Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, December 20, 2006 VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (corrected)

[Jerry Feldman]

When: December 20, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and the Changing Role of the OS
Moderators: Scott Devine, Prncipal Engineer
		Tichomir Tenev, Staff Engineer 
Location:  MIT Building E51 Room 335

There is a significant change underway in systems infrastructure. The
traditional infrastructure model of a single monolithic system running
a single, monolithic OS and a single application at wastefully low
levels of utilization is obsolete. There is a rapid shift by customers
to an infrastructure that is fully virtual, simpler and robust,
composed dynamically from granular and standard physical hardware
components. Virtual Infrastructure has emerged as the new model for
customers to deliver systems infrastructure services universally to any
application and OS by harnessing pools of server, storage and network.
In this model, the operating system's role has changed from managing
the underlying infrastructure to providing the best set of services for
applications. As OSes become customized and integrated with the
application stack, virtual appliances are emerging as the optimal
mechanism for customers and software vendors to deploy and manage
software in a virtualized world.

Please refer to the main BLU site (http://www.blu.org) for more
details, directions and parking. (Note that the building has a parking
lot in front of it on Amherst St. and is wheelchair accessable). The
MIT/Kendall T stop is 2 blocks from the building.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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