Entries tagged with hyperv - Channel 9

What's New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V

bruceky — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:14:00 GMT

Paddy Falls, CTO of NeverFail Software, talks about how his company supports virtualization for both customers and in development. He describes the advantages that Hyper-V brings, lessons learned, and how they incorporated Hyper-V into their development process.

Doubletake software- Hyper-V failover and data replication solution

Suresh Sreedharan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:00 GMT

Doubletake’s CTO Dave Demlow talks about how his company works with Hyper-V data replication and failover solution with Larry Gregory, Director of Partner Evangelism with Microsoft. Demlow tells how customers can move data using Hyper-V to move workloads. He describes how customer achieve higher availability and cost savings. In addition, Demlow also shares what things to look for ISVs interested in supporting Hyper-V. For more information about Hyper-V, see Virtualization with Hyper-V.

http://www.doubletake.com/

Michal Moskal - VCC, The Verifying C Compiler

Peli de Halleux — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:25:00 GMT

Michal Moskal gives us a short introduction at the Verifying C Compiler (VCC) project. VCC is a tool that proves correctness of annotated concurrent C programs or finds problems in them. VCC extends C with design by contract features, like pre- and postcondition as well as type invariants. The current primary goal of the VCC project is to to verify Microsoft Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a hypervisor -- a thin layer of software that sits just above the hardware and beneath one or more operating systems. The Hypervisor verification project is a cooperation between European Microsoft Innovation Center in Aachen, Germany the RiSE group at Microsoft Research in Redmond and the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.

VCC slide deck, get the high-level picture and more details,
VCC home page, all you want to know.
Unfortunately, there is currently no download available of VCC.

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Citrix - Understanding Machine Virtualization

Charles — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Citrix is all about virtualization. They have a suite of tools that enable IT departments to virtualize almost everything. Citrix is a Microsoft Certified Partner and, to some extent, a competitor. How does this Partner Competitor relationship work? Microsoft is very interested in virtualization technologies and with the advent of our hypervisor technology, HyperV, and application virtualization software, SoftGrid, you can bet that we'll compete hard with other virtualization vendors.

Here, we meet Simon Crosby, formerly CTO of XenSource now working as the CTO of Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS)' virtualization and management division(Citrix purchased XenSource). We discuss the relationship between Microsoft and Citrix, the complexities of building scalable, sercure, reliable and performant virtualization technologies and the future of virtualization. It's a very interesting conversation and Simon is quite the conversationalist. Enjoy.