Horizon 7 includes Blast Extreme, a new remote display protocol. Blast Extreme is an interesting new feature, touted by VMware as being comparable to PCoIP. In order to work with the protocol, and ...

Here's how to connect users to remote virtual machines with Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services. Improvements to Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 include not only better performance ...

In a recent blog post, Klaas Langhout, director of program management on Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services team, offered a list of infrastructure and management improvements to come in the newer ...

Server virtualization technology from vendors such as VMware and Xen is causing IT managers to address management challenges related to server provisioning, patch management and disaster recovery.

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Virtual wars: VMware vs Virtual Server 2005 But how easy is it to centrally administer a very large infrastructure of virtual servers? Surprisingly easy, actually. Micrososft's Virtual Server 2005 ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...