Citrix Desktop Virtualization

Infrastructure virtualization is a powerful trend in the industry nowadays, but the concept of virtualization has been around for many years. Virtualization technology has been pursued by vendors as a framework to divide the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments using a variety of hardware and software abstraction techniques, resulting in the separation of the logical interface from the physical machine. The next evolution was to virtualize the server at the machine level. There are two primary approaches to this type of virtualization: hosted and hypervisor. With the hosted approach, the virtualization layer is installed as an application and relies on the host OS for device support and physical resource management.