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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...

Citrix Provisioning Services (Citrix PVS) is a streaming technology that delivers software patches, updates, and other configuration data to multiple endpoints running virtual desktops through a shared desktop image. Citrix...

Multi-cloud management is the wave of the future in cloud computing. RightScale’s annual State of the Cloud Report states that 92 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy. Multi-cloud management is the process of...

With macOS Catalina, Parallels Desktop for Mac users have even more powerful ways to run Windows, Linux and other OSes on Mac. Sidecar There are two new features brought to Parallels Desktop with Sidecar. First, you can now...

Citrix Virtual Apps (formerly Citrix XenApp) is an application delivery solution that enables access to Windows-based applications to any device compatible with Citrix Receiver. What exactly is the difference between Citrix and...

When it comes to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, endpoint devices are critical. Thin Clients are becoming more and more common in VDI setups, while not being as well-known in the world of more traditional computer...