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• Longtime VMware CTO Steve Herrod steps down

  Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time.

• The best hardware, software, and cloud services of the year

  InfoWorld's 2013 Technology of the Year Award winners stretch from devices and desktops to data centers and beyond

• SDN promises revolutionary benefits, but watch out for the traffic visibility challenge

  Ever since VMware bought Nicira last July the term software-defined networking (SDN) has taken off, with players like Cisco, Juniper, VMware and even HP and IBM jumping on the bandwagon.

• Cisco uses LISP to articulate programmability

  Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.

• Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway?

  Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing.

• Hewlett-Packard expands service virtualization palette

  Hewlett-Packard has updated its service virtualization software, giving developers a broader palette upon which to test their programs.

• New TPC benchmark compares virtual workloads

  Extending its testing methodologies to the realm of virtualization, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has introduced a benchmark that allows organizations to determine the responsiveness of database systems operating in virtual environments.

• Nicira CTO shares sneak peek of company's SDN plans

  Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware environments and beyond.

• Bromium protects hosted desktops and Windows XP with its Microvisor

  Bromium has upgraded its security platform vSentry, which uses virtualization to isolate malicious code, to protect virtual desktops and old Windows XP PCs.

• How IT can become a driver of business growth

  IT departments don't live up to business-driving potential.

• Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform

  Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized.

• Red Hat RHEV gets storage savvy

  Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEL) package, Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities.

• Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares

  SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns.

• VDI Growth Brings Need for Endpoint Protection for Virtualization

  Aiming to help IT administrators manage security for physical and virtual desktops from a single pane of glass, Symantec joins the ranks of enterprise security providers optimizing their endpoint security offerings for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

• Alcatel-Lucent to take on Cisco, VMware in crowding SDN field

  Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization.