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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
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VMware virtually untouched by virus, impact of private Keith Urban concert for customers uncertain
Beats the guidance it didn’t think would survive the pandemic
29 May 06:56 |
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VMware reduces hardware footprint of its shiny new K8s-on-vSphere toys
Seven hosts might have been asking a bit much for early footling
26 May 02:02 |
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Adobe’s Flash fade may force vCenter upgrades unless you run dodgy browsers
What? Why? This one’s all about an eleven-month window of client complications
22 Apr 08:44 | 6
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XCP-ng celebrates six-figure download milestone
Now incubated as part of Xen project and has plenty of plans for hyperconverged and storage fun
20 Apr 06:52 |
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VMware finally delivers its K8s and vSphere combo
And tosses in a new cloudy manager for good measure
15 Apr 09:00 | 3
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VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM
But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration
02 Apr 12:01 | 6
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VMware seeks new Australian MD as Alister Dias departs for Asian role
Scores new gig promoting software-defined data centres
02 Apr 02:57 |
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Dell, VMware withdraw fiscal 2021 guidance amid humming global supply chain and remote work boom
UpdatedYou can't seriously be asking why. Do you live under a rock? The reason is coronavirus
27 Mar 01:07 | 2
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Still hoping to run VMware's ESXi on Arm any time soon? Don't hold your breath – no rush and no commitments
Xen, KVM muscling in, meanwhile
12 Mar 19:32 | 14
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Corporate VPN huffing and puffing while everyone works from home over COVID-19? You're not alone, admins
Microsoft and others take steps to handle remote staffer crunch
11 Mar 12:32 | 66
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Virtualization juggernaut VMware hits the CPU turbo button for licensing costs
Loving all those cores? You probably won't love the price
04 Feb 11:50 | 36
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VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff
Hundreds or more said to be chopped worldwide
28 Jan 23:26 | 11
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Why so glum, VMware? It's Friday. Oh, is it this $235m patent infringement invoice from Densify? Too bad, so sad
UpdatedVirtualization giant hit with massive tech blueprint verdict
24 Jan 23:36 | 11
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VMware has a Pivotal moment in its quest to be 'leading enabler of Kubernetes'
Shopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla
02 Jan 15:49 | 2
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Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine
Except it looks like all the trusts already have plans
10 Dec 12:30 | 59
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Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019
App-quiesced saves fail, workaround is to shrug it off
16 Oct 19:15 | 50
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Try to contain yourselves: Google Cloud lights Spark for Kubernetes
Dataproc service will run Apache Spark on K8s, now in alpha
10 Sep 16:05 |
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Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021
VMworldCEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry
27 Aug 12:00 | 13
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Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes?
VMworldWait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news
26 Aug 12:00 | 3
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A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn
Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall
23 Aug 00:53 | 7
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Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up
Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level
15 Aug 00:37 | 4
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Microsoft puts freshly borged FSLogix to work speeding up Office 365
It's a virtualized world and everyone's welcome. Even Citrix and VMware
02 Jul 12:32 | 1
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Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line
AI know what you did last summer
18 Jun 11:30 |
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You'll always need VMs says, surprise, VMware: Run on any cloud you like and get portability
Yep, and two sets of bills
14 Jun 08:08 | 11
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VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure
Dell World'Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well...
01 May 20:34 | 21
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An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family'
Making it the first new top-level project since 2012
10 Apr 11:01 | 8
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Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass
Don't need full-fat GUI? WSL doesn't cut it? Canonical has just the ticket
22 Jan 11:01 | 45
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If you don't like apps touching, Qubes 4.0.1 is a good place to jump in
Virty OS's latest version rolls up the best bits of 2018
11 Jan 15:22 | 1
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Corel – yeah, as in CorelDraw – looks in its Xmas stocking and discovers... Parallels
Art software maker snaps up virtualization tool for people who hate Qemu, Oracle VirtualBox that much
21 Dec 06:04 | 46
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Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts
Bring your own AWS. Or let us take care of everything. For a fee
07 Dec 14:07 |
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VMware's latest financial figures look virtually healthy if you page out Pivotal cash-splash loss
Plus: Pat Gelsinger reckons tech will do well in 2020, even if the US economy tanks
30 Nov 03:05 | 3
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Microsoft snaps up FSLogix to paint go-faster stripes on virtualized Office
Cash splashed for clever Cache
20 Nov 12:47 | 4
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OpenStack: We've seen the future, and it's metal (and infrastructure, natch)
OpenStack SummitNo need to learn Mandarin, we collaborate in English
15 Nov 14:20 |
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The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader
Have you tried innovating your enterprise synergy today?
06 Nov 08:17 | 18
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Tax me if you can: VMware UK tosses shrunken offering to HMRC
Just 11.52% on pretax profit. Virtualization juggernaut doing well in the distie stakes
02 Nov 13:29 | 27
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Slow your roll: VMware urges admins to apply workarounds to DoS-inducing 3D render vuln
Take your foot off the accelerator, admins told
11 Oct 12:43 | 2
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Still holding out on Windows 10? Microsoft tempts upgrade with virtual desktop to Azure
IgniteStill great pals with Citrix, but users will find the Windows 7 offer enticing
24 Sep 18:37 | 25
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Click your heels, um, mouse thrice and you've quickly got Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Win 10 Pro
Thumbs up for integrated clipboard, the rest... er, well...
19 Sep 05:28 | 21
