There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

Server consolidation is a big deal. The "do more with less" economy in which we're living has companies wanting to rid themselves of old, insecure and unmanageable Windows NT file servers, Linux ...

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. The LinuxICs for Hyper-V, which are in Release Candidate status and are ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

The success of Mozilla's Firefox and Openoffice.org's productivity suite has breathed life into people's aspirations about Desktop Linux. As a result, the vast majority of articles published today ...

The recent announcement that Hyper-V supports CentOS Linux guest virtual machines makes Microsoft’s offering even more attractive to organizations of all sizes. It may sound counterintuitive, but the ...