Recently in Desktop Virtualization Category

In this three-part handbook, take a look at what enterprises need to know about [licensing for Windows 8 and Office 2013] and how it affects Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). 

WDH's desktop solution published applications from Citrix XenApp to 900 standardised Dell Desktops. The IT and Business Systems Change team began considering changing to a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) because the organisation was facing a number of business challenges.

VXL Instruments announce the launch of the new Vtona V240, quad display, zero client supporting the latest Teradici PCoIP® technology for both its North American and Western European markets.

"Mobile" roadshow to demonstrate ThinManager for manufacturing and all of the mobile app and capabilities.

Slideshow by IT Team Leader on virtualization of healthcare EMR beginning in 2004 and again in 2010.

NComputing, the leader in accelerating the adoption of desktop virtualization, today announced the latest management software and firmware release for its N-series line of thin clients.

 IGEL Technology has today simplified its firmware and licensing for its Universal Desktop range of thin clients.

From Brian Madden...One of the cool things I saw at VMworld 2013 San Francisco a few weeks ago was a demo from Teradici showing off how PCoIP now has the capability to write packet priority tags into its UDP headers which can then be read by network QoS products.

The time we log into any terminal and run any app is getting nearer. The question is will VMware buy Sphere3D.

The DaaS Engine is a proprietary piece of technology designed to power small, medium and large Desktop-as-a-Service clouds

Dumb terminals get intelligence. Phones become smart phones. Tablets sprout keyboards and become collapsible laptops. So much for the "post-PC" way of thinking.

San Francisco, Calif. - October 2, 2012 - CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized CloudSigma for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering a public cloud IaaS offering with the necessary resources, flexibility and customization companies require in today's dynamic IT environments.

Reading, UK -- IGEL Technology today announced UK growth of 45% in its sales of thin clients and 50% in its Universal Desktop Converter software for the first half of the calendar year, underlining the steady shift of business and public sector to server-based computing and virtual desktop infrastructures.

Middle East - What is interesting about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) efforts is that they are more effectively driving thin client solutions than the thin client movement itself did a decade or so ago. This is because the variety of devices, combined with the lack of focus on business requirements by Apple, has made it untenable to support each device individually.

'Helix Nebula - the science cloud', set up earlier this year to support the massive IT requirements of European scientists and create a cloud computing market for the public sector in Europe, has today announced the initial deployment of its first flagship applications in high energy physics, molecular biology and natural disaster recovery.

Red Hat has announced version 3 of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) server and desktop virtualisation software family. RHEV for Servers is the main product in the range that was introduced in autumn 2009 and updated in summer 2010.

IGEL is donating 232 thin clients for use in the Crisis at Christmas initiative to help London's homeless over the festive period. The IGEL thin clients will be used as information stations and internet telephones at 10 Christmas Centres across the capital from December 23rd-30th, enabling 8,000 CRISIS charity volunteers to make the greatest possible difference for more than 3,000 homeless guests in the 40th anniversary year of the event.

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Slashdot spends some time discussing whether or not the momentum is positive or negative for VMware. In the world of virtual servers and the hypervisors (and a predatory capitalistic Microsoft in the wings), it matters. ars technica got it started.

IBM Healthcare presentation with VMware by David Bellamy at HIMSS 2011

Deploying PC-over-IP technology using VMware View and zero clients:
an IT manager's perspective

Intel Atom-based X16 Windows XPe and L16 Linux Thin Clients certified for use with VMwareTM View 4.5.

What is a Virtual Desktop, and Why Should You Care?

SAN JOSE, CA. – November 16, 2010 – Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced Day One enhanced capabilities and support for Cisco's end-to-end Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) system. Together with solutions from Citrix and VMware, Wyse's cloud, virtualization and management software suites and its broad set of thin and zero clients complement Cisco VXI to provide customers the most comprehensive choice for achieving a superior desktop virtualization infrastructure.