Citrix has spent the past year and a half redefining itself as a virtualization company, first purchasing the desktop and server virtualization vendor XenSource and then placing the “Xen” name on its ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

VMware released on Tuesday VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and management of virtual desktops in one product. VMware View is a ...

The use of software to abstract the operating system, applications and associated data from the user’s PC. Why do IT shops use it? Virtualization, according to vendors, makes it easier to manage user ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

In 1960, "The Andy Griffith Show" first aired on television. A spin-off of the already popular "The Danny Thomas Show," it went on to become one of the most popular TV series of all time, far ...

Schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are deploying virtual desktop technology that lets several users share the computing capacity of a single PC. Each of 5,000 secondary schools in the state ...

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system. It also introduced ...

In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

Desktops, virtualization and security: To many, these three terms may seem mutually exclusive as they are by historical perspective and traditional consideration, in opposition to one another.