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Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?

Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps

After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark

Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV

VMware announces tech preview of Arm hypervisor – Fusion on Apple's M1 silicon

And names a new CTO

09 Sep 06:58 | 7

PayPal buys Japanese buy-now-pay-later player Paidy for $2.7bn

It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters

09 Sep 06:01 | 1

VMware shreds planned support for 'cheese grater' Mac Pro

Sorry, vAdmins, you probably don't have an excuse to buy Apple's $699 wheels

06 Sep 03:57 | 27

Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling

Yet again, Microsoft tries to make your world more Azure-centric

31 Aug 04:30 | 18

Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon

Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?

10 Aug 11:35 | 19

VMware starts customer testing for vSphere on network accelerators

Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product

AWS adds browser access to its cloudy WorkSpaces desktops – but not for Linux

Microsoft's Windows 365 will do much the same when it launches

02 Aug 04:31 | 11

HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs

Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately

30 Jul 18:04 | 10

Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware

'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?'

29 Jul 13:31 | 5

VMware's security boss suddenly bails

Tom Corn heads to Open Systems as Virtzilla hints its SmartNIC push has borne fruit

26 Jul 05:58 | 1

KVM flaw on AMD servers gave malicious VMs a route to take over the host

Vuln thankfully patched following Google Project Zero disclosure

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Will containers kill VMs? There are no winners in this debate

Reg readers couldn’t split the argument – perhaps because we kept coming back to containers inside VMs being sensible

25 Jun 12:00 | 13

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The present is virtual, the future should be too

Containers are visitors from hyperscale-land. They should respect your ways when you invite them in

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Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that's why they'll win

Once you can only buy the apps you need as containers, it’s game over

23 Jun 12:00 | 17

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Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades

22 Jun 12:00 | 26

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VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!

21 Jun 12:00 | 57

VMware’s just given its best allies the tool to spread its Tanzu container creed

4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too

VMware’s ESXi-on-Arm adds support for two-socket servers, Nvidia boards

Ampere gets more love and the Raspberry Pi gets some stability tweaks for you virtual adventurers out there

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Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset

First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative

EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response

Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters

file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...

An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated

FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework

Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'

More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears

Back from the brink with new features

Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors

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Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon

Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg

08 Jun 07:56 | 22

Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published

Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)'

02 Jun 12:14 | 11

VMware’s incoming CEO promises to change ... almost nothing

And why would he change when quarterly revenue just cracked $3bn for the first time?

28 May 05:58 | 5

Majority of Nutanix users now employ its homebrew hypervisor

Hyperconverged upstart says subscription transition remains on track and emerging products booming

BlackBerry says it’s virtualised macOS for M1 on an x86 CPU

Tweaking QEMU to handle Apple’s XNU kernel was just the beginning

20 May 06:55 | 9

With Gelsinger back at Intel, VMware picks new CEO from within, shakes up execs

vRangarajan vRaghuram is vBoss after vMotion to vTop

12 May 19:15 | 1

VMware amends bug report claiming ‘Unauthorized API’ behind critical flaw - now says it's an 'unauthorised end point'

Whatever the source, remote code execution possible on vRealize Business for Cloud – which knows a lot about your private and public platforms

India’s massive COVID-19 wave slows VMware desktop hypervisor development

Virtzilla also admits to essentially merging Apple silicon efforts with ESXi on Arm

30 Apr 04:07 | 8

VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor

Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself

In 2020, VMware said its remote work kit was brilliant. Now it says you need its new stuff to do it right

Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants

22 Apr 06:55 | 2

Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor

Meanwhile, ESXi on Arm spotted booting Windows

15 Apr 04:04 | 16

Dell to spin out remaining VMware stake, cements Friends With Benefits status for at least five years

‘Market does not appreciate hardware/software combo’ says Big Mike. So virty giant gets freedom, customers are promised no change

15 Apr 01:28 | 11

AWS adds local webcam passthrough to both of its remote desktop tools

NICE DCV also gets support for Apple's M1 silicon

Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process

Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets

08 Apr 16:05 | 2

VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor

The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner

06 Apr 06:59 | 2

It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs

Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance

01 Apr 18:05 | 16

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