Citrix recently reported Q2 2011 earnings, which was accompanied by the customary Q&A session for analysts.  It’s somewhat puzzling to see the Citrix CFO admit that they are not focused on server virtualization.  In fact, he even jumped at the chance to praise Hyper-V.  Here is the excerpt: Bradley Whitt – Gleacher & Company, Inc.

While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT's attention right now. At the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, the interest in virtualization security ran high - with good reason. Different IT departments are at different points on their virtualization journeys, of course, and some are still thinking about security in the old physical world terms, analysts say.

VMware is integrating performance, capacity and configuration management with the launch of vCenter Operations, in an effort to give users more control over growing virtualized IT infrastructures, the company said on Tuesday.

VMware's Paul Maritz has given up his title of president to four senior executives who will serve as co-presidents of the EMC-owned company. With Maritz - himself a former Windows executive - continuing to hold the CEO title, three of the top five executives at VMware are now ex-Microsoft officials.

Will the IT group of the future emphasize commodity, or play a vital role in business offerings? CIO.com's Bernard Golden says both views are true -- and the CIO of the future has to push one to make room to achieve the other.

A couple of days ago, Verizon bid to acquire Terremark, for a total equity value of $1.4 billion. My colleague Ted Chamberlin and I are issuing a First Take on the event to Gartner clients; if you’re looking for advice and the official Gartner position, you’ll want to read that. This blog post is just some personal musings on the reasons for the acquisition.

Today, we'd like to spotlight two great reports that may interest our audience. The first report, written by Abner Germanow and Jonathan Edwards at IDC is titled "Virtualizing UC: Reaping the Benefits and Understanding the Issues for Real-Time Communications." The second report is called "Accelerating UC Deployment with a SIP/XML Architecture" written by Zeus Kerravala, distinguished research fellow at Yankee Group. The reports are sponsored by Avaya and are hosted on Webtorials.

Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.

Through its partner program, IBM unveils a virtual desktop offering for small businesses

The ever-ambitious SolarWinds, a longtime network management fixture, is broadening its reach once again.