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SourceLabs Adds Xen

SourceLabs Extends Self-Support Technology To Xen Virtualization Software

29.06.2008 15:52:40 SourceLabs Extends Self-Support Technology To Xen Virtualization Software

(live-PR.com) - SEATTLE, Wash. – SourceLabs, the company creating innovative technology to support
open source software, today announced that its Self-Support Suite now supports enterprise-class virtual
infrastructure solutions built on the Xen® hypervisor, an open-source virtualization software solution for
Linux. SourceLabs’ Self-Support technology gives developers, corporate IT professionals, and solution
providers an on-demand way to significantly reduce the complexity of application development,
deployment, troubleshooting and software
maintenance for open source technologies. Xen is the
industry’s de-facto, industry-endorsed open source virtualization standard backed by the industry's
leading enterprise solution vendors.

“As data centers are moving toward a more dynamic model, they are increasingly doing so using server
virtualization technology and Xen is the leading technology solution in the market today for running
virtualized IT environments,” said Byron Sebastian, SourceLabs CEO and Founder. “The SourceLabs Self-
Support Suite gives developers the ability to significantly drive down the costs of deploying and
maintaining virtualized data centers with technology that seamlessly and effortlessly harnesses the
power of Xen and other open source technologies.”

SourceLabs Self-Support Suite drives down the cost of troubleshooting and fixing software problems and
in addition to identifying potential security issues. The system identifies issues and ranks potential
resolutions from across a wide variety of projects in the open source development ecosystem, offering
resolutions to problems in just minutes. Indexing, managing, and storing the data, SourceLabs uses
advanced pattern matching and predictive analysis algorithms to automate troubleshooting, reduces
the time on routine tasks and analyzes data to flag any potential problems before they can impact
systems or designs.

Xen open source virtualization software allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on the
same physical server, allowing customers to consolidate their current workloads onto a single server.
As the leading open source virtualization project, Xen serves as the foundation of many commercial
virtualization solutions and has been benchmarked as the highest performing virtualization software
available and is developed collaboratively by engineers at Intel, AMD, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Egenera, HP,
IBM, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and more.

SourceLabs’ supports all current and previous releases of Xen technology, including auxiliary projects
such as ‘libvirt.’ SourceLabs’ Self-Support Suite for Xen references solutions from Xen.org as well as
solutions from across multiple Linux distributions that ship with Xen integration including Debian,
RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSuSE, as well as the Linux Kernel mailing list and bug database,
providing Xen users an exhaustive resource for troubleshooting and analysis of their virtualization
platforms. SourceLabs’ Self-Support Suite supports the most popular open source Java and Linux
technologies including Apache httpd, GCC, MySQL, Sendmail, and the Linux Kernel among others.

Pricing and Availability

SourceLabs’ Self-Support Tools are available at, www.sourcelabs.com. Basic support includes
24x7 global coverage and is available from $399 for one developer seat. For more information and
enterprise pricing, call 206.322.0099 or email sales@sourcelabs.com.

To try SourceLabs’ Self Support tools, visit www.sourcelabs.com/?page=testdrive.

About SourceLabs

SourceLabs is innovating open source software support. The Seattle-based company provides a
complete set of software integration, testing, support and maintenance solutions The company’s
dependable Open Source Systems vision proposes a new model for the software industry, one that frees
software buyers from proprietary lock-in while delivering highly reliable software and support. For
more information, please go to www.sourcelabs.com. The company runs the open source Swik project
that catalogs over 10,000 open source projects for an audience of over 1 million unique visitors per
month.
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