The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

IT professionals are the ultimate multitaskers – balancing data center priorities, equipment issues and end user needs and making sure that everything and everyone is perfectly synced and functioning ...

Could the stretched-out replacement cycles for desktop machines be a boon for client computing? In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology blog post, Ben Worthen noted that a survey from our ...

For years, client virtualization has been beneficial for federal agency IT leaders. With the recent rise in hybrid and remote work, it has seen a resurgence. Rather than equipping every agency ...

Desktop virtualization is booming, and Citrix has shipped 1.5 million copies of Xen Desktop 4 since launch the product last fall. But at its Synergy conference in San Francisco this week, Citrix is ...

I’ve been running Type 2 hypervisor apps for years, and whether it’s VMware Workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, each has proved vital in allowing me to test and run a wider array of applications ...

(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 ...

HP on Tuesday launched a wide-range of virtualization products, including new hardware, such as a blade server, and software. The company said it sees virtualization as a wide-open territory, and ...