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Desktop virtualization

Index Desktop virtualization

Desktop virtualization is software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it. [1]

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Application virtualization

Application virtualization is software technology that encapsulates computer programs from the underlying operating system on which it is executed.

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Citrix Receiver

Citrix Receiver is the client component of XenDesktop and XenApp, developed by Citrix Systems.

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Citrix Systems

Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational software company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies.

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ClearCube

ClearCube is a computer systems manufacturer based in Austin, Texas, owned by parent company ClearCube Holdings.

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Comparison of remote desktop software

This page is a comparison of remote desktop software available for various platforms.

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Comparison of VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop

Represented by their respective products, VMware and Parallels, Inc. are the two commercial competitors in the Mac consumer platform virtualization market.

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Content as a service

Content as a service (CaaS) or managed content as a service (MCaaS) is a service-oriented model, where the service provider delivers the content on demand to the service consumer via web services that are licensed under subscription.

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Cross-platform virtualization

Cross-platform virtualization is a form of computer virtualization that allows software compiled for a specific CPU and operating system to run unmodified on computers with different CPUs and/or operating systems, through a combination of dynamic binary translation and operating system call mapping.

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CVD

CVD may refer to.

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DAAS

DAAS, DaaS or Daas or may refer to.

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DbDOS

dbDOS is software developed by dBase for Windows computers with Intel processors.

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Dell EMC XtremIO

Dell EMC XtremIO is Dell EMC’s high-volume, high-capacity all-flash enterprise storage platform.

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Dell FX100

The Dell FX100 is the company's first thin client, advertised as a "zero client".

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Dell Wyse

Wyse is an American manufacturer of cloud computing systems.

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Desktop outsourcing

Desktop outsourcing is the process in which an organization contracts a third party to maintain and manage parts of its IT infrastructure.

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Desktop sharing

Desktop sharing is a common name for technologies and products that allow remote access and remote collaboration on a person's computer desktop through a graphical Terminal emulator.

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En Pointe Technologies

En Pointe Technologies, headquartered in El Segundo, California, is a technology solutions provider that supplies I.T. products and services to medium and large enterprises, educational institutions, government agencies and non-profits nationwide.

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Ericom Software

Ericom Software, Inc., founded in 1993, is located in Closter, New Jersey, and provides software for enterprise-wide application access and application publishing for server-based computing environments.

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Goverlan Systems Management

Goverlan Reach Systems Management is a remote access software created and distributed by Goverlan, Inc.

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Green computing

Green computing, green ICT as per International Federation of Global & Green ICT "IFGICT", green IT, or ICT sustainability, is the study and practice of environmentally sustainable computing or IT.

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Gridcentric, Inc.

Gridcentric, Inc. was a software company that provided virtualization technology for datacenters.

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Hardware virtualization

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems.

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Hosted desktop

A hosted desktop is a product set within the larger cloud-computing sphere generally delivered using a combination of technologies including hardware virtualization and some form of remote connection software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common.

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HVD

HVD may refer to.

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Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.

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Iland

iland Internet Solutions provides hosted cloud infrastructure as a service for production business applications, disaster recovery and business continuity, testing and development, and software as a service enablement for independent software vendors.

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Independent Computing Architecture

Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems.

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InstallFree

InstallFree Inc. is a privately held company, backed by Ignition Partners and Trilogy Equity Partners, with headquarters in Stamford, CT and offices located worldwide.

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Jason Nieh

Jason Nieh is a Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University.

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Kaminario

Kaminario is a Needham, Massachusetts-based computer data storage company founded in 2008.

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List of acquisitions by Oracle

This is a listing of Oracle Corporation's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.

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List of computing and IT abbreviations

This is a list of computing and IT acronyms and abbreviations.

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List of mergers and acquisitions by Citrix

Citrix Systems is a computer software company that was founded in 1989 by Ed Iacobucci.

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Login VSI

Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) is an IT company that specializes in software technology to test and monitor the performance and availability of centralized desktop environments, such as server-based computing, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop as a service (DaaS).

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Lookeen

Lookeen is an enterprise search and desktop search product released in 2008 by Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH.

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Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya) is an experimental computer scientist, a founding pioneer in edge computing, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things.

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Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of utilities for Microsoft Windows customers who have subscribed to Microsoft Software Assurance program.

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Microsoft Software Assurance

Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) is a Microsoft maintenance program aimed at business users who use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other server and desktop applications.

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Mobile virtualization

Mobile virtualization is hardware virtualization on a mobile phone or connected wireless device.

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Mobile workspace

A mobile workspace is a user’s portable working environment that gives them access to the applications, files and services they need to do their job no matter where they are.

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Moka5

Moka5 (also called MokaFive) was a desktop virtualization company founded in 2005.

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Multiseat desktop virtualization

MultiSeat Desktop Virtualization is a method by which a common desktop PC, with extra keyboards, mice, and video screens directly attached to it, can be used to install, load, and concurrently run multiple operating systems.

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NComputing

NComputing is a desktop virtualization company that manufactures hardware and software to create virtual desktops (sometimes called zero clients or thin clients) which enable multiple users to simultaneously share a single operating system instance.

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Nimble Storage

Nimble Storage is a predictive flash storage technology company based in San Jose, California founded in early 2008.

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Nirvana Phone

A Nirvana Phone concept refers to a smartphone that can be docked with external displays and keyboards to create an alternative desktop or laptop computer system.

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Nivio

Nivio was a company marketing desktop virtualization services that allow a customer to use computer application software without a personal computer.

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NX technology

NX technology, developed by NoMachine, and commonly known as 'NX' is a proprietary computer program that provides desktop and remote access.

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OnLive

OnLive was a Mountain View, California-based provider of cloud virtualization technologies.

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Oracle VDI

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software is a desktop virtualization product that provides desktop virtualization to replace personal computers with virtual machines (VMs) on a server.

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Pano Logic

Pano Logic was a manufacturer of devices which present virtual desktops to the end user with no local processing power (a contrast with thin client technologies).

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Parallels Desktop for Mac

Parallels Desktop for Mac, by Parallels, is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.

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Parallels Server for Mac

Parallels Server for Mac is a server-side desktop virtualization product built for the Mac OS X Server platform and is developed by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop virtualization and virtual private server software.

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Portable application creators

Portable application creators allow the creation of portable applications (also called portable apps).

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Post-PC era

The Post-PC era is a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as wearable and ubiquitous ones.

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Pure Storage

Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise data flash storage company founded in 2009.

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Qumranet

Qumranet, Inc. was an enterprise software company offering a desktop virtualization platform based on hosted desktops in Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) on servers, linked with their SPICE protocol.

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QVD (software)

QVD is an open-source virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product built on Linux.

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Remote Desktop Protocol

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.

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Remote Desktop Services

Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allows a user to take control of a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection.

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Remote desktop software

In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely on one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server), while being displayed on a separate client device.

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Remote mobile virtualization

Remote mobile virtualization, like its counterpart desktop virtualization, is a technology that separates operating systems and applications from the client devices that access them.

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RingCube vDesk

RingCube vDesk is a Desktop virtualization product from RingCube Technologies.

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SD-WAN

SD-WAN is an acronym for software-defined networking in a wide area network (WAN).

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Software as a service

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted.

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Sun Ray

The Sun Ray from Oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments, originally introduced by Sun Microsystems in September 1999 and discontinued by Oracle in 2014.

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Systancia

Systancia is a French software company that develops software for desktop and application virtualisation, cloud computing and remote access security solutions.

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Telecommuting

Telecommuting, also called telework, teleworking, working from home, mobile work, remote work, and flexible workplace, is a work arrangement in which employees do not commute or travel (e.g. by bus or car) to a central place of work, such as an office building, warehouse, or store.

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Teradici

Teradici is a privately held software company founded in 2004, with head offices in Metropolitan Vancouver, BC and Santa Clara, CA.

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Thin client

A thin client is a lightweight computer that has been optimized for remoting into a server-based computing environment.

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ThinLinc

ThinLinc is a cross-platform remote desktop server developed by Cendio AB.

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Ulteo

Ulteo is a software company which provides free and open source (FOSS) virtual desktop solutions.

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Univention Corporate Server

Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is a server operating system derived from Debian GNU/Linux with an integrated management system for the central and cross-platform administration of servers, services, clients, desktops and users as well as virtualized computers operated in UCS.

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Userful

Userful Corporation is a Canadian software company that specializes in video walls, digital signage, interactive displays and desktop virtualization.

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VCE (company)

VCE (abbreviation for "Virtual Computing Environment") was a division of EMC Corporation that manufactured converged infrastructure appliances for enterprise environments.

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VDI

VDI may refer to.

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VDIworks

VDIworks is an American Software Company founded in 2008 and provides services like desktop virtualization, Desktop as a Service (DaaS), Networking, PCoIP and Cloud Computing.

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VideoOverIP

VideoOverIP is a remote desktop protocol developed by Texas-based, desktop virtualization and cloud computing company, VDIworks.

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ViewSonic

ViewSonic Corporation is a multinational electronics company specializing in visual display technology, specifically liquid-crystal displays, projectors, modern educational display technology and more.

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Virtual Computer

Founded by Alex Vasilevsky, Virtual Computer is a venture-backed software company in the Boston area that produces desktop virtualization products, which combine centralized management with local execution on a hypervisor running on PCs.

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Visual Cloud

Visual Cloud is the implementation of visual computing applications that rely on cloud computing architectures, cloud scale processing and storage, and ubiquitous broadband connectivity between connected devices, network edge devices and cloud data centers.

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VMware

VMware, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies that provides cloud computing and platform virtualization software and services.

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VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion is a software hypervisor developed by VMware for Macintosh computers.

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VMware Horizon View

VMware Horizon View is a commercial desktop virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems.

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Wanova

Wanova, Inc, headquartered in San Jose, California, provides software to help IT organizations manage, support and protect data on desktop and laptop computers.

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Workspace virtualization

Workspace virtualization is a way of distributing applications to client computers using application virtualization; however, it also bundles several applications together into one complete workspace.

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Xangati

Xangati, Inc is an American-based private company, that provides service assurance analytics software for enterprises and service providers, operating in virtualized data centers and hybrid cloud environments.

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XenClient

XenClient is a desktop virtualization solution from Citrix that runs secure virtual desktops on endpoint devices.

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XenDesktop

XenDesktop is a desktop virtualization software platform that allows multiple users to access and run Microsoft Windows desktops that are installed at a centralized location separate from the devices from which they are being accessed.

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2X Software

2X Software was a Maltese software company specializing in virtual desktop, application virtualization, application delivery, Remote Desktop Services, remote access and Mobile Device Management.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization

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