Archive for Kris Buytaert
Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits, Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.
Marten Mickos, ex MySQL CEO, joins Eucalyptus as CEO
Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud software Eucalyptus , let us know that Marten Mickos joined the company as chief executive officer.
Marten Mickos, born November 6, 1962 in Espoo, Finland) was chief executive officer (CEO) of MySQL AB. He served as chief executive officer from January 2001 [...]
Abicloud announced 1.0.0, funding, and a new CEO for Abiquo
Abiquo , the Open Source Cloud company from Barcelona, has been busy the last couple of weeks.
Last week they announced two important milestones in their existence.
First of all a round of 1.5M euro Series A funding was announced
€1 million comes from Nauta Capital, another 441.000 Euro comes from Caja Navarra
and another 100.000 [...]
XN Suite
Back in the early days Monitoring your Xen platforms was pretty simple xm top was pretty much all there was available. The folks over at
xnCORE have release their management framework for Xen that is supposed to make administrating and monitoring Xen servers much easier.
Their xnCORE software suite for Open Source Xen [...]
OpenNode
Estonia’s latest Virtualization product is called
OpenNode
OpenNode is a CentOS based opensource server virtualization solution , providing the users an easy method to do bare-metal installations supporting both OpenVZ container based virtualization and KVM full virtualization technologies on the same physical host.
The first public preview of their OpenNode technology is available from sourceforge , [...]
Oracle VM Manager , the book Review
Late 2009 the nice folks over at Packt Publishing sent me the book on
Oracle VM Manager by Tarry Singh. Some people say that a technology only becomes relevant when there are books being published about it, so for Oracle VM Manager Tarry’s book marked that milestone.
Tarry did a very nice job writing [...]
OpenECP, An ECP Fork
Yesterday I got a new Twitter follower, OpenECP , given the open in it’s title … I had a look and I saw an Open Source Elastic Cloud Computing platform. (A virtual Machine Management platform if you don’t want to use the “Cloud” hype terminology.
The attentive reader might remember us announcing Enomaly ECP releases before..
11Feb2010 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM News
The Qemu-KVM 0.12 release includes a very interesting new feature based on patches provides back in november 2009 by IBM.
This KVM version has a new feature called block migration which allows you to do block migration during the live migration of a VM.
openQRM Lives On
Good news for openQRM.
Matt Rechenburg, the openQRM team lead just wrote in that he founded openQRM Enterprise GmbH, together with some core members of the openQRM Team, openQRM Enterprise is now the new main sponsor and support company behind the openQRM Open Source Data Center Management and Cloud Computing Platform.
15Dec2009 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedSpice Up Your Virtual Desktop
When RedHat acquired Qumranet about 15 months ago lots of people realized that RedHat’s good practice of Open Sourcing everything they do might be a difficult task for the Qumranet software. And indeed, RedHat has been critised a lot for having a Windows only management framework for their Qumranet based technologies and for not opening up Spice yet.
But it came trough on their promise, as of now you can go to the fresh Spice Space page, part of the RedHat emerging Technology Projects at et.redhat.com
10Dec2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedGluster Announces Gluster Storage Platform
The folks over at Gluster dropped in the news that they are releasing their Gluster Storage platform:
“By integrating the GlusterFS file system with an operating system layer and improved management user interface, Gluster provides a complete storage software platform that simplifies the task of deploying petabyte-scale storage to two installation steps and a few mouse clicks. The new platform addresses the complexity of managing ‘big data,’ the demanding scalability requirements of modern applications”
9Dec2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedOpen Source Virtual Desktops by Ulteo
Thierry Koehrlen pinged us with the news that Ulteo is introducing its open source virtual desktop OVD 2.0. This new release delivers both Linux and/or Windows applications as complete virtual desktops and also via a web portal.
Thierry Koehrlen CEO & co-founder of Ulteo says . “Users can now log into their corporate portal and simply click a link to launch a remote Windows and/or Linux application, or they can click an icon to open a document with an associated remote application.”
1Dec2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedFujitsu and VA Linux Systems Japan K.K Join Xen Advisory Board
From blog.xen.org:
The Xen community is pleased to announce the addition of Fujitsu and VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. to the Xen Advisory Board. Fujitsu and VA Linux Systems joins other leading enterprise vendors to offer expertise and leadership to promote the Xen hypervisor as the industry standard in open source virtualization. The addition of these two influential vendors based in Japan provides Xen with an enhanced customer prospective in the server, client and cloud virtualization markets.
19Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued
You can use DRBD to this with kvm/xen 
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this is very interesting,The software enables the consolidation by keeping the infrastructure update completely transparent to the ESX hypervisor, . 
yeah,Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances. 
im 3 year exp in DWDM monitoring