Citrix and The
Linux Foundation today announced that open source community
development for the Xen®
virtualization platform will become a Linux Foundation Collaborative
Project. Leveraging its proven model of collaborative development
for the new Xen Project™ initiative, The Linux Foundation will provide
infrastructure, guidance and a collaborative network. The neutral,
member-led community will help accelerate cross-industry innovation
around the Xen Project hypervisor, bringing guidance and contributions
from a more diverse group of technology leaders.
Over the past decade, collaborative innovations in cloud computing,
security and advanced processor support have made Xen the most scalable
and secure hypervisor in the industry. It is these innovations that have
led to the adoption of Xen and Citrix XenServer® as the platforms for
powering approximately two-thirds of the public cloud revenue in the
world. The initial set of supporters demonstrates the broad reach the
technology has had in the marketplace. With more than 10 years of
development and in use by more than 10 million users, the open source
technology attracts contributions from organizations such as Amazon,
AMD, Cambridge University, Citrix, Fujitsu, Intel, National Security
Agency (NSA), Oracle and SUSE.
The following technology leaders are aligned in advancing the Xen
Project initiative in the Cloud Era: Amazon Web Services, AMD, Bromium,
Calxeda, CA Technologies, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, Oracle, Samsung
and Verizon.
Today’s announcement marks a continued commitment from Citrix to open
source technologies and driving greater enterprise agility. Citrix
believes that the open source community will play a vital role in the
Cloud Era, leading the way for proprietary innovations rather than
following them. It is this perspective that has formed the Citrix
strategy to engage deeply in open source efforts such as the Xen Project
initiative, as well as the Apache
CloudStack project, which provides an open and flexible cloud
orchestration platform to deliver reliable and scalable private and
public clouds, and The Linux Foundation’s recently announced OpenDaylight
project, which is focused on enabling widespread adoption of
Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
For more details, including recent Xen Project community highlights,
please see today’s announcement
from The Linux Foundation.
Quotes
Peder Ulander, VP, Open Source Solutions, Citrix
“Industry interest in Xen has been growing rapidly over the past few
years, thriving on strong industry support and commitment from the
project’s founding members. By widening the scope of collaboration under
The Linux Foundation, the Xen Project community can set the bar even
higher for innovation. Citrix remains committed to the project and
advancing the technology for Xen Project-based products across the
industry, including its own Citrix XenServer.”
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