Is the full-featured corporate desktop going the way of the dodo? Maybe not, but Citrix and Cisco are doing their part to make them a rarity in offices where hundreds, or even thousands, of the machines currently consume vast amounts of power. Bring on the thin clients! The companies today revealed that they plan to […]
WhipTail: SSDs for effective and efficient VDI
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief […]
Wyse Launches Virtual Desktop Accelerator
The greenest datacenter is the one you don’t have to build, according to thin computing provider Wyse Technology. The firm today unveiled Wyse Virtual Desktop Accelerator (VDA) software that brings performance gains generally associated with WAN acceleration offerings to virtual…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 29
Computer Green-Off – Earth911.com According to a recent study, 70 percent of businesses are greening their efforts, and the leaders in the IT industry are no different as the industry’s top computer brands – HP, Apple and Dell – all…
IBM Smart Business Cloud Services: Come Hither, Enterprises
The enterprise cloud seduction begins… Big Blue’s services division is looking to build bridges to the cloud for businesses that desire to capitalize on the benefits of this lofty form of computing. Lofty because while several cloud services have launched…
