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• VMware to buy Zimbra to bolster cloud computing push

  VMware is poised Tuesday to further redefine its cloud strategy by buying Yahoo's Zimbra open source messaging business in order to expand its stake in the platform-as-a-service market.

• 10 big IT management moves in 2009

  Enterprise IT management technologies underwent an image makeover in 2009. No longer just the mandatory tools discussed by engineers troubleshooting problems, IT management capabilities such as automation and service delivery became central to discussions around adopting virtualization, cloud computing and other emerging technologies that high-tech executives want.

• EMC upgrade backup and recovery software

  Only a few wisps of storage news this week from EMC, Virtual Instruments and start-ups Gridstore and Nasuni.

• Experts scrutinize 2009’s most notable IT apologies

  We asked Peter Goolpacy and the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds. The following contains their reviews of the apologies and their ratings of the apologies on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best.

• Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled

  Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called Acadia (for who knows what reason), the joint venture is a collaboration between the three companies that will launch in 2010 and sell what they call Vblocks, preconfigured packages of Cisco UCS blade servers, EMC storage gear, VMware virtualization software and EMC Ionix management software.

• 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.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware partnership is a long shot

  Cisco, EMC and VMware today joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, the announcement was called "unprecedented," something destined to lead to "greater IT infrastructure flexibility."

• Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture

  Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

• 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 ships Workstation for virtualizing Windows 7

  VMware has added support for Windows 7 and expanded the ability to handle virtual processors in Workstation 7, the new version of its platform for running multiple OSes simultaneously on a PC.

• With Hyper-V R2, Microsoft sets its sights on VMware

  Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.

• Windows 7 will drive virtual desktop adoption, VMware says

  The release of Microsoft's Windows 7 should increase adoption of desktop virtualization technology, but won't necessarily cause a massive shift from physical to virtual desktops, a VMware executive said this week.
  

• 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.

• 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.

• Microsoft Hyper-V R2 is hot on VMware's heels

  Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 offer substantial performance and functionality enhancements over the previous editions, but support for non-Windows guests remains extremely limited.