AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors
Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons
Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2023 |
Virtualisation
VMware offers hardware compatibility list for home labs
Crowdsourced and unofficial info for when you want to run ESXi for fun ... or when official rigs aren't right
Virtualization09 Mar 2022 | 5
Intel creates lite version of vPro management tech
And, because sometimes less is more, extends it to Chromebooks, too
On-Prem03 Mar 2022 | 5
Nutanix reshuffles product portfolio into bigger bundles
Plan calls for this to end in tiers
Storage15 Feb 2022 | 2
VMware fixes vSphere release it pulled, sorts out Log4j while it's at it
Driver drama is done, new dev practices should prevent repeats, says Virtzilla
Virtualization28 Jan 2022 | 2
Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums
La la la, we're not listening
Virtualization25 Jan 2022 | 11
NARROWER TOPICS
Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades
Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support
Virtualization03 Dec 2021 |
Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis
Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in
Systems01 Dec 2021 | 8
KVM flaw on AMD servers gave malicious VMs a route to take over the host
Updated Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure
Virtualization30 Jun 2021 |
After three leisurely years, Citrix releases second long-term-service hypervisor
Version 8.2 supports bigger hosts, improves network security and bins old Windows versions as guests
Virtualization26 Jun 2020 | 5
Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround
Workstation has one job: running VMs. And now it can do it on Windows with Hyper-V enabled
Virtualization01 Jun 2020 | 8
Windows 10 memory management changes to give Hyper-V more headroom
New VMs will use over-provisioned RAM reserved by other apps
Virtualization16 Jan 2017 | 9
VMware starts beta for Cloud Foundation on vCloud Air
Soundtrack choices: Beta The Devil You Know, or How Soon Is Now?
SaaS13 Dec 2016 | 1
Hyper-converged hyper-contender ZeroStack starts connecting clouds
Promises ESX-to-KVM-to-AWS and back again without involving architects
Systems14 Sep 2016 |
VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption
New beta kicks off with three big features plus 'various enhancements'
Virtualization06 Sep 2016 |
VMware's vDare: Build more complexity and silos, or virtualize more
VMworld You can't avoid the cloud, so Virtzilla says how you manage it will matter
Channel31 Aug 2016 | 5
Dell's new story: Goldilocks and the three virtual infrastructures
This server is too engineered. This server is too bespoke. This validated server's just right!
Virtualization30 Aug 2016 | 5
VMware fixes 'split brain' caused by 'stubbed toe' of botched NSX update
VMworld CEO Pat Gelsinger says pulled release was a glitch, not a culture fail
Channel30 Aug 2016 | 6
VMware goes back to its future with multi-cloud abstractions
Virtzilla's going to bet you've got server sprawl all over again, this time in the cloud
Virtualization29 Aug 2016 | 10
Redmond reveals Hyper-V 2016 beats vSphere's RAM and CPU count
It's not how big you are, it's what you do with it that counts
Virtualization26 Aug 2016 | 16
Microsoft baits new vSphere-to-Hyper-V switch offer
Free Windows Server 2016 licences for all my virtual friends!
Virtualization25 Aug 2016 | 18
VMware shipped public key with its Photon OS-for-containers
Add another item to Virtzilla's list of unfortunate mistakes
Virtualization16 Aug 2016 | 5
Reds are infiltrating VMs, says new x86 virt Supernatural Square
Chinese vendors and Red Hat are the big movers in Gartner's virtualisation Magic Quadrant
Channel12 Aug 2016 |
Boffins tweak StreaMon for the NFV era
Monitoring code put through the virtualisation atomiser
Networks08 Aug 2016 |
VMworld 2016: What happens in Vegas ... could be just a desert trip
Sysadmin Blog But very likely we'll cop an eyeful of VMware goodies
Channel03 Aug 2016 | 17
Virtual mirror on the wall, what will happen at VMware's ball?
We reckon virtual storage for containers, lots of hybrid cloud and a new vSphere release
Channel14 Jul 2016 | 4
AT&T's ECOMP code to land soon at Linux Foundation
Giant going MANO et MANO with pygmies
Networks14 Jul 2016 | 1
Tintri 'consolidates' Australian office to Singapore
If VM-aware storage can't thrive in the most virtualised nations on earth, where will it thrive?
Storage11 Jul 2016 | 5
VMware aims high with a little help from its friends
Taps little-known hooks in iOS and Android to make BYOD more secure
On-Prem14 Jun 2016 | 2
Virtuozzo to build full container stack, target the data centre
Adopts KVM, plans own Linux distro and software-defined storage product
Virtualization12 May 2016 | 2
'Dirty Page Logs' coming to future vSphere release
New Xeon bits make virtual machines more reliable, secure
Virtualization11 May 2016 | 3
Xen hypervisor to gain non-disruptive patching in June
Release candidates for version 4.7 should emerge any day now
Virtualization28 Apr 2016 | 2
Dell gives up on vWorkspace virtual desktops
Support and sales continue for current users, but Dell's looking over the (VMware) Horizon
Channel20 Apr 2016 | 3
VMware signals new open source and developer push with FOSS-meister gig
Also opens vSphere beta beyond the devoted faithful
Channel19 Apr 2016 | 3
Intel bins ESXi in in-house private cloud revamp
Chipzilla goes all—in with OpenStack, but multi-hypervisor plan no longer includes Virtzilla
Virtualization14 Apr 2016 | 9
Oracle plays virtual catch-up with new VM release
Big Red makes it to virtual 2013 with storage live migration, FCoE and OVF support
Virtualization29 Mar 2016 | 3
vAdmins vJoice! vSphere finally gets a modern web client
vSphere 6.0 Update 2.0 lands, complete with a VAIO (not that VAIO)
Virtualization17 Mar 2016 | 9
Cisco plans routers that are servers, or vice-versa, with KVM aboard
UCS E-series and ISR 4000 update due, NFV for SOHO kit on the roadmap
Networks09 Mar 2016 | 3
Oracle acquires Ravello, will bake it into Big Red Cloud
Cloud hypervisor tech should make vaporous voyages to Uncle Larry's bit barns easier
Virtualization23 Feb 2016 | 2
Brocade steps up mobile strategy with virtual EPC software
LTE rollouts were too expensive, let's get it right for 5G
Networks17 Feb 2016 |
Xen forgets recent patches in new maintenance release
Is this any way to run a supposedly cloud-grade hypervisor?
Virtualization16 Feb 2016 | 9
Nokia kicks off pre-MWC race with tech show-and-tell
Al-Lu, Al-Lu... Notice anything new about us?
Virtualization09 Feb 2016 | 1
VMware kicks off new vSphere beta test
New code's already run at VMworld Europe, so this looks to be the icing on the cake
Virtualization08 Feb 2016 | 3
Parallels opens new Windows with app virtualistion upgrade
New plan is to do what Citrix and VMware do, for less, for less-deep-pocketed orgs
Virtualization04 Feb 2016 | 4
New Xen maintenance release ends active version 4.4 development
Users urged to go forth and implement 4.4.4
Virtualization29 Jan 2016 | 2
Move vSphere VMs to XenServer? Citrix thinks someone wants it
New tech preview scales up, eases migrations and mixes CPUs into compute soup
Virtualization22 Jan 2016 | 5
OpenStack abandons AWS challenge dreams, makes eyes at telcos
Virtualisation is the future. Not cloud. Got that?
Virtualization21 Jan 2016 | 6
While you pretended to work, Cloud operators fixed two Xen bugs
Missing sanity checks and host-killer bug hit open-source hypervisor
Virtualization21 Jan 2016 | 3
VMware UK and Ireland lands SAP industries chief
Virt giant pulls Phull
Channel15 Jan 2016 |
2015 was VMware's Year of Living Dangerously
El Reg's virtualisation desk casts its eye over VMware and pals' prospects for the new year
Virtualization25 Dec 2015 | 9
Xen Project blunder blows own embargo with premature bug report
Malicious guest could eat your virtual rigs from the inside
Security23 Dec 2015 | 3
VMware, Xen issue urgent patches
It's going to be a virtual Christmas for virtualisation admins
Software21 Dec 2015 | 12
Here at last: That big data benchmark from TPC
First end-to-end database virtualisation test is also here
Systems18 Dec 2015 | 3
Hyper-V sets VM created date to 1601, in the reign of Good Queen Bess
Meanwhile, Hyper-V 2016 adds feature VMware's had, and Microsoft's hidden, since 2010
Virtualization29 Nov 2015 | 16
OpenBSD's native hypervisor emerges
By all means start rummaging, but expect breakage in this very early code
Virtualization23 Nov 2015 | 9
How much do containers thrash VMs in power usage? Thiiiis much
When process sandboxes talk, electricity meters scarcely need to listen
Virtualization06 Nov 2015 | 17
How can it possibly be time to patch Xen again?
Xen Project issues maintenance release, urges upgrade sooner rather than later
Virtualization06 Nov 2015 | 6
Devote Thursday to Xen and the art of hypervisor maintenance
Nine Xen fixes due to land, but don't panic: cloudy users have them already
On-Prem27 Oct 2015 | 2
'Composable infrastructure': new servers give software more to define
Cisco, Intel, IBM and HP are bridging virtualisation and the software-defined data centre
On-Prem26 Oct 2015 | 5
Nutanix to float its Community Edition code into the cloud
Home lab admins, this one's for you, by the hour
Virtualization26 Oct 2015 |
EMC animates franken-cloud with bits of itself, VMware, VCE and Virtustream
VMware beats the street, flings vCloud Air into new joint venture
On-Prem21 Oct 2015 | 1
VMware considered de-composing NSX into discrete products
One ring to bind all hypervisors is Virtzilla's next network virty goal
Virtualization21 Oct 2015 | 1
Biting the hand that feeds IT
