Savannah W-ITS

NOTE – I am a disruptive user – I typically explore new(er) technology offerings in a manner that vendors might not prefer so please note that your mileage should vary, especially if you are a non-disruptive user…

Xen?  I thought that Xen = Citrix?

Yes and no…   The Citrix product line includes technologies developed/derived from the Xen Open Source project. 

OS Virtualization is at the heart of Cloud/Clustered computing – finding a computing services solution that allows you to maximize your hardware as well as providing reasonable performance and functionality can be a challenge.  There are a number of prominent commercial vendors of this type of technology (VMWare, Citrix/Xen, Microsoft and more); many of these commercial products are linked to or based on Open Source virtualization solutions. After exploring a number of these solutions I came across