Antonio Serna, Responsible of Classroom Free Access (ALAS) at the University of Murcia:
“With UDS Enterprise, deploying a classroom has been much simpler and homogeneous for us, IT can manage hundreds of machines from a centralized point”
Desktop virtualization with UDS Enterprise is playing a key role so that all university groups can carry out their daily tasks from home during the state of alarm decreed due to Covid-19.
Linux security expert Phil Oester discovered a privilege-escalation critical vulnerability affecting the Linux Kernel. This bug is called Dirty COW and identified as CVE-2016-5195 and although it has recently been discovered, it existed since 2007.
This flaw affects the component Kernel Memory Subsystem, allows to manipulate an unknown input and explote the vulnerability that may affect the system’s confidenciality, integrity and availability.
The wellknown consulting firm IDC recommends in a recently published report the use of our software for VDI. According to the analysts, “UDS Enterprise provides the answer to the management needs of the lifecycle of virtual desktops and the access of remote and local users to desktop virtualization platforms and other remote desktop resources, such as applications“.
VMware announced during the event VMworld Europe which is being held this week in Barcelona anew version of vSphere, that will be compatible with containers technologies.
The new release of the hypervisor makes the work of IT admins more easy, sice it offers more automation capabilities and has more advanced management functionalities, while reinforces integrated security and supports new applications.
Some of UDS Enterprise 2.0 new features have raised the interest of the readers of our blog during last two weeks. In fact, two of the three most read posts deal with new functionalities of the new version of our software: scheduling and automating tasks and grouping services. The last of our most outstanding articles in the first fortnight of October is a tutorial on creating virtual machines in oVirt 4.0.
Just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them, find below the links to these posts so you can keep up to date with the most interesting news about virtualization and Open Source according to our followers:
