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 ...

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 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 separates the personal computing desktop environment from a physical machine, using the client-server model of computing. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the largest ...

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 ...

The new solution aims to take the complexity out of licensing and running virtual desktops on Azure, creating new opportunities for MSPs. Microsoft on Monday announced general availability of its ...

Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind. The pace of desktop virtualization deployment is only expected to speed up now ...

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 ...

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 ...