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What is an RDP Client? Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a connection protocol developed by Microsoft to provide users with a graphical interface while connected to another computer over a network connection. The connecting user must...

What is a Virtual Machine? As the name suggests, a virtual machine (VM) is a virtual environment that simulates a physical machine. VMs have their own central processing unit (CPU), memory, network interface, and storage, but...

When using Citrix Receiver, there may be an issue with Citrix Receiver not launching a desktop. To minimize lengthy user downtimes caused by desktops unable to launch, it is important to understand the most common...

A typical Citrix environment can be complex. What might seem like a simple problem in the Citrix Receiver (renamed to Citrix Workspace App) can turn out to be very hard to troubleshoot. For instance, if a user’s...

Virtual desktop software is a solution built solely on desktop virtualization technology. It provides organizations or individuals a way to create and store multiple instances of user desktops on top of powerful computer...

Is your Citrix remote desktop not launching? Something as seemingly uncomplicated as a Citrix remote desktop not launching can be due to a number of causes. Here are five of the most common, and a look at Parallels RAS as...

Virtualization plays a major role in computing in general and is gaining relevance in desktop computing. When in use as test environments or virtualized desktop systems, virtual machines (VMs) may seem to have quite low security requirements...

Virtualization plays a major role in many businesses, though this may not always be immediately apparent to Mac users. Increasingly, the applications they work with will not be running on tangible hardware but rather on...

High Availability Load Balancing (HALB) is crucial in preventing potentially catastrophic component failures. Central to this concept is the use of a system of primary and secondary load balancers to automatically...

What Is a Virtual Workstation? A virtual workstation is another term for a client device connecting to a virtual machine (VM) that hosts desktops and applications. These virtual machines work on top of hypervisor...