In-Depth Features


The Coming Display Protocol Wars

The future of desktop virtualization may hinge on display protocols. VMware and Citrix take different paths: Which company is likely to win?

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day: Virtualization Clears Up IT's Recessionary Fears

While most companies in IT are hoping to just ride out the recession storm, those in the virtualization space are finding clearer skies.

Bluestripe and the Applications Management Conundrum

Bluestripe Software tackles the problem of "applications visibility" with a solution that triangulates performance between hosts, applications and VMs.

AppSense: Riding the VDI Tailwind

Abstracting user "personality" is an important consideration in pooled resource VDI deployments. Here's how one start-up is looking to capitalize.

Industry: Economy Not Hurting Virtualization Jobs

Other IT segments virtualization skills is that the number of jobs is actually increasing -- and at a healthy rate.

The Next Frontier: Mobile Phone Hypervisors

VMware makes a play for mobile market share.

Review: VM Monitoring with eG Manager

eG Innovations takes on the daunting challenge of VM performance monitoring.

Microsoft, Citrix and VMware in Brewing Battle

The three companies are getting ready to rumble over ownership of the hypervisor cloud.

Xen and the Art of Hosted Desktops

Citrix Systems' XenDesktop is a state-of-the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for-feature comparison. Here's a look at the capabilities, options and feature sets available with this product, as well as how to install, set up and configure it in the data center.

Brave New World: VDC-OS

VMware wants to own your data center. The key? The Virtual Datacenter Operating System.

Marketplace: Microsoft's Non-Hyper-V Hypervisor

Almost no one paid attention when MS divulged details on its cloud-based Hyper-V. Here's what you need to know so far.

The Disappearing Desktop: How VDI Is Changing the Game

Will desktop PCs in their current incarnation fade from view as they become increasingly virtualized?

Startup: Desktone Places a Big Bet on DaaS

Desktop virtualization player goes against the big boys.

Planning Primer: Benchmarking

An important part of your infrastructure planning is determining the impact of virtualization on hardware and software performance. Here's how to do it right.

Reorganization: Greene out, Maritz in at VMware

Recent upheaval leaves industry bewildered.

Planning Primer: End Users

Virtualization should be about one thing: helping your users be more productive. Too often, though, that rule is forgotten.

Analysis: The Storage Management Gap

Storage virtualization can address some of the problems associated with getting incompatible physical storage to live together.

Q&A: Blurring the Virtual Dichotomy

An interview with VMware's senior director of desktop platforms and solutions.

Planning Primer: Architecture

You can't just slap your virtual infrastructure together -- you need to know where each piece lives in the production stack to get the most out of it.

UPFRONT: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Stays on Track

Microsoft's next virt push will be with this strong enterprise VM contender.

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