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Kidaro, Microsoft, And Struggling To Define Desktop Virtualization: Page 2 of 3

I spoke with Kidaro CEO Kevin Brown for about 90 seconds yesterday afternoon; the conversation was cut short due to an emergency conflict on my end. Kevin and I hope to reconnect via phone next week while he is in Israel. I suspect he and his will be a bit busy for the foreseeable future, what with that recent Microsoft acquisition...
March 14, 2008

How do we define "virtualization" in the desktop/laptop space?

Take a second to reflect before you jump to answer.

Will embedded hypervisors push all user sessions to run as guest instances? Will Enterprise IT shops (with Symantec, Reflex, McAfee, or other security vendors) push dedicated virtual security appliances monitoring intra-host traffic, even when that host is "just" a dual-core laptop?

Can thin-client computing be dusted off and successfully re-branded as virtualization?

What about the desktop-in-a-browser model? Good, old-fashioned flavors of app presentation, variations on remote desktops or simple screen-sharing?

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