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 ...

You point your browser at a local IP address or hostname and suddenly you have a full XFCE desktop running in your browser.

Microsoft Virtual Server Release 2 has begun shipping to manufacturers and is due for general release in the first week of December with a new pricing model and a number of new features, most notably ...

With a shrinking IT staff and a flat IT budget, Boscov’s Department Store needed a way to increase the efficiency of deploying Linux virtual servers on its underutilized IBM zSeries mainframe. After ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...

Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...

This article covers our experience with the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), a software package that provides traffic distribution on top of Linux. We will explain the architecture, operation and ...

The first release of VMware Workstation in 1999 marked the birth of simple system virtualization on the x86 architecture. In the years since, VMware has matured, adding significantly to its product ...