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10 BlackBerry productivity apps; Supercomputer uses flash storage drives Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Citrix Systems A Clear View Toward Virtualization Virtualization has busted out of the data center and overspread the desktop and application worlds. Citrix has emerged as a major innovator in virtualization solutions. Read this Executive Viewpoint featuring Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Click here. Spotlight Story Red Hat takes aim at Microsoft, VMware with virtualization, cloud strategy Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft, laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service providers. Read full story Related News: 10 BlackBerry productivity apps Improve your worklife with 10 easy-to-use productivity apps. Supercomputer uses flash storage drives The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science problems faster than systems with traditional hard drives. VMworld 2009: Virtualization, controversy and eating your own dog food VMworld, one of the industry's biggest virtualization conferences and VMware's home turf, was hosted this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Here are 15 things seen and heard at the show. VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns VMware's cloud initiative depends upon customers and vendors using vSphere. Will it prevent true cloud interoperability? YouTube reportedly in talks to offer movie rentals YouTube is in talks with Hollywood movie studios to offer streaming movie rentals, according to The Wall Street Journal. EC opens deeper probe of Oracle-Sun merger The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing "serious concerns" about the deal's effect on competition in the market for databases. Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group. Five indicted in long-running cybercrime operation New York prosecutors indicted five Eastern European men in an extensive credit-card fraud operation that netted the defendants at least $4 million from some 95,000 stolen card numbers. Brits are worst in Europe at online security Brits are lax at updating their security software, compared to their European counterparts, says PC Tools. Businesses need to assure their cloud data is transferrable News that VMware's cloud efforts are supported only by VMware products is troubling for the security of cloud services. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are 10 sports technologies to love, 5 to hate Many technologies help fans enjoy sports. Others just annoy. Apple disasters Apple has enjoyed huge success with the iPod and iPhone, but Apple has had a number of commercial flops, too. Security Solutions With the threat landscape constantly changing, you need to have comprehensive protection that isn't complicated. With Sophos, you get complete protection for less investment. 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