Businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance productivity, improve security, and reduce costs. One technology that has gained momentous traction in recent years is the Virtual ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

So in Part 1 of 2 of this article on VDI titled “Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Part 1 of 2)” where I covered the Understanding Where VDI Fits in the Enterprise I gave a background ...

Desktop virtualization aims to lower the costs and increase the security of desktop computers, but agencies must determine which approach — or combination of methods — best suits their needs. OMB ...

Anyone old enough to remember a college campus or a workplace devoid of computers will probably remember when, and how, the digital age first arrived at their school or company. At a time when ...

Before moving to any type of desktop virtualization, IT pros must consider network connectivity, management and security. Watch the network: Most desktop-virtualization tools have some kind of remote ...

Desktop virtualization is widely viewed as the Next Big Thing in the virtualization market, but it’s by no means an easy nut to crack. That’s because the challenges of getting virtualization working ...

Although virtual desktop infrastructure existed for more than a decade, VDI is only now starting to take off for state and local governments. Interest in VDI among government agencies is finally ...

That said, though, there will likely be an uptick in the acceptance of desktop virtualization for a couple of reasons. First, more vendors are offering virtual desktop infrastructures, which give each ...

In this roundup I take a look at four of the leading desktop virtualization packages, including VMware Workstation 6.0 Beta 3, a feature-laden developer workbench; two legacy compatibility solutions, ...

As they say, everything old is new again. The emergence of virtualization as a widely accepted computing platform has moved us that much closer to the age-old concept of centralized server-based ...

(1) A virtual machine (VM) environment in the user's computer. See client virtualization. (2) Desktop virtualization also refers to a thin client architecture in which the user's OS and apps run in a ...