It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
By completing the acquisition of Cloud.com and its CloudStack platform, Citrix reaffirmed its commitment to open source that was demonstrated by its support of the OpenStack infrastructure developed by Rackspace. Citrix has also made it clear that it wants to work on CloudStack technology to deliver the cloud at scale, such as those built by […]
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Data Center and Cloud division, announced on the Citrix blog that he wants to leave the company to start a new professional adventure in a Cloud startup focused on virtualization and security, Bromium. Simon Crosby co-founder of XenSource, acquired 4 years ago by Citrix, together with Ian Pratt join Gaurav […]
For days we have been hearing about Swisscom’s takeover bid for our Fastweb, while a desktop and application virtualization project between Swisscom and Citrix is underway. Maybe soon we will have a serious offer of virtual office in Italy? The project with Citrix currently operates with 25 Citrix XenApps for 25000 concurrent users, provides XP-based […]
We have recently come up against problems of installation/configuration of virtualization in innovative HW environments for the creation of a virtual mini datacenter. The activity was carried out in collaboration with the Clara Consortium, with which we carried out the design and implementation of the virtual rack / datacenter in four arms. The equipment was […]
For those who thought that the Xen opensource project was at a standstill or in agony, here we are at the 4.0 release of the hypervisor with great news. We will also describe a series of important news about the Xen Client Initiative (XCI) and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) projects. The new features of version […]
Since the advent of the Internet and with the exponential development of access to the network, the increasing dependence of users on network connectivity, the birth of increasingly popular online applications, the gigantic increase in the amount of information deposited on the network, the growing power of web-oriented programming languages, the birth and exponential development […]
The addition of a new host server installed with the free XenServer Enterprise 5.5 hypervisor, even if it can be trivial using the XenCenter graphical interface It can easily generate errors even if the host machines are practically the same, of the same brand and model, this is because to allow a painless XenMotion migration, […]
Some time ago in the in-depth analysis of hypervisor performance we found ourselves faced with a native problem of virtual Simmetric MultiProcessing (vSMP) which would be a methodology of Simmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), thanks to which we can assign more than one virtual CPU (vCPU) to a virtual machine. This feature would allow you to give […]
The DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) announced yesterday, April 27, the formation of a working group dedicated to the development of a set of specifications for the management of resources in the Cloud. The group, Open Cloud Standards Incubator, will focus mainly on interoperability between private and public clouds, perhaps developing management protocols, package formats […]
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