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Mitel, VMware offer desktop contact center solution

Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Contact centers that want to take advantage of virtual desktop technology have another option from a unified communications company.
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Prepping the network for VDI

Posted January 23, 2012 - 3:40 pm

From the cloud to the new wireless edge, conversations in the IT department are revolving around what the network will do next. One technology that has managed to escape much of the spotlight -- while still transforming IT --- is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
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4 consumer technologies that could change your enterprise

Posted January 19, 2012 - 7:56 pm

From technologies born out of gaming companies to hardware waterproofing products, we find some gems at the Consumer Electronics Show that CIOs will be glad to welcome to their IT shops.
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Atlantis Computing promises diskless VDI

Posted January 17, 2012 - 8:10 pm

Atlantis Computing is offering a software product that uses only server memory to run non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructures.
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6 reasons small businesses need virtualization

Posted January 11, 2012 - 11:24 am

If you run a small or mid-sized business, server virtualization promises cost savngs and improved IT efficiency. To help ensure you understand the advantages, we drew up a list of the most tangible benefits that virtualization has to offer small and mid-sized businesses
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VDI shoot-out: VMware View 5

Posted January 5, 2012 - 11:37 am

VMware View taps the world's best virtualization platform and PCoIP improvements for highly scalable desktop virtualization
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VDI shoot-out: Citrix XenDesktop 5.5

Posted January 5, 2012 - 11:29 am

Citrix XenDesktop shines with unmatched flexibility and all the desktop virtualization bells and whistles
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Citrix: Desktop virtualization makes good security sense

Posted December 12, 2011 - 8:08 am

One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualization is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to Citrix.
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VDI: Not just for big business

Posted December 5, 2011 - 9:30 pm

Though VDI is most often associated with large deployments, small business has a lot to gain as well.
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Finestra manages virtual desktops with panache

Posted November 28, 2011 - 8:18 pm

If Finestra Virtual Desktops (free/donationware) hadn't crashed on me once or twice, it would've scored at least a half star higher than the 3 stars that I gave it. It's that elegant and suited to the task. The program allows you up to 100 virtual desktops (four's plenty for most folks), has a host of options so that you can control which programs open on which desktop, etc., and even makes great use of the Windows 7 live window thumbnails.
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Parallels Desktop vs. Boot Camp: Which is best for running Windows on a Mac?

Posted November 28, 2011 - 3:59 pm

Parallels Desktop 7 promises Apple users the best Windows experience on the Mac through virtualization. But is it actually better than running Boot Camp? We put both solutions to the test.
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VMware hacks at thinning wall between Macs, PCs. And between Macs.

Posted November 21, 2011 - 11:19 am

Virtualize enough things on the desktop and which operating system the user chooses hardly matters at all.
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Citrix: Virtual desktops about to become cheaper than physical ones

Posted October 26, 2011 - 2:44 pm

Citrix says it's driven down costs to the point that next year it will be cheaper to deploy virtual desktops than traditional desktops.
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Seven reasons to consider virtualization

Posted October 12, 2011 - 7:32 pm

Virtualization has made inroads into many data centers. If your company isn't already using it, here's why it should.
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Give users the virtual desktop they want

Posted September 29, 2011 - 8:52 am

Members from the CIO Executive Council weigh in on how to give users the best virtual desktop experience. Add your opinion and advice.
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Data center lock-down is top concern.

Posted September 15, 2011 - 9:14 am

Data center security an afterthought? Survey says: No!
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Behind the scenes of Wellesley College's desktop virtualization rollout

Posted September 8, 2011 - 3:39 pm

Although desktop virtualization is still a relatively new technology, Ravi Ravishanker is no stranger to it. He helped implement VDI projects at Pace University and Wesleyan University in recent years and now is overseeing a rollout at Wellesley College, the all-women's school west of Boston where he serves as CIO.
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Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges

Posted September 1, 2011 - 12:42 pm

Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the information technology managers taking the lead on that trend offered some perspectives on the networking and security challenges it brings.
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RingCube acquisition lets Citrix offer VDI power without VDI cost

Posted August 10, 2011 - 4:11 pm

A number of vendors offer software to containerize virtual desktop personalizations and apps; Citrix will use RingCube's to make virtual desktops a higher-performing, more flexible three-tier application that can run on one hard drive or a mix of local and data-center hardware.
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Government agencies make move to desktop virtualization

Posted August 9, 2011 - 11:06 am

These government agencies are reaping the early benefits of moving to desktop virtualization.
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Latest Parallels Desktop release targest enterprises

Posted July 12, 2011 - 12:58 pm

Look around large companies, and you're likely to spot something you wouldn't have seen in the enterprise five years ago--a growing number of Macs. More firms are letting their employees pick between Macs and Windows machines, and those employees are opting for the former. That helped Apple increase its sales to the enterprise market by 66 percent during its fiscal second quarter.
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Microsoft Windows 7 hosted virtual desktop launched by ThinkGrid

Posted July 6, 2011 - 3:03 am

ThinkGrid has launched a hosted virtual desktop with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
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Why build Hyper-V into Win8? To make XP apps run and push VMware back

Posted June 21, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Rather than breaking apps built for other versions, Windows 8 may ship with a hypervisor that runs XP apps in an XP VM reducing migration headaches and outflanking VMware in client OSes.
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Southern scales back desktop virtualization

Posted June 6, 2011 - 11:39 am

Southern Co. had big ambitions for virtualizing its desktops. The company's IT leaders say they saw virtualization as an easier, cheaper setup than conventional PC environments.
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Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix

Posted May 23, 2011 - 1:52 pm

Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday.
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