Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled Wednesday a new client infrastructure portfolio of services designed to give IT departments better control over today’s mobile device-agnostic end user. One analyst said ...

A client-side hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that resides in and virtualizes a user's computer (see client virtualization). Type 1 hypervisors are the computer's master control program.

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

Virtualization refers to technologies designed to provide a layer of abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. By providing a logical view of computing resources, ...

Where the processing takes place, either on the desktop/device or in the data center What is delivered to the user, individual applications or an entire desktop environment How user specific settings ...

In IT’s never-ending search for efficiency improvements, client virtualization and its subsets — presentation, application and desktop virtualization — must be considered. Client virtualization ...

Beware the myths of desktop and client virtualization, on key issues from security to cost, says Forrester's Natalie Lambert. Here, she breaks down five issues that could trip up your client ...

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. We've all heard about client virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructure ...

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