2010: The year your desktop goes virtual?
Server virtualisation is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the corporate IT infrastructure – and now industry experts are predicting that it won’t be long until corporate desktops follow suit.
Desktop virtualisation refers to the running of a PC’s operating system within a central datacentre. Users have a screen and terminal (or thin client) on their desk, which connects to the operating system running on the server via the local network. To the user, the experience is similar to the operating system running on their physical machine but in reality the processes are run and the data is stored in a central location.
