Choosing a VDI client is not an easy task since there are several options with slight differences.
Physical desktops, thin clients and HTML5 browsers are good options for VDI deployments, but most companies always look for the best value for money. In this case, HTML5 browsers can be considered an interesting alternative.
The Linux Foundation has recently announced Open API Initiative (OAI), a project that will extend the Swagger specification and format to create an open technical community within which members can easily contribute to building a vendor neutral, portable and open specification for providing metadata for RESTful APIs.
This open specification will allow both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the respective services with a minimal amount of implementation logic. The Initiative will also promote and facilitate the adoption and use of an open API standard.
Lenovo and Nutanix announced a strategic partnership to develop, market and sell a new family of Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software, offering an alternative to public cloud services.
The joint solution, featuring several of the latest Intel technologies, will run nearly all workloads, including enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops, and big data analytics, with improved efficiency and scalability.
The very same week Fedora 23 is going to be released, the Fedora Project has announced Fedora Developer Portal, a website to help developers working on projects with Fedora as main operating system or inside a virtual machine.
In this new portal they’ll find the guidelines to get an install development tools, language runtimes and databases. They will also learn different distribution and deployment options using COPR and OpenShift.
UDS Enterprise and Moodle integration developed by Malaga University and VirtualCable, the video showing virtual desktops deployment with UDS Enterprise and Citrix XenServer and VirtualCable joining VMware Technology Alliance Program (TAP) have been the most read posts in our blog during the last two weeks.
Find below the links to the articles on these topics so you keep up with the most interesting news according to our followers:
UDS Enterprise & Moodle help the learning community
Would you like to improve the performace of your GNU Linux distro? Thanks to its flexibility we can maximize it. There are a lot of ways to do it, such as using Swappines configurations, removing unnecesary kernel modules, setting up the kernel more cleanly…
One of these options is Cache Pressure, which enables maximizing RAM memory to change the way the kernel introduces data blocks in the core memory. Making a few changes, our device’s performance will be improved in every respect: when you run programs, play or any multimedia content…
