The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that they will stop using Microsoft software due to the high increase in the cost of licenses. In fact, they have a project called Microsoft Alternatives (MAlt) to find the most appropriate Open Source alternatives to the different Microsoft programs they currently use.
The National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) warns in an advisory to all administrators and users of Windows to check that their system is updated and patched against the latest threats. They refer to BlueKeep, a vulnerability of the remote desktop protocol of Microsoft OS (RDP) affecting Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
The Huawei Case and Trump policies are having consequences that directly affect Microsoft. Distrust has been established in two of the largest governments in the world. China no longer trusts Windows. They said this operating system could have back doors that would allow espionage by the US. A few days ago they announced that the army will stop using this OS. As a replacement, they will develop their own from scratch, designed especially for military uses.
The UDS Enterprise connection broker is compatible with Windows Server 2019 for desktop and application virtualization. The administrators of this VDI broker can now make virtual desktops available to users with the latest version of the Microsoft operating system. They also have the possibility of deploying virtual applications hosted on Windows Server 2019 servers.
This week the annual Google Cloud Next conference was held in San Francisco. The new CEO, Thomas Kurian presented the new strategies of the company, whose ultimate goal is to carve a niche in the cloud market, today led by AWS and Microsoft.
Many companies today choose to deploy their desktop and application virtualization infrastructures in the cloud. The possibilities of unlimited scalability without the need to acquire hardware is one of the reasons why they make this decision. The costs of the pay-as-you-go models of platforms like Azure are still high, but there is a way to keep them as low as possible, paying only for the time during the virtual desktops and applications are being used. And how can this savings be achieved? With the UDS Enterprise connection broker it is really simple.
