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VMware, Citrix and smaller rivals are putting clients on smartphones and minimalist thin-client hardware to build excitement for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). Here's a look at why both Citrix and VMware believe that Windows 7 will be a major catalyst for desktop virtualization, though customers still have management questions.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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