Citrix: why open source virtualisation goes up from the client
Blog I had detailed briefings on Xen from Simon Crosby, Citrix CTO and founder of XenSource, and a meeting with Ian Pratt, the Cambridge professor who manages the Xen.org project and is also director of future products at Citrix.
[October 20, 2008, 11:26]
Citrix: Cloud to carry Xen against VMware
News Simon Crosby has this analogy, that Xen is an engine and needs a car built around it. ZDNet UK spent a day at Citrix's UK headquarters with Pratt and his colleague, Simon Crosby, who has moved from chief technology officer of XenSource to become...
[October 27, 2008, 14:35]
Xen masters Windows problems
News Getting Windows started on Xen wasn't easy, said Simon Crosby, a XenSource co-founder and vice president of corporate development for the 45-person company. The XenSource programmers booted Windows XP SP2, Crosby said.
[August 24, 2005, 10:25]
XenSource fine-tunes Windows support
News XenSource's software today is designed for use on a single server, but the changes in June will expand the company's products and ambitions considerably, said chief technology officer Simon Crosby. We'll have multiple XenEnterprise servers in a...
[April 3, 2007, 8:53]
Xen: The start-up in Citrix clothing
News Half the company's products have been renamed — Metaframe became XenApp and Desktop Server became Xen Desktop — Simon Crosby is now chief technology officer, and you're vice president for advanced products.
[October 29, 2008, 6:47]
Citrix offers cut-down XenServer for free
News Users can get a single server instance of XenServer, said Simon Crosby, chief technical officer at Citrix. However, Crosby told ZDNet UK that the free edition "will not include some features that we will continue to monetise".
[February 23, 2009, 13:47]
Virtualisation: The cure for all software installation ills?
News Xen programmers are currently stabilising their core virtual machine software, but virtual-machine-based installation will happen with Xen, too, predicted Simon Crosby, XenSource co-founder and chief technology officer.
[March 31, 2006, 16:35]
Intel bets on open source future
News The [open source] community is very grateful, and the market too - since Xen can exploit both existing and new Intel equipment to deliver a unified virtualisation solution," says Simon Crosby, vice-president of marketing at XenSource, a start-up...
[August 8, 2005, 16:45]
Linux in the virtual world
News The market really wants a competitor to VMware," says Simon Crosby, XenSource's co-founder and chief technology officer. What we found out over last six months, talking to a lot with customers.is that the way they want to consume Xen is through Red...
[April 3, 2006, 16:40]
Virtualisation gets a harder edge
News Likewise, XenSource has a partnership with a tier-one server company that will use its software, but XenSource won't announce which company until 30 days from now, said chief technology officer Simon Crosby.
[September 10, 2007, 16:54]
Virtual unrealities exposed
News They educated that market for everybody," says Simon Crosby, chief technology officer of XenSource, the commercial software company founded by Xen's creators. Viridian will use paravirtualisation, and architecturally is very similar to Xen, which...
[July 17, 2006, 15:00]
Microsoft cuts back on virtualisation features
News The next version of the Xen hypervisor, 3.1, due within days, will add live migration support for Windows and unmodified Linux, said XenSource chief technology officer Simon Crosby. Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the...
[May 11, 2007, 9:36]
AMD and Intel lock horns over virtualisation
News Assisted virtualisation for I/O devices is the next logical step in hardware virtualisation," said Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, a start-up commercialising Xen. Intel is expected to declare on Tuesday that its Virtualisation...
[February 7, 2006, 8:25]
Virtualisation vendors warn of security challenges
News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Friday, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Virtualisation can challenge an IT organisation's infrastructure, which...
[April 15, 2008, 16:05]
XenSource seeks to emerge from VMware's shadow
News XenSource's co-founder and chief technology officer, Simon Crosby, believes that the link-up with Symantec is a core feature for his company. Crosby believes that now is the right moment for XenSource to make its mark in the enterprise market.
[August 15, 2007, 14:15]
Citrix snaps up XenSource
News XenSource's co-founder and chief technology officer, Simon Crosby, said on Monday that it was now the right time for XenSource to make its mark in the enterprise market. Following the listing of VMware on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, the...
[August 15, 2007, 16:49]
All change at XenSource
News Simon Crosby, a co-founder who was vice president of corporate development, now is chief technology officer, replacing co-founder Moshe Bar, who left in October. XenSource, a start-up trying to commercialize software that lets several versions of...
[February 15, 2006, 8:15]
Tech giants form open-cloud-standards group
News Simon Crosby, Citrix's chief technology officer for virtualisation and management, said in the statement that the OCSI group's work would be "crucial for ensuring interoperability and management consistency across cloud platforms".
[April 28, 2009, 17:00]
