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Yesterday was the launch of Sun's xVM portfolio. This is a big deal for Sun and I think it will also have an impact in the industry; it is nice to see all these pieces starting to fall in place. I'll just provide a bit of context and let you follow the links.
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There are 4 pieces to the portfolio: xVM Server, a bare-metal hypervisor that is easy to manage, xVM Ops Center, an "internet-scale" (i.e. oogles of machines) management product for it, xVM VirtualBox, virtualization on your desktop/laptop, and xVM VDI, virtualization of Desktops. The Launch Site does a good job; it includes the customary interviews with execs (but not just Sun, also Microsoft, Intel and CSC Financial Services), plus demos and overviews of all the key pieces. Also see SDN News. |
Sun and MS are working together again - like they did with Metro - and they have agreed to interoperability between their Virtualization offerings - see the xVMBlog and reports at OStatic and BusinessWire. The press has done a pretty good coverage of the general launch, see InternetNews, VNUnet, TheWhir, TradingMarkets.
There are many other blogs on this at BSC, hopefully all tagged as
xVM
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Added - Reflections and thank-yous Steve; the HPC watercooler folks Do a Recap that points to the community site at OpenxVM.ORG; and Marc writes about the Implications of xVM for HPC; the VirtualBox folks do a Summary.
"like they did with Metro" - hey, it's not past tense---the Metro team just returned from Redmond where we worked with MS engineers at another plugfest. I'll write a blog entry with the results.
Posted by Harold Carr on September 11, 2008 at 07:17 AM PDT #
Thanks for the correction. I was mostly thinking about the announcement, but my writeup was inaccurate. - eduard/o
Posted by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on September 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM PDT #