IBM launched on Monday its Smart Business Desktop service, a combination of thin client computing, virtualization, and the cloud, which is claimed to be the "industry's first public desktop cloud ...

Rick Rosenburg is the vice president and general manager of Rackspace government solutions at Rackspace Government. He oversees services in support of government agencies and holds 35 years of ...

Citrix Systems CTXS recently announced that Netherlands-based Vitens is leveraging its Citrix Virtual Apps and desktop service as a part of its transition to cloud. This will enable Vitens to deliver ...

While secure remote access remains a key driver of DaaS adoption, deployments increasingly focus on broader efficiency goals, according to Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service. DaaS ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Desktop virtualization is widely viewed as the Next Big Thing in the virtualization market, but it’s by no means an easy nut to crack. That’s because the challenges of getting virtualization working ...

The Azure Virtual Desktop service now offers the choice of using the Windows 11 operating system at the preview stage, per a Thursday Microsoft announcement. Azure Virtual Desktop is a 2-year-old ...

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To buy a laptop with decent specs nowadays, you normally have to spend four figures. But what if you could get the same level of performance out of your current machine? That is the promise of virtual ...

Cloud-based DaaS offers several advantages to a remote workforce. This guide to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) assesses the platform and what it can offer.

We interrupt our scheduled topic (a discussion of Web browser stuff I started last week) to bring you a Network World exclusive Gearhead review of a new virtualization product … vDesk from RingCube ...