About 200 IT experts are exchanging information and experiences in this edition of the RedIRIS Working Groups which is taking place at Córdoba University from last Thursday 31st May until today. IT and network experts and managers from the different universities and research centres in the RedIRIS network are participating in this meeting.
The experience of Carlos III University of Madrid with UDS Enterprise to deploy and manage virtual desktops for students, teachers and administrative staff, the functionalities and benefits regarding simplicity, security and management provided by UDS Actor and the new features introduced in XenServer new release have been the most visited topics in our blog for the last weeks.
Find below the links to our most read posts so that you can easily keep up to date with the most highlighted information regarding Open Source and virtualization according to our followers:
Over 2 million students from around 6.500 educational centers in Spain will have access to high-speed broadband in 2017. And there could be many more.
So far, the students that will enjoy the advantages of this technology belong to the following autonomous regions: La Rioja, Murcia, Andalucía, Asturias, Castilla La Mancha, Galicia and Canarias. This governments have already signed accession agreements with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the public company Red.es., promoters of this project.
Dell announced this week at Citrix Synergy in Las Vegas a new portfolio of virtual workspace solutions, including new VDI thin client to meet the demands of the modern workplace:
–Wyse 7040, specially designed to provide a high level of security to meet the needs of the Federal market. It includes Trusted Platform Module and BitLocker and supports other advanced protection softwares. It can be configured with Windows Embedded Standard 7p and it is Windows 10 IoT ready.
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.
