UDS Enterprise in OpenExpo Day 2015

UDS Enterprise in OpenExpo Day 2015

UDS Enterprise is going to take part in the OpenExpo Day 2015 next June 16th. This conference, which will be held at the Galileo Theatre in Madrid, will bring together the Free Software Spanish community to talk about new trends and to present interesting Open Source tools to improve business’ productivity.

Our VDI connection broker for Windows and Linux UDS Enterprise will be one of those tools. The CEO of VirtualCable, Félix Casado, will participate in a panel discussion on cloud solutions to discuss, among other things, about the different Open Source based cloud orchestrators and desktop virtualization.

Debian 8.1 officially released

Debian 8.1 officially released

Debian 8.1 is available for download. The developers have been working for 2 years to release this new version of the Open Source operating system.

This new edition, which is called Jessie arrives with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in Jessie.

LXD overcomes KVM in density and speed

LXD overcomes KVM in density and speed

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 arrives with innovations to cloud, server and workstation deployments

Fedora 22 arrives with innovations to cloud, server and workstation deployments

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.

CentOS available for ARM64 architecture

CentOS available for ARM64 architecture

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.

First OpenStack official certifications

First OpenStack official certifications

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.

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