Is the full-featured corporate desktop going the way of the dodo? Maybe not, but Citrix and Cisco are doing their part to make them a rarity in offices where hundreds, or even thousands, of the machines currently consume vast amounts of power. Bring on the thin clients! The companies today revealed that they plan to [...]
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Virtualization: The coming display protocol wars – Washington Technology The future of desktop virtualization may hinge on display protocols. VMware and Citrix take different paths: Which company is likely to win? SOA vendors see cloud computing writing on datacenter walls…
Desktop Virtualization seems like a great way to save energy and reduce desktop support. But experts warn that technology that can streamline the datacenter doesn’t necessarily translate into a cure-all for the topsy-turvy world of desktop support. Denise Dubie of…
HP Takes Aim at Cisco with Alcatel-Lucent Alliance – eWeek HP’s networking capabilities primarily lie within the data center, with switches that enable such communications as those between racks of server or between PCs and remote offices. What it didn’t…
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The greening of Apple OS X – Mother Nature Network OS X 1.6 solves that by allowing developers to create multithread software — software that can unlock the power of new multicore processors by letting one chip serve many tasks….
