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 ...

The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC’s hardware. But the technology is in its infancy — even big ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. There is no denying that virtualization is a hot topic in ...

Desktop Virtualization at a Glance Definition: A computing environment that is abstracted from the end user’s PC. It consists of an operating system, applications and associated data. Type 1: Local ...

Let's for a moment visualize a virtualized desktop environment. An operating system offering a type 2 hypervisor is acting as the primary operating system in a desktop virtualization implementation.

Citirix is a key investor in Virtual Computer, which focuses on the provisioning, publishing, and patching of desktop and laptop operating systems Citrix has spent the past year and a half redefining ...

The company claims to be the first to extend support to all major hypervisors; the update also adds VoIP, videoconferencing, and multimonitor support Pano Logic has released an update to its desktop ...

VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...