XenServer 7 boosts security and 3D graphics virtualization

XenServer 7 boosts security and 3D graphics virtualization

Citrix announced at Synergy conference in Las Vegas the availability of the latest release of XenServer 7 virtualization platform.

This new version enhances hypervisor security with a new Direct Inspect API, simplifies 3D graphics virtualization and improves support for Microsoft Windows environments.

XenServer 7 boosts graphics virtualization with Intel Iris Pro on-CPU Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), reducing costs to run graphics-intensive applications, such as web browsers, productivity tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and enterprise 3D data visualization software. It requires no additional hardware or licenses and accelerates graphical workloads of many types.

UDS Actor automates and simplifies VDI management

UDS Actor automates and simplifies VDI management

UDS Actor is a key component in UDS Enterprise platform, it provides extra levels of security, effectiveness, automation and efficiency when performing certain tasks.

It is the agent responsible for the interaction between a virtual desktop and UDS Enterprise connection broker. This agent sets up vitual desktops according to the OS Manager chosen by the platform admin (an OS Manager defines whether a desktop is persistent or non-persistent, in Windows domain, Linux OS…)

UDS Enterprise, Tredly & VDI authentication

UDS Enterprise, Tredly & VDI authentication

The different uses of UDS Enterprise connection broker, an interesting Open Source software for containers management in Unix OS and UDS Enterprise authentication system have been the most read topics in our blog for the last weeks.

Below you can find the links to the articles about these topics so you can keep up to date with the most outstanding news on Open Source and virtualization according to our community:

How to prevent VDI boot storms

How to prevent VDI boot storms

Boot storms are one of the issues admins usually face in virtual desktops deployments, since they may slow down the login process and affect VDI usability.

Boot storms appear when a large number of users access virtual desktops at the same time, affecting virtual desktops performance due to, for example, there isn’t enough IOPS storage or bandwith.

BriForum Londres 2016 is next week

BriForum Londres 2016 is next week

The next 19th and 20th May BriForum 2016, one of the reference events in the virtualization sector, will be held in London.

This conference is in its 12th edition this year and it has remained the leading independent conference on end-user computing.

IT experts will be talking about present and future of technologies like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix Workspace Cloud, VMware Horizon, Project Enzo, Desktops-as-a-Service and applications management.

What is UDS Enterprise for?

What is UDS Enterprise for?

UDS Enterprise connection broker brings together the most advanced functionalities this type of software may feature and it is constantly evolving in order to support new technology trends.

UDS Enterprise not only helps to deploy and centrally manage virtual desktops lifecycle, it also enables the management of virtualized applications, IP phone and IP cameras, shared resources… and any other remote desktop service or resource hosted in your datacenter. It also integrates with different cloud services, such as OpenStack and OpenNebula and it can be used as a gateway to physical PCs and e-Learning platforms like Moodle.

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