COLLOQUIUM
             Computer Science Department, Boston University

Speaker: Kit Colbert
         Mware, An EMC Company

Date:  Wednesday, October 5
Time:  11:00
Place: Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street 
       (for directions, see www.cs.bu.edu/colloquium)

Title: VMotion: Fast Transparent Migration for Virtual Machines

Abstract:

This talk describes the design and implementation of a system that uses
virtual machine technology to provide fast, transparent application
migration.  This is the first system that can migrate unmodified
applications on unmodified mainstream Intel x86-based operating systems,
including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare and others.  Neither
the application nor any clients communicating with the application can
tell that the application has been migrated.  Experimental measurements
show that for a variety of workloads, application downtime caused by
migration is less than a second.

Biography:

Kit Colbert is a member of the technical staff in the ESX engineering
team in our Palo Alto office.  Kit joined VMware from the Computer Science
department at Brown University in 2003 and plays a significant role in the on-going
development of VMware's ESX product line. VMware, an independent
software subsidiary of EMC, was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class
virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers.

Host: Azer Bestavros