A polished virtualization tool that no longer sits behind a paywall.

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

Powerful open-source virtualization for users ready to move beyond desktop VM tools ...

Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including reduced energy costs, centralized desktop administration, increased security and ...

Recent talk regarding a potential spin-off of HP’s PC business drove a heated debate about whether other technology firms might do the same. Will the PC continue to provide value to end users or has ...

Analyst Brian Madden identifies desktop virtualization as a major 2008 virtualization theme: If you could sum up the year with a single theme, that theme would be "desktop virtualization is here to ...

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 ...

Although VMware got its start with a desktop virtualization product aimed at developers, the company today is best known for bringing server virtualization to the mainstream. Creating multiple virtual ...

Server virtualization appears to be gaining acceptance in even the most conservative organizations that deploy industry standard systems. It long has been a fixture in mainframe and midrange system ...

In this roundup I take a look at four of the leading desktop virtualization packages, including VMware Workstation 6.0 Beta 3, a feature-laden developer workbench; two legacy compatibility solutions, ...

Desktop virtualization is widely viewed as the Next Big Thing in the virtualization market, but it’s by no means an easy nut to crack. That’s because the challenges of getting virtualization working ...

At first blush, desktop virtualization sounds a lot like terminal services, such as those provided by Citrix Systems Inc., where servers run the applications and give users remote access. All the user ...