The top trends affecting technology infrastructure over the next five years can be summed up as largely a list representing where IT and users are battling for control over technology.

As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense might have the answer. The U.K.-based company goes beyond profile management to offer [...]

Centrix has revealed a new tool to help managers make cuts in servers

While VMware and Citrix go head-to-head over how to virtualize the desktop, most users say they prefer to deploy more than one flavor of desktop virtualization. Here's a look at today's five main desktop virtualization choices and their advantages and disadvantages.

Citrix's virtualization push delivers desktops to PCs, Macs, thin clients, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.

Citrix is preparing a major desktop virtualization push to help speed enterprise adoption -- and perhaps take market share from VMware.

The set of virtual desktop system enhancements Citrix Systems announced this week is unusual not for its timing or technical acumen, but for focusing on the experience of actual end users. Analysts say that IT knows the user experience with desktop virtualization is absolutely critical to success.

By Mark Wilson

Late last night, I got myself involved in a Twitter conversation with @stufox, who works for Microsoft in New Zealand. I’ve never met Stu - but I do follow him and generally find his tweets interesting; however, it seems that we don’t agree on Microsoft’s approach to licensing Windows for virtual desktop infrastructure. [..]

As they say, everything old is new again. The emergence of virtualization as a widely accepted computing platform has moved us that much closer to the age-old concept of centralized server-based computing that originated with the first mainframes in the 1970s. Although server virtualization has gained a sizable foothold in the Intel-based server market, the desktop market has not seen such advances.

Beware the myths of desktop and client virtualization, on key issues from security to cost, says Forrester's Natalie Lambert. Here, she breaks down five issues that could trip up your client virtualization effort.