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VMware: Not Just Hypervisor Revenue
News In the old days, VMware made its money selling core virtualisation software called a hypervisor that lets a computer run several operating systems simultaneously. Over 80 percent of our revenue comes from outside of our hypervisor today," VMware...
[September 12, 2007, 9:00]
Sun Names Xen-based Hypervisor 'xVM'
News Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot "xVM", short for "x86 Virtual Machine". Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Microsoft To Offer Unbundled Hypervisor
News Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while the term "hypervisor" refers specifically to a thin layer that runs on a server and allows multiple operating systems to run on the same hardware, handling...
[November 13, 2007, 8:42]
Solving The Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
White Papers With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to address these business conditions in enterprise data...
[March 11, 2008, 23:00]
Citrix: Simple Hypervisor Key To Virtual Security
News Chris Mayers, chief security architect for Citrix Systems, claims companies should look for as little functionality in their virtualisation software as possible to improve security.
[April 24, 2008, 10:19]
Z/VM Security And Integrity
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the security and integrity characteristics of the z/VM hypervisor. It examines first the issue of virtual machine integrity - that is, how virtual machines are isolated from each other and...
[February 8, 2007, 23:00]
Virtualization: The Beginning Of The End Of Static Security
White Papers The critical point of security leverage in a virtualized environment is within the hypervisor itself, not behind it. The answer to the security challenges of virtualization: dynamic solutions like virtual shields that can decode protocols...
[April 13, 2007, 0:00]
A Performance Comparison Of Commercial Hypervisors
White Papers This paper studies the enterprise readiness of hypervisor-based virtualization products from VMware and XenSource. Using the award-winning VMware ESX Server hypervisor as a de-facto industry benchmark for performance and enterprise readiness, this...
[May 18, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Cuts Back On Virtualisation Features
News Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology. The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to...
[May 11, 2007, 9:36]
Virtual Rootkits Not A Problem, Claim Researchers
News In the study the researchers claimed that rootkits could not use hypervisor technology to remain undetected on a system. Most current hypervisor detection methods exploit differences in the virtual CPU interface of VMMs that violate x86...
[October 2, 2007, 16:35]
Xen Getting Multiprocessor Support
News Xen is a 'hypervisor' -- a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. Another potentially formidable competitor could have been IBM's rHype, or Research...
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Novell And Intel Speed Up Virtualised Windows
News Xen is an open-source "hypervisor" that lets a single machine run multiple operating systems, a feature that's handy for consolidating work onto a smaller number of more efficiently used servers. Virtualisation involves many different layers of the...
[February 12, 2007, 7:54]
VMware Shares Secrets In Security Drive
News At the end of the day, a hypervisor is a bag of bits that needs to be added," he said. VMware has traditionally restricted access to its hypervisor code and, while the vendor has made no official announcement about the API sharing programme...
[September 17, 2007, 8:46]
Hypervisors Tip Of Virtualisation Iceberg
News We see the hypervisor as a commodity item," Toby Knight, manager of systems engineering and solutions architecture ANZ, said. In recent times, much of the virtualisation discussion has centred around who will "own" the hypervisor, Nick Van der...
[May 2, 2008, 10:17]
Red Hat Linux 5.2 Beta Released
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgrades the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allows support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of memory per server. In the past, rival Novell has criticised Red Hat's...
[March 13, 2008, 15:18]
AMD: Quad-core Opteron Faster At Virtualisation
News But virtualisation software called a hypervisor, which oversees the operating system access to the hardware, poses performance problems compared to operating systems running on their own. But with a hypervisor actually in charge of memory...
[October 11, 2006, 10:00]
Adaptive Memory Management For Virtualized Java Environments
White Papers Now the paper sees the emergence of another virtual machine technology that is changing the way many organizations manage their IT operations: hypervisor-based virtualization. With hypervisor virtualization, physical server resources (such as CPUs...
[February 14, 2008, 23:00]
Red Hat Publishes Fedora 9 Preview
News Among the updates to Fedora 9 are improvements to the Xen hypervisor, support for new filesystems and the inclusion of newer versions of the Firefox browser and and the KDE desktop environment. Among the new features are improvements to the Xen...
[April 22, 2008, 14:40]
Parallels Making Virtualisation Jump To Servers
News But does the world need another hypervisor, the virtualisation foundation that gives a single computer the ability to run multiple operating systems in separate compartments called virtual machines? In addition, Parallels hopes to add a new...
[September 14, 2007, 9:02]
Virtualisation Vendors Warn Of Security Challenges
News Crosby warned that throwing random data at the interface between the guest software and the controlling hypervisor could result in successful attacks. Attacks known to-date involve fuzzing the emulation interface between the guest and the...
[April 15, 2008, 16:05]
