In my previous post on the subject of storage (Is SAN really NAS spelled backwards), I introduced a fundamentals whitepaper. Behind XenServer Storage, builds on this and shows how XenServer leverages the different kinds of storage. Feedback welcome! View Online | Add Comment

As a member of the Citrix Ready™ Program, Pillar Data Systems, a leading provider of Application-Aware Storage Systems, today announced compatibility of its Application-Aware profiles with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Today's news builds on a series of certifications Pillar has made with the delivery of its Axiom Storage systems, which are now listed in the Citrix Ready catalog for XenServer™ products.

As a member of the Citrix Ready Program, Pillar Data Systems has announced compatibility of its Application-Aware profiles with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Today's news builds on a series of certifications Pillar has made with the delivery of its Axiom Storage systems, which are now listed in the Citrix Ready catalog for XenServer products.

Want your life encapsulated on a virtual machine that travels from phone to phone? Sounds good to BlackBerry and iPhone users. Get ready IT departments: Virtualization's going mobile.

Below is the first part of our exclusive video interview recorded at VMworld2008 in Las Vegas, where Citrix XenSource CTO Simon Crosby tells us where he sees Virtualization going in general and shares his view on the future of security, networking and I/O virtualization in particular. . Feel free to check on the I/O Virtualization vendors we covered in the past, such as 3Leaf, Neterion, NextIO, VertenSys with Neterion or Xsigo.

Roger Baskerville has left Citrix, where he started out as the Sales Director of Xensource EMEA , after the Citrix merger to become Regional Director Northern Europe Server Virtualization . During his years at Xensource Roger was one of the first commercial pushers of Xen and later XenEnterprise.

Chris Hoff is generally right as rain when he rants about technology, but he's still wrong on my position about Citrix's role in the addition of security features to Xen and XenServer. 

Hat-tip to David Marshall for the pointer.In what can only be described as the natural evolution of Xen's security architecture, news comes of a Xen community project to integrate a VM Introspection API and accompanying security functionality into Xen.  Information is quite sparse, but I hope to get more information from the project leader, Stephen Spector, shortly. (*Update: Comments from Stephen below)

The community-led project aims to design an API for performing VM introspection and implement the necessary functionality into Xen READ MORE

As you might know, most of the development for the upcoming Red Hat releases is happening in the Fedora project, so if you want to keep an eye on what’s going to happen in future RedHat releases Fedora is a good place to look. Reuven pointed out that the next Fedora release (Fedora 10) won’t have Dom0 support. This however is not yet the strategic decision from Redhat after buying Qumranet and thus KVM. But merely a lack of time before the release has to ship.