Wyse officials said the Z90 thin client offers the performance, management and security needed for desktop virtualization environments. – Thin clients for more than a decade have held the promise of easier
management, greater security and reduced costs, but for much of that
time, the reality was much different.
Thats begun to change in recent years, with the
rise of virtualization, the cloud and mobile computing, and the rapid
im…
Pano client, a small chrome box that resembles a 3.5-inch-square by 2-inch-high paperweight, serves as the plug-in terminal for a workstation monitor, keyboard and mouse. – Pano Logic, which specializes in a
variation of desktop virtualization called quot;zero client, quot; has
released Pano System 4, a next-generation device designed to replace PCs and
thin clients with server-side software that can support the three major
hypervisor platforms.
The Pano client…
The Pano Logic System 4 takes VDI a big step closer to a cost-effective implementation by stripping down the desktop hardware to the bare essentials of video, keyboard, mouse and USB support. The tiny, shiny brick sets the hardware standard for this category by shedding nearly every vestige of needing a real PC to run a virtual PC. – The Pano System 4 uses a
shiny, tiny brick with ports for the video, keyboard, mouse and USB
connectivity that significantly advances practical and cost-effective virtual
desktop infrastructure. By completely removing the need for any PC-like
components from the hardware, Pano Logic has garnered…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is currently testing a ground-breaking 250-seat, 1,250-account deployment consisting of a joint Citrix/Kaviza software package. – Virtual desktop and thin-client manufacturers have been banging promotion
drums about their products for more than a decade, yet they haven’t seen
optimal sales numbers. That finally may be changing in 2011.
In just the last year or so, a number of longtime VDI (virtual desktop
infrastructure)…
Supporters of the VDI model are of the opinion that the efficient management of desktops equipped with special features like backup, data recovery and provisioning is responsible for reduced total cost of ownership compared to traditional PCs.
The need for cost-effective, flexible and manageable desktop computing solutions resulted in the emergence of VDI, which provides desktop images in a virtualized environment from a centralized hosting server.
EMC has deployed a virtual desktop infrastructure at N.C.’s Northern Hospital of Surry County to improve data protection and lower health care costs. – IT infrastructure company EMC has unveiled plans to deploy its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) software at Northern Hospital of Surry County, in Mount Airy, N.C., to lower health care costs and increase data protection at the facility.
quot;We were running out of processing capacity and spa…
The Oracle Sun Ray 3 and 3i thin client hardware platforms integrate Oracle’s virtual desktop infrastructure to compete with VMware, Microsoft and Citrix in the ongoing push to gain centralized control over the end-user desktop experience. – The newly revamped Sun Ray 3 and 3i thin client systems announced by Oracle
carry on the Sun strategy of making easy-to-deploy hardware that supports a
variety of end-user virtual workloads while maintaining central, secure control
over desktop systems.
The Sun Ray 3 is a typical vertically …
VCE group also launches two new Cisco-Intel servers to power these modularized cloud computing systems. – One year ago, Cisco Systems, EMC, VMware
and Intel introduced a new, compartmentalized way to build cloud computing
systems with something they called vBlocks
with a small quot;v. quot;
On Nov. 8, under the banner of the VCE [Virtual
Computing Environment] joint venture, the four IT giant…
VMware View 4.5 VDI gains Windows 7, Mac OS X and Local Mode. – VMware View 4.5 gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly
known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client
for Mac OS X devices, making this version the pace setter for
virtual desktop infrastructure.
View 4.5 started shipping…
Unidesk’s innovative platform greatly simplifies virtual desktop infrastructure management and deployment for both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. – Version 1.0 of Unidesk’s self-named VDI management tool
enables organizations deploying virtual desktop infrastructure to take
advantage of the centralized management perks of VDI without sacrificing the
individual desktop flexibility that users have come to expect from traditional,
locally inst…
Kaviza’s software is installed on a server with a hypervisor — Citrix Xen or VMware ESX 4.1 — that enables enterprises to run Windows across multiple desktops from one or more company servers. – Kaviza, the fast-up-and-coming virtual desktop software startup, now has
added support for iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones.
Users of those devices now can access virtualized Windows desktops using Version
3.1 of Kaviza’s VDI-in-a-Box product and Citrix Receiver, CEO
Kumar Goswani told e…
VMware VDI and Microsoft Windows 7 can fit better together if IT managers put the base operating system on a slimming diet. eWEEK Labs prepared Windows 7 golden images for VDI deployment. Optimization tips and tricks along with best practice recommendations can help your organization succeed when meeting user needs to process a variety of workloads. – …
VMware VDI uses View 4.5 to deploy Microsoft Windows 7 virtual desktop systems. By reducing storage, processor and network overhead on data center infrastructure, IT managers can reduce TCO while improving ROI for virtual desktop infrastructure. VM performance can also be improved by removing services and task scheduler events that slow down virtual desktop operations. – One of the best ways to reduce costs in a virtual desktop infrastructure
deployment is to optimize the guest operating system. I slimmed down a virtual
machine guest running Windows 7 Enterprise edition to reduce the growth of the
cloned desktops in my tests of VMware View 4.5. Besides reducing t…
Connection Broker 7.0 is a management layer that helps administrators to sort out resources and add policies for computing resources via a hosted virtual desktop using any of the major hypervisors. – SAN FRANCISCO — News items started flowing out of VMworld 2010 long before the press room was to open at 2 o’clock Aug. 30.
One of the first was from desktop vitualization management provider Leostream, which introduced a new version of its virtualization Connection Broker. Leostream claims to p…
The SAN Accelerator for VMware View is packaged as a NAND flash-based storage-on-controller appliance that speeds up virtual desktop environments and features multitier data protection. – FalconStor
Software on Aug. 24 released a new storage network accelerator that runs on
VMware View to improve the performance of VMware virtual desktop deployments.
The SAN Accelerator for VMware View is
packaged as a NAND flash-based storage-on-controller appliance that FalconStor
claims not…
The RemoteFX feature set now in beta testing through Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta beefs up Hyper-V graphics display and USB redirection. Once implemented, the enhanced graphics capabilities will have dramatic impact on physical server configuration requirements. IT managers will benefit from looking at the freely available beta. – …
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2 offers improvements in scalability, multimedia and administration. Oracle hopes to take advantage of the expected desktop refresh this year. – Oracle is rolling out the latest version of is desktop
virtualization software, creating what company officials say is a
complete offering, from the hardware devices through the software stack.
The company unveiled Oracle VDI (Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure) 3.2 Aug. 11, with improvements in sca…
The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company introduced a new version of its branded Emprise enterprise system, the Emprise 9000, that emphasizes the arrays as the true foundation of virtual desktop infrastructures. – Xiotech, which has always
positioned itself as a maker of quot;intelligent quot; — and ostensibly, more
efficient storage — came out July 20 with a new system that’s
apparently quot;smart quot; enough to specialize in the needs of virtual desktop
deployments.
The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based…
Microsoft recently published the results of a six-month total cost of ownership study of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The study concludes that VDI delivers value for specialized user segments such as contractors. However for offices workers in a VDI environment, the total cost of ownership was higher by 11% per user than that of a well-managed PC environment. Additionally, many workers will find the VDI user experience unsatisfactory. Microsoft recommends that organizations assess their use cases and drivers for VDI to ensure the best computing option for their users.
