Parallels is in the news this week. The company just announced its new Workstation Extreme product, working with Intel, HP and NVIDIA to deliver a powerful desktop or workstation experience to the user. The company is leveraging pass through video, something I've been looking forward to for years now. And while speaking to Parallels, I also got their CEO's take on the recent news coming out of Gartner. The analyst firm stated that it expects the hosted virtual desktop market to explode to a whopping $65 billion in 2013. So where does Parallels see themselves in this market?   LISTEN!... READ MORE

Are we moving to a mobile management world? Citrix just released a free preview version of its mobile application, Receiver, for XenApp READ MORE

Parallels Workstation Extreme offers individual graphics cards to multiple virtual machines READ MORE

The hosted virtual desktop market is forecasted to reach 49 million units by 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner READ MORE

VMware has added three new white papers to the resource list that covers VMFS management, virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server, and learning more about VMware View Composer READ MORE

Listen to the Virtualization Report podcast for more discussion of the IBM-Sun talks READ MORE

It's beginning to look a lot like Microsoft over at VMware, at least around the executive washroom READ MORE

Sun overhauls its virtual desktop software offering with new features while it waits to see if IBM will move forward with its acquisition plans. READ MORE

Interested in working with Microsoft Hyper-V? This nine-part video Webinar could be exactly what you have been looking for. READ MORE

Much like the hypervisor in a server virtualization world, VDI connection brokers are beginning to become commodity for the virtual desktop. So how does a small, pioneering software firm like Leostream survive? READ MORE

I recently returned from the final Symantec ManageFusion event that took place at the MGM in Las Vegas. Symantec is itself one of the largest software companies around, reaching the $6 billion mark. At the show, I had the chance to speak with CEO designate Enrique Salem and Senior VP Ken Berryman, and I must say, I believe Symantec has the right vision and is moving in the right direction to gain marketshare in the endpoint virtualization business. So what are they doing with Endpoint Virtualization?   LISTEN!... READ MORE

Cloud computing may change how IT business is done, but does that necessarily translate into lost IT pro jobs? READ MORE

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, a competitor to VMware's vCenter, creeps closer with Live Migration management READ MORE

Symantec ManageFusion has a winning formula when it comes to trade shows -- let's hope they keep it as it merges into Symantec Vision READ MORE

VMworld Europe ended about two weeks ago now, and VMware news has been hitting the streets in droves. But what is Citrix up to? And what's happening around one of their cash cow products, XenApp? Find out about the new XTS Introspect product for XenApp and the latest on Citrix XenApp 5 Feature Pack.   LISTEN!... READ MORE