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.
RightScale Supports The Smell Of Saunas
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Today
RightScale Inc. announced they will team up with the Eucalyptus team have their platform available with Eucalyptus so they can deliver an Easy to Mange Open Source Cloud Computing platform.
They have announced that starting today, November 4, 2008 they will have the RightScale Cloud computing management platform ready for use with the Eucalyptus Puclic [...]
Roger Baskerville Leaves Citrix / XenSource
Roger Baskerville has left Citrix, where he was Regional Director Northern Europe Server Virtualization to join Vizioncore as Vice President for EMEA.
2Nov2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Future of Xen At Red Hat
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As you might know, most of the development for the upcoming Red Hat releases is happening in the Fedora project, so if you want to keep an eye on what’s going to happen in future RedHat releases Fedora is a good place to look.
Reuven pointed out that the next Fedora release (Fedora 10) won’t [...]
28Oct2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM Lives On At Red Hat, So Now What?
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Over a year after the first big Open Source Virtualization acquisition, Citrix Acquiring Xensource, the next industry shaking acquisition is a fact. Red Hat has reeled in Virtualization startup Qumranet, While RedHat had already announced that they were going to support both KVM and Xen in their product range , taking [...]
openQRM 4.1 Released With Support for KVM
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Matt just sent mail to let us know that the openQRM team has released a fresh openQRM 4.1
After the initial 4.0 release of the “next generation” of openQRM, re-written in PHP, the new release comes with some nice new features. the most important one being the addition of . support for KVM-Virtualization And [...]
University of Toronto Announces Snowflock
Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote in to announce the news that he and his team have just released Snowflock, which lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different hosts. Snowflock can do this in less than a second and with very low runtime overhead.
13Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedCitrix To Jump On Cloud Wagon, But How?
Tarry is hinting at a “big” announcement that Citrix will make on September 15th. He reveals nothing, apparently having signed an NDA, but hints that the news concerns his topic of focus of lately. An acquisition? A major update of their product line?
10Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedRedHat Picks Up Qumranet
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According to
Globes,
RedHat has acquired
Qumranet (confirmed via
press release)
“Redhat announced its acquisition of Israeli virtualization start-up Qumranet Inc. for about $100 million, ending a long period of rumors. This is Red Hat’s first acquisition in Israel, and it will turn the Linux software company into a market leader in virtualization. Qumranet [...]
VirtualBox 2.0 Hits The Wire
Sun just announced the availability of Sun xVM Virtual Box 2.0. The biggest change in xVM VirtualBox 2.0 is the new support for 64-bit versions of operating systems like Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems.
4Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued0wning Xen … In More Detail
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Over at her
own
blog, Joanna Rutkowska from Invisible Things has some updates on their findings about Xen security as
we earlier reported.
Joanna argues that most of the attacks presented indeed require that the attacker first gains access to the Dom0 before he can launch the attacks but that doesn’t take away the [...]
Workspace Service Morphs Into Nimbus 2.0
The Workspace Service project part of Globus.org has just announced it’s rebranding and releasing the 2.0 version of what will now be known as Nimbus.
19Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM launches the open-ovf project
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Scott Moser from IBM’s Systems Technology Group has released the first version of the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-neutral method for packaging virtual machine images.
The goal [...]
