Desktop streaming is emerging as one of the most efficient ways to support this model without incurring the usual bloated desktop support costs. A growing number of vendors, including Ardence Inc., ...

It took Microsoft a long time to integrate virtual desktop functions into its operating system. While virtual desktops had been established under Linux and macOS for years, they only made their way ...

Virtual desktops are changing how people access and use computers by delivering full desktop environments through centralized systems. With virtual desktops, users can log in from almost any device ...

Editor’s note: This sidebar accompanies the mainbar “The Virtual Desktop Is Here.” Client/server computing, n-tier computing, thin clients, blades, streaming, virtualization. As different as these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Successful server virtualization deployments lead many IT managers to believe desktop virtualization would provide the same benefits. While that is partly true, companies need to be aware of how the ...

Desktop virtualization promises easier management for IT and an optimal experience for users. Spurred by the business benefits gained from server virtualization, enterprises now are embracing desktop ...

Cloud is powerful. Plugging into cloud computing software applications and data services means adopting and opening up an organization’s operational fabric to a powerhouse of functions and IT form ...

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), ...

Multiple (virtual) desktops for the win!

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...