Thus ends my experience with IBM Extreme Blue. I submitted ten patent disclosures, of which, four were published and the fifth is being investigated further. Gary helped me find a part time job these next two semesters with IBM. I am psyched. I will be working with Cisco routers and the like, but I hope to also get some more sales experience. We spent the last two weeks cleaning up our code and doing some final demos to various executives in the RTP, NC area. I am going to miss the group. We had our final hoorah in Chapel Hill on Thursday night and got completely ripped.
On Friday, I celebrated Steve-O’s birthday along with Brooke at El Dorado. Afterwords, I caught up with Sara and we headed over to Manuzak’s apartment and hung out with Greg Brown who was down visiting some friends. We watched some tele and then Sara and I headed home.
The ride up to Cleveland was not too hard, but I’m missing Sara.
I’m flyinig up to Manhattan in, uh, a couple hours. I should probably sleep but I’m pretty damn excited…and my clothes are still in the washer. I celebrated the conclusion of my project by heading to the mall and taking advantage of the tax free weekend. Yay for new dress clothes. I’m going to be well dressed for Expo in Armonk on Tuesday.
I’ll be spending the weekend with Becca! She’s picking me up at the airport tomorrow morning and is going to be my trophy blonde for my weekend in NYC.
Sara came over last night and we watched, “Through a glass darkly.” I have been on an Ingmar Bergman and Fellini streak. I really love watching their filming techniques. They are masters. Every scene is a moving photograph.
It took a few contacts and some help from friends (I love you Shari), but IBM found an internship opportunity for me in India. Details and logistics have yet to be determined, but I will be spending my next summer exploring Bangalore - the Silicon Valley of India. Many things are up in the air and I have a lot of planning to do.
Microsoft announced on Monday that they will work with XenSource to develop interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization.
But why would Microsoft be interested in Xen and what does this mean for the virtualization market?
VMWare is currently the proven leader by leaps and bounds, but has designed a virtualized environment that uses technology known as “native virtualization“. While native virtualization allows for easy support of any operating system, it loses in a performance comparison to “paravirtualization“, which is the technology implemented by Xen.
It is a smart move on Microsoft’s part to collaborate with XenSource in their development of Microsoft Virtual Server because they can leverage Xen’s Linux performance advantages while being hosted on a Windows server. This will allow former Xen users to easily migrate their virtualized Linux servers to a Windows based solution. Unfortunately for the Linux camp, it looks like Microsoft will not be returning the favor by helping to improve Windows running under Xen (which is possible, if you have the right hardware).
Looks like our little IBM Extreme Blue project is helping to make some big waves 
IBM To Support Xen Virtualization Software For Suse 10 Linux
We’re currently the top story on digg.com! This is too cool.
While I still can’t say exactly what our project does, IBM has now gone public in their support for Xen Virtualization Server on select versions of their blades. In addition, they will allow, “IBM customers to use familiar IBM management software to provision and manage multiple Xen virtual machines.”