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 ...

Current client-side technologies that run virtual desktops on top of an existing operating system have not been able to match these requirements. XenClient, a bare metal hypervisor which is built on ...

Desktop virtualization centralizes the management of desktop applications including applications that are streamed on-demand to client devices (client-side virtualization) and applications hosted at ...

In a recent newsletter we introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is virtualization. This is the fourth in a series of newsletters that discusses how we think ...

LAS VEGAS--The Day One keynotes at Citrix Synergy 2009 were about users and desktops. Today was nominally about data centers and clouds--of which there were a variety of announcements. However, Citrix ...

Could the stretched-out replacement cycles for desktop machines be a boon for client computing? In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology blog post, Ben Worthen noted that a survey from ...

In a recent newsletter we introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is virtualization. In our last newsletter we discussed the interest that we see in desktop ...

Virtualization and Linux together can play a strong role in both the enterprise and on the client side, said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer of Dell Inc. in his keynote Wednesday at the ...

Company is best-known for its virtualization products that relate to server infrastructure. But with View, it's making a more systematic push into tech for clients. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud ...

Desktop virtualization is booming, and Citrix has shipped 1.5 million copies of Xen Desktop 4 since launch the product last fall. But at its Synergy conference in San Francisco this week, Citrix is ...

Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs. Desktop virtualization: Microsoft, VMware ...

XenClient--which Citrix quickly notes is based on XenServer--was clearly the star of day one at Synergy, as Citrix bragged on the ability of its Intel vPro-powered bare-metal architecture to provide ...