The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.

Microsoft execs have been talking up the concept of application virtualization for years. It now seems they're ready to put their roadmaps where their mouths have been. Microsoft's App-V team is ...

*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

Have you heard? Thin is in again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin-client computing are being ...

After seven months of the pandemic-induced remote work experiment, the results are in — and they are not vague. • 98%: The overwhelming percentage of people who want to be able to work from home at ...

AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A ...

When you’re auto giant BMW, with 24 production sites in 13 countries, you’re going to have your share of important business applications. 1,000 apps to be more precise. Managing and deploying these ...

Over the decades, Apple has managed several successful processor and operating system migrations with a combination of emulation and virtualization. Emulation lets a computer run code intended for a ...

Virtualization is great for server consolidation, but management of the environment needs to be extended beyond simple provisioning. Is management the key? Server virtualization technology in itself ...

Parallels Inc. released the latest version of its Windows virtualization software for Mac computers on Wednesday, which it claims remains faster and more powerful than VMware Inc.’s rival app.