Nutanix extends Datacenter automation capabilities

Nutanix extends Datacenter automation capabilities

Nutanix announced during the first European event .NEXT Conference that it will extend its one-click Datacenter automation capabilities to include network visualization, security and orchestration.

The manager of hyperconverged infrastructures Nutanix Prism will provide a centralized visualization of the virtual and physical networks topology. IT teams will get a comprehensive view of how individual virtual machines are connected to the network infrastructure and will get health and performance statistics of the network environment.

RHEL 7.3 improves performance and security

RHEL 7.3 improves performance and security

Red Hat has recently announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3, including new features that improve performance, security, and reliability.

As to performance, RHEL 7.3 adds lightweight tunnels, enabling guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 to be more secure, efficient, scalable and flexible. Additionally, enhancements to the bulk packet memory allocator improve performance for both 40 and 100 Gb networking interfaces. Among other things, high-transaction applications have now lower and RHEL now supports the Block SCSI layout format and the Flex Files layout format to manage more easily Parallel NFS (pNFS) clusters.

University of Murcia, VDI & Linux vulnerability

University of Murcia, VDI & Linux vulnerability

A new case study on our UDS Enterprise connection broker and a Spanish university, a report by the renowned consulting firm IDC recommending our software for VDI and a new vulnerability detected in Linux have been the most outstanding topics in our blog for the last two weeks.

Below you can find the links to the articles on these topics just in case you dind’t have the chance to read the most interesting news on virtualization and Open Source according to our community:

OpenNebula 5.2 Excession released

OpenNebula 5.2 Excession released

The OpenNebula project announced a few days ago the availability of the stable release of OpenNebula 5.2 Excession. In this release, some features introduced in 5.0 wizard has been stabilized and those features and components more demanded by the community have been implemented. Almost every component of OpenNebula has been reviewed to target usability and functional improvements.

Zero-day vulnerability in LDAP amplifies DDoS attacks

Zero-day vulnerability in LDAP amplifies DDoS attacks

Corero Network Security identified a zero-day vulnerability in LDAP protocol that enables to amplify Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) 50 times, making them much more effective and much more difficult to mitigate.

This protocol, mainly used in Windows Server Active Directory administration tool has become an ally for cybercriminals, that leverage vulnerable servers supporting LDAP to bounce junk traffic to a server with a single IP address, so the service is overcrowded and stops working.

OpenStack Summit 2016 starts today in Barcelona

OpenStack Summit 2016 starts today in Barcelona

Barcelona hosts OpenStack Summit 2016 from today and until next Friday 28th October, a conference for developers, users and administrators of OpenStack Cloud software, the most widely deployed Open Source cloud platform. Those organizations or users planning to deploy a private, hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure are invited to attend this event to skill up and plan their cloud strategy.

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