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Xinuos announces product and availability details for SCO OpenServer® 6V, the latest releases in the line of virtualized versions of its family of UNIX® operating system products. SCO OpenServer® 6V is released as Xinuos latest Virtual Appliance image that can be easily installed on a VMware vSphere 4.x, ESX 4.x, VMware ESXi 4.x and VMware ESXi Server Release 5. Importation of the Virtual Appliance is extremely fast, as well as the configuration of the imported Virtual Appliance. The system behaves just like a natively installed SCO OpenServer® 6.0 system with all the latest maintenance installed. For convenience, many of the VMware tools have been included to improve integration between SCO OpenServer® 6V and the host VMware system.
SCO OpenServer® 6V follows the release of SCO OpenServer® 5.0.7V Version 3.0.0 is just the beginning of many new products that will be coming from Xinuos, Inc., a new company with a vision to develop the full potential of UNIX technology for businesses worldwide. Xinuos has acquired the SCO OpenServer® and UnixWare® operating system businesses with the intent of returning to, and building upon, the long tradition of offering rock solid UNIX system software to the IT market.
Product Overview
Using SCO OpenServer® 6 version 1.0.0 for VMware as a base, Xinuos has built an optimized Virtual Appliance for VMware. This Virtual Appliance uses a subset of existing and updated device drivers that provide optimal performance in a virtual environment. The implementation of SCO OpenServer® 6V as a Virtual Appliance means that you can easily have a Virtual Machine imported and configured within an hour.
With SCO OpenServer® 6V, customers will be able to capitalize on the benefits of virtualization, which is one of the fastest growing and most popular trends in the IT industry today. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run side-by-side as peers on the same hardware server. This provides a hardware cost savings and efficiency for IT departments. With SCO OpenServer® 6V, customers can take advantage of the full range of modern hardware support provided by the VMware virtualization layer while continuing to run their current applications.
For customers, virtualization essentially lets one computer do the job of multiple computers by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments. Virtual servers and virtual desktops let customers host multiple operating systems and multiple applications both locally and in remote locations, freeing them from physical and geographical limitations. The result is that in addition to energy savings and lower capital expenditures due to more efficient use of hardware resources, customers obtain high availability of resources, better desktop management, increased security, and improved disaster recovery processes. |
