I’ve never really gotten my head around virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for higher ed. With Amazon’s announcement that they will now be offering the ability to rent a virtualized desktop, ...

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy, via webcast. Amazon Web Services is launching its own virtual cloud desktop service, called Amazon WorkSpaces — promising to deliver a Windows 7 operating system ...

Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at ...

The new Amazon Workspaces service, unveiled Wednesday, lets customers rent access to virtual desktops running in the AWS cloud for a monthly fee. Amazon has launched a limited preview of the service ...

Amazon made the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud a major force in business IT with its Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, the retail giant is betting that it can do the same with its new ...

There’s a new challenger in the desktop virtualization space. Amazon just announced Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. WorkSpaces sits higher in the stack than ...

Amazon WorkSpaces, announced in November 2013 and only accessible to a small group of selected users, is now available to the public. The AWS customers can purchase a subscription at a price between ...

Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, ...

Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing the ...

SAN FRANCISCO–Amazon made it easier for customers to use its WorkSpaces cloud-based virtual desktop service with the launch of two new features focused on deploying apps to a large number of employees ...

For years I’ve been complaining about the many challenges facing small and medium sized companies who really want to migrate all their applications to the cloud. Performance is one factor, and that’s ...