VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust Virtualization07 Jul 2025 | 10
Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4
VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model Virtualization30 Jun 2025 | 50
Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 39
Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications Virtualization17 Jun 2025 | 2
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA Legal16 Jun 2025 | 10
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away Virtualization06 Jun 2025 | 24
VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware Virtualization01 Jun 2025 | 22
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment Virtualization16 May 2025 | 11
‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix Next As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Virtualization08 May 2025 | 38
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches? And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling Lenovo brings its Neptune cold plates to servers packing sixth-gen Xeons to run VMware, Nutanix, and AzureStack Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Apr 2025 | 3
VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game Virtualization14 Apr 2025 | 42
VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October Virtualization11 Apr 2025 | 2
OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 8
VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines Virtualization28 Mar 2025 | 40
VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement Virtualization26 Mar 2025 | 59
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle Now working with seven hyperscalers for custom AI silicon. Not working on acquiring bits of Intel Virtualization07 Mar 2025 | 18
VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 8
Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger Exclusive Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 15
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Virtualization05 Feb 2025 | 8
VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant Patches30 Jan 2025 |
Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed Opinion Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers Virtualization28 Jan 2025 | 31
VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses Chips and software giant Broadcom says it's 'flexible and open' on licensing terms, but customers disagree Virtualization23 Jan 2025 | 28
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 34
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan? Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5
Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware Exclusive Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel Virtualization16 Dec 2024 | 18
Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year Virtualization13 Dec 2024 | 21
Broadcom makes U-turn on plan to serve top 2,000 VMware customers itself Canalys Forums APAC Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations – which Dell says are on the cards Virtualization05 Dec 2024 | 24
Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient Virtualization02 Dec 2024 | 40
No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had – but that was a mistake, you see Virtualization28 Nov 2024 | 9
AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table Virtualization26 Nov 2024 | 5
A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat Updated Customers are 'all miserable' but not yet deciding to bail - and AT&T appears to have settled its licensing dispute Virtualization22 Nov 2024 | 45
HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees Systems20 Nov 2024 |
Critical 9.8-rated VMware vCenter RCE bug exploited after patch fumble If you didn't fix this a month ago, your to-do list probably needs a reshuffle Virtualization18 Nov 2024 | 4
Broadcom makes VMware Workstation and Fusion free for everyone And yes, that does include commercial use in production Virtualization14 Nov 2024 | 28
VMware by Broadcom finds friends to advance its private cloud and AI visions VMware Explore User group members offered more generous discounts and licenses we're sure nobody would abuse Off-Prem05 Nov 2024 | 2
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping Virtualization31 Oct 2024 | 7
Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list Virtualization28 Oct 2024 | 3
VMware fixes critical RCE, make-me-root bugs in vCenter - for the second time If the first patches don't work, try, try again Patches22 Oct 2024 | 2
AT&T and Broadcom may settle VMware support case Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply – music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract Virtualization16 Oct 2024 | 7
VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in Virtualization15 Oct 2024 | 5
XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative XenServer fork plans to make its next version a better target for VMware migrations Virtualization08 Oct 2024 | 4
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant Software01 Oct 2024 | 34
VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops Updated Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Virtualization25 Sep 2024 | 6
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate Virtualization23 Sep 2024 | 31
VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation Bug reports made in China Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 1
Desktop hypervisors are like buses: None for ages, then four at once VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 23
Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move Price rises, uncertainty after Broadcom takeover forcing users to look elsewhere for virtualization needs PaaS + IaaS11 Sep 2024 | 65
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7
AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices Virtualization05 Sep 2024 | 29
Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware More help for Nutanix, too Software02 Sep 2024 | 23
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware's end-user compute biz – represents new risks Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty Virtualization28 Aug 2024 |
Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD VMware Explore While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’ Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18
VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud … sometime soon VMware Explore Claims just two management consoles will emerge VMware Explore27 Aug 2024 | 7
VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products VMware Explore Also working to clean up inconsistent APIs and lack of SSO across vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, vRealize and more Virtualization26 Aug 2024 | 1