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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desktop Virtualization at a Glance Definition: A computing environment that is abstracted from the end user’s PC. It consists of an operating system, applications and associated data. Type 1: Local ...

Hypervisor could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by making it easier to create and centrally manage virtual desktop images for PCs used in the workplace Citrix Systems is working with Intel ...

As server virtualization becomes more widespread desktop virtualization is quickly becoming the next big project that IT Managers have on their white board. As with any new IT project it has the ...

Let's for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation.

Citirix is a key investor in Virtual Computer, which focuses on the provisioning, publishing, and patching of desktop and laptop operating systems Citrix has spent the past year and a half redefining ...

VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...