Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2013

Building the Cloud: 10 years of Xen and beyond

by Lars Kurth (Xen.org)

Wednesday, 22.05.2013, London I, 10:45-11:30 Uhr

The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, 10 years after the project started, Xen powers the largest clouds in production.

This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors. It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture, common challenges for KVM and Xen and securing the cloud. It will introduce concepts such as the virtualization spectrum, the concept of domain disaggregation and the Xen Security Modules as techniques to increase security, robustness and scalability. All important factors for building clouds at scale.

The talk will conclude with exciting developments in the Xen community, such as Xen support for ARM servers, Mirage appliances that can be run on any Xen based cloud, etc. and explore their implications for building open source clouds.

About the author Lars Kurth:

Lars Kurth is community manager for the Xen.org community, working for Citrix. He is a passionate open source enthusiast who worked with and for many open source communities over the years and contributed to GCC, Eclipse, Symbian and Xen. Lars is an IT generalist with 17 years of industry experience in infrastructure, cloud, parallel computing, tools and mobile industries working at ARM, Citrix, Nokia and the Symbian Foundation. Lars has spoken at OSCON, ؘredev, LinuxCon, EclipseCon, Scale, Linaro Connect and other conferences.

at Citrix, with the aim to grow, inspire and enthuse the global Xen hypervisor community. Lars is a passionate community manager and open source enthusiast with strong experience of working with and for diverse open source communities such as GNU, Eclipse, Linux, Symbian and Symbian DevCo. Lars is a generalist with a wide range of skills in software development and methodology, leading and building engineering teams, communities, marketing, product management and change programs impacting 1000s of users. Lars has 17 years of industry experience in the infrastructure, tools and mobile sector working at ARM, Citrix, Nokia and the Symbian Foundation.


Lars Kurth joined Citrix in 2011 where he works as community manager for Xen.org.