What new desktop virtualization technologies are in the works?
The biggest development is the emergence of bare-metal hypervisors, a type of local desktop virtualization that installs the hypervisor on top of the PC’s operating system. They not yet widely available, but vendors say they will provide better security than Type 2 hypervisors, because the bare-metal type runs independently of the client operating system, and deliver better performance than hosted desktops, because applications run on the local client instead of a remote server. The technology is in various stages of development, but you can expect to see generally available products from the likes of VMware, Citrix, Neocleus and Virtual Computer later this year.
