Will Amazon make a shift from Xen to Citrix’s free XenServer?
By Tarry Singh at 13 May, 2009, 11:02 am
Alessandro is reporting that Amazon may be making its move towards XenServer and given that Citrix is really killing VMware’s game by releasing loads of stuff for free. I was at Vegas and saw my friend’s start-up (XenSource) started dishing out loads of stuff for free.
This truly will impact all the proprietary vendors such as VMware , which is primarily the leader when it comes to mature virtualization solutions for the enterprise.
During the last three years Citrix acquired XenSource, the leading company for the Xen project, and released the commercial implementation of Xen, XenServer, free of charge.
Amazon doesn’t reveal anything about its Xen implementation, but it’s same to assume that the company engineers had to develop a lot of tools and features on top of Xen.
Now the company can have for free enterprise management, virtual machines live migration, resource sharing, integrated storage management and, at the same time, can count on the enterprise support that Citrix now offers.
This must be a tempting proposition to lower the EC2 maintenance costs.If, in the future, Amazon wants to use EC2 to develop massive virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and offer hosted desktops in the consumer market, Citrix is ready, as they are about to release a client hypervisor based on Xen, XenClient, for free as well.
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