Desktop virtualization means that you run a virtual machine on your desktop computer. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a data center technology that supplies hosted desktop images to remote ...

This article is excerpted from Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches and published by permission of Prentice Hall, all rights reserved ...

Desktop virtualization —which I dissed in a previous blog entry as being applicable in only relatively limited circumstances—is showing a lot more resilience and adaptability that I gave it ...

Virtualization can reduce the time and expense of managing desktops by a magnitude. But the choice of technologies and approaches is downright dizzying Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

Ever since VMware coined the term, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has conjured images of large data centers, beefy servers, centralized storage, and complex software stacks. It’s a given ...

(This article is the third in a series on desktop virtualization; click here to read the first one, here for the second one. Full disclosure: This is a vendor-contributed article.) As with every IT ...

As companies consider which flavor of desktop virtualization is best for their environments, IT teams need to weigh the associated network and storage requirements. “Because [hosted virtual ...

Processing virtualization's impact on desktop virtualization will be the topic of a future post. A "connection broker" might be used to increase the levels of reliability and availability of ...

For companies deploying desktop virtualization, the main criteria for evaluating the success of the project is the end-user experience, according to a recent survey of 1,500 IT executives.

Atul Ahuja of Citrix Systems, a company that provides desktop virtualization, says he sometimes doesn’t go to office for three weeks at a stretch. Photo: Nayan Shah/Mint Mumbai: Diana Lobo ...

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One of the biggest hurdles for desktop virtualization adoption is price. Through all my interactions with customers, I am always hearing: "I heard it was more expensive, I heard there are no cost ...