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XenSource Seeks To Emerge From VMware's Shadow
News But VMware's rival XenSource is doing its best to remind companies of its product lineup with the launch of its latest enterprise-class virtualisation product, XenSource Enterprise v4. With the Enterprise v4 product, XenSource is targeting the same...
[August 15, 2007, 14:15]
Virtualisation Gets A Harder Edge
News In August, VMware, an EMC subsidiary, had a roaring initial public offering, and Citrix Systems bought XenSource for $500m. Companies such as VMware and, more recently, XenSource, first made their names with standalone virtualisation software that...
[September 10, 2007, 16:54]
Citrix Snaps Up XenSource
News Following the listing of VMware on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, the market for virtualisation software has received another boost with the sale of fellow virtualisation firm XenSource to Citrix Systems.
[August 15, 2007, 16:49]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ex-XenSource CEO Touts Desktop Virtualisation
News Virtualisation is an area that is attracting some investment at the present, as exhibited by Citrix's $500m (£248m) purchase of XenSource and VMware's initial public offering. Pano Logic was founded by Nick Gault, previously founding chief...
[August 28, 2007, 11:44]
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. Meanwhile, the leader of that project, XenSource, is steering away from management tools and aiming squarely for virtualisation...
[April 3, 2006, 16:40]
VMware: Not Just Hypervisor Revenue
News VMware, an EMC subsidiary, had a roaring initial public offering in August, and Citrix Systems bought XenSource for $500m (£246m). She pointed in particular to the Open Virtualization Machine Format (OVF) effort, in which VMware, Microsoft and...
[September 12, 2007, 9:00]
VMware Sets Up Virtual-appliance Marketplace
News VMware leads the market for virtualisation on x86 servers, but competitors such as XenSource and Microsoft are nipping at its heels. Customers fire up a pre-packaged software collection in the form of a virtual appliance, running it on a...
[November 8, 2006, 9:08]
Microsoft And The GPL: Making The Virtual Out Of Necessity
Leader That leaves XenSource: the perfect acquisition target. And, by publicly allying itself with XenSource on Tuesday, it's giving a strong signal to its customers where to go in the meantime. XenSource, on the other hand, gets a lot more customers for...
[July 18, 2006, 16:10]
Desktop Virtualisation Comes To The Fore
News Pano Logic, headed by former XenSource chief executive Nick Gault, announced its plans last month to use VMware server technology to create centralised virtual desktops. Citrix, which has years of experience with thin-client software, acquired...
[September 17, 2007, 15:27]
Virtual Iron Extends Virtualisation Options
News Ian Pratt, who launched Xen, also helped found a start-up called XenSource to commercialise it. We are going to bring to market a series of management tools for managing large-scale deployments of Xen," said Nick Sturiale, a XenSource board member...
[August 8, 2005, 10:00]
VMware Public Offering Could Raise $100m
News Although there are open-source projects competing with Vmware — XenSource, Red Hat and Novell all ship the Xen virtualisation software now — Microsoft is the only one EMC mentions by name. EMC subsidiary VMware could raise as much as $100m in its...
[April 30, 2007, 8:59]
AMD Releases Virtualisation Details
News The primary software companies concerned with virtualisation are those such as XenSource, Microsoft and EMC subsidiary VMware, all of which are working on software support for multiple operating systems.
[May 26, 2005, 10:45]
VMware IPO Puts Virtualisation In The Spotlight
News Virtual Iron is starting to make a name for itself, as is XenSource," Marshall said, noting that the rivals are currently selling their products for about a fifth of what VMware charges. VMware's stellar stock offering on Tuesday shows that virtual...
[August 15, 2007, 10:26]
VMware Pilots 64-bit Virtualisation
News And an open source project called Xen, backed by start-up XenSource, has an approach that's being extended beyond just x86 chips. VMware, the maker of proprietary virtualisation software, has released a new version of its workstation software that...
[April 12, 2005, 15:40]
VMware Announces Virtualisation Software For Macs
News Even Microsoft has been exploring opportunities in virtualisation, collaborating with start-up XenSource to investigate the possibilities of permitting XP users to run Linux. Virtualisation software manufacturer VMware has announced a product...
[August 8, 2006, 15:50]
All Change At XenSource
News XenSource, a start-up trying to commercialize software that lets several versions of Linux run on the same computer, has chosen a new chief executive and altered its business strategy. Although IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other industry allies are...
[February 15, 2006, 8:15]
Microsoft's Virtual Future
News However, it's an area in which Microsoft has lagged behind, but now the company is hoping to challenge VMware, XenSource and others with the impending launch of its long-awaited hypervisor product some time next year.
[November 29, 2006, 15:28]
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. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for VMware, who was also speaking...
[April 15, 2008, 16:05]
Virtualisation: The Cure For All Software Installation Ills?
News Representatives from three powers in the virtualisation realm - EMC subsidiary VMware, XenSource with its open source Xen software and Microsoft with the proprietary Virtual Server software - all believe at a minimum that the idea has potential.
[March 31, 2006, 16:35]
