• MIT business school grapples with virtualization

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 02:52

  MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge.

• Reducing VDI cost by exploring alternatives to centralized VM storage

  By Amir Husain, president and CEO, VDIworks | 10 April, 2012 06:46

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Suncorp banks on desktop virtualization

  By Hamish Barwick | 06 March, 2012 10:50

  A series of natural disasters including the Queensland floods of 2010 prompted Brisbane-based bank, Suncorp, to implement a desktop virtualization project called Desktop Anywhere.

• NaviSite wants to host your virtual desktops

  By Brandon Butler | 28 February, 2012 07:33

  Seeking to capture a slice of market share in the emerging field of virtual desktop services, NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable managed service provider of cloud-based products has announced its next major endeavor: a desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed specifically at enterprise customers.

• F5 gear bought to optimize WAN also helps with VDI

  By Tim Greene | 14 February, 2012 02:20

  Distribution Management Inc. bought F5's Big-IP Gateway to handle WAN optimization, but it turns out the platform solved a string of problems that cropped up when the company deployed VMware virtual desktop infrastructure, too.

• 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

  By Kevin Fogarty | 30 July, 2010 01:56

  More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

• Windows 7 May Spur Virtual Desktops, On and Off the iPhone

  By Kevin Fogarty | 01 October, 2009 07:46

  Predictions from analysts and virtualization vendors that desktop virtualization will take off during 2010 may be off the mark. Sales may take off, but the desktop PC may not have much to do with it.

• QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes

  By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06

  Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.

• Desktop Virtualization and Licensing: IT Wary of Gotchas

  By Tom Kaneshige | 20 April, 2009 09:27

  CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both Windows and OS X on a single machine.

Whitepapers about virtual desktops

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  A Guide to Staying Secure Amidst Gorwing Threats and the Expanding Digital Universe

  Security management needs to evolve to protect business, government, and individuals from growing cyber threats. This Paper outlines challenges facing security executives and teams and uses an “air traffic control system” analogy to show how advanced security management systems can deliver better security by providing a single point of visibility and coordination for physical, virtual, and cloud assets. Solutions are presented where business processes, policy, controls, and data work in concert to achieve the vision of an air traffic control system for information security.

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  Can you harness clouds without creating storms?

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  IDC whitepaper: Hold Down Data Centre Costs