rPath Announces Support of Xen 3.0.3

rPath Supports Virtual Appliances for Xen 3.0.3  

rPath provides first development platform that includes Xen

 

RALEIGH, NC – November 1, 2006 – rPath™, provider of the first platform for
creating and maintaining software appliances, announced today the ability to
create virtual appliances that run on the XenTM 3.0.3 hypervisor using
rPath's rBuilder.

 

The rBuilder platform allows software developers to combine software
applications with Linux and related open source components to create virtual
appliances that can be instantly provisioned and run on the Xen hypervisor
and XenSource’s XenEnterpriseTM virtualization platform. 

 

Many IT managers complain of an inability to quickly move new applications
from development, through testing and into production.  Packaging key
applications as virtual appliances makes them easy to distribute and deploy
on the Xen hypervisor. Using rPath Linux with rBuilder, developers can now
generate virtual appliances that are certified to run on the Xen hypervisor
without any additional engineering effort. 

 

“Xen 3.0.3 is the acknowledged open source industry standard for
virtualization, developed collaboratively by the Xen community and backed by
all leading enterprise IT vendors,” said Simon Crosby, chief technology
officer of XenSource. “XenEnterprise, XenSource’s packaging of  the Xen
hypervisor for the Windows and multi-OS virtualization market, is an ideal
platform for enterprises seeking to adopt packaged virtual appliances to
streamline their software lifecycle management, and the availability of
technology such as rBuilder will accelerate the adoption of Xen
virtualization and software appliances.” 

 

“The Xen hypervisor, coupled with virtual appliances, eliminates the
complexity of managing a general purpose operating system when deploying
applications,” said Erik Troan, chief technology officer and founder of
rPath. “rPath and its ISV partners and customers will offer a compelling set
of certified and supported virtual appliances for the launch of
XenEnterprise, XenSource’s flagship virtualization platform.”

 

Reflecting the strong community demand for appliances on the Xen hypervisor,
rPath has made many of the most popular projects on rBuilder Online
available for download as virtual appliances for Xen 3.0.3. Examples include
LAMP, MediaWiki, Gallery Photo Server, Port25 Mail Server, Music Player,
OpenFiler, Cacti Network Graphing, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. These appliances
are available as free downloads atHYPERLINK "http://www.rpath.org/"
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About Xen

The Xen hypervisor is the industry-standard open source infrastructure
virtualization software created and maintained by the founders of XenSource,
Inc., and developed collaboratively by 20 of the world's most innovative
data center solution vendors. Xen allows multiple virtual server instances
to run concurrently on the same physical server, with near native
performance and per-virtual server performance guarantees. The technology is
being adopted world wide in enterprise datacenters to increase server
utilization, support server consolidation, and reduce total cost of
ownership.

About rPath

rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for transforming
applications into software and virtual appliances. Software and virtual
appliances give application developers control over the deployment and
update of the complete software stack, from the OS to the application. This
simplifies installation, configuration, and maintenance for customers,
expanding the market for your software. The company is headquartered in
Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, visit: HYPERLINK
"http://www.rpath.com/"http://www.rpath.com.

 

 


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