In addition to what is included in VMware Horizon 6, VMware is offering participation in an early access program for a Linux a virtual desktop solution.
VMware is expanding its virtual desktop capabilities to include support for Red Hat and Ubuntu based Linux-based desktops.
This enables customers to simplify desktop management using the VMware Horizon platform to access Windows and Linux applications.
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, an operating system optimized for running the next generation of applications with Linux containers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host provides all of the components necessary to easily package and run applications written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as containers.
During the last two weeks the most read articles in our blog were the selection of guides about OpenStack, the case study about the VDI platform in the University of Sevilla with UDS Enterprise & oVirt and the new features of UDS Enterprise, in particular the on-screen keyboard for mobile operating systems.
In case you didn’t have the chance to read them, find below the links to these posts:
Guides to move into the cloud with OpenStack
The Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has announced that they will end sales on VDI-in-a-Box. This decision is part of a series of actions that the company is performing in order to reduce the number of products in its portfolio and give greater weight to the ones that generate higher benefits.
Templeton said that this desktop virtualization solution “will be replaced by a more simple one which will have a more competitive price”, but he hasn’t given any detail in this regard so far.
Miguel Rueda, Communications and Computing Director University of Sevilla
“We decided to rely on UDS Enterprise due to their success in other Spanish universities and its reduced cost”
