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UPDATED: The open source-based VMware View Open Client enables IT managers to host all of their companies’ user desktops in the data center with the ability to provision computing power and storage space as needed. Virtual desktops also bring green IT benefits, since they use far less electrical draw — in some cases nearly half as much — as a typical desktop machine.

VMware, which would dearly love to take over as many of the world’s desktop screens as it can, on Feb. 3 unveiled a freely downloadable virtual desktop client for enterprises that allows users to access and use their company machines remotely from any mobile device.

Anything the vendors can do to aid desktop virtualization and energy efficiency of the desktop platform or service has to be a good thing. It will be interesting to see how we take this to the next step, could we see me providing the IT and my employer providing my work specific applications? I’m off to read up more.

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