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Virtualization's impact on app performance and storage

Virtualizing server and desktop infrastructure can offer efficiencies, but it also can affect the performance of other systems. Austin Radiological Association recently discovered that its

Oracle releases VirtualBox 4.1 with enterprise-friendly features

Oracle ( NASDAQ: ORCL ) has released version 4.1 of its popular VirtualBox virtual desktop software. Downloaded over 46 million times since it was released for free under the GPL in 2007, the new

Microsoft Research saves power on desktops using virtualization

Microsoft Research India has developed a technology called LiteGreen that saves power by leveraging technologies typically used in desktop virtualization. As reported at InfoWorld, the team at

Law firm uses virtualization to ease expansion

Tully Rinckey PLLC, a mid-sized but fast-growing law firm with offices in Albany, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., recently started deploying virtualization technologies as a way to facilitate the firm's

Clearing the fog on desktop virtualization

A sustained buzz hovers around "desktop virtualization," but the technology has yet to set down solid roots in corporations. Despite the protracted hype, vendors have not stepped up to the plate when

Some see growing potential in desktop virtualization

CIOs remain largely skeptical about desktop virtualization, but the move to Windows 7 may drive greater interest in the technology. NetworkWorld's Jon Brodkin takes a look at the costs and

Fujitsu integrates 'zero client' into monitor

IT solutions provider Fujitsu has teamed up with Pano Logic, the California startup that is touting a "zero client" approach to desktop virtualization. The partnership will see Fujitsu making a

Businesses seek variety in virtualization

Variety is the spice of life, and apparently this saying holds true when it comes to desktop virtualization as well. According to recent research from Enterprise Management Associates, enterprises

VMware: Broad adoption of desktop virtualization will not happen soon

While interest in desktop virtualization is high, VMware's CEO Paul Maritz has admitted what we have known all along: Calculating the cost benefits for it is difficult for most organizations. As a

VMware reduces storage requirements of desktop VMs by 70 percent

Desktop virtualization pioneer VMware is renaming its desktop virtualization software --formally known as Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI)--VMware View. VMware View will come with expanded