At first blush, desktop virtualization sounds a lot like terminal services, such as those provided by Citrix Systems Inc., where servers run the applications and give users remote access. All the user ...

Neal Puff is CIO of Yuma County, Ariz. He holds PMP, CPM and CISSP certifications. Yuma County, Ariz., has long been a proponent of virtualization. Every production server we’ve installed over the ...

In this roundup I take a look at four of the leading desktop virtualization packages, including VMware Workstation 6.0 Beta 3, a feature-laden developer workbench; two legacy compatibility solutions, ...

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 ...

That’s one example of why client virtualization is so key and why we’re enabling it not just for your desktop or your notebook, but to be able to support secure partitions across a full range of ...

Virtualization isn’t just for geeks or those who run enormously powerful servers. It offers something for everybody, and if you haven’t yet dipped your toe into the virtualization ocean, then you’re ...

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 ...

The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC’s hardware. But the technology is in its infancy — even big ...

I recently wrote an article examining MacStadium's range of macOS offerings. Although most of their products and services focus on deploying CI/CD workloads to headless environments on Apple hardware ...