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, 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.
Oracle releases VM virtualization templates
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At LinuxWorldExpo this week in San Francisco, Oracle Announced that it It is releasing a series of preconfigured templates for deploying software on its server virtualization technology.
The templates, which are already available at Oracle.com include configurations for Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Siebel CRM 8.0 and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
“All four of these [...]
Qumranet Announces Craig Bauman as Vice President of Sales and Channel Chief
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Qumranet, with its hosted desktop virtualization product, Solid ICE, announced that Craig Bauman has joined the company as the vice president of sales and channels. Bauman will be responsible for launching the Qumranet Partner Program and leading the sales organization through its recent grow th stage.
Buaman joins Qumranet from TriActive. Prior to joining [...]
First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV’08) Announced
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Usenix has just announced it’s first Workshop on I/O Virtualization
Scheduled to take place in San Diego on 10 and 11 december this year , the event wil
l be co-located with the Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementa
tion (OSDI’08)
The past decade the focus was mostly on processor and memory virtualization. I/O vi
rtualization [...]
Virtualization Workloads, a comparative study in Open Source environments
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At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Benoit de Lingeris and his team from Revolution Linux presented their paper “Virtualization of Linux Server, a comparative study“, mostly the work of Fernando L. Camargos in pursuit of his Masters degree in Computer Science.
They looked at VirtualBox, Xen, KVM, OpenVZ, LinuxVServer and KQemu in an 64bit mode for [...]
How to … spend your weekend
Over at UbuntuGeek.com is a fresh HOWTO on installing VirtualBox 1.6 in an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron setup, including USB Support. Over at the other side of the Linux Distribution Spectrum, Falko Timme at How to Forge documents how to install and use OpenVZ on Centos 5.2.
1Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedA Round Table on Virtualization Security with Industry Experts
A conference call about virtualization security (virtsec) with Joe Pendry (Director of Marketing at StackSafe), Kris Buytaert (Principle at Consultant Inuits), Tarry Singh (Industry/Market Analyst Founder & CEO of Avastu), Andreas Antonopoulos (SVP & Founding Partner at Nemertes Research),Allwyn Sequeira (SVP & CTO at Blue Lane), Michael Berman (CTO at Catbird), Chris Hoff (Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger at Unisys) and Hezi Moore (President, Founder & CTO at Reflex Security).
30Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedOLS Virtualization Minisummit Report
Report fron the Ottawa Linux Symposium Virtualization Mini Summit
24Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedQlusters Shuts Down
Qlusters, the company formerly behind the openQRM project shutters only about a year after it raised $10 million in a Series C round. The last 30 employees of the company were informed earlier this week of the company’s decision.
1Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedopenQRM 4.0 (Beta), Going Strong
Matt Rechenburg has just announced the beta version of openQRM 4.0. Not even that long after Qlusters decided to set the project free, the openQRM team has changed directions in a way Qlusters never would have allowed.
18Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedA Conversation About Virtualization Security, The Quotes
Last week, an interesting conference call took place with several industry leaders in the virtualization security (virtsec) area, initiated by Virtualization.com. Here are some of the most interesting quotes from that conversation.
11Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedBuild Your Own Cloud!
Given enough hardware, you can now build your own Amazon Elastic Cloud or similar platform. And all in Open Source. A group of developers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently released EUCALPYTUS, a tool that can make your personal Cloud dreams come true!
6Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedUlteo Releases Ulteo Virtual Desktop Beta, Wants To Get Linux Applications on Windows Desktops
Ulteo has just announced the beta version of their “Ulteo Virtual Desktop”, which allows you to use a large variety of Linux applications on the Windows operating system, and all features that are already available with the Ulteo Application System.
20May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued
