Xen Project Introduces New Mirage OS Release - Seite 2

"Unikernels built on high-level languages, such as the Mirage OS and our own open source HaLVM, offer tremendous benefits for building security-critical components. By using Mirage OS for our MAC-enhanced XenStore, we were able to quickly and easily add next-generation security features, while maintaining confidence that our additions met critical quality and safety metrics," said Adam Wick, Technical Director, Systems Software at Galois, a U.S. company developing critical systems that solve critical software security, safety, privacy and performance problems for government and commercial clients.

Another Mirage OS user, OnApp, recently introduced the global OnApp Federation network of 2,000 public OnApp clouds for sharing compute resources (CPU, RAM and storage).

"Unikernels form a building block that enable us to scale out efficient, on-demand virtual machines across the global OnApp federated cloud provider marketplace. Mirage OS is an exciting technology on which to provision new 'liquid' services in the public cloud without sacrificing security and isolation," said Julian Chesterfield, Director of Emerging Technologies at OnApp.

"The seamless development workflow for both the cloud and embedded devices represents the best approach to creating native applications for the Internet of Things and Personal Clouds, including Nymote, which aims to give users lifelong control of their networked personal data. These core advances will enable developers to focus on adding value to their services and impressing their customers with creative offerings. In the future, we believe all software will be written this way." said Dr. Amir Chaudhry, Programme Manager at OCaml Labs, and part of the international User Centric Networking project.

Mirage OS is an open source project led by Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy of the Systems Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Additional contributors include developers from Citrix, the FreeBSD Core Team, Galois, OCamlPro and a growing number of individual contributors. Institutional and grant support for Mirage OS comes from Horizon Digital Economy Research RCUK, OCaml Labs and the User Centric Networking project. For more information about Mirage OS and to participate, please visit OpenMirage.org.

Anil Madhavapeddy and Richard Mortier, a Horizon Transitional Fellow at the University of Nottingham School of Computer Science, are at OSCON presenting "Nymote: Git Your Own Cloud Here" at 11:00 a.m., PT on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

About Xen Project
Xen Project software is an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed from the start for cloud computing, the Project has more than a decade of development and is being used by more than 10 million users. A Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation, the Xen Project community is focused on advancing virtualization in a number of different commercial and open source applications including server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware appliances. It counts many industry and open source community leaders among its members including: Amazon Web Services, AMD, ARM, Bromium, CA Technologies, Cavium, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, NetApp, Oracle, Rackspace, and Verizon Terremark. For more information about the Xen Project software and to participate, please visit XenProject.org.

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