"We think desktop virtualization, and VDI specifically ... is fully integrated with Citrix's HDX protocol, which optimizes graphics and multimedia performance on virtual desktops and mobile ...

(1) A virtual machine (VM) environment in the user's computer. See client virtualization. (2) Desktop virtualization also refers to a thin client architecture in which the user's OS and apps run ...

Available in IBM mainframes for decades as well as in Sun servers and other machines, hardware virtualization came to the huge x86 market in 2004 with Intel's Virtualization Technology (see VT).