Microsoft App-V speeds application deployment by eliminating the need for apps to be installed locally on each client. By streaming software through a centrally managed service, the product enables IT ...

The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to manage ...

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Last year, there was talk of how and when Microsoft might take its App-V client virtualization technology to the server. While there's still no publicly available timeline, Microsoft recently showed ...

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's use is for very basic things: surf the internet, watch videos, play music, etc, so it's nothing special about it at all. However, I found a 800 MB ...

Have you heard? Thin is in again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin-client computing are being ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

Have you heard? Thin is “in” again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin client computing are being ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

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 ...

Dror Gill, Chief Strategy Officer of Ceedo Technologies Ltd. and I played an exciting round of Email tag a few weeks ago. Ceedo presents its technology as "portable desktop virtualiztion." What does ...