenSource Case Study: KBC Clearing

whitepaper KBC Clearing evaluated several virtualization offerings and then selected XenSource because of its superior performance and price. KBC Clearing, a subsidiary of the Belgian financial services company KBC, is a leading financial services institution...

Tags: data center

[04 Mar 2008]

Xen: Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization: Inside Xen 3.0 - A XenSource White Paper

whitepaper Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise. This results from an urgent need to focus on reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing infrastructure. In spite of - or indeed because of - the widespread adoption...

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

Introducing XenEnterprise Volume Virtualization Via Next Generation of Server Virtualization: A XenSource Whitepaper

whitepaper The business case for virtualization is based on an industry-wide focus on server consolidation, a need for enhanced flexibility and responsiveness of IT assets, and high availability of critical infrastructure applications.

Tags: server consolidation

[29 Feb 2008]

Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors

whitepaper IT infrastructure virtualization, and in particular server virtualization, has become a primary consideration for all IT managers and CIOs because of the tremendous financial benefits that it delivers through reduced server count, power savings...

Tags: server consolidation

[29 Feb 2008]

Consolidate Windows Now With Next Generation Server Virtualization

whitepaper The business case for virtualization is based on an industry-wide focus on server consolidation, a need for enhanced flexibility and responsiveness of IT assets, and high availability of critical infrastructure applications.

Tags: server consolidation

[29 Feb 2008]

Bringing Open Source Virtualization to the Financial Services Market

whitepaper Server virtualization technologies from XenSource are optimizing the utilization of every server. No industry puts a higher premium on the speed, security, and reliability of IT infrastructures than financial services.

Tags: processors

[14 Feb 2008]

Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy

News And last year, Citrix paid $500m for XenSource, a virtualisation software provider. Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash for MySQL's privately held stock...

[16 Jan 2008]

Seamless Physical and Virtual Server Management: An Integrated Management Approach

whitepaper The original virtualization solution provider, VMware, is now joined by Sun Solaris 10, Microsoft Virtual Server, IBM LPAR, and XenSource. Virtualization is delivering significant benefits to IT organizations that employ virtualized server, storage...

Tags: network design, sign, virtual, environments

[26 Nov 2007]

VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation

News But it's clear that the company is heading in that direction, a significant shift as rivals such as Microsoft, XenSource, Virtual Iron and Parallels are still working to get the basic virtualisation technology in place.

Tags: vmware, server, virtualisation

[14 Sep 2007]

Far from quiet on the virtual front

Comment On top of all that, VMware is valued at $20bn as it floats on Wall Street, and Citrix acquires XenSource. Next, XenSource teams up with Symantec over storage virtualisation, F5 acquires Acopia Networks, and XenSource brings out XenEnterprise 4.0.

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[05 Sep 2007]

Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars

News Citrix Systems has said it intends to acquire open source virtualisation company XenSource for around $500m, a day after the spectacular public offering of virtualisation company VMware. By acquiring XenSource, the company intends to move into the...

Tags: viridian, xensource, citrix, virtualisation

[16 Aug 2007]

Virtualization Using XenEnterprise With Dell PowerEdge Servers and Storage

whitepaper Dell PowerEdge servers and storage coupled with XenEnterprise software from XenSource provide a compelling solution to realize a scalable and dynamic virtual datacenter. This paper describes an overview of XenSource's XenEnterprise virtualization...

Tags: storage management, dell, virtualization, poweredge

[05 Jun 2007]

Virtualization Using XenEnterprise With Dell PowerEdge Servers and Dell OpenManage

whitepaper Dell PowerEdge servers and storage coupled with XenEnterprise software from XenSource provide a compelling solution to realize a scalable and dynamic virtual datacenter. This paper describes an overview of XenSource's XenEnterprise virtualization...

Tags: application servers, virtualization, dell, poweredge

[05 Jun 2007]

A Performance Comparison of Commercial Hypervisors

whitepaper This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this...

Tags: linux - open source, virtualization, vmware, readiness

[18 May 2007]

XenSource XenEnterprise 3.1 Hardware Assisted Server Virtualization Software - Introduction and Installation for HP ProLiant Servers

whitepaper XenSource XenEnterprise 3.1 software enables the consolidation of multiple operating systems onto a single physical HP ProLiant server. XenEnterprise 3.1 software was tested by HP and XenSource on HP ProLiant blade server hardware.

Tags: blades, virtualization, linux, operating systems

[08 May 2007]

Microsoft puts brakes on Viridian

News For example, VMware has publicly disparaged Microsoft's virtualisation policies, and Microsoft has worked with open source competitor XenSource in an attempt to ensure both Windows and Linux can run on either company's virtualisation foundation.

Tags: viridian, virtualisation, microsoft

[13 Apr 2007]

Xen: Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization

whitepaper Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise. This result from an urgent need to focus on reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing infrastructure. In spite of - or indeed because of - the widespread adoption...

Tags: virtualization, maintenance, total cost, load

[01 Apr 2007]

Slower growth for server shipments: IDC

News Xen, an open source competitor commercialised by XenSource and others, is now built into the prevailing versions of Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server. IDC has lopped 4.5 million units off its forecast for the...

Tags: server virtualisation, virtualisation, servers, idc

[21 Mar 2007]

Shortlists for CNET tech awards unveiled

News XenSource - XenEnterprise CNET Networks UK, the publisher of silicon.com, has announced the finalists for its 2006 Technology Awards. The awards, which will be handed out on 26 September in London, recognise innovative use of IT in the UK, leading...

Tags: cnet

[07 Jul 2006]

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