Software developers use Linux containers to save time and money, providing a mechanism to build much more manageable applications through development, testing and environments of implementation with a better security in the software life cycle as in their actions and scenarios.
According to Forrester, more than half of operations and IT development responsible see security as the biggest concern when adopting containers.
A new case study on our UDS Enterprise connection broker and a Spanish university, a report by the renowned consulting firm IDC recommending our software for VDI and a new vulnerability detected in Linux have been the most outstanding topics in our blog for the last two weeks.
Below you can find the links to the articles on these topics just in case you dind’t have the chance to read the most interesting news on virtualization and Open Source according to our community:
The OpenNebula project announced a few days ago the availability of the stable release of OpenNebula 5.2 Excession. In this release, some features introduced in 5.0 wizard has been stabilized and those features and components more demanded by the community have been implemented. Almost every component of OpenNebula has been reviewed to target usability and functional improvements.
Linux security expert Phil Oester discovered a privilege-escalation critical vulnerability affecting the Linux Kernel. This bug is called Dirty COW and identified as CVE-2016-5195 and although it has recently been discovered, it existed since 2007.
This flaw affects the component Kernel Memory Subsystem, allows to manipulate an unknown input and explote the vulnerability that may affect the system’s confidenciality, integrity and availability.
Some of UDS Enterprise 2.0 new features have raised the interest of the readers of our blog during last two weeks. In fact, two of the three most read posts deal with new functionalities of the new version of our software: scheduling and automating tasks and grouping services. The last of our most outstanding articles in the first fortnight of October is a tutorial on creating virtual machines in oVirt 4.0.
Just in case you didn’t have the chance to read them, find below the links to these posts so you can keep up to date with the most interesting news about virtualization and Open Source according to our followers:
