Red Hat buys virtualisation player Qumranet
News Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation market, to compete against VMware Citrix and Microsoft, with a $107m (£60m) purchase of Qumranet. Through the deal, announced on Thursday, Red Hat picks up Qumranet's server and desktop...
[September 5, 2008, 15:35]
Red Hat begins testing virtualisation line-up
News Red Hat has begun beta-testing its new line of virtualisation products based on Qumranet's KVM hypervisor. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Desktops is based on Qumranet's Solid ICE desktop virtualisation product and uses Qumranet...
[June 17, 2009, 17:43]
KVM virtualisation gets real momentum
News Bar, who now is Qumranet's chief technology officer, declined to comment for this story. Given that fewer than a dozen are working on KVM, according to lead programmer and Qumranet employee Avi Kivity, it's a good bet that the company has other...
[February 27, 2007, 9:21]
Red Hat ties virtualisation future to KVM
News The company that created and supports KVM, Qumranet, was bought by Red Hat in September 2008. While it is no secret that Red Hat has been openly working on KVM technology, both from its inclusion as part of Fedora 7 almost two years ago, and the...
[February 24, 2009, 15:39]
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News Red Hat acquired the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology along with its creator, Qumranet, in September 2008. On Thursday, Red Hat released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the first version to incorporate...
[July 2, 2009, 17:27]
Red Hat embraces KVM virtualisation
News Stevens also likes the technical approach that Moshe Bar, chief technology officer of KVM backer Qumranet, took with KVM: "He absolutely nailed it," Stevens said. KVM, a new virtualisation technology that lets Linux computers run multiple operating...
[February 15, 2007, 8:32]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog Red Hat has been talking up KVM for some time, along the way acquiring one of the original developers, Qumranet, and making clear its intention to lead with the technology. Claims are also made for its reliability and performance, plus it’s part...
[September 23, 2009, 22:10]
Xen: The start-up in Citrix clothing
News Red Hat has been talking of the advantages of KVM, having bought Qumranet, its creator. It's been a year since Citrix bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and integrated the business into its...
[October 29, 2008, 6:47]
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
News Red Hat is making a kernel-based hypervisor using KVM, developed by its new acquisition, Qumranet. Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it...
[September 10, 2008, 17:51]
Red Hat boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio
News Red Hat first announced its enterprise virtualisation portfolio plans in February, when it said it would use the KVM technology it had acquired along with Qumranet in September 2008 to boost power management, performance and security in its products.
[November 4, 2009, 16:09]
Desktop virtualisation comes to the fore
News Qumranet, sponsor of the open-source KVM virtualisation software, plans to announce a product later this month that integrates all the technology necessary for setting up and running virtual PCs on central servers.
[September 17, 2007, 15:27]
