Virtual Desktop Infrastructure And Server Based Computing: Comparative Highlights
White Papers VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a relatively new method of implementing centralized computing. This paper presents a brief overview of VDI and compares it to Server Based Computing (SBC), the current widely recognized method for...
[July 30, 2007, 3:21]
Virtual Desktop Toolbox
Downloads Virtual Desktop Toolbox enlarges your monitor by dynamically creating multiple non-virtual (standalone) or virtual (shareable) desktops. You can organize programs and windows by categories in different desktops, share programs, and windows between...
[June 23, 2006, 6:01]
Enable Virtual Desktop
Downloads Enable Virtual Desktop includes: multiple monitor support, customizable desktop size, hotkey desktop switching, mouse and window selectors, fully customizable appearance. Customise the mini-window via semi-transparent display, titlebar control...
[June 14, 2007, 13:01]
Active Virtual Desktop
Downloads Active Virtual Desktop is a virtual desktop manager, which will create up to 9 virtual desktops allowing you to have different programs running on each of them. This virtual desktop manager resides in system tray area (near the clock) and adds...
[November 10, 2006, 13:01]
Citrix Goes Virtual With Xen Desktop
Blog Desktop virtualisation promises the ability for corporations to rationalise their huge farms of desktop PCs by switching users into the virtual world. Citrix is hoping that its Xen Desktop product, which it launched on Monday, will do just that.
[April 14, 2008, 16:53]
WinVMD - Windows Virtual Multi Desktop
Downloads WinVMD is a Windows virtual multi-desktop software which can create multi virtual desktops. WinVMD includes the following features: Create unlimited virtual desktops; Full hotkeys customization; User custom hotkeys for easy navigation; Preview...
[May 22, 2006, 2:16]
ManageDesk
Downloads If your computer desktop getting overcrowded or you are having difficulty quickly accessing software applications, then it's time for you to consider trying virtual desktop software. Each virtual desktop is a distinct working environment.
[January 19, 2007, 14:31]
Touchy-feely GUI From NeoPlanet
News NeoPlanet 5.0 merges web browsing, email, instant messaging, customisable interface schemes, content channels, chat and virtual communities into a single desktop interface. Instant messaging chat and virtual communities by Valent Software
[August 26, 1999, 7:08]
Effective Virtual Desktop Deployment And Management Strategies From VMware And HP
White Papers Systems Engineer at VMware, and HP's Scott Harsany, Director, ISS Software R&D, to learn how the VMware and HP virtual desktop solution helps you can gain control of your systems by hosting individual desktops inside virtual machines running in...
[May 24, 2007, 12:18]
VMware And Sun Drive Momentum For Virtual Desktops
Blog The company says that the new offering works with Sun Microsystems’ Sun Ray software and virtual display clients to create a desktop virtualisation environment that can replace traditional PCs with virtual machines that are managed and centralised...
[May 19, 2008, 19:30]
IBM Chases A PC's Soul
News IBM conducted its tests on a 60GB iPod photo using Knoppix, a Linux software derivative, as an auto-configuration OS, VMware Workstation as the virtual machine monitor and an x86 PC as the encrypted virtual machine.
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
Parallels Plugs USB Links Into Virtual Desktops
News Now Parallels is allowing devices to be connected to a virtual desktop via USB in exactly the same way, the company said. The Silex USB over IP technology will bring even greater versatility to the Parallels VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure...
[September 4, 2008, 15:47]
Desktop Virtualisation Comes To The Fore
News With virtual desktop software from VMware, deployment of such an office takes 48 hours. This week, Sun announced Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 1.0, which goes on sale in October and incorporates software from its acquisition of Tarantella...
[September 17, 2007, 15:27]
Sun Exec Slams Microsoft Upgrade Decision
News In a posting to a Microsoft download site, Microsoft said several products would be phased out because of a settlement reached with Sun in January 2001 regarding distribution of Windows products that use the Java virtual machine, software needed...
[December 22, 2003, 8:30]
Workers On The Move Can Get Into New Groove
News Groove Virtual Office 3.0 introduces enhancements to tie the desktop software closer to Microsoft's Windows utilities, including Windows Explorer, and adds tools to ease application development. The Groove software allows workers to get updates of...
[July 8, 2004, 17:05]
HP Chooses Thin-client Key For Virtualisation
News The software launch includes a new HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenDesktop, which is "designed to enable everything from smaller, entry-level implementations to enterprise-wide desktop delivery", the company said.
[September 2, 2008, 17:25]
VMware Cries Foul Over Microsoft Virtualisation
News VMware pinpoints the virtual desktop, claiming that as Microsoft does not have a virtual desktop of its own, it is "denying it to customers". Windows Vista only allows customers to transfer their virtual desktop to another system once
[February 27, 2007, 16:01]
Zeus ZXTM 4.1 review
Reviews Despite all the advantages of running server software in the virtual machine format, network I/O is a little less efficient with VMs than on dedicated hardware, so most people would install ZXTM onto real server hardware if they decided to proceed...
[April 19, 2007, 8:10]
T-VNC
Downloads VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software makes it possible to view and fully-interact with one computer from any other computer or mobile device anywhere on the Internet. It stands for Virtual Network Computing.t-VNC is a remote control application...
[January 10, 2008, 9:49]
VMware Announces Fusion 2.0, VClient Initiative
News Fusion 2.0, the company's rival to the Parallels software for running Windows on the Mac, also lets users add up to four virtual CPUs to a virtual machine, as well as adding support for Mac OS X Leopard Server.
[September 17, 2008, 8:19]
