The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to manage ...

Microsoft looks to be building its App-V application virtualization client directly into Windows 10 Enterprise with the upcoming "Redstone" Windows 10 release. App-V-- a Microsoft virtualization ...

2012. That is the year in which our clients are predicting that their next-generation desktop will be up and running. However, no one company defines this new desktop the same way. Some believe that ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover endpoints and how they relate to the cloud. It may be startling news, but not all virtualization technologies are created ...

Despite client virtualization becoming increasingly popular, there is still much confusion about the different technologies and how they will play out in the enterprise. Many firms still believe that ...

Over the past 10 years, few technologies have revolutionized IT and computing the way virtualization has. IT tasks and workflows that once required physical, one-to-one interaction with servers and ...

Where the processing takes place, either on the desktop/device or in the data center What is delivered to the user, individual applications or an entire desktop environment How user specific settings ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's use is for very basic things: surf the internet, watch videos, play music, etc, so it's nothing special about it at all. However, I found a 800 MB ...