On Saturday December 1st 2018, the computer test of the public examinations for the auxiliary staff of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands was carried out. This exam was held at the campus of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), leveraging the virtual desktops platform with UDS Enterprise implemented in their computer classrooms.
The largest city and capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, is gradually extending the use of Open Source technologies in the public administration. This past July, this city presented its new web based on the Open Source content manager WordPress.
The VDI & vApp connection broker UDS Enterprise allows to access virtual desktops and applications from Chromebook devices through its HTML5 connector. This type of connection allows to perform a series of advanced tasks regarding file management:
The UDS Enterprise connection broker brings the advantages of desktop and application virtualization to Chromebooks, low-cost computers that are currently booming in sectors such as education and public administration.
The UDS Enterprise team has performed the appropiate tests to verify the compatibility of the VDI & vApp connection broker with Chrome OS, the operating system developed by Google governing these devices.
Denmark’s Agency for Governmental IT Services (Statens It) uses the Open Source cloud platform OpenStack to make its private cloud environment available to all state agencies. Thanks to this new infrastructure, the agencies have a test environment to test and develop new solutions.
The public administration of the city of Montreal (Canada) has announced its intention to abandon the use of proprietary software in favor of Free Software. A change that is motivated by the benefits of such a software model, such as the possibility of improving its IT services by promoting transparency and capacity of choice.
