Xen has yet to reach Zen. Xen's open-source standard for virtualization is gaining traction as cloud computing takes off, but despite claims by some companies that their Xen hypervisors outperform ...

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company’s plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that ...

One of my favorite sayings is, “Open source software is as much about people as it is about technology.” This week in Santa Clara, CA over one hundred people active in the open source Xen hypervisor ...

Xen, one of the oldest open-source hypervisors, has long been popular with major cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Public Cloud, and Verizon Cloud. Now, with improved performance, ...

Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

Citrix aims to beat VMware at virtualization. A year ago it bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and switched the Citrix business focus to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Xen.org is unveiling the latest release of its open-source ...

Two major vendors are using KVM virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon’s popular EC2 service. The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing ...

The Xen Project, once a Citrix project, and now a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, announced on March 10th the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.4 with enhanced ARM support. For ...

Developers of the Xen open source hypervisor are trying to make Xen the industry’s cloud-building platform of choice with a new initiative designed to expand upon the hypervisor’s ability to create ...

The new Xen 4.0 hypervisor adds more than two dozen new features to make virtualization suitable for all types of workloads Xen.org has launched a new version of the open source Xen hypervisor, and ...