Whitepapers

By Michael Rose, IDC

With over 600,000 corporate PCs in use worldwide, money invested in the management of desktop environments represents a material percentage of overall IT spend for the vast majority of businesses. After a tremendous amount of growth in the use of hypervisors in datacenters, the technology is now being applied to the desktop environment in various ways and is the most recent addition to the set of tools that can be used to manage PC environments.

By Brian Madden, BrianMadden.com, a TechTarget Company

Client hypervisors have the potential ability to radically impact our industry. They are not just about delivering virtual desktops to local client devices. Rather the true value of a client hypervisor is in the desktop lifecycle management arena, not in the desktop virtualization space. In this paper, Brian Madden explores the value of bare-metal client hypervisors in the context of PC lifecycle management.