SDOSS Meeting for April: Xen: One Box, many Virtual Machines! (HTML)

From: Richard Gray

For Immediate Release:

There are many reasons for using several computers. Task need to be isolated
services from each other for security or for conveniences. Also if one
machine crashes the other will keep running.

The common PC today is 10 times more powerful than its predecessor. However,
many of the services, like Mail, WEB, or Printing have about the same
overhead as a few years ago.

What a waste of, money, electricity, and resources to underutilize several
new machines on these individual tasks. The solution is simple; Virtual
machines, one box, which looks to each service as its own machine.
Xen, is the Open-Source Virtualization solution.

This meeting will explore the reasons for Virtualization: Whether you could
benefit; How Xen works, and makes implementation easy. There will also be a
Demonstration of the technology.

The presentation will be semi-technical, and interactive, anyone with a
basic understanding should benefit.

The meeting is free, and refreshments will be served.

April 4, 2007 Xen: One Box, many Virtual Machines
How many Servers do you need?
Perhaps less than you think, using virtualization, one box can isolate, and
accomplish, several services simultaneously!
Xen is a virtualization
technology that has a lot of promise. It is an Open Source technology that
is appearing in Linux distributions and also as a dedicated server
technology competing with other solutions like the ESX
server from VMware
.
Xen leverages a two pronged approach to virtualization: Full-Virtualization
and Para-Virtualization . Come join a
discussion on what Xen is and why Xen is changing the landscape of
traditional virtualization.
Speakers Bio:
Brian Six is a Category Specialist with Novell since 1996. Brian
transferred to San Diego in 1999 where he was a Systems Engineer for Novell
in the Herndon Virginia office. Prior to Novell Brian worked with a systems
integrator for 4.5 years building medium to large scale networks. Just out
of college Brian spent 4.5 years with a software developer focusing on Legal
Time and Billing applications. Brian's degree was a BS in Computer Science
from George Mason University.

The Wednesday meeting will be held the evening of April 4, 2007, at 6:30 pm.
Pizza and refreshments will be served

Meeting Location:

3954 Murphy Canyon Road
Suite D-200
San Diego CA, 92123

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