Over 6.000 schools will enjoy high-speed broadband

Over 6.000 schools will enjoy high-speed broadband

Over 2 million students from around 6.500 educational centers in Spain will have access to high-speed broadband in 2017. And there could be many more.

So far, the students that will enjoy the advantages of this technology belong to the following autonomous regions: La Rioja, Murcia, Andalucía, Asturias, Castilla La Mancha, Galicia and Canarias. This governments have already signed accession agreements with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the public company Red.es., promoters of this project.

New VDI thin clients for the modern workplace

New VDI thin clients for the modern workplace

Dell announced this week at Citrix Synergy in Las Vegas a new portfolio of virtual workspace solutions, including new VDI thin client to meet the demands of the modern workplace:

Wyse 7040, specially designed to provide a high level of security to meet the needs of the Federal market. It includes Trusted Platform Module and BitLocker and supports other advanced protection softwares. It can be configured with Windows Embedded Standard 7p and it is Windows 10 IoT ready.

XenServer 7 boosts security and 3D graphics virtualization

XenServer 7 boosts security and 3D graphics virtualization

Citrix announced at Synergy conference in Las Vegas the availability of the latest release of XenServer 7 virtualization platform.

This new version enhances hypervisor security with a new Direct Inspect API, simplifies 3D graphics virtualization and improves support for Microsoft Windows environments.

XenServer 7 boosts graphics virtualization with Intel Iris Pro on-CPU Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), reducing costs to run graphics-intensive applications, such as web browsers, productivity tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and enterprise 3D data visualization software. It requires no additional hardware or licenses and accelerates graphical workloads of many types.

VMware discontinues vSphere desktop client

VMware discontinues vSphere desktop client

VMware has announced through vSphere official blog that #C client (also known as AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) won’t be available for the next vSphere version.

Current VMware hypervisor versions (6.0, 5.5) will follow the standard support period, so they won’t be affected.

The company is going to replace this desktop client for vSphere HTML5 Web Client, which they ensure is “faster and improves user experience”.

Linux drives 21st century cars

Linux drives 21st century cars

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Linux is everywhere. One of the last sectors where it has landed is the automotive industry. And it seems it has come to stay. Nowadays, the most modern cars incorporate an operating system, since they are connected to internet through 4G and WiFi, feature infotainment and heads-up displays which provide a user experience really similar to the one provided by mobile devices.

Car manufacturers like Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar or Land Rover currently rely on Linux to run on their so called smart cars and others like Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Subaru are planning to do it.

UDS Enterprise, Tredly & VDI authentication

UDS Enterprise, Tredly & VDI authentication

The different uses of UDS Enterprise connection broker, an interesting Open Source software for containers management in Unix OS and UDS Enterprise authentication system have been the most read topics in our blog for the last weeks.

Below you can find the links to the articles about these topics so you can keep up to date with the most outstanding news on Open Source and virtualization according to our community:

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