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• VMware promises better 3D graphics on virtualised desktops

  VMware is hoping to persuade more enterprises to make the leap to virtual desktops by improving graphics capabilities and allowing them to circumvent Microsoft's licensing terms.

• VMware reverses decision on ThinApp licensing, readies new version

  ThinApp users have scored a victory as VMware has decided to keep offering it as a separate product and said a new version will arrive soon.

• VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available

  VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone.

• VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites

  Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.

• ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence

  Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations intelligence from data gleaned from the network. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rothstein for an update on the company and what it has learned about things like virtual packet loss (hint: it can be the bane of highly virtualized environments).

• More than third of businesses to virtualize more than half of servers: survey

  About 40 per cent of businesses will virtualize 51-75 per cent of their servers over the next 12 to 24 months, according to a global survey by IDC and Flexera Software.

• Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI

  VCE, the datacentre-focused joint venture formed by Cisco and EMC/VMware, this week rolled out converged infrastructure systems designed to support the latest technology from the founding companies as well as specialised offerings for Oracle and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.

• VCs throwing gobs of money at cloud, security, mobile startups

  Tech startups focused in hot areas such as virtualization, mobility and security have pulled in tens of millions of dollars over the past week or so from venture capitalists looking to back the next big thing.

• VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco

  How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement.

• VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco

  How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement.

• VMware's virtualization quest could help shake up storage, too

  The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization.

• VMware spotlights key NSX security tool for deploying security software and services

  VMware's NSX network virtualization platform, expected out by year end, will have a key security tool for deploying security software and services to VMware-based virtual machines.

• Will Microsoft office finally play nice on the iPad?

  For all the success the iPad has enjoyed, it's only big drawback has been that Microsoft Windows software - and Microsoft Office, in particular - doesn't perform well. However, now Parallels has unveiled an app that brings full versions of Windows desktop software to the touch-based iPad.

• Citrix integrates Netscaler with VMware's network virtualization platform

  Citrix Systems will use its NetScaler Control Center for VMware to manage NetScaler functionality within virtualized networks that use VMware's NSX platform.

• HP, Juniper to help VMware take on networks with NSX

  VMware's big splash in software-defined networking with its NSX network hypervisor comes with partnerships already in place to flesh out its virtual networks.