VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...

There is still no sign of the delay-ridden client hypervisor that VMware announced nearly two years ago as one of its 'vClient' initiative's key technologies VMware is accustomed to dominating the ...

In a nutshell: Users and customers of VMware products have one less reason to worry about the future after the Broadcom acquisition. The Workstation line of desktop hypervisors will not be ...

VMware is accustomed to dominating the world of server virtualization, but its attempts to become the de facto virtualization vendor on the desktop haven't gone quite as well. Nearly two years after ...

Desktop virtualization is hot -- ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...

Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs. Developing all the necessary drivers needed ...

Desktop hypervisors offer companies a way to run multiple operating systems, and the applications tied to them, on a single client machine. Common use cases would be support staff, help desk and ...

'To China.' They're going to China. Desktop hypervisors are a losing proposition at this point; too many adequate, free competitors. This thread makes me sad. /me hugs my VMWare fusion which ties oh ...

Citrix is unveiling its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, known as XenClient, with a test version being released for download this week and general availability expected within a few months. Client ...

Says the company could release a client hypervisor better than Citrix's fairly quickly if it wanted to, but customers aren't ready for a bare-metal hypervisor VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to ...