Archive for Kris Buytaert

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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, and starting up some new projects still in stealth mode. 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.

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 | Continued

Spice 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 | Continued

Gluster 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 | Continued

Open 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 | Continued

Fujitsu 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

Remus and Kemari , still going strong

Remus and Kemari, the 2 VM mirroring solutions for Xen both made some announcements recently.

15Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

CopyCats in Virtualization

Step back in time with me a couple of years, Xen was starting it’s upmars and with Xen paravirtualization became popular , then came the other Virtualization vendors and the discussion about which technology was best discussed started.

Now we all know that VMWare and Xensource were discussing how to include hooks for Paravirtualization into the Linux kernel and eventually that also happened,however there wasn’t really any adoption , a couple of weeks ago VMWare announced it was going to drop support for paravirtualization. Aparrently VMWare’s Paravirtualization story wasn’t really a success.

13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Project XVP

On blog.xen.org we read about XVP , one of the most common questions for XenServer is a webinterface to manage the VM’s from a browser. XVP , developed by Colin Dean at the Durham University in the UK has one based on 4 components.

13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Enomaly ECP 3.0.3 Service Provider Edition Released

Reuven Cohen, Founder and Chief Technologist for Toronto based Enomaly Inc posts on his blog Elastic Vapor that Enomaly is announcing the general availability of The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) Service Provider Edition 3.0.3.

13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Memory OverCommit and Shared Memory pages

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Have you ever been in that meeting with the proprietary sales guy on one side and a bunch of Virtualization newbies on the other side ?
Usually the simplified discussion goes like this,
Customer : “We’re looking into virtualizing some of our servers , we already have some windows, and some Linux, Linux does Virtualization right [...]

19Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

The future of Linux and Virtualization

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While catching up on my reading backlog I ran into an
article over at Ostatic titled, “Linux and Virtualization will March Forward Together” ,
Bob Sutor from IBM is quoted in that article stating
“I think Linux is such a natural for virtualization, both as a host and as a guest, and this will drive [...]

19Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Cloud Computing is the Future!

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8Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued
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