In the past few weeks, I've spoken with representatives of JBoss and TIBCO. Both of these companies are proponents of the idea that Web-based applications are best built using an application framework ...

What is Microsoft App-V? Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) is an application virtualization client that makes an application available to end users without installing it on a personal ...

Virtualization, as the buzzword du jour, gets applied in many unexpected ways. One use that may become more familiar is application virtualization, as VMware is snapping up Thinstall, a leading ...

Have you heard? Thin is “in” again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin client computing are being ...

To increase the ROI of their virtualization efforts, organizations are virtualizing servers that support business-critical applications. While many tools help manage virtual servers, they provide ...

Application virtualization is one of those technologies that has been around for a little while now, but it just doesn't seem to get the same attention as its older sibling -- server virtualization.

At EMA, my research into virtualization (which you can help, by taking the survey here – more on that later) has brought me to the world’s largest software companies to talk about their recent ...

AI workloads can expose GPU and virtualization limitations that directly affect VM mobility, replication, and architecture choices. Physical constraints such as server form factor, power availability, ...

This discussion of datacenter and server technology is part of an ongoing series of Ars-hosted discussions that are sponsored by CDW. There has been a lot of chatter recently about so-called ...