Virtual desktops — once the most rigid, least friendly way to put applications in front of end users — have become a hot topic by promising to deliver the security and easy maintenance that was always ...

I'm trying to setup a development work environment for myself on a Windows 10 Pro machine with the following characteristics and ergonomic goals: Runs my development tools (JetBrains stuff) ...

Several years ago analysts began trumpeting the finding that operational costs had surpassed capital costs as the dominant source of expense in IT infrastructure. Despite evidence supporting this ...

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 ...

Changes Microsoft has made to its desktop-virtualization licensing are giving enterprises more scenarios for how they can virtualize Windows XP or Vista on corporate desktops, but it’s still a ...

As Microsoft Corp. officially released its Application Virtualization 4.5 software today, it also announced several licensing changes around virtual desktops and application virtualization, while ...

Desktop virtualization is a virtualization technology, which separates an individual's PC applications from his or her desktop. Virtualized desktops are usually hosted on a remote central server, ...

Finally, the upgrade to Windows 7 provides a great opportunity to create a standard corporate desktop image which could be used as a foundation for desktop virtualization. Large organizations should ...

As smart phones and tablet PCs redefine personal computing, desktop virtualization deserves a fresh look. Call it a minimalist approach to desktop computing. Next month, the Navy will kick off a 7,500 ...

Recently I wrote a detailed article on using VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop on the Mac. These two programs are virtualization solutions—they allow one “host” operating system (Mac OS X) to run ...

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 ...