IBM launched on Monday its Smart Business Desktop service, a combination of thin client computing, virtualization, and the cloud, which is claimed to be the "industry's first public desktop cloud ...

Rick Rosenburg is the vice president and general manager of Rackspace government solutions at Rackspace Government. He oversees services in support of government agencies and holds 35 years of ...

Citrix Systems CTXS recently announced that Netherlands-based Vitens is leveraging its Citrix Virtual Apps and desktop service as a part of its transition to cloud. This will enable Vitens to deliver ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

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 ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

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To buy a laptop with decent specs nowadays, you normally have to spend four figures. But what if you could get the same level of performance out of your current machine? That is the promise of virtual ...

The Azure Virtual Desktop service now offers the choice of using the Windows 11 operating system at the preview stage, per a Thursday Microsoft announcement. Azure Virtual Desktop is a 2-year-old ...

Cloud-based DaaS offers several advantages to a remote workforce. This guide to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) assesses the platform and what it can offer.

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system. It also introduced ...