Xen Summit 2011 Agenda and Speaker Lineup Announced

Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced that its annual Xen Summit North America conference will be held, August 2-3 in Santa Clara, California. This year’s event, which rotates between sponsoring companies, will be hosted by Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) at its Silicon Valley headquarters, and will be the first event held at the new state-of-the-art Citrix Conference Center. The annual Xen Summit attracts prominent Xen community members and thought leaders from around the world to hear updates on future plans, research and new developments for technologies based on the Xen Hypervisor, as well as discuss the current state of projects applying Xen technology to areas like cloud computing, mobility and security. A key platform for some of the world’s largest and most successful public clouds, the Xen hypervisor is the collective effort of a global development community representing more than 50 leading technology vendors, universities, and virtualization experts. This year’s agenda brings together some of the best minds in open source to discuss what’s in store for Xen and how it will continue to set the pace in cloud, mobility and virtualization infrastructure.

Agenda Highlights

Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix, will kick off the event with a welcome message. Agenda highlights include some of the world’s leading experts in cloud computing, mobile devices, microprocessors, security, virtualization, deep systems software and open source:

Xen Summit 2011 Opening Keynote – Amazon Web Services
Xen.org Keynote – Ian Pratt, chairman of Xen.org and co-founder and SVP at Bromium
OpenStack and the Cloud – Ewan Mellor, Citrix
Xen on ARM – Sang-bum Suh, Samsung
Xen and Multi-core System Virtualization – Hui Lv, Intel
Xen in Linux 3 and beyond – Konrad Wilk, Oracle
Xen Memory Sharing – Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs
Sub-Millisecond Latency in Xen ARM – Chuck Yoo, Korea University
Xen Memory Sharing and Swapping – Xiaowei Yang, Huawei
Secure Display Server for Xen – Eamon Walsh, National Security Agency (NSA)
Xen Cloud Platform – Mike McClurg, Citrix
Disaggregated Xen – Patrick Colp, University of British Columbia
Improving Debugging support in Xen – Daniel Kiper, Google Summer of Code Student
In-VM Isolation – Boazeng Ding, Chinese Academy of Science
Xen RAS –Donald D Dugger, Intel
Xen in the Cloud – Marco Sinhoreli, Globo.com
Xen Storage Proxies – Caitlin Bestler, Nexenta
Linux as HVM Guest – Stefano Stabellini, Citrix
Xen Hypervisor – Keir Fraser, Xen.org

Related Links

List of current Xen projects owned by Xen.org
Blog: Xen Summit 2011 Agenda and Speaker Lineup by Ian Pratt, chairman and founder of Xen.org
Blog: Building the Complete Open Source Cloud with Xen.org and OpenStack by Stephen Spector, Community Manager, OpenStack
Blog: Xen Celebrates full Dom0 and DomU support in Linux 3.0 by Lars Kurth, Xen Community Manager
Blog: Linux 3.0 – How Did We Get Initial Domain (dom0) Support There? by Konrad Wilk, Xen/Linux Kernel Engineer, Oracle
Blog: Xen 4.1.1 Maintenance Release Available by Lars Kurth, Xen Community Manager
Blog: XCP 1.0 released By Lars Kurth, Xen Community Manager

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