Vates, the Company behind Xen Orchestra, announced the availability of a new version of the management web interface for Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) and XCP-ng. The release 5.51 comes with important improvements to manage groups, especially in LDAP, adding the option to synchronize them in Xen Orchestra. There is no longer the need to create them manually and every time a new user or group is added, the information is updated.
We start the month of October preparing the ranking of the most read articles on our blog during September. Amavir Case Study is the publication that has registered the greater amount of visits. There, it is explained how desktop virtualization has helped them to simplify the IT management of 41 nursing homes for the elderly spread over 7 autonomous regions. This organization has opted for a VDI cloud solution with UDS Enterprise.
The Fedora Project announced the availability of Fedora 33 Beta, the latest release of this version before the stable one, which is expected to be launched at the end of October.
Among the new features of Fedora 33 Beta, in the official announcement the use of BTRFS as the default filesystem is highlighted. This change introduces user-friendly features such as transparent compression and “copy-on-write”. At the moment, only basic features are incorporated, but little by little more advantages of this system will be added.
Nutanix and Virtual Cable, the company behind UDS Enterprise, have organized a webinar in Spanish which will be held next Tuesday, October 6, to reveal the benefits of combining VDI and hyperconvergence when implementing remote working and distance learning.
Next November a new certification for IT professionals will be available endorsed by The Linux Foundation and the startup Certiverse. Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA) demonstrates experience and basic skills in information technology functions, especially in cloud computing.
