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Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it

21 Oct 02:45 | 5

China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

Foreign ownership capped at 50%

20 Oct 19:03 | 6

Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything

VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos

14 Oct 08:03 | 6

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected

13 Oct 12:05 | 7

VMware’s stack heads to Arm architecture – out on its new two-faced edge

vSphere as-a-service on the way too, along with software-defined memory

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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'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator

What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo

Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year

Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions

We regret to inform you there's an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility

Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it

Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks

Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations

Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged

We're closing the gap with Arm and x86, claims SiFive: New RISC-V CPU core for PCs, servers, mobile incoming

As it appears Intel's attempt to gobble the upstart collapses

Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office

Tell us you've been jabbed or...

Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time

Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton

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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 | 58

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

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

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