Thin Client is an application or a computer as a terminal of a network. The operation of a thin client runs with less hardware, represents only user interface. Thin client is a concept between fat client and ultra thin client. A fat client is responsible not only for the input and output for the processing of the data. Thin Client Desktop Devices Operation of a thin client is with … [Read more...]
Virtualization
Virtualization and various virtualization related technologies has been explained including hardware virtualization, Software virtualization.
Virtualization
Virtualization refers to the methods, which allow a computer's resources to split. The term Virtualization is used differently in many different applications. There are many concepts and technologies in the field of hardware and software that use this term Virtualization. The primary goal of Virtualization is to provide the user with an abstraction layer from the actual hardware isolated - … [Read more...]
Virtual Machine (VM) : Basics of Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine or VM is run through a software emulation or hardware virtualization or both to run programs like that on a real physical computer. Hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a virtualization software , which provides an environment for a virtual machine that is created. An essential feature is that virtual machine running the processes are limited by resources and abstractions … [Read more...]
Free Hyper-V Backup Tool From Altaro
Free Hyper-V Backup Tool From Altaro is quite nice offering from Altaro for Windows 2008 R2 users to backup their virtual machines. Kindly note, this is for taking backing backup of Hyper-V not Windows 7 personal computer. Previously we published an article on Virtualization with Hyper-V and Memory Paging File, except that all of our articles on Virtualization is actually related to UNIX based … [Read more...]
Myths and Realities of Virtualizing Applications : An Infographic from EMC
Myths and Realities of Virtualizing Applications has been discussed through various articles. EMC has presented it in infographic form. We were personally requested to review the infographic presentation of myths and Realities of Virtualizing Applications, and we really found the graphical representation of Myths and Realities of Virtualizing Applications is quite informative and graphically … [Read more...]
Virtualization : How Virtualization Works and What it Does
Virtualization is now offered not only bigger companies, but also by small or medium sized companies. But how this Virtualization works and what it does. We have published various articles on Virtualization, this article explains two basic questions : How Virtualization Works What Virtualization Does How Virtualization Works We have previously discussed about basics of server … [Read more...]
Virtual Data Room (VDR) : What it is, How it Works
Virtual Data Room is a web platform that allows to make data available and share documents and multimedia files in a completely secure and confidential way. Virtual Data Room is particularly targeted for the organizations which require highly secured environment like Banks; but needs to allow multiple authorized users to access the data. Understanding the function of a Virtual Data … [Read more...]
Benefits of Desktop Virtualization for Business
Virtualization is becoming an indispensable technology. We already have pointed out that Cloud Computing is just a product of Virtualization Technology. And now think the number of Virtual Private Servers used today. This article will give an overview on the topic Benefits of Desktop Virtualization for Business. What are the benefits of desktop virtualization for an Enterprise? Do the companies … [Read more...]
Virtual Hosting : IP-Based and Name-Based Virtual Hosting
Virtual Hosting refers to the method in which multiple domain names or rather websites can run on a single server. From a network perspective, there are two basic types of virtual hosting referring to virtualization of Internet-based services. The difference lies in the method applied by the server when a request to determine which of the services provided by it. IP-Based Virtual … [Read more...]
Organic Computing : Initiative and Current Research
Organic computing is an interdisciplinary research initiative with the explanatory concerns to gain a better understanding of organic structures and the development goal of an organically structured information technology. Organic Computing research initiative refers to the biological paradigm of self-organized information processing in organic systems. Biological organisms show specific features … [Read more...]
Virtual Private Network (VPN) : Let us go into Details
Virtual Private Network (VPN) has been discussed superficially before. In this Post we have shifted the gear to go in to details on Virtual Private Network. Virtual Private Network is an interface in a network and has two different meanings. The conventional Virtual Private Network is used to bind users in a network to another network. This kind of Virtual Private Network users is participant of … [Read more...]