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.

Tips to choose and manage VDI thin clients

Tips to choose and manage VDI thin clients

Thin Clients are light endpoint devices that do not perform any computer process inside the device; its operations are based on a network connection to the data center, where the virtual desktop is hosted.

When we consider the use of these devices for VDI, there are many things to take into account: What features do I need? How can I manage them? Do I really need a thin client?

UDS Enterprise & VMware vSphere integration

UDS Enterprise & VMware vSphere integration

UDS Enterprise fully integrates with VMware vSphere 5 onwards.

UDS Enterprise components are offered in Virtual Appliance format and they are hosted on the vSphere platform on which the virtual desktops are going to be deployed.

The integration process is very easy, you can check it reading this presentation:

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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