Hyper-V, ESXi, oVirt VDI & Open Source software

Hyper-V, ESXi, oVirt VDI & Open Source software

We’re back to school and to start the week we’re compiling the most read articles in our blog during the summer. The comparison between Microsoft‘s and VMware‘s hypervisors, the deployment of an Open Source desktop virtualization infrastructure with oVirt* and the list of the top 2015 Open Source software have been the most popular posts.

Find below the links to these articles so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding topics related to VDI and Open Source according to our followers:

Red Hat unveils new Linux container portfolio

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.

vSphere Enterprise reachs end of availability this week

vSphere Enterprise reachs end of availability this week

VMware announced at the beginning of this year changes in its virtualization portfolio, which will be effective this week. Next Thursday 30th June VMware vSphere Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Operations Management Standard and VMware vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise will reach end of avalability.

This new portfolio of VMware vSphere solutions will only include the following three product:

Red Hat Summit 2016 kicks off next Monday

Red Hat Summit 2016 kicks off next Monday

The 12th edition of Red Hat Summit will start Next Monday 27th June. During 4 days, San Francisco Moscone Center will host the Open Source conference designed for and by developers accross the globe.

This is the premier Open Source technology event where speakers and attendees share their ideas and innovations on cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies.

What’s the difference between Linux and Unix?

What’s the difference between Linux and Unix?

Linux and Unix are not the same, but would you know how to explain the differences between them?

Unix is a propietary system which can’t be modified, only AT&T, the company that created and owns it can do it. It was developed in the 1970s as an operating system to manage servers and nowadays it is mainly used for that purpose, except MacOS X, a desktop OS. Server operating systems are difficult to install, commands are more important than graphic interface and they are only compatible with specific hardware. AIS, HP-UX or Soralis are some Unix systems examples.

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