Phoenix Technologies today announced that the first open demonstrations of Phoenix FailSafe, its anti-theft and data protection firmware-based product, and its embedded virtualization platform, Phoenix HyperSpace, are being held at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) August 19-21, 2008 in San Francisco.
At IDF, Phoenix also unveiled Phoenix MicroCore, Phoenix’s newest BIOS designed for the new Intel Atom processor for netbooks and nettops.
Update: a LinuxWorld keynote given by Simon Crosby unveils that the engine behind HyperCore is actually Xen. The presentation also revealed that other major vendors are using Xen for their upcoming desktop hypervisors.
Phoenix HyperCore is an embedded hypervisor which allows an independent Linux-based operating system called HyperSpace to run specialized core services side-by-side with Windows Vista. The HyperSpace platform provides a unique computing environment called ManageSpace that PC designers and security innovators can use to host remote management and security applications that are available before, during and after Windows boot up and shut down. Operating like self-contained appliances, these embedded applications such as anti-virus and secure browsing provide stronger protection than is currently available on PCs.
We recently wrote that Phoenix is integrating HyperSpace into NEC notebooks as one of the first manufacterers.
Enhanced by Intel based-processors enabling virtualization technologies, Phoenix HyperSpace provides a secure foundation of ’embedded simplicity.’ PC OEMs can now offer highly-efficient, instantly available applications that promise to deliver new levels of security, up-time, system reliability, remote management, and ease-of-use to PC users.
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