The last day of August marks the end of vacation for teachers and, in a few days, it will also be the end of holidays for students. Going back to school is always a bit tough, so to make it more bearable here are a few Open Source tools that make learning more funny and help avoiding the costs of traditional propietary software:
The election of UDS Enterprise as best on premise VDI solution by CRUE-TIC and RedIRIS, the BriForum conference which will be held this week in Denver and the availability of UDS Enterprise Online Demo have been the most outstanding topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
Below you can find the links to these articles in case you didn’t have the opportunity to read them:
A committee comprised by experts from more than 20 Spanish universities have chosen UDS Enterprise as best On Premise VDI solution and second VDI Cloud solution after evaluating solutions from 15 VDI vendors.
Its “ease of use, implementation, management and deployment, its response to incidents, its stability and the integration with other applications, as Moodle” are some of the features that led it above solutions such as VMware Horizon, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or Citrix XenDesktop.
An identity federation or federated identity is the means of linking a person’s electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems. It allows using single sign-on (SSO), in which a user’s single authentication ticket, or token, is trusted across multiple IT systems, organizations, companies or entities.
It is a very useful way of sharing information between organizations whithout sharing security, authentication or directory technologies.
The education sector is one of those taking advantage of this technologies. An example is CONFIA identity fedetarion, composed by several universities from Andalusia (Spain), which main goal is to enable persons belonging to this community use distributed services using the credentials of their home university.
In previous posts we talked about Remote PCs project we are developing together with the University os Seville and the University of Malaga, which is focused on offering teachers and students the possibility to access the computers in ITC classrooms during non-school hours. In this article we’re explaining how they will access the resources which will be available 24×7.
They will access in the same way they do it today: through Moodle e-learning platform, thus the authentication handicap would be solved, because the users access the virtual campus with their regular users and passwords.
