Citrix intros Xen 4.0

Citrix has released version 4.0 of its Xen hypervisor, adding significant memory and security enhancements, plus support for live synchronisation of virtual machines for fault tolerance, writes V3.co.uk.

Xen 4.0 adds a number of enhancements to the open source hypervisor, the most significant of which is support for live transactional synchronisation of virtual machine states across separate physical servers.

This feature enables two virtual machines to operate in lock-step, providing a way to guarantee high service reliability without requiring additional software, according to Citrix.

Beijing PowerUnique Technology (BPUT), the wholly-owned subsidiary of China VOIP & Digital Telecom, showcased its integrated virtualisation solutions designed for the healthcare industry at the 2010 Beijing Medical Industry Virtualisation Technology Conference, states PR-Canada.

The conference was successfully organised by the China Hospital Association Information Management Committee and more than 20 hospitals' data centre administrators and chief technology officers from Beijing and Tianjin attended the conference.

Using its recent successful implementation of a virtualisation project at a well-known hospital as an example, BPUT introduced its integrated virtualisation solutions: server integration, business continuity plans, virtual desktop infrastructure, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

Independent Oracle Users Group members revealed the thorniest issues involved in transforming an older data centre or building to a new one in a survey, reports eWeek.

Results of a survey on virtualisation practices released last week by the Independent Oracle Users Group didn't unearth a lot of new information, but it did put the spotlight squarely on where the main problems lie when it comes to virtualising an IT system.

The survey of 381 enterprise data centre decision-makers supported already well-known ideas about the continual increase in structured and unstructured enterprise data and that virtualised systems invariably save time, power and money once they're deployed.