Sun Launches Virtual Assault

Upcoming Events

Cloud Connect March 16-18

Comprehensive thought leadership for executives, IT professionals and developers. Topics include: the ROI, cost and economics of on-demand computing; Migration strategies to move from on-premise to cloud-based IT; Vertical cloud specialization, tailoring features and architectures to specific applications, industries, and customer ecosystems

Email Print Share

0 Comments

Posted by James Rogers on November 16, 2007

Tags: Backup & Recovery, Other, Virtualization

Channel: Backup & Recovery, Other, Virtualization

Sun has thrown a red flag in front of VMware and EMC by launching an assault on the virtualization market earlier this week, even though there remains a question mark over who will actually buy the technology.

The company used this week's Oracle OpenWorld event to thrash out an ambitious virtualization strategy, which involves $2 billion worth of R&D funding and the development of an open-source Sun hypervisor.

The xVM hypervisor, which was first discussed by Sun a few weeks ago, uses code from the Xen hypervisor and forms the heart of the vendor's virtualization push.

"In our xVM hypervisor is a very lightweight kernel," wrote Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in his blog this week, explaining that the technology can support the Linux, Windows, and Solaris operating systems as guests.

Page: 1 2 3 4 Next »

Related Stories

0 Comments

Add Comment

Add Your Comment:

Premium Content

Top 10 Best Practices For Backups & Restores

Nothing gets management's attention quite like an unrecoverable loss of critical business information. In this InformationWeek Analytics Best Practices report, we lay out a smart plan to help admins use virtualization and some innovative twists on old backup methods to protect their assets, without spending a fortune.