Hyper-converged infrastructures simplify desktop virtualization, since all back-end resources, including management software, run together on an isolated and completely integrated location.
Therefore, these systems can change the way an organization approaches VDI, as they reduce IT workloads and makes it easier to fix issues related to data center.
Migrating from one vCenter to another has been so far a hard task, since it was pretty difficult to deploy and configure a new vCenter Server while keeping the existing one to perform the migration. When performing this task, one should take into account many factors, as the sieze of the environment, the number of solutions using vCenter Server as an endpoint and hoy physical and virtual networks are configured. Drafting the full migration of a virtual infrastructure plan may also take a long time.
But now, it’s going to be far more easy, since VMware has announced the release of vSphere 6.0 Update 2m (Migration), an automate tool to migrate from a vCenter Server 5.5 Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2.
Microsoft has announced that the preview of Azure Service Fabric for Linux will be available on September 26, during the Microsoft Ignite Conference that will be held in Atlanta (EEUU). This announcement means that Service Fabric clusters in Azure can be provisioned using Linux as host operating system and deploy Java applications in Service Fabric clusters. Initially, Service Fabric for Linux will be available for Ubuntu and it will also support RHEL soon.
The italian military is going to be the european administration to make the largest transition to Open Source software. During the next four years, more than 100.000 PCs will migrate to LibreOffice as part of LibreDifesa project, which will save 26 to 29 millon euros to italian administration.
The main reasons for the military to perform this move are interoperability and long-term accesibility of documents and information. The army of this country is standardising on the Open Document Format (ODF) and is advising its users to use free fonts.
Debian development team has released a security update for 8.5 version, which armours Linux core in Debian.
This update solves a very important vulnerability related to Linux Kernel, that opened the door to other machines to leak into TCP/IP protocol. The hacker could see everything the user did in the Internet and also insert malicious messages inside this protocol.
The last Akademy event organized by KDE Project introduced plenty of news, like the KDE Store, an online shop where you can buy software and other elements related to the environment through a platform based on OpenDesktop and free sharing.
OpenDesktop’s source code has been released under AGPL license and KDE has used it to build a new application shop, where you can donate to developers, artists…
