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of utilization is obsolete.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
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