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 ...

This article is excerpted from Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches and published by permission of Prentice Hall, all rights reserved ...

This is the first installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part II will focus on planning, design, and building a business case, while Part III will examine the TCO and ROI. When ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

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 ...

There's evidence in the channel that organizations are growing increasingly gun-shy about following through on desktop virtualization pilots and deployments. Their uneasiness, according to ...

With so much progress made virtualizing servers, many observers say it’s time to turn our attention to the desktop. But is it better to use client-side or server-side hypervisors? Hypervisors have, at ...

Johns Hopkins University is testing out a new virtualized desktop environment in two of its schools. The move is allowing the university to make its computing spaces more collaborative for students ...

Yesterday afternoon, I presented a web seminar "What is Desktop Virtualization and Why Hasn't it Taken Over the world?" for O'Reilly Media, the publishers of my book "Virtualization: A Manager's Guide ...

Solution providers are getting more diet aids to help midrange business customers slim down their desktop PC infrastructures—thanks to help from vendors wanting to bulk up their virtual desktop PC ...

Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop virtualization software. Announced Tuesday at the company’s annual Citrix Synergy ...