Software developers use Linux containers to save time and money, providing a mechanism to build much more manageable applications through development, testing and environments of implementation with a better security in the software life cycle as in their actions and scenarios.
According to Forrester, more than half of operations and IT development responsible see security as the biggest concern when adopting containers.
The workplace currently has certain needs derived from an ongoing process of technological evolution that companies should meet to increase productivity while offering more agility, both in their relationship with the client and in their internal processes.
According to the reseach of IDC, relected in their latest report on the the user workplace, more and more specialized tools are required according to the user role within the company and new needs are arising for access to information as well as the execution of applications in remote users and those with mobile devices.
Nutanix announced during the first European event .NEXT Conference that it will extend its one-click Datacenter automation capabilities to include network visualization, security and orchestration.
The manager of hyperconverged infrastructures Nutanix Prism will provide a centralized visualization of the virtual and physical networks topology. IT teams will get a comprehensive view of how individual virtual machines are connected to the network infrastructure and will get health and performance statistics of the network environment.
Red Hat has recently announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3, including new features that improve performance, security, and reliability.
As to performance, RHEL 7.3 adds lightweight tunnels, enabling guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 to be more secure, efficient, scalable and flexible. Additionally, enhancements to the bulk packet memory allocator improve performance for both 40 and 100 Gb networking interfaces. Among other things, high-transaction applications have now lower and RHEL now supports the Block SCSI layout format and the Flex Files layout format to manage more easily Parallel NFS (pNFS) clusters.
A new case study on our UDS Enterprise connection broker and a Spanish university, a report by the renowned consulting firm IDC recommending our software for VDI and a new vulnerability detected in Linux have been the most outstanding topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
Below you can find the links to the articles on these topics just in case you dind’t have the chance to read the most interesting news on virtualization and Open Source according to our community:
