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• Becoming a true IT service broker

  The concept of providing IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) is a high priority for CIOs as they look to shake off the traditional view of their departments as costly and inefficient parts of their businesses.

• VMware taps its R&D chief for vacant CTO role

  VMware has named Ben Fathi as its CTO, filling a prominent executive position that has been vacant for more than a year.

• Security researcher cancels talk at RSA conference in protest

  Security researcher Mikko Hypponen has canceled his talk at a RSA security conference in San Francisco, reacting to a report that the security division of EMC allegedly received US$10 million from the U.S. National Security Agency to use a flawed random number generator in one of its products.

• Australia owned the Cloud in 2013: EMC

  2013 was the year Australia beat the world out in Cloud adoption, according to EMC A/NZ general manager Channels, Brett Harris.

• Storage hardware sales hit by lower government spending

  Storage vendors struggled with a decline in spending by the U.S. government and increased investment in public cloud capacity during the third quarter, according to IDC.

• How to Use Analytics to Save Your IT Department

  As times change, so does the role of IT. A generation ago, it had to embrace PCs and client/server solutions. Now IT departments are faced with the consumerization of technology. Could the same analytics that helps companies predict customer behavior help IT departments stay relevant?

• Flash startup Pure Storage fights EMC in trade-secrets battle

  A legal war between EMC and flash startup Pure Storage has escalated to charges of patent infringement and illegally obtaining a storage array to mine it for intellectual property.

• To Beat IBM, Amazon Web Services Needs to Build the Next Xbox

  CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle isn't suggesting that Amazon get into gaming. Rather, AWS needs to approach IBM and the enterprise cloud the same way Microsoft successfully took on Sony. Otherwise, Amazon risks entering the annals of tech history alongside Lisa, Vaio and Zune.

• The waiting ends for EMC's XtremIO all-flash storage array

  EMC's long-awaited entry into all-flash storage arrays will finally get a full-fledged rollout next week, possibly setting the terms for mastery of the fledgling product category along the way.

• Verizon cozies up with Cloud Foundry as PaaS market heats up

  Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, today announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open source platform as a service (PaaS) initiative into its offering.

• Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch

  Game on: Cisco has acquired spin-in Insieme Networks for $863 million and rolled out a family of its switches that are the network giant's strategic answer to the growing software defined network movement.

• Cisco takes fight to SDNs with bold Insieme launch

  Game on: Cisco has acquired spin-in Insieme Networks for $863 million and rolled out a family of its switches that are the network giant's strategic answer to the growing software defined network movement.

• EMC sues startup for stealing trade secrets through staff hires

  EMC has sued Pure Storage for allegedly colluding with some of the storage giant's former employees to misappropriate and bring to the startup confidential EMC information and trade secrets, including lists and notes on current and potential customers.

• EMC's Syncplicity service tightens controls on shared files

  EMC will give users of its Syncplicity file-sharing and synchronization service more control over how their data can be accessed and used, including the ability to make files "time out" on a certain date wherever they may be stored.

• Wall Street Beat: Positive earnings news lifts tech shares

  Strong earnings news from Internet and IT vendors gave a boost to tech stocks Friday, with Microsoft shares touching a six-year high.