Dr. James Bottomley is chief technology officer, SteelEye Technology (www.steeleye.com). As CTO, he provides the technical strategic vision for SteelEye's future products and research programs. He is also a committed member of the Open Source community currently holding the Linux Kernel SCSI Maintainership and is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conferences. James is also an active member of the SteelEye engineering team, directly applying his experience and expertise to SteelEye's ongoing product development efforts. He has 12 years of prior experience both in Acadaemia, AT&T Bell Labs, and NCR working on diverse enterprise and clustering technologies. He holds an MA and a PhD from Cambridge University.
The computing industry goes in cycles. The latest trend, growing in buzz over
the past year, is server consolidation aided by virtualization software.
Virtualization software for a computer allows a single machine to behave as
though it were many different, separate computing systems; each virtualized
instance behaves almost identically to an independent physical machine. Using
virtualization software, a roomful of servers can be consolidated onto a
single physical box (provided it's powerful enough). Pundits claim this trend
is cyclical because it's returning us to the old days of a single large,
powerful computer (a la the mainframe) running all of the tasks in an
organization. Although the modern consolidated, virtualized server is
unlikely to look anything like the ... (more)
Back in July 2006, one of the most contentious issues at the Linux Kernel
Summit was what to do about virtualization. At that time, there were three
contenders: Xen, VMware, and OpenVZ (the latter being a lighter-weight
container-based approach). The biggest fight was between Xen and VMware over
competing approaches to running kernel operations through their respective
hypervisors: Xen t... (more)
Dr. James Bottomley is chief technology officer, SteelEye Technology (www.steeleye.com). As CTO, he provides the technical strategic vision for SteelEye's future products and research programs. He is also a committed member of the Open Source community currently holding the Linux Kernel SCSI Maintainership and is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conferences. James is also an active member of the SteelEye engineering team, directly applying his experience and expertise to SteelEye's ongoing product development efforts. He has 12 years of prior experience both in Acadaemia, AT&T Bell Labs, and NCR working on diverse enterprise and clustering technologies. He holds an MA and a PhD from Cambridge University.
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