Most organizations are provided with a disaster recovery plan that includes the steps to follow in case of natural disaster or a prolonged power outage that prevents them from accessing the jobs located in their offices.
Desktop virtualization is emerging as a tool of great help in these cases, since the users can access their virtual desktops from anywhere, anytime and with any device, so that production is not affected by the problems that may arise in certain facilities, thus avoiding the economic losses caused by the interruption of the activity.
Coinciding with the OpenStack Summit, which is held this week in Paris, Canonical has officially launched its distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack.
The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, has described it as “a full autopilot for the private cloud”. Shuttleworth explained that either with one or 10 racks with Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS), you can indicate your preferences of storage, software defined network (SDN) and hypervisor. Then, the system will automatically create a personal cloud and it will manage it and control it for you, keeping it completely secure and updated to the following version of OpenStack when appropriate.
A few weeks ago the oVirt team announced the release of a new version of this Open Source virtualization platform, the 3.5. Among the innovations introduced by this editions it should be pointed out the possibility of eliminating snapshots of virtual machines that are no longer necessary while the virtual machine is still running, the expansion of import and export domains storage and the ability to add and provide hypervisors from bare-metal.
The use of technology in general and more specifically of desktop virtualization in educational environment is one of the most interesting topics for the UDS Enterprise online community. In fact, two of our most popular posts over the past two weeks deal with this subject. The third one talks about the differences between persistent and non-persistent virtual desktops.
Find below the links to these three articles so you’re abreast of the most outstanding news according to our followers:
A few days ago, we analyzed in a post the advantages and disadvantages of persistent virtual desktops. To complete that information and gather all the data to decide which type of virtual desktops is the best for us to deploy, today we’re going to do the same with non-persistent virtual desktops:
When users access non-persistent desktops, none of their application data or configurations is saved with the desktop. When the session is over, the virtual desktop returns to its original state before another user can connect, or it is destroyed and assigns the user a new virtual desktop each time a connection is made.
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