Red Hat Forum Spain 2017
Once again, Red Hat Forum is returning to Madrid to present innovative Open Source solutions aimed at promoting the digital transformation of companies and organizations of all kinds.
Local Users and Groups in Centos/RHEL 7
A fundamental part of system administration is configuring and managing users and groups. Part of this task involves monitoring the log in capabilities of all system entities.
Datacenter transformation, RHEL &VDI
The event organized by our partner MicroCAD Systems on the Transformation of the Datacenter where they talked about the advantages of UDS Enterprise and Nutanix Acropolis as a VDI joint solution, the new features introduced in the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how our connection broker meets the current needs of the workplace have been the most popular articles in our blog during the las two weeks.
Find below the links to the posts on these topics so that you can keep up to date with the most interesting news on virtualization and Open Source according to our readers:
How to improve the security of Linux containers
Software developers use Linux containers to save time and money, providing a mechanism to build much more manageable applications through development, testing and environments of implementation with a better security in the software life cycle as in their actions and scenarios.
According to Forrester, more than half of operations and IT development responsible see security as the biggest concern when adopting containers.
RHEL 7.3 improves performance and security
Red Hat has recently announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3, including new features that improve performance, security, and reliability.
As to performance, RHEL 7.3 adds lightweight tunnels, enabling guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 to be more secure, efficient, scalable and flexible. Additionally, enhancements to the bulk packet memory allocator improve performance for both 40 and 100 Gb networking interfaces. Among other things, high-transaction applications have now lower and RHEL now supports the Block SCSI layout format and the Flex Files layout format to manage more easily Parallel NFS (pNFS) clusters.
Red Hat unveils new Linux container portfolio
Red Hat announced during Red Hat Summit 2016 a new set of Linux container solutions for the enterprise, including free development tools, a comprehensive container platform that integrates management, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS).
This new offering enables customers to leverage the full benefits of containerization with more secure, portable and consistent container-based solutions, supporting key open standards such as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) container format and Kubernetes orchestration.