The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to manage ...

Microsoft App-V speeds application deployment by eliminating the need for apps to be installed locally on each client. By streaming software through a centrally managed service, the product enables IT ...

Microsoft looks to be building its App-V application virtualization client directly into Windows 10 Enterprise with the upcoming "Redstone" Windows 10 release. App-V-- a Microsoft virtualization ...

Think you know all there is to know about centralized client computing, from application virtualization to zero client? Refresh your recollection of the lingo in this glossary of 26 terms adapted from ...

Beware the myths of desktop and client virtualization, on key issues from security to cost, says Forrester's Natalie Lambert. Here, she breaks down five issues that could trip up your client ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

In the “old days,” people working in business settings used what were called “dumb terminals” — dumb in that the devices were simply conduits to applications and information stored on mainframe ...

Thinstall Application Virtualization Suite 3.0 helps simplify the application process with its client-less application virtualization solution that allows applications to be packaged into simple EXE ...

Thomas Pedersen, CEO of Roozz, and Jesper Thomsen, VP of Sales and Marketing, and I struggled to finish a briefing on the company and its product. The Gods of Skype weren't in favor of the ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. While reviewing his budget back in 2010, ...

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's use is for very basic things: surf the internet, watch videos, play music, etc, so it's nothing special about it at all. However, I found a 800 MB ...

The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...