Neal Puff is CIO of Yuma County, Ariz. He holds PMP, CPM and CISSP certifications. Yuma County, Ariz., has long been a proponent of virtualization. Every production server we’ve installed over the ...

Desktop virtualization is one of the hottest topics in technology today. CIOs are interested in exploring this technology due to the incredible success of server virtualization, but also because they ...

There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to embark on the journey to client consolidation or desktop ...

I think a lot of people confuse these two virtualization technologies and maybe you're one of them. The distinction is not apparent from the names given to them but rather in the scale of the ...

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualization is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of ...

This article is excerpted from Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches and published by permission of Prentice Hall, all rights reserved ...

Server virtualization is well on its way in corporate data centers and desktop virtualization is following fast behind. The pace of desktop virtualization deployment is only expected to speed up now ...

Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including reduced energy costs, centralized desktop administration, increased security and ...

The advent of ubiquitous server virtualization is one of a relatively small number of technologies that can be extremely useful to companies of any size–even a company of a single employee. While full ...

The load on a virtualized back end is quite predictable. While it’s important to be able to move a server application from one hardware platform to another while running—through vMotion, for ...

The acquisition of Kaviza, a maker of simple desktop virtualization software for small businesses, by Citrix Systems is all the buzz at this week’s Citrix Synergy event at San Francisco’s Moscone ...