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• Suncorp banks on desktop virtualization

  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.

• The University of Sydney moves to virtual desktop as part of learning network rollout

  The popularity of consumer devices combined with the launch of four learning hubs has caused the University of Sydney to deploy desktop virtualization software across its campuses.

• How desktop virtualisation can help manage consumer devices

  If two technology trends were ever made for each other, at least in vendor marketing materials and generically simple diagrams of IT infrastructure, they are the consumerisation of IT and desktop virtualisation.

• TransGrid switches on desktop virtualisation

  NSW electricity grid operator, TransGrid, will move as many as 500 of its desktop PCs to virtualised thin clients in an effort to reduce costs and extend the hardware refresh cycle to seven years.

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  Tablets a "double-edged sword": Mater Health Services CIO

  While some Australian hospitals have embraced tablet PCs, one major health services provider is holding off deployment until improvements are made in the form factor.

• Good web browsing = good virtual desktop experience: Nivio

  If you have a good browsing experience you may just be able to roll out desktop virtualisation, provider Nivio is claiming.

• Red Hat exec: Oracle's not an open source company

  It's been said that Oracle is now the industry's most powerful open source vendor, but don't tell that to Red Hat executives, who say Oracle doesn't even qualify as an open source company.

• Dell: Smartphones will never kill the PC

  Dell CEO Michael Dell contends that mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he envisions a future where users own an increasing number and variety of devices, each capable of looking like the other via desktop virtualisation, served by virtual networks and the cloud.

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  Defence to roll out virtual next generation desktops

  The Department of Defence will start deploying virtualised thin clients across its user base by the end of 2011.

• Kaviza partners with Citrix on desktop virtualization

  Stressing desktop virtualization as a cost-saver for smaller enterprises, Kaviza is partnering with Citrix to boost Kaviza's VDI-in-a-box (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) technology.

• Red Hat moves into desktop virtualization

  Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.

• VMware, Citrix struggle with "bare-metal" desktops

  Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs.

• Linux, Windows or both? Doesn't matter to virtual desktop vendor, Ulteo

  Ulteo is poised to offer commercial support for its free virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software, which the open-source startup says will cost companies a fraction of established offerings from Citrix Systems, Microsoft and VMware, while offering, in some cases, more choice in platforms.

• How many virtual machines fit on your server?

  Choosing just enough virtual machines, but not too many, for a given server has always been a challenge. Running a set of virtual servers and the applications that they support on one physical server running just one operating system seems easy enough - at first.

• Desktop virtualization heading to mainstream

  A third of enterprises are looking to move to desktop virtualisation according to research from desktop services specialist Centrix. More than three-quarters of the respondents said that cost reduction was the prime driver for the move to the technology.