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Microsoft’s sales of new software have taken a hefty hit from the economic downturn but the sheer size of the company’s existing share of the market, with its software installed on many millions of machines worldwide, has seen its revenues hold up well in a belt-tightening market.

In the midst of the world financial crisis, green IT still remains a top priority on the IT agenda of governments and is growing in importance for the public sector, according to a report released by Ovum after the recent G20 summit in London.

The global ramping up of large-scale virtual server implementations is likely to drive demand for what IDC is calling a newly defined competitive market - virtual server management software – for distributed systems.

Virtualization vendor, VMware, has snapped up a senior manager from Computer Associates (CA) to head up its Asia Pacific and Japan regional business with responsibility for strategic planning, business development and management of key functions for the region, including sales, channels, services, finance and marketing.

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), storage and data management solutions provider, says it is offering customer what it claims is the industry’s first-ever guarantee program for installed third-party storage.