Top500.org has published one more time the list of the 500 world’s most powerful supercomputers. And once more, Linux is the operating system with the strongest presence in these machines.
98’8% of supercomputers run Linux, and the remaining 1,2% run Unix.
This list is published twice a year and the last six rankings had Tianhe-2 in the first position. This supercomputer was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology
EMC Corporation today announced the availability of a range of products and solutions designed to seamlessly connect primary storage and data protection systems to private and public clouds.
As a result, organizations will be better equipped to take advantage of both the agility and unlimited scalability of public cloud services and the control and security of a private cloud infrastructure. Customers will be able to deploy a storage environment where data can be automatically tiered to both public and private clouds.
oVirt and VMware have been the focus of our blog during last two weeks. The most read articles are related to UDS Enterprise integration with oVirt and VMware vSphere.
In case you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read these posts, below you can find the links so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding virtualization and Open Source news according to our followers:
Video: UDS Enterprise & oVirt VDI
Choosing a VDI client is not an easy task since there are several options with slight differences.
Physical desktops, thin clients and HTML5 browsers are good options for VDI deployments, but most companies always look for the best value for money. In this case, HTML5 browsers can be considered an interesting alternative.
The Linux Foundation has recently announced Open API Initiative (OAI), a project that will extend the Swagger specification and format to create an open technical community within which members can easily contribute to building a vendor neutral, portable and open specification for providing metadata for RESTful APIs.
This open specification will allow both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the respective services with a minimal amount of implementation logic. The Initiative will also promote and facilitate the adoption and use of an open API standard.
