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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

BMW sporting flashy new Xen virtualization

http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/jun/04/novell_supports_xen_virtualization_at_bmw

According to BMW, Xen virtualization technology built into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 will allow the company to increase flexibility in managing server life cycles. BMW will also gain operational and cost advantages in other areas, in addition to having a flatter support structure through the integrated operating system and virtualization layer. Hardware resources can be more efficiently used through server consolidation, and BMW is able to cluster virtual servers and migrate them live from one physical server to another as needed. The company is also currently evaluating Novell ZENworks(R) Orchestrator as a way to manage the resulting virtual data center systems.