The presentation at RedIRIS Technical Conference where the project of virtualization of computer classrooms at the Public University of Navarre with UDS Enterprise and Nutanix was presented is the post in our blog that got most visits during the past month of June.
Hypervisor platforms developed by Microsoft and VMware are two of the most commonly used proprietary solutions in virtualization projects. If you work in this sector, you surely know them quite well, but do you know exactly what are the differences between Hyper-V and ESXi? In this article we are going to try to analyze them taking as reference the latest version of both software so that you have clear which of these two solutions would be better adapted to the needs of your project.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that they will stop using Microsoft software due to the high increase in the cost of licenses. In fact, they have a project called Microsoft Alternatives (MAlt) to find the most appropriate Open Source alternatives to the different Microsoft programs they currently use.
The National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) warns in an advisory to all administrators and users of Windows to check that their system is updated and patched against the latest threats. They refer to BlueKeep, a vulnerability of the remote desktop protocol of Microsoft OS (RDP) affecting Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
The Huawei Case and Trump policies are having consequences that directly affect Microsoft. Distrust has been established in two of the largest governments in the world. China no longer trusts Windows. They said this operating system could have back doors that would allow espionage by the US. A few days ago they announced that the army will stop using this OS. As a replacement, they will develop their own from scratch, designed especially for military uses.
