The XCP-ng development team has announced the availability of a new version of the Open Source hypervisor based on Citrix XenServer. This new release incorporates important improvements at security level.
The consultancy IDC Research Spain and Walhalla Cloud have published the report Cloud Market Spain 2018: The orchestration as a competitive advantage in Multicloud management. In this document, the growth forecasts of the cloud services market are announced, with sectors that will grow beyond 20%.
VDI allows for full hardware independence, simplicity and security, and the ability to centralize management and simplify endpoint deployments. Deploying a desktop virtualization infrastructure requires a SAN (storage area network) to host the virtual disks, a virtualization platform with the necessary extensions to handle remotization protocols, and several additional services like snapshot management, backups, disaster recovery and user/desktop management.
The first version of the Linux Kernel whose development has not been led from start to end by Linus Torvalds is now available. Greg Kroah-Hartman has been in charge of finishing the 4.19 with extended support version, in which the new Linux code of conduct has been included. In addition, it has been announced that Torvalds returns to take control of the project.
Microsoft keeps on surprising with its open source efforts. Their latest move in favor of Linux and Open Source has left no one indifferent. The company has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) and, as a consequence, now all the members of this consortium will be able to use freely and without restrictions more than 60,000 patents related to Linux that are owned by Microsoft.
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.
