VMware’s Chris Young Joins Cisco to Lead New Security Engineering Team

 VMware Senior Vice President Chris Young will join Cisco and lead its new security engineering team, which was formed through a merger of Cisco’s global government security division and its security technologies group.

Young will replace the departing Tom Gillis, who will “pursue his entrepreneurial passion outside Cisco,” according to a company blog post.

Young’s responsibilities at VMware included…

Symantec and VMware Deliver Desktop-as-a-Service Solutions: Chirantan Desai Comments

Today at VMworld 2011, Symantec and VMware announced an expansion on their strategic partnership to define and architect Desktop-as-a-Service solutions.

Their goal is to provide secure, pre-integrated and well-managed desktop computing environments for enterprises and IT service provides. This initiative will leverage VMware virtual desktop and cloud infrastructure solutions such as VMware vSphere 5 with Symnatec…