virtual desktops

• Article | 13/05/2010 McAfee and Citrix partner to secure virtual desktop

  McAfee and Citrix have announced a strategic partnership and collaboration agreement to make secure virtual desktop and make it scalable for large ent...
• Article | 19/03/2010 Microsoft sweetens pot for the virtual-desktop curious

  In an effort to capture what it sees as a growing market for virtual desktops within enterprises, Microsoft is simplifying some licensing agreements a...
• Article | 3/02/2010 Linux, Windows or both? Doesn't matter to virtual desktop vendor, Ulteo

  Ulteo is poised to offer commercial support for its free virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software, which the open-source startup says will cost c...
• Article | 11/12/2009 Red Hat open sources desktop application protocol

  Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), i...
• Article | 21/10/2009 Citrix bows to customer pressure on XenDesktop licensing

  Citrix Systems has added more licensing options and editions to its upcoming desktop virtualization platform XenDesktop 4, including the option to pay...

• Article | 20/04/2009 Desktop Virtualization and Licensing: IT Wary of Gotchas

  CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, admini...
• Article | 20/02/2009 Virtual desktops ripe for deployment, hindered by cost

  Desktop virtualization, with its promises of improved security, manageability and flexibility, may be on the verge of huge adoption, some experts are ...

Whitepapers about virtual desktops

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  A Guide to Staying Secure Amidst Gorwing Threats and the Expanding Digital Universe

  Security management needs to evolve to protect business, government, and individuals from growing cyber threats. This Paper outlines challenges facing security executives and teams and uses an “air traffic control system” analogy to show how advanced security management systems can deliver better security by providing a single point of visibility and coordination for physical, virtual, and cloud assets. Solutions are presented where business processes, policy, controls, and data work in concert to achieve the vision of an air traffic control system for information security.

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  Can you harness clouds without creating storms?