The Learning Technology Exhibition, SIMO Education 2014, has opened this morning at Feria de Madrid. 125 companies and 200 speakers will show new developments and ICT solutions for the classroom until next Saturday.
The innovations of this edition include virtual classrooms, learning stimulation programmes, virtual reality headsets, interactive projectors, educational robotics or accessible devices for students with visual disabilities.
The educational environment is a complex environment on an IT level, very possibly more than many critical business platforms, because it needs to deploy hundreds of applications and user stations to provide service to the faculty, the students and its own administrative staff.
Furthermore, both in colleges and schools, there must be multidisciplinary classrooms where different courses are taught, with completely different software that needs to be ready in a very short period of time. Many of the tools used in education are Open Source, which generally means that they will require the deployment of user stations under Linux operating systems in its different versions.
The versatility of UDS Enterprise allows connection to Linux machines using a wide variety of alternatives, among which are those that incorporate access via HTML5. The broker itself is responsible for automating the deployment of Linux virtual desktops, managing their life cycles at all times.
A user station based on Linux provides many advantages, for example, a greater security, since it is more difficult to attack this operating system through malware and the system complicates the execution of actions or the running of processes that are harmful. If it detects them, it isolates them very quickly thanks to its modular nature.
Last week we published a post describing some of UDS Enterprise 1.5 improvements . In this article we explain the remaining new features introduced by the new version of our desktop virtualization connection broker.
Both users and VDI administrators can now set up or disable the root user from the advanced configuration dashboard. In this way, the system can be configured to have root access from the login window.
UDS Enterprise 1.5 version shows some interesting new features which improve the experience of virtual desktops users and administrators. These include oVirt connector for KVM hypervisor update, that makes the system more robust. Besides, the development team has included support for Microsoft Hyper-V (non clustered) and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization connectors.
Another innovation introduced in this new edition allows the assignement of transports to access using smartphones and tablets, because the broker is compatible with these devices. Moreover, the administration interface has been completely renewed allowing access to the broker via web from any device anywhere and anytime. All these improvements are achieved thanks to native HTML5 support.
