Citrix's Barry Flanagan writes about the Xen product and roadmap based on what was said during the Xen Summit.  Digging into some of the interesting presentations, Barry writes:

The first one I will discuss is the Project Update by Ian Pratt.

The first presentation of the Xen Summit was by Ian Pratt, founder of Xen. For those of you who are not familiar with Ian Pratt, here is bit of his bio -

Ian Pratt is the leader and chief architect of the Xen project, which he founded in 2001 with the aim of making virtualization ubiquitous on scale-out hardware, and was a founder of XenSource. Ian has played a key role in both the architecture of Xen and formation of industry partnerships that led to the emergence of Xen as the open source virtualization technology. Ian is a member of Senior faculty at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, UK, where he has led Systems Research for 7 years. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, and was elected a Fellow of Kings College in 1996. Ian was a founder of Nemesys Research, acquired by FORE Systems, and has consulted widely in the technology industry.

In addition to being on the faculty at Cambridge and leading the Xen hypervisor open source project, Ian Pratt is also VP of Advanced Projects for the VMD division of Citrix.

Here is a bit of info from Ian's Xen Project Status Presentation at the Xen Summit -

Creation of the new Xen Project Avisory Board and Xen.org

Members of the Xen Advisory Board include the following

• Citrix
• IBM
• Intel
• HP
• Novell
• Red Hat
• Sun

The Xen Project Mission Statement is -

Build the industry standard open source hypervisor
- Core "engine" that is incorporated into multiple vendors' products
• Maintain our industry-leading performance
- Be first to exploit new hardware acceleration features
- Help OS vendors paravirtualize their OSes
• Maintain our reputation for stability and quality
- Security must now be paramount
• Support multiple CPU types; big and small systems
- From server to client to mobile
• Foster innovation
- Be a great platform for research and experimentation
• Drive interoperability
- Between Xen-based products
- With other virtualization products

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