virtual desktops

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• MIT business school grapples with virtualization

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.

• Virtualization 101: Virtualization concepts

  Understanding the basic concepts of different kinds of virtualization.

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  Macquarie Uni to virtualize computer labs

  Macquarie University has flagged plans to virtualize many of its student computer labs from the second semester of this year, as part of a ploy to better utilise licensed software both on-premise at the university and remotely.

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  Virtual desktops - Frenemies at the gate

  Blame the iPad. Apple's tablet-PC darling started out as a shiny target of gadget lust offering a world of possibilities. But before long, it was a key facilitator in the battle to free the desktop from the tightly-controlled domain of the IT manager — a workable business tool that is steadily replacing long-favoured laptops for more and more mobile employees.

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  VMware sets up crack virtual desktop team

  Virtualisation giant VMWare has put together a specialist crack team to tackle the opportunity of converting legacy “fat client” PC desktops in Australian organisations to slimline virtualised environments, as more virtual desktop rollouts continue to emerge around the country.

• ACCC seeks support for its new Citrix environment

  The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is to shortly source Citrix management and support services to underpin its development of on-demand services for its ICT users.

• 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.

• McAfee and Citrix partner to secure virtual desktop

  McAfee and Citrix have announced a strategic partnership and collaboration agreement to make secure virtual desktop and make it scalable for large enterprise deployments, according to a release. The collaboration will enable Citrix XenDesktop customers to extend management of desktop security to virtual environments using the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform.

• Need desktop access over the Web? Try some Guacamole

  A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a Web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration.

• Microsoft sweetens pot for the virtual-desktop curious

  In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements and enhancing its virtual-desktop-related software.

• 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.