The Xen Cloud Platform, a turnkey open source virtualization solution that provides out-of-the box virtualization and cloud computing, is now at version 1.6. Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 also features the Xen Hypervisor, an API toolstack for cloud, storage and networking solutions.
Xen.org, home of the open source Xen® hypervisor, today announced that Canonical’s release of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS now includes support for the Xen Hypervisor (version 4.1.2), Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) packages and XCP OpenStack plug-ins.
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) announced the availability of a mobile virtualization reference platform for its Android version of the OKL4 microkernel hypervisor (& Microvisor& ). The Android & One Core& platform appears to be the first implementation of version 4.0 of OKL4, which offers security and performance enhancements, says the company....
Cloud.com today announced CloudStack™ 2.2, the latest version of its innovative open source cloud computing platform. CloudStack is a comprehensive, open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of highly-scalable public and private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds.
Convirture, a provider of open source, cross-platform virtualization management tools, has announced new software designed to allow enterprises to manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtualized infrastructures from a single console.
If virtualization is so vital to cloud computing, shouldn’t cloud backup and recovery also take advantage of virtualization technology? Zerto, which develops business continuity products tailored for the cloud, thinks so, as it has shown with the release of its latest hypervisor-based backup platform. How does it compare to other solutions in the rapidly growing market for cloud backup?
Microsoft, Red Hat, HP and Oracle all had big cloud announcements this week that highlight the growing trend toward enterprise cloud computing.
Open source cloud computing solutions continued to expand with the announcement a new product from Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) based on the OpenStack platform. Notably, its key selling points include not only performance and storage standards that the company touts as industry leading, but also the uniquely open source trait of freedom from vendor lock-in.
A newly rechristened Cloud.com on Tuesday unveiled its CloudStack Platform, an integrated software solution that lets enterprises and service providers quickly and easily build, manage and deploy Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions.