Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter
OpenInfra Summit Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives
PaaS + IaaS31 Oct 2025 |
VMWare
Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences
CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns
Networks28 Oct 2025 | 3
IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service
Blames Broadcom’s licensing changes that haven’t caused other hyperscalers to pull the pin
Off-Prem28 Oct 2025 | 24
Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell
As negotiations stalled, Broadcom feared Tesco no longer saw it as a long-term partner
Legal28 Oct 2025 | 62
VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks
Promises to get it right this coming weekend
Virtualization30 Sep 2025 | 7
Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender
One console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments
Virtualization12 Sep 2025 | 19
VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’
Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off
Virtualization11 Sep 2025 | 36
VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Opinion Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?
Virtualization08 Sep 2025 | 67
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers
Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators
Virtualization05 Sep 2025 | 9
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply
Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
Virtualization03 Sep 2025 | 129
vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list
Nor is its Arm port
VMware Explore28 Aug 2025 | 3
We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine
VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines
VMware Explore27 Aug 2025 | 27
VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy
The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango
VMware Explore27 Aug 2025 | 1
Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises
Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 26
VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix
Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice
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VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps
EXCLUSIVE Because AI, like everything else this year
VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 2
VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland'
The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better
VMware Explore25 Aug 2025 | 11
Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants
Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up
Virtualization12 Aug 2025 |
EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court
COMMENT CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters
Virtualization24 Jul 2025 | 6
VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches
Exclusive Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support
Virtualization23 Jul 2025 | 25
VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support
Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation
Virtualization18 Jul 2025 | 1
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Cloud Infrastructure Month16 Jul 2025 | 49
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs
'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'
Virtualization11 Jul 2025 | 24
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 | 40
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 | 5
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
