As part of a companywide restructuring plan, Citrix Systems Inc. this week announced that it is spinning off its "GoTo" product line and laying off about 1,000 employees.
- By Keith Ward
- November 19, 2015
Microsoft this week released the latest Windows 10 test build, which includes a preview of a new "nested virtualization" feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2015
In a deal that will reshape the IT landscape, Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire EMC Corp. for $67 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 12, 2015
According to the New York Times, Dell is in "advanced talks" to buy EMC, the parent company of VMware.
- By Keith Ward
- October 08, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new offering aimed at organizations with Azure virtual machines (VMs) that want to scale up their operations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 03, 2015
On Tuesday, Citrix announced that Mark Templeton, Citrix's president since 1998 and CEO since 2001, will retire after a successor has been chosen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 28, 2015
VMware and Microsoft are the two undisputed leaders in x86 server virtualization infrastructure, according to Gartner's 2015 "Magic Quadrant" report.
- By Keith Ward
- July 21, 2015
Michael Fraser laid out the case in these pages a year ago for how Microsoft could shift its licensing to enable Desktop as a Service in the next year or two. We caught up with Fraser for a largely discouraging update on progress in the last year.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- June 15, 2015
Perhaps you've heard the buzz about containers and how they're poised to become the next big thing in cloud computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday launched Hyper-V Containers in a move aimed at letting developers build more scalable apps and advancing container technology to more deployment scenarios and workloads.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 08, 2015
Microsoft's new Azure RemoteApp service will be available for purchase starting Dec. 11, Microsoft announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 05, 2014
Microsoft on Monday launched new virtual machine (VM) sizing options for its Microsoft Azure cloud services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 23, 2014
The next version of Windows could have a new "virtual desktops" feature, according to reports this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 08, 2014
Enterprise users "overwhelmingly" prefer Macs over Windows PCs, according to a study commissioned by VMware and conducted by Dimensional Research.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 07, 2014
Microsoft recently rolled out its Azure RemoteApp client for Windows RT devices, giving Windows RT users a way to access apps that they can't install on their machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 30, 2014
The Desktop as a Service (DaaS) field is rife with opportunity for partners and tech giants like Amazon Web Services and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2014
Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview version of a new tool, dubbed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit 1.0, which lets organizations test VDI scenarios using Remote Desktop Services (RDS) protocol.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2014
SMBs are ready for Microsoft to let DaaS out of the box now, but Microsoft licensing policies are holding the market back, argues VDI consultant Michael Fraser.
- By Michael Fraser
- March 10, 2014
Google and VMware this week announced a VDI deal in which Google's Chromebook laptops will be enabled to run Windows desktops and Windows apps.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2014
Microsoft this week took part in the Dell World event to lay out various virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) capabilities enabled by Windows Server 2012 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2013