Desktop virtualization in Call Center environments, the suitability of Windows virtual desktops regarding the type of user and the availability of the first version of Citrix XenServer Dundee have been the most read topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
We have collected the links to these articles so that you keep up to date with the most interesting topics according to our followers:
VDI in Call Center environments
The XenServer team has announced the availability of XenServer Dundee pre-release, the next version of Citrix‘s Open Source virtualization platform.
In this way, users may access the first software versions and they will be able to report their experience to the company.
This firts release includes one of the most demanded features from the previous edition: support for CentOS 7. Moreover, the plugin to manage dockers is already installed and it allows Xen Orchestra display the dockers running in virtual machines.
If you’d like to be one of the first ones to test it, access the download here.
The review in Red Hat’s Open Source Community blog about the VDI project with UDS Enterprise and oVirt in the University of Seville, the new software developed by Login VSI to monitor virtual desktop’s performance and the hardware requirements to deploy a desktop virtualization platform have been the most read topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
In case you didn’t have the opportunity to read them, find the links below. We encourage you to share them in your social media channels!
OVirt & UDS Enterprise keep VDI alive
AMD has released the Open Source driver AMDGPU with support for Radeon R9 285.
Publishing the code of this driver, the company reaches out to Linux distributions’ users that have been demanding for a long time the possibility to use free drivers. The only found restriction is that Catalyst will be an additional and propietary component.
Desktop virtualization is still a booming technology and Open Source tools guarantee a stable and free of charge VDI deployment to manage virtual desktops.
So says an article in Red Hat Open Source Community blog, which highlights the project deployed by VirtualCable in the University of Seville, where they implemented a VDI solution for more than 3,000 students with the connection broker for Windows and Linux UDS Enterprise and oVirt.
Find here the link to the article in Red Hat Open Source Community
Protocols Plugfest Europe 2015 will be held next May 12, 13 and 14 at Zaragoza (Spain). This conference will bring together experts from leading technology companies and Open Source projects so that they can share visions, experiences and technical knowledge to help advance the industry in its quest for interoperability.
This event reinforces the collaboration on interoperability and protocols between Open Source and non-Open Source companies and projects. The agenda includes technical and business insights from Microsoft, Red Hat, CENATIC, SerNet, Dell, Collabora, KDE, FSFE, RavenDB, Kolab Systems, LibreOffice, Igalia, BlueMind, Bitergia, Samba, OpenChange, Libelium, Griffin Brown Publishing, id law partners and Hibernating Rhinos.
