It’s quite common when thinking about virtualization technology to focus on the server side. But moving forward, it’s the client side that will take on a greater role in deploying new operating ...

IT professionals are the ultimate multitaskers – balancing data center priorities, equipment issues and end user needs and making sure that everything and everyone is perfectly synced and functioning ...

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 ...

In IT’s never-ending search for efficiency improvements, client virtualization and its subsets — presentation, application and desktop virtualization — must be considered. Client virtualization ...

I’ve been running Type 2 hypervisor apps for years, and whether it’s VMware Workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, each has proved vital in allowing me to test and run a wider array of applications ...

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 ...

Project Independence, co-developed by Citrix and Intel, is now called XenClient. Best of all, the technology is going to be free During Citrix Synergy 2009, the company announced Citrix XenClient, the ...

Despite client virtualization becoming increasingly popular, there is still much confusion about the different technologies and how they will play out in the enterprise. Many firms still believe that ...

Citrix has finally delivered its much anticipated Xen client hypervisor -- sort of. At its annual Synergy Conference launch today, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton announced the delivery of an evaluation kit ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

A client-side hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that resides in and virtualizes a user's computer (see client virtualization). Type 1 hypervisors are the computer's master control program.

2012. That is the year in which our clients are predicting that their next-generation desktop will be up and running. However, no one company defines this new desktop the same way. Some believe that ...