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 Desktop Virtualization Is Coming... But From Who?
Virtualizing the desktop represents an even larger opportunity than virtualizing servers, but it may take someone other than a brainy, high level virtualization company to capitalize on it.
Did you assume I was referring to VMware? Well, you might be right.
Virtualizing desktops is fundamentally different from server virtualization. With the latter, data center cost savings and ease of management are paramount. With desktop virtualization, the same savings materialize. But before you can realize the savings, you have to do things in a way that both pleases and serves the interest of end users, and that's a different kettle of fish from advanced computer science. VMware is on track to become a $1 billion company later this year, mainly on the strength of server virtualization in the enterprise. It also offers ACE as a means of virtualizing desktops. There's nothing wrong with ACE, a product set that sends virtual desktops down the wire from a central server and runs them in VMware Workstation on individual PCs or laptops. But there's about a dozen ways of doing desktop virtualization and I'm not convinced VMware is the master of this space. Also, the price per unit is going to have to come down and will count more heavily on this side of the virtualization divide than on the server side.
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Charles Babcock
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting Started With Wireless Personal Audio: From Sound Systems To Headphones
By Turbocharging Networks, Blue Coat Becomes Cisco Rival
Making applications secure, safe, and fast is the focus of the Web security and network-optimization vendor, which has seen its share-price soar by almost 440% in the last year.
AMD Scrambles To Replace Henri Richard
CEO Hector Ruiz must now find a replacement for his sales and marketing lead as the company tries to turn around its struggling sales.
Trojan Authors Recruit 'Money Mules' From List Of Stolen Identities
While the hackers solicit mules to move money from compromised bank accounts, Monster.com shuts down data cache.
Sun Changes Nasdaq Symbol To Java; Will Stock Perk Up?
Sun hopes that trading for the better-recognized Java name will result in higher trading in the stock market.
An Inside Look At The Second-Fastest Growing Company In Business Intelligence Software
Panorama Software has a "coopetition" relationship with Microsoft that's more complicated and deep-rooted than most.
Alcatel-Lucent Loses Two Top Executives
D'Amelio's and Quigley's departures solve part of the problem created when the two companies merged and several executives found they were sharing similar job titles.
'Off-Network Data' Is Major Security Threat For Companies
A Ponemon study shows that a lot of data leakage is occurring on off-network devices, like laptops that leave the corporate confines.
Dems Launch Online Video, Contest For '08 Senate Slogan
Votes and slogan suggestions must be submitted by midnight on August 27.
U.S. Spy Agencies Go Web 2.0 In Effort To Better Share Information
In December, the DNI will launch A-Space, a portal that will eventually include everything from wikis, blogs, and social networking; built using SOA.
Phisher Pleads Guilty To 4-Year Attack On AOL
A man who waged a phishing scam against AOL users is facing up to seven years in federal prison.
File-Sharing Could Generate $28 Billion In Revenue Over Next Five Years
More cellular and wireline service providers are offering legitimate P2P and downloading services for their consumers, according to a report out this week.
After 20 years in the PC industry, AMD sales and marketing chief Henri Richard says he's leaving to join another industry.
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Virtualization At The Desktop?
The BI Explosion
No Go on iPhone Deal, Says Orange France
Now that we know who Deep Throat is, the favored topic of speculation is: who will Apple pick as its carrier partner in Europe for the iPhone? Yesterday The Financial Times Deutscheland puts its oar in the rumor stream, citing "people familiar with the matter" as saying that Apple will choose not one but three carrier partners ? TMobile in Germany, Orange France in that country, and O2 in the U.K. Alas, a person even more familiar with the matter, Orange executive director Louis-Pierre Wenes, has already issued a denial.
The Last CIO Standing: Joke #1
There?s nothing funny about being a CIO -- right?
Desktop Virtualization Is Coming... But From Who?
Virtualizing the desktop represents an even larger opportunity than virtualizing servers, but it may take someone other than a brainy, high level virtualization company to capitalize on it.
Software Bargaining Tips
A Business Week guest columnist offers tips on negotiating for business software. One tip surprised me.
Should CIOs Take Google Seriously?
I haven?t seen any evidence that tech execs have Google on their lists of top-tier enterprise application providers. Am I missing something?
Advertising Makes Mobile Search Better?
Nearly four out of five participants in a recent study conducted by Usable Products indicated that advertising-supported search produced more relevant results.
More People Using Mobile Google Services
Bucking typical summer technology trends, the number of savvy mobile users logging onto Google's services has jumped since May. The most popular mobile apps? Gmail, Google Maps, and good old Google search.
When Online Becomes Offline
It wasn't all that long ago that I was still declaring that online applications could never replace hard disk-based software. Just wouldn't happen. Yeah -- I was totally wrong.
Does Apple Have A Moral Obligation To Serve The Enterprise Market?
Blogger Anil Dash very nearly declares that Apple does. His essay is part of a blog conversation in which IT managers take a beating for deploying technology that's downright painful to use, as opposed the tools that delight the user, like the Mac and iPhone.
Calling Out The Storage Market's Innovators
Are you an IT professional who needs to find more efficient, cost-effective ways to handle the storage of your burgeoning corporate data before your infrastructure costs spiral out of control?
Path to Profit: Transform your Underwriting Processes
CGS Email Management & Archiving Solution Proves Successful for NYC Department of Health
How to Succeed with Offshore Software Testing When Almost Everyone Else Fails
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