You would be hard-pressed not to hear an IT department talk about virtualization. When virtualization was first born, IT departments went gangbusters using this revolutionary change to get better ...

Where the processing takes place, either on the desktop/device or in the data center What is delivered to the user, individual applications or an entire desktop environment How user specific settings ...

Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to ...

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.

We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

As a user, some of you may be nonplussed by the two terminologies now appearing almost at every technical site: Cloud Computing and Virtualization. We had covered introductory articles on Cloud ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Is application virtualization a sensible investment for IT ...

Hypervisors often get overlooked as a technology in favor of the flashier concept of virtualization, but you can’t get to the fun of virtualization until you understand what a hypervisor does within a ...