A vendor recently touted their type-1 client hypervisor as the “killer app” for Windows 7 and desktop virtualization adoption. Client hypervisors are great. I get it. You can run XP side-by-side with Win 7. You can have a personal desktop completely separate from your corporate desktop. But how exactly does that dramatically simplify management? A [...]

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At the recent VMworld conference, there were a lot of discussions around desktop virtualization. In fact, both Paul Maritz and Steve Herrod devoted significant time in their keynotes to the topic. Interestingly, Steve stressed the importance of user experience and talked about differing levels of user experience including a “productive desktop” over the WAN and [...]

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