Tuesday, 18 July 2006

IBM Extends Support to Xen Virtualization Through Suse

IBM has announced an extensive portfolio of middleware and systems of platforms to support Novell’s new Suse Linux Enterprise 10 offerings, which incorporates the open source Xen virtualisation software.

IBM will support Xen technology as part of the virtualization Engine portfolio on the company’s Intel and Opteron processor based server and IBM BladeCenter systems.

Xen is an open source virtualization software that allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on the same physical server, allowing customers to consolidate their current workloads onto a single server. Recent tests by Novell shows customers may have the ability to increase server utilization by nearly 70 percent, as well as help increase the efficiency of managing and provisioning Linux systems.

IBM will support Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 with Xen on its x86 and blade server systems immediately.