IBM releases 50 projects to the Open Source community

IBM releases 50 projects to the Open Source community

IBM unveiled a new platform for developers to collaborate with IBM on a newly released set of Open Source technologies. IBM will release 50 projects to the Open Source community to speed enterprise adoption and spur a new class of cloud innovations around mobile, analytics and other high-growth areas.

The platform is called developerWorks Open and it is a cloud-based environment for developers to access emerging IBM technologies, technical expertise and collaborate with a global network to accelerate projects.

5 most common VDI questions

5 most common VDI questions

It is much more easy managing desktops with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) because IT has a single central image from which they can control hundreds, even thousands of desktops. In addition, it grants access to desktops and applications anywhere and anytime.

But you should keep in mind that sometimes issues may occur, and the support team should be ready to fix them. Fortunately, most issues (passwords, internet connections…) are easy to solve. Other are a bit more complicated, so if you’d like to check whether your team is prepared to face these issues, have a look at the 5 most common VDI questions and learn why users ask them.

Arno, Open Source software to enable deployment of NFV

Arno, Open Source software to enable deployment of NFV

The OPNFV Project, an Open Source platform to accelerate the introduction of new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) products and services, announced the availability of the community’s first software release: Arno.

It is a solution aimed at anyone who is exploring NFV deployments, developing Virtual Network Functions (VNF) applications, or interested in NFV performance and use case-based testing. This developer-focused release provides an initial build of the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) components of ETSI NFV architecture.

oVirt, a full-fledged hypervisor competitor

oVirt, a full-fledged hypervisor competitor

Today we sum up an article published in ZDNet that talks about Red Hat‘s oVirt potential and possibilities, standing out the University of Seville case study thanks to its integration with UDS Enterprise.

As the article explaines, oVirt is a free and Open Source project with huge capabilities and which is now a serious competitor to VMware’s ESXi and competing products, such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer or Proxmox.

OSCON 2015: Free Software and Open Source Conference

OSCON 2015: Free Software and Open Source Conference

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual conference on free software and Open Source. For more than 17 years, software engineers, IT teams and developers attended this event to learn about the use of open source in real world situations.

This seminar is now an outstanding learning forum about Open Source best practices, strategies, tools, products, services and technologies and all implementation and configuration possibilities.

BriForum Denver 2015

BriForum Denver 2015

BriForum will be held in Denver next 20, 21 and 22 July after taking place in London last May.

Virtualization expert Brian Madden‘s team, together with experts from companies such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft or Atlantis Computing, will share their views on VDI scenario and will present different desktop and app virtualization, enterprise mobility management, security, storage solutions

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