Implementing VDI isn't as simple as looking at a comparison chart and choosing a vendor based on the licensing cost. Factors like hypervisor flexibility and secure remote access technology play a role ...

When connecting to a remote virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) desktop, there are many different vendors and devices to choose from (you can use anything from a cell phone to a GPU-equipped ...

Organizations that deliver VDI-hosted desktops to thin clients must consider which thin clients their VDI supports and any limitations that come with it. It's common for organizations to use a variety ...

No, VMware isn't going open source with their core products any time soon -- at least, I don't think so. But there's little question they understand how important it is to have at least one toe in ...

VMware used its VMware Partner Exchange, held this week in Las Vegas, to unveil the VMware Express, a mobile VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) demo center built into an 18-wheeler. The VMware ...

But VDI is hardly new, and so far it has not lived up to that potential. Part of its slow uptake is that many IT administrators are a little gun-shy as a result of the thin client experience. After ...

Thin-client hardware has standardized on x86 architecture, but software varies significantly among vendors -- major manufacturers like Dell and HP increasingly rely on third-party operating systems ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

Microsoft's new desktop virtualization initiatives announced yesterday are a long-anticipated move to make desktop and application virtualization easier and cheaper for enterprises. But it's also part ...