As the world of retail transforms from physical storefronts to letting people buy anything, anywhere, anytime, IT leaders are turning to virtualized desktops.
Virtual machines started showing up in banks soon after they were introduced, and today the full range of virtualization products are in use at just about every financial services company.
It's not widely known, but starting with Windows 8, Microsoft provides a built-in hypervisor -- at least in the Professional and Enterprise versions of the product.