One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. There is no denying that virtualization is a hot topic in ...

Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 and VMware View 5 vie for the most flexible, scalable, and complete virtual desktop infrastructure More than 20 years ago, the desktop revolution swept across the land, ushering ...

Desktop Virtualization at a Glance Definition: A computing environment that is abstracted from the end user’s PC. It consists of an operating system, applications and associated data. Type 1: Local ...

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 ...

Let's for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation.

The company claims to be the first to extend support to all major hypervisors; the update also adds VoIP, videoconferencing, and multimonitor support Pano Logic has released an update to its desktop ...

VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...