Hoping to stay a step ahead of rival VMware, Citrix Systems is now shipping its XenDesktop product line of desktop virtualization software. Announced Tuesday at the company’s annual Citrix Synergy ...

Programmers have released a new version of Xen with a graphics feature that makes the virtualization software more useful on desktop computers. Xen lets a single computer run multiple operating ...

Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 and VMware View 5 vie for the most flexible, scalable, and complete virtual desktop infrastructure More than 20 years ago, the desktop revolution swept across the land, ushering ...

Last week’s tips for successfully hosting virtual desktops story mentioned an interesting alternative to VDI: Citrix’s hosted shared virtual desktop technology, based on XenApp. The technology has ...

Citrix XenDesktop puts the core desktop PC components, including the operating system, the application, and the settings, into a desktop image that can be run off a server, said Calvin Hsu, principal ...

Citrix's promised Xen-based desktop virtualization solution will be delivered in the second half of 2009. Earlier this week, the Ft Lauderdale virtualization company announced that it is co-developing ...

With the next major release of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor expected this August, the project’s developers have turned their attention to a new issue: security. Over the last few months, a group of ...

And we see that the term used much in the industry is VDI or virtual desktop initiatives, and different types of virtualization, be they a thin client implementation utilizing browser technology on ...

Novell is touting its inclusion of Xen server virtualization software in its new Suse Linux Enterprise 10, calling the open source virtualization technology from XenSource one of the most important ...

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