[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-seminars] [Colloquium] CS Collo. 2/8/07

Harvard University Computer Science Colloquium Series 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Colloquium VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and the Changing Role of the OS Tichomir Tenev and Scott Devine VMware http://www.vmware.com Thursday, February 8, 2006 4:00PM Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area) Abstract 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monolithic system running a single, monolithic OS and a single application at wastefully low levels of utilization is obsolete.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. Host: Professor Michael Smith _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list Colloquium(a)deas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars