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• Juniper SDN veteran lands at Brocade

  Brocade has named former Cisco and Juniper engineer Benson Schliesser as distinguished engineer, responsible for helping shape the company's network virtualization strategy.

• 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.

• Citrix buys Framehawk to give virtual desktops a boost

  Citrix Systems has acquired Framehawk for an undisclosed sum, and will use the company's technology to improve the performance of virtual desktops and applications over wireless networks.

• 10 top tests of 2013

  Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area.

• HP hits restart on 'converged systems,' takes aim at vBlock

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: Hewlett-Packard released new "converged systems" on Monday that aim to get customers up and running quickly with virtualized applications and big-data analytics.

• IT managers are increasingly replacing servers with SaaS

  IT managers want to cut the number of servers they manage, or at least slow the growth, and they may be succeeding, according to new data.

• Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack gets Win 8.1 management capabilities

  The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualization.

• VMware adds more scale to Virtual SAN beta

  VMware has posted a new beta release of Virtual SAN (VSAN) that lets enterprises add more storage capacity and management features.

• Bitcoin gets new friends, but still a bit player

  Bitcoin scored several big wins this week, including endorsements from U.S. federal officials and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, signalling its progress toward wider acceptance.

• WAN specialist Talari adds $15M in venture funding

  Talari Networks, a San Jose maker of WAN virtualization/aggregation appliances and software, added $15 million to its coffers via a new round of venture financing.

• AWS: Our virtual desktop will succeed where others have stumbled

  With the launch of a new hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service called WorkSpaces, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to convert more enterprises to virtual work environments, something other IT companies have enjoyed only modest success in doing.

• Cloud news: Amazon targets high-speed graphics; Rackspace boosts VM performance

  Two of the leading Cloud computing providers have announced significant revisions to their on-demand virtual machines, with Rackspace rolling out new higher performing SSD-based VMs, and Amazon Web Services reducing the prices on one class of its VMs and introducing a service for graphics processing.

• Ease of management, mobility drive VDI at Bentleys Brisbane

  Bentleys Brisbane has begun a pilot of virtual desktops, with the independent Queensland accountancy using appliances that bring together both storage and compute in a single package as an alternative to traditional SAN infrastructure.

• Open Virtualization Alliance joins the Linux Foundation

  The Open Virtualization Alliance has joined the Linux Foundation as a collaborative project to deepen its ties with the Linux community.

• VMware identifies vulnerabilities for ESX, vCenter, vSphere, issues patches

  VMware today said that its popular virtualization and cloud management products have security vulnerabilities that could lead to denials of service for customers using ESX and ESXi hypervisors and management platforms including vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere Update Manager.