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.
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 V...May. 31, 2007 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,903 Replies: 1
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; ...
