During this atypical summer our blog has received thousands of visits from people interested in finding out about news related to the virtualization sector in general, VDI in particular, interesting topics such as free and Open Source technologies and the latest news from UDS Enterprise, our connection broker for desktop and application virtualization.
At the end of this month of July, the development of a new Linux distribution will begin, which promises to be different from the rest. Serpent OS will challenge the usual conventions that Linux users are used to. In fact, it is not oriented to the masses, but to the most purist linuxers. It will be modular and optimized for modern machines.
The university centers are designing what the return to the classrooms will be like next September. It will undoubtedly be a different beginning of the academic year, marked by the demands of the “new normal” due to Covid-19.
The Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) is already preparing to adopt the necessary security measures to face the Coronavirus. Among them, they have decided to reduce as much as possible that students have to go to the computer rooms located on campus. In order to do this, most of the applications needed to carry out their teaching practices will be available through virtual desktops with UDS Enterprise.
Virtual desktop infrastructure aka VDI is a computer system technology for sharing the core OS platform and other computing resources with multiple users simultaneously through cloud computing models of businesses. This technology allows any remote data scientist or analyst to access and work with the virtual data resources and applications located in the cloud easily, efficiently, and securely. Thus, any enterprise that uses virtual data services can easily hire data scientist remotely to handle and manage valuable data of the company.
UDS Enterprise has always been closely linked to educational environments. So it is not surprising that many students choose this software as the cornerstone of their projects. This is the case of three students who have completed the Administration of Computer Network Systems course at the Nicolau Copèrnic Institute, in Terrassa (Catalonia). Cristian Gallardo, Manuel Farfán and Marc Sisó have used UDS Enterprise for their Final Degree Project, which they have titled MCM & CLOUD. They have documented how to offer virtual desktops and applications through a web browser with UDS Enterprise and XCP-ng, the Open Source hypervisor based on XenServer.
