Desktop virtualization aims to lower the costs and increase the security of desktop computers, but agencies must determine which approach — or combination of methods — best suits their needs. OMB ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

In IT’s never-ending search for efficiency improvements, client virtualization and its subsets — presentation, application and desktop virtualization — must be considered. Client virtualization ...

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 ...

If you're looking for a little late summer technical reading, I suggest you pick up a copy of "Microsoft Virtualization--Master Microsoft Server, Desktop, Application and Presentation Virtualization".

BANGALORE, INDIA: It took a long time for virtualization to be accepted as a mainstream technology. The technology, which has been around for over a decade now, is slowly making its way into the ...

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 ...

Think you know all there is to know about centralized client computing, from application virtualization to zero client? Refresh your recollection of the lingo in this glossary of 26 terms adapted from ...

I found this thoroughly ridiculous statement, made by Microsoft, in their announcement of the Calista acquistion. Buried in the middle of page on Calista’s site is the statement: Microsoft has been a ...

Microsoft, as well as VMware and Citrix's XenSource division, see a fertile greenfield for virtualization. "It's early--incredibly less than 5 percent of servers are virtualized, and even less on the ...