Virtual desktop infrastructure (or VDI) has been an intriguing idea for a long time. We look at the pros and cons of VDI and whether the emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will finally ...

The Omnissa Horizon platform steps in where many virtual desktop tools fail, providing a secure, multicloud VDI platform ...

Virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI for short, is a method for taking virtual desktops — virtual machines running the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system — and hosting them in the data ...

Neal Puff is CIO of Yuma County, Ariz. He holds PMP, CPM and CISSP certifications. Yuma County, Ariz., has long been a proponent of virtualization. Every production server we’ve installed over the ...

Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind. The pace of desktop virtualization deployment is only expected to speed up now ...

The point of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is to offer employees anytime, anywhere accessibility to your organization’s applications and data. VDI is a “desktop away from the desktop.” The ...

At my site, we're looking at deploying a virtual desktop solution. I think I understand the concepts, but I want to make sure. I need to deliver up to a dozen Windows 7 clients to end users in the ...

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

With Thanksgiving and Christmas behind us and the New Year upon us, it is time to take stock and see what changed for desktop virtualization in 2010. One thing is very clear: We have moved from ...

The acquisition of Kaviza, a maker of simple desktop virtualization software for small businesses, by Citrix Systems is all the buzz at this week’s Citrix Synergy event at San Francisco’s Moscone ...

Vanessa Jo Roberts is editorial director of BizTech magazine. She’s been covering technology since the days when data was shared via “sneakernet.” Just a year ago, there were few computers in the ...