Virtualization Times

At AMD’s Austin campus and offices around the world, there is a buzz that is starting to grow louder and louder around the halls. If you listen closely enough you can hear it saying “Magny-Cours is coming.” Personally, I couldn’t be more excited. My colleague John Fruehe has touched on our strategy and many of the anticipated hardware enhancements in a series of blog posts on our @Work site, but this is my chance to talk to you about what I care about most – the software! On second thought, maybe I shouldn’t say anything at all. Why not let our valued software partners speak on AMD’s behalf about what they see in the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platforms? Without further ado, I’ll hand it off to my industry colleagues to let them tell you what’s on their mind as we approach the launch:
Microsoft:
“Microsoft has partnered with AMD in the data center since the original AMD Opteron processors were launched in 2003, and we naturally have been working together to deliver advanced efficiencies with the new 8- and 12-Core AMD Opteron 6000 Series platforms,” said Eric Jewett, Director, Microsoft Server Marketing.  “Customers running Windows Server® 2008 R2, Hyper-V R2, and SQL Server can benefit from the balanced price, performance, and power these new server platforms offer.”

VMware:
“With AMD Opteron 6000 Series platforms, AMD is taking a big step forward in terms of efficiency and performance-per-watt. Our flagship virtualization solution – VMware vSphere™ 4 – is fully compatible with and optimized for ‘Magny-Cours’,” said Richard Brunner, chief platform architect and principal engineer, VMware. “Combining VMware’s proven virtualization technology with AMD’s most impressive server platform to date helps our joint customers to fully harness the promise of virtualization.”

Red Hat:
“For years, AMD and Red Hat have been focused on providing outstanding reliability and flexibility in the datacenter,” said Tim Burke, vice president, Engineering, Platform Engineering at Red Hat. “AMD’s next-generation 8- and 12-Core AMD Opteron 6000 Series platforms extend that focus, and when paired with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, these server platforms can help enterprise customers achieve impressive performance, while also helping to maximizing their IT investment.”

Parallels:
“Parallels and AMD began collaborating to provide virtualized solutions to the web hosting community well before cloud computing was a buzz word, and we are excited to continue the tradition of mutual innovation with the release of the new AMD Opteron 6000 Series platforms,” said Amir Sharif, vice president of Virtualization at Parallels.  “Both Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and the new Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal are fully compatible with AMD’s latest server platforms, and we look forward to bringing improved, highly efficient virtualization solutions to customers around the world.”

Citrix:
“Together, Citrix and AMD have been helping to pave the way in the industry for efficient and optimized client and server virtualization solutions to meet the demands of today’s IT environment,” said N. Louis Shipley,  group vice president and general manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix Systems. “Now, with the availability of platforms based on the latest 8- and 12-Core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors, we’re able to deliver further enhanced scalability and performance for virtualization through Citrix XenServer and XenApp.”


Margaret Lewis (@margaretjlewis) is a Product Marketing Director at AMD. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.