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Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD)

Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop (OVD) v3 is available now!  The new OVD v3 core architecture will allow to add new features more rapidely and more easily. We are going to be very as reactive as possible to customers feedback and projects. We will also offer the possibility to co-fund OVD extensions or additional features for medium and large projects needs" The Open Virtual Desktop delivers applications run on Linux and Window$ with multiple choice of End user Interface Screenshots : Link is h3r3   System Requirements: - OVD Application servers: x86 servers w/multi-core or quad CPU. 1GB or more RAM per 15 concurrent end-users. Supported Host OS: Ubuntu 10.04.*, RHEL 5.2,5.3, Centos 5.2+, Fedora 10, OpenSuSE 11.2, generic Linux install. - Servers for Windows applications: Windows 2003, 2008 or 2008R2 (64bit) Server + Active Directory and Terminal Services on any hardware. - Servers for OVD Session Manager: x86 server w/512MB or more RAM. Host OS: Ubuntu 10.04.*, RHEL 5.2, 5

Open Source Cloud Computing

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OpenStack which is Open Source Cloud Computing which is an infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) platform that orchestrates virtualized servers into an elastic compute environment. The project was originally developed by Cloud.com and is now sponsored by Citrix since they acquired Cloud.com in July of 2011. CloudStack provides multiple methods for interacting with the CloudStack compute platform. Users can request resources through a rich menu-driven web interface. Operations personnel can use an enhanced version of the web interface or interact with CloudStack’s RESTful API or command line interface (CLI). The new 3.0 UI takes things up a notch making it very intuitive for users to administer their own cloud computing so administrators can delegate infrastructure provisioning and focus on more high value tasks than spinning up servers. Another thing that I think sets CloudStack apart is it’s networking-as-a-service capabilities. CloudStack administrator can create any num