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• HP pushes thin clients with new hardware, tools

  Hewlett-Packard is trying to tackle concerns about the cost and complexity of thin-client computing with new products and tools announced Tuesday.

• Citrix virtual desktop customers still using VMware on back end

  Citrix's desktop virtualization customers are still using VMware's server hypervisor on the back end, but a Citrix executive claims a shift away from VMware is afoot.

• 5 things missing in VMware's new virtual desktop app, View 4

  With VMware's release of View 4 last week, the company is promising two things: Full desktop performance at a desktop price tag.

• HP's new architecture tackles IT sprawl

  Hewlett-Packard has unveiled new offerings to help customers address IT sprawl and build IT infrastructures that can quickly scale as the need arises.

• Big IT is back, say HP, IBM, Oracle, EMC, Cisco

  A certain truth about the big IT vendors is they want to sell as much as possible to any one customer and now, with virtualization, cloud computing and very tight IT budgets, they believe they have an opening.

• VMware's Fusion 3.0 release leads to confusion

  VMware Inc. is having trouble getting VMware Fusion 3.0 out its download door and is getting customer complaints about timeouts and licensing problems.

• VMware reports a sharp drop in profit

  VMware's third-quarter profit dropped by more than half as the company invested more heavily in research and development, though its revenue increased 4 percent from a year earlier, the company said Wednesday.

• Citrix bows to customer pressure on XenDesktop licensing

  Citrix Systems has added more licensing options and editions to its upcoming desktop virtualization platform XenDesktop 4, including the option to pay by the number of devices used, it said on Tuesday.

• Ncomputing kit talks to virtual desktops over USB

  Ncomputing is launching a device that can be used to add a virtual client to a host PC via a USB connection.

• Parallels launches bare-metal hypervisor

  It took some time to arrive but Parallels has entered new territory with the launch of its bare metal hypervisor. Parallels Server Bare Metal is aimed squarely at cloud computing providers enabling them to offer a range of new services to their customers.

• Virtualization: Tips for avoiding server overload

  As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.

• VMware ties disaster recovery to vSphere, lifting obstacle to adoption

  VMware’s Site Recovery Manager is now supporting vSphere, eliminating one of the obstacles preventing customers from upgrading to the latest version of VMware’s virtualization platform.

• dynaTrace adds virtualization and SOA capabilities to its app performance manager

  dynaTrace software is offering Wednesday an upgrade to its "continuous" application performance management system,  featuring accommodations for virtualization and SOA, the company said,

• Jetstar CIO helps airline fly against the downturn

  The global financial crisis has been hard on may industry sectors, but arguably few are doing it as tough as the airline industry.

• Unisys tames virtualisation for more innovation

  Embracing virtualisation through an eight-year transformation journey at Unisys is paying off with 700 fewer servers and innovation up from 8 to 30 per cent of IT spending, according to one of the chief architects of the change, vice president of global services for systems and technology, Brian Ott.