In recent years the number of Internet servers and data centers around the world that use an operating system based on Linux has grown considerably. Renowned companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter or Amazon have a server software based on Linux. Eventhe most powerful supercomputer in the world works with a Linux-based OS. And why is this Linux boom on the servers? Find below the main reasons:
Far from the military actions themselves, the United States Pentagon is one of the places in the world where much of the work, such as reporting, briefings, data management and management tasks, are carried out with computer software. Next year a great change could be built, since there is a proposed bill to stop using proprietary software in favor of Open Source.
The latest version of Linux that will be released this year 2017 is now available for download. It is Linux 4.14 LTS, the first release that has extended support for 6 years.
The most outstanding new features of this new edition of the software include:
Red Hat announced yesterday at OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12, the latest version of Red Hat’s cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Based on the OpenStack Pike release, this new version introduces containerized services, improving flexibility for faster application development.
SIMO EDUCATION 2017 brought together the professional community of teaching at IFEMA (Madrid) from 25th to 27th of last October. The fair received the visit of 9,442 professionals, 15% more than in 2016, and announced news of 231 companies from 18 countries. These data make it a reference event in our country in the field of technological innovation at the service of teaching.
The experience of the university centers with UDS Enterprise deploying Linux virtual desktops, the annual Red Hat event held in Madrid and the incorporation of the last version of the virtualization platform oVirt to the list of hypervisors supported by the UDS Enterprise connection broker have been the most popular topics of our blog during the month of October.
