Posts Tagged ‘virtualization’

XenApp + EC2 = Interesting Possibilities

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

On Thursday, May 13, 2010 Citrix and Amazon announced a pilot program where Citrix’s XenApp application streaming/virtualization product will run on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.)

This pilot program will allow existing Citrix customers who are also members of Amazon’s Windows Server License Mobility Pilot to move their XenApp licenses from their own data centers to the EC2 cloud.  Moving XenApp to the EC2 cloud could benefit businesses by reducing the number of physical servers required in their data centers as well as having their platform reside in a fully supported environment.   

This pilot program currently does not support Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud, which is designed to bring enterprise-class security to computing resources that run in Amazon’s data centers, but this support is slated to be available at a future date.

This pilot is definitely a huge step forward for cloud computing and will be very interesting to hear about how the program was received.

If anyone is a member of this pilot program, I would love to hear from you.

Regards,

TASCer

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Open Source – Gaining Momentum

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Microsoft on Monday, the 20th of July, submitted 22,000 lines of source code under a GPLv2 license which will allow four (4) drivers to be added to the Linux kernel.  These drivers will enable any Linux distribution to run on Windows Server 2008 and its Hyper-V technology.

While this may seem like a decisive victory for the Open Source community, one may ask themselves: “Why would Microsoft do such a thing?”

This is a very valid question because historically, Microsoft and the Open Source community have been at odds, to say the least.

My reasoning for Microsoft to make such a bold move is as follows:

- Ensures Microsoft is still an important piece of the virtualization and infrastructure equation

- Shows that they, as a company, are willing to adapt and help companies utilizing hybrid solutions, dare I say altruism?

- A strategic move to help cut into VMWare’s market share

- Assist in maintaining server revenue streams

I personally feel that this a good move and one that should have happened a while ago.  I guess ‘better late than never’ is an appropriate adage.

It should be interesting to see how it all pans out and I hope the 22,000 lines of code were meticulously tested and re-tested.

‘Til next time…

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