Today at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced Sun’s new xVM virtualization and management platform.

During the keynote, Sun will also demonstrate two upcoming products at the core of Sun’s virtualization offerings: Sun xVM Ops Center, a unified management infrastructure, and Sun xVM Server, an enterprise-grade bare-metal hypervisor. Sun xVM will combine enhancements to Sun’s existing technology portfolio with new offerings that will help customers to increase efficiency, while simplifying management and saving money. Additionally, Sun will launch www.openxvm.org, an open source community for developers building next-generation datacenter virtualization and management technologies.