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Getting to the enterprise with WOA

...of IE will be how users with WOA clients get to use virtualised desktop applications through Terminal Services. If you can't port an existing... Read more

11 February, 2012

Google beefs up Chromebook business functionality

...Business group product manager Rajen Sheth, also allows Chromebook users to access virtualised desktop applications such as Photoshop, thanks to a tie-in with Citrix... Read more

11 August, 2011

Oracle updates Sun Ray desktop virtualisation

...desktops. The update broadens platform support to allow Windows 7 as a virtualised desktop OS, and it adds VLAN support for Microsoft's Hyper-V... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

IBM pushes into Africa with Ubuntu alliance

Canonical and IBM have teamed up to provide businesses in emerging markets with an office suite that works on-premise and in the cloud Read more

23 September, 2009 by David Meyer

Microsoft drops hardware hurdle to XP Mode

...July, Windows Client Software Assurance customers will be able to access their virtualised desktop images for free — a feature that has until now cost $23... Read more

18 March, 2010 by David Meyer

Who can explain desktop virtualisation?

...the benefits of desktop virtualisation and halting the move towards a fully virtualised desktop infrastructure. Research from Fujitsu has shown that CIOs across the private... Read more

3 December, 2009

Citrix, Microsoft team up on virtual desktops

...integration, announced on Monday, will make it easier for companies to manage virtualised desktop infrastructures (VDIs), particularly those using a combination of Microsoft and Citrix... Read more

14 July, 2009 by Sally Whittle

Is this the start-up silly season?

...I think we need some clarity in this space. If you use virtualised desktop apps in some form are you using a framework, a platform... Read more

13 July, 2009

LG announces thin-client monitor range

...cut down on hardware, maintenance and electricity costs. In addition to their virtualised desktop functionality, they can also be used as standard monitors through their... Read more

19 June, 2009 by David Meyer
EMC's Tucci: Next big things in IT

EMC's Tucci: Next big things in IT

...a thin-client solution where a user's client system is a virtualised desktop that is delivered to an inexpensive, scaled-down piece of hardware... Read more

22 May, 2009 by Jason Hiner

Web 2.0 gurus don?t practice what they preach

...Earls Court management team. Continuing my recent thoughts on the rise of virtualised desktop application development, I immediately questioned whether the suits and boots brigade... Read more

30 April, 2009

It?s Virtual Reality Time in the Data Centre

...the average user comes into contact with virtualised technology i.e. applications. Virtualised desktop applications (or VDI virtualised desktop infrastructure as Parallels likes to call... Read more

24 February, 2009

Parallels plugs USB links into virtual desktops

...even though it is being used over the network running in a virtualised desktop environment. The container approach means that a driver will only have... Read more

4 September, 2008 by Colin Barker
Why HP is different from IBM

Why HP is different from IBM

...reasons, cost reasons, any of those can be compelling reasons for a virtualised desktop. Or a thin-client accessing the services you need from that... Read more

31 March, 2008 by Colin Barker

ClearCube extends low-cost clustering

...to allow management of all computing resources, including any back-end hardware, virtualised desktop or user access device. According to ClearCube's chief executive and... Read more

1 November, 2007 by Colin Barker

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