Choosing a VDI client is not an easy task since there are several options with slight differences.
Physical desktops, thin clients and HTML5 browsers are good options for VDI deployments, but most companies always look for the best value for money. In this case, HTML5 browsers can be considered an interesting alternative.
oVirt‘s team has recently announced version 3.6, featuring interesting innovations, such as tech previews of Docker integration and Debian & Fedora 22 support.
The article about this new version published at Red Hat Open Source Community blog highlights UDS Enterprise as a 100% compatible software with oVirt.
The Linux Foundation has recently announced Open API Initiative (OAI), a project that will extend the Swagger specification and format to create an open technical community within which members can easily contribute to building a vendor neutral, portable and open specification for providing metadata for RESTful APIs.
This open specification will allow both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the respective services with a minimal amount of implementation logic. The Initiative will also promote and facilitate the adoption and use of an open API standard.
VirtualCable, the company that packs up UDS Enterprise, a VDI multiplatform connection broker for Windows and Linux, today announced that its UDS Enterprise has achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that UDS Enterprise has undergone detailed test procedures and is supported on VMware vSphere® 5.X for production environments.
Lenovo and Nutanix announced a strategic partnership to develop, market and sell a new family of Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software, offering an alternative to public cloud services.
The joint solution, featuring several of the latest Intel technologies, will run nearly all workloads, including enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops, and big data analytics, with improved efficiency and scalability.
