LXD, the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical, beats KVM in density and speed. The company published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than KVM.
The target platform for this analysis was an Intel server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The testing involved launching as many guest instances as possible with competing hypervisor technologies, LXD and KVM.
Fedora 22 is now available for download. This new version of the Linux distro sponsored by Red Hat and supported by our VDI connection broker for Windows and Linux UDS Enterprise, incorporates new features for cloud, server and workstation deployments.
On the one hand, Fedora 22 Cloud incorporates new features and images designed to help developers and users use Fedora in public and private clouds. Among other things, the Fedora Project has updated its Docker base image and set of Dockerfiles to help users make use of Fedora 22 in containers.
Citrix has renewed the Citrix Ready Marketplace, launching a new website with a more modern and functional design. The user experience has been improved, so that it is now much easier for companies to find third-party compatible products or solutions that best suit their needs
The Citrix Customer Experience and Web Development teams have been working for months in order to understand customer’s needs and priorities. After analyzing that feedback, they have completely redesigned the website, which offers a wide range of partners and solutions that have previously been tested and verified by the company.
CentOS Linux distro is now available for ARM64 architecture, thus CentOS-7 disk image for AArch64 platforms are available for download.
This disk image intended to help hardware vendors and enthusiasts who are interested in bringing CentOS to their AArch64 based platform. This allows a vendor to bypass the installer or to edit the disk image before booting in order to test kernel modules or options.
The OpenStack Foundation in collaboration with the Linux Foundation will roll out early next year the first OpenStack official certifications.
In this way, those working with these Open Source cloud techologies will be able to validate and certify their professional skills with official certifications, sitting for the online tests which will be available for users.
Companies engaged in direct marketing usually face some challenges which may be solved with the help of desktop virtualization. This is particularly the case of International Book Club, a pioneering company in this sector in Spain and Portugal with over 30 years experience.
This company considered the possibility of implementing a VDI solution because the incorporation of new companies into the group resulted in an added problem for the IT department, as it had to provide for the new worker user stations immediately, performing support for a large fleet of user stations in different countries.
