Vendor Talk: Why XenServer Powers Large Scale Clouds

XenServer is the hypervisor at the core of many large scale public clouds, including those from Rackspace and IBM/SoftLayer, and is fully supported for both Apache CloudStack and OpenStack deployments. In this session, we’ll cover:

• Exactly what a “XenServer” is,
• What capabilities are often attractive to both cloud operators and those with large VM density requirements,
• How XenServer has evolved to meet the stringent demands of cloud operations, 
• A peek at what we’re working on for the next release and how it directly benefits cloud operators

Tim Mackey is a community manager and evangelist for XenServer within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and is focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competencies. He joined Citrix through the Reflectent acquisition in 2006, and served as architect and developer for Citrix EdgeSight; an end user experience performance monitoring solution. In 2007, Mr. Mackey became technical product manager for the EdgeSight product line and then in 2009 product manager for the XenServer self-service virtualization components. Since that time, he has held various roles within the XenServer team, and speaks regularly on topics related to the design of large scale virtual environments.