Thin Clients & Desktop Virtualization


British School Brings Desktop Apps to Students' Mobile Devices

Futures Community College, a secondary school in the United Kingdom, has implemented new technology to accelerate BYOD adoption on its campus by providing access to desktop applications via students' mobile browsers.

Lenovo Acquires Classroom Management, Cloud Services Company Stoneware

Lenovo, one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world, today revealed that it's acquiring Stoneware, a developer of classroom management and cloud software tools.

Pano System for Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0 Gets Improved Device Management, Endpoint Security

Pano Logic, a developer of zero client desktop virtualization products, is releasing Pano System for Cloud/Terminal Services 2.0, which enables organizations to connect legacy terminal services resources to current cloud-based computing resources.

Hanover PSD Deploys Remote Desktop Clients for High School Students

High school students in Pennsylvania's Hanover Public School District now have browser-based access to Microsoft Office and other hosted Windows apps from their Chromebooks, laptops, and tablets, anywhere they have an Internet connection.

Dell Offers Desktop Virtualization Bundle and New Wyse Thin Client

Now that Dell's acquisition of Wyse is complete, the newly joined operation has come through with a new US-only desktop virtualization bundling deal for education customers as well as a new model of thin client.

Oracle Desktop Virtualization Offerings Get Enhanced Storage, Security

Oracle has released new versions of its desktop virtualization products, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.4, Sun Ray Software 5.3, and Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1.

Caifornia District Takes Computer Labs Virtual

The Woodland, CA Unified School District has replaced its legacy computer lab desktop systems with virtual desktops.

ViewSonic Enhances MultiClient Computer Offerings

ViewSonic has expanded its MultiClient line of desktop virtualization products to include two new zero client plug-and-play adapters, the VMA15 and VMA25, and it has added support for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Userful MultiSeat Linux 2011.

Netelligent Offers Virtual Desktops as a Service

Cloud and managed services provider Netelligent has partnered with desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) provider Desktone to offer cloud-hosted virtual desktops as a service.

Ericom AccessNow 2.0 Beefs Up Security, Gets Native HTML5 Overhaul

Ericom Software has released version 2.0 of its HTML5-based remote desktop protocol (RDP) client, Ericom AccessNow.