All of which leads us to the question: how do we manage virtual desktop environments today in the cloud-native world of always-on computing? How Do We Manage Virtual Desktops?

When cloud computing is used, it is a virtual machine in a server that customers are actually renting, unless, of course, they rent an entire server and run it as a single machine.

Hypervisor technology has been one of the building blocks of cloud computing from the start. In recent years, though, this method of “virtualization” to separate a computer’s operating ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the ...

Cloud computing has revolutionised the delivery of scalable and cost‐effective computational resources, yet this paradigm also introduces unique security challenges.

Microsoft will soon offer Azure virtual machines with ultra-high memory capacities, a move that could attract an entirely new set of developers to the platform.

AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than ...

While the cloud offers lower costs, scalability and flexibility, it also expands a company’s risk profile exponentially. In fact, attackers are continually refining their techniques to take advantage ...

The report says: “In the cloud weaponisation threat scenario, an attacker establishes a foothold within a cloud infrastructure by compromising and taking control of a few virtual machines. The ...