Desktop virtualization enables a single central machine to generate several virtual computers, each assigned to a different user. Those computers include all components available in any desktop ...

There's evidence in the channel that organizations are growing increasingly gun-shy about following through on desktop virtualization pilots and deployments. Their uneasiness, according to ...

This is the first installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part II will focus on planning, design, and building a business case, while Part III will examine the TCO and ROI. When ...

Virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI for short, is a method for taking virtual desktops — virtual machines running the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system — and hosting them in the data ...

Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind. The pace of desktop virtualization deployment is only expected to speed up now ...

I think a lot of people confuse these two virtualization technologies and maybe you're one of them. The distinction is not apparent from the names given to them but rather in the scale of the ...

Yesterday afternoon, I presented a web seminar "What is Desktop Virtualization and Why Hasn't it Taken Over the world?" for O'Reilly Media, the publishers of my book "Virtualization: A Manager's Guide ...

Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including reduced energy costs, centralized desktop administration, increased security and ...

This is the final installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part I looked at the potential benefits of desktop virtualization, while Part II focused on planning, design, and ...

The acquisition of Kaviza, a maker of simple desktop virtualization software for small businesses, by Citrix Systems is all the buzz at this week’s Citrix Synergy event at San Francisco’s Moscone ...

Desktop virtualization is one of those technologies that confound the experts. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, along comes some interloping development to upset the apple cart. Most ...

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualization is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of ...