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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monolithic system running a single, monolithic OS and a single application at wastefully low levels of utilization is obsolete.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. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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