IBM to support Xen in x86 servers, blades.

The article reports that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) will employ the latest release of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 to support the Xen open-source virtualization technology on its x86 servers. Later, IBM will attach SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and Xen support to its other server platforms. Virtualization's success also has attracted a number of companies ranging from heavyweights such as Microsoft to smaller companies like SWsoft and Virtual Iron. Xen was developed through an open-source project to introduce a free hypervisor that reflects what VMware's technology does. Xen 3.0 was introduced last year, based on which companies such as XenSource have begun releasing products.