*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

As the focus on virtualization moves beyond the server and operating system to desktop applications, new offeringsincluding Microsoft's recently acquired SoftGrid platform and Citrix's Project Tarpon ...

Smartphones and other intelligent handheld devices are increasingly mimicking the functions of traditional PCs, having grown powerful enough to store corporate applications and data. One worry about ...

While DataSynapse FabricServer integrates with its sister product, GridServer, and the two are used to good effect together at Wachovia Bank, a grid is not required to use FabricServer, says Jamie ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

A wallflower: That’s how I used to describe Thinstall when discussing the movers and shakers of the application virtualization party scene. With its chief competitors already paired off and dancing up ...

Thin’s back in: Application virtualization is growing more and more appealing to the enterprise, a trend clearly not lost on Thinstall. To that end, the company recently release version 3.0 of its ...

Virtualization is great for server consolidation, but management of the environment needs to be extended beyond simple provisioning. Is management the key? Server virtualization technology in itself ...

Microsoft has released betas of two new desktop virtualization tools: a new version of App-V with more powerful deployment features for complex applications, and a new settings synchronization tool ...