Top 6 desktop as a service (DaaS) providers: Amazon, Citrix and more Your email has been sent Desktop as a service adoption lags behind on-premise VDI, but the popularity of cloud-hosted desktops is ...

Cloud-based DaaS offers several advantages to a remote workforce. This guide to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) assesses the platform and what it can offer.

The first time I experienced a virtual desktop was with my little Linux netbook I used at university. With its tiny screen, it wasn't really feasible to have multiple apps open at once, so with a ...

Virtual desktops aren’t new to Windows. In Windows 10, it was a simple matter to create a separate desktop so that, for example, you could have one desktop for one project and a second for another, or ...

Last week’s tips for successfully hosting virtual desktops story mentioned an interesting alternative to VDI: Citrix’s hosted shared virtual desktop technology, based on XenApp. The technology has ...

Desktop virtualization is widely viewed as the Next Big Thing in the virtualization market, but it’s by no means an easy nut to crack. That’s because the challenges of getting virtualization working ...

Microsoft’s virtual desktops are one of the of the more unique features of Windows 10—a quick way to organize “screens” of apps that you can switch to back and forth. Rearranging them has always been ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Microsoft is rebranding its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service as "Azure Virtual Desktop." At the same time, the company is introducing a new ISV/per-user pricing option and taking the wraps off a ...

Back in February, while Louisville, Ky., was defrosting after a freak storm buried the city in ice, IT exec Brian Cox was dreaming not of warmer climes but of desktop virtualization. Back in September ...