Although VMware got its start with a desktop virtualization product aimed at developers, the company today is best known for bringing server virtualization to the mainstream. Creating multiple 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 ...

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 ...

Recent talk regarding a potential spin-off of HP’s PC business drove a heated debate about whether other technology firms might do the same. Will the PC continue to provide value to end users or has ...

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

Neal Puff is CIO of Yuma County, Ariz. He holds PMP, CPM and CISSP certifications. Yuma County, Ariz., has long been a proponent of virtualization. Every production server we’ve installed over the ...

Wanova’s Distributed Desktop Virtualization provides a Centralized Virtual Desktop (CVD) in the data center. At the endpoint, Wanova’s DeskCache™ client executes a complete, local desktop instance, ...

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Successful server virtualization deployments lead many IT managers to believe desktop virtualization would provide the same benefits. While that is partly true, companies need to be aware of how the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

I've been thinking about a virtual desktop demonstration Citrix presented at its analyst day a few weeks ago. I posted a bit about my experiences (see Mark Templeton shares his vision at Citrix event) ...