Two desktop virtualization companies have been gobbled up in the past week. First Thinstall got swallowed by virtualization kingpin VMware, and now Microsoft announces its acquisition of Calista , ...

For companies deploying desktop virtualization, the main criteria for evaluating the success of the project is the end-user experience, according to a recent survey of 1,500 IT executives. Desktop ...

The concept of server virtualization has caught on at many small businesses – consolidating many poorly utilized servers onto a handful of physical boxes and creating a large number of virtual servers ...

Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including reduced energy costs, centralized desktop administration, increased security and ...

Paul Ghostine, Vice President/General Manager of Quest's Provision Networks Division, and I had a chance to catch up on a number of things centering on the concept of desktop virtualization and what ...

SimplyNUC recently released its most powerful AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one! Spoiler alert: This thing is a beast in a very small package. [Click on ...

A major RAM upgrade can make the difference between a smooth or sluggish experience on a virtualization workstation. Virtualization, or running a virtual machine, emulates an additional computer ...

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...