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Spotlight: MaxiVista to use your spare laptop as an extra monitor

Perhaps you have just upgraded to a new machine and are unsure about what to do with your old but still perfectly-functional laptop. I recently came across MaxiVista , which lets your spare laptop (or

VMware View, vSphere Client now available on the iPad

Virtualization software maker VMware released a VMware View Client for the iPad last week, further blurring the lines that once demarcated consumer electronics from enterprise-centric equipment. The

VMware, Citrix behind in bare-metal hypervisor for desktops

Both VMware and Citrix Systems are running behind in their plans to deliver bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs, where the initial plan was to ship before end-2009. Bare-metal hypervisors allows

IBM takes the desktop into the clouds

IBM has launched a cloud virtual-desktop service that marries thin client computing, and virtualization as a single offering. The idea is that customers can tap into this new offering using nothing

VMware bug opens the door to guest-to-host exploits

An exploit researcher at Immunity Inc. has crafted what the security community would coin a "guest-to-host" virtual machine exploit. By exploiting several vulnerabilities in VMware's virtualization

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

VMware talks virtual desktop

VMware is going for a bigger slice of the virtualized desktop pie by offering a hands-on training service that is done onsite. Named the VMware Desktop Infrastructure Jumpstart service, the idea is