I’ve been running Type 2 hypervisor apps for years, and whether it’s VMware Workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, each has proved vital in allowing me to test and run a wider array of applications ...

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 ...

Desktop virtualization centralizes the management of desktop applications including applications that are streamed on-demand to client devices (client-side virtualization) and applications hosted at ...

Current client-side technologies that run virtual desktops on top of an existing operating system have not been able to match these requirements. XenClient, a bare metal hypervisor which is built on ...

Gartner released its annual “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009” last week, and pride of place goes to virtualization, put right at the top of the list. More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that ...

In a recent newsletter we introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is virtualization. This is the fourth in a series of newsletters that discusses how we think ...

In a recent newsletter we introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is virtualization. In our last newsletter we discussed the interest that we see in desktop ...

Virtualization and Linux together can play a strong role in both the enterprise and on the client side, said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer of Dell Inc. in his keynote Wednesday at the ...

LAS VEGAS--The Day One keynotes at Citrix Synergy 2009 were about users and desktops. Today was nominally about data centers and clouds--of which there were a variety of announcements. However, Citrix ...

XenClient--which Citrix quickly notes is based on XenServer--was clearly the star of day one at Synergy, as Citrix bragged on the ability of its Intel vPro-powered bare-metal architecture to provide ...

“Only HP, the worldwide market share leader in thin clients, (1) has the depth of expertise and global scale to meet customer requirements from the data center to the end point in client ...