New Cloud Initiative from XEN
Xen.org, which is home to the open source Xen hypervisor (a hypervisor, also called virtual machine monitor (VMM), is a computer software/hardware platform virtualization software that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer concurrently), announced the XCP, or Xen Cloud Platform, initiative: a strong new effort that is community-led and builds on the improving leadership in today’s cloud of the Xen hypervisor, and gives a proven, secure open source infrastructure platform intended for tomorrow’s federated cloud services.
The CLOUD XEN is going to speed up use of cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients by giving them open source, virtual infrastructure tech which will make it easy for the service providers to give customizable, secure, multi-tenant cloud service which will work effortlessly with virtualized application workloads that the clients are running already in private clouds and in internal datacenters, but without locking these clients into any vendor in particular.
The Xen Cloud Platform addresses cloud providers’ needs by blending multi-tenancy and isolation abilities of a Xen hypervisor along with improved storage, security, and network virtualization products to give users a nice set of virtual infrastructure cloud offerings. This platform also handles users’ demands for availability, security, isolation, and performance for both public and private clouds. This project won’t try to create new or independent orchestration or management offerings since it’s an area that has existing good offerings as well as active and continuing community development, featuring open source options from OpenNebula.org and Eucalyptus Project along with solutions coming from cloud providers and commercial virtualization vendors too.