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The head of VMware's security group has left to join San Francisco's OpenDNS, a startup that provides Internet infrastructure services.

In a bid to make backup and recovery easier for IT administrators to handle, EMC is updating several pieces of its storage management software portfolio.

AMD's new Shanghai processors are designed to improve performance of applications running in virtual machines with various features that reduce the amount of work required from a hypervisor.

Open source management software provider Hyperic this week introduced an upgrade to its platforms that lets IT managers monitor virtual environments, better plan for capacity and track performance of services delivered via cloud computing.

The future of corporate IT is in private clouds, flexible computing networks modeled after public providers such as Google and Amazon yet built and managed internally for each business's users, the analyst firm Gartner says.

Parallels Tuesday launched Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0, the latest version of the virtualization software that lets users of Intel-based Macs run other operating systems, including Windows, on their machines.

What Sun Microsystems lacks in size as a storage vendor it is trying to make up for with innovation, as it rolls out a series of appliances that include advanced management software and SSDs (solid-state drives).

Visa is looking for a few good people to run its next-generation data centers.

Juniper Networks this week will gloss over the fact that its chassis-based data center switch is shipping later than planned by playing up its total cost of ownership position.

The use of flash memory to dramatically improve transaction processing highlights a new line of storage appliances announced Monday by Sun Microsystems.

Microsoft next week will distribute a pre-beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 to a select group of testers and highlight the software's virtualization capabilities, integration with Windows 7 and other features.