A few days ago we explained what exactly a connection broker is, but many of you will be wondering what it is mainly used for. One of the most common uses is desktop virtualization, in fact many solutions in the market only highlight or feature this functionality.
Apart from provisioning and managing virtual desktops, a connection broker can enable the administration and centralized management of users access to any other remote desktop service, like virtualized applications, IP phones, IP cameras, shared resources… Some of the most comprehensive ones integrate with different cloud services, even enable access to physical PCs and e-Learning platforms.
This year, the term Hyper-V nested virtualization is everywhere, and not only because it is a new Hyper-V Server 2016 feature, but because od the implications on another technology whic is becomng more and more popular: containers.
The support for containers is one key benefit of Hyper-V nested virtualization, since it brings a new take on VMs, with less overhead and more flexibility to develop and deploy applications.
The Universities and Free Software Ranking (RuSL for the Spanish spelling) has published the fifth edition of its annual report.
The 2016 report shows a constant commitment of academic institutions to Free Softwaredevelopment and support. There is a growing number of universities really interested in supporting and spreading the use of free technologies. The use of Open Source tools and collaboration in free software porjects has also grown this year.
A connection broker is a software element which connects users and resources. These resources usually are hosted in a datacenter and they can be either virtual or physical. The datacenter can be located inside the organization offices, in cloud or in a mixed environment and it can be private or rented.
From the broker administration dashboard we can define what virtual or physical resources are provided to each of our users or groups of users, for how long and with what kind of privileges.
In previous posts we talked about the advantages of desktop virtualization for organizations supporting remote employees. In addition to software licenses management and security, technical support is another improved service thanks to VDI.
If employees working from home don’t use virtual desktops, the help desk staff don’t know what operating systems, programs or applications each user has intalled in his computer.
Dell has decided to stop developing vWorkspaceVDI software, which was acquired a few years ago, in 2012.
The company explained they will continue offering support and updates to their current clients and they will also be able to expand their environments, but they will stop selling licenses to new customers and they won’t release any new vWorkspace version.
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