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.
Linux security expert Phil Oester discovered a privilege-escalation critical vulnerability affecting the Linux Kernel. This bug is called Dirty COW and identified as CVE-2016-5195 and although it has recently been discovered, it existed since 2007.
This flaw affects the component Kernel Memory Subsystem, allows to manipulate an unknown input and explote the vulnerability that may affect the system’s confidenciality, integrity and availability.
VMware announced during the event VMworld Europe which is being held this week in Barcelona anew version of vSphere, that will be compatible with containers technologies.
The new release of the hypervisor makes the work of IT admins more easy, sice it offers more automation capabilities and has more advanced management functionalities, while reinforces integrated security and supports new applications.
Some of UDS Enterprise 2.0 new features have raised the interest of the readers of our blog during last two weeks. In fact, two of the three most read posts deal with new functionalities of the new version of our software: scheduling and automating tasks and grouping services. The last of our most outstanding articles in the first fortnight of October is a tutorial on creating virtual machines in oVirt 4.0.
Just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them, find below the links to these posts so you can keep up to date with the most interesting news about virtualization and Open Source according to our followers:
VMworld Europe 2016, one of the most eagerly awaited technological events of the year, is taking place from today to next Thursday 20th at Fira de Gran Via, in Barcelona. During these days more than 20.000 ICT professionals will gather at VMware‘s anual event, with more than 300 sessions scheduled about cloud, mobility, workplace transformation, security, hyperconverged infrastructure, network virtualization…
Developers usually face the dilemma of choosing the Linux distribution that best fits the programming language they use, easy to setup and runs best Linux and that runs best in a virtual environment or on old hardware. In order to help to come to a decision, Linux developers from Toptal website have drawn up a list with the most recommended distros:
–Ubuntu: It is the easiest, supports most hardware and it is very friendly to people not used to work with Linux. The only snag is that it is quite heavy due to all the stuff that comes with and its Unity GUI is causing a lot of controversies between Linux users.
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