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 | 7
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 | 58
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
Xen Project delivers solid hypervisor update and keeps working on RISC-V port While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat Virtualization06 Mar 2025 |
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
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes Presumably hosted by AWS? Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 23
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
India's top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers Asia In Brief PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more Virtualization03 Mar 2025 | 5
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 | 7
Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month Throw Copilot down the same well, too, maybe? No? OK Software03 Feb 2025 | 20
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
Citrix slated to axe its Technology Professional program Advocates also cut as company focuses on 'priorities of our key customers' Virtualization27 Jan 2025 | 13
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
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 7
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 32
Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program Updated Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Uncertainty is the new certainty
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips World War Fee There's a new tariff in town
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically
Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz 800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive You can't keep a good OS down
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
Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay Virtualization12 Dec 2024 |
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
Citrix gives its Platform a polish with enhanced management tools Admins promised they can get stuff done with fewer clicks this year … or maybe next Software19 Nov 2024 | 5
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
VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping Virtualization31 Oct 2024 | 7
Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list Virtualization28 Oct 2024 | 3
Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet Software17 Oct 2024 | 8
AT&T and Broadcom may settle VMware support case Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply – music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract Virtualization16 Oct 2024 | 7
VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in Virtualization15 Oct 2024 | 5
XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative XenServer fork plans to make its next version a better target for VMware migrations Virtualization08 Oct 2024 | 4
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out? Virtualization03 Oct 2024 | 4
AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant Software01 Oct 2024 | 34
VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops Updated Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Virtualization25 Sep 2024 | 6
Xen to RISC-V port progresses with foundational efforts But work on big ticket items needed to make the combo a contender is yet to commence Virtualization24 Sep 2024 | 6
AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate Virtualization23 Sep 2024 | 31
Citrix adds remote Mac support, but some customers are grumpy License changes and product bundles aren't going down well, says Gartner's DaaS magical quadrant Virtualization20 Sep 2024 | 5
VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation Bug reports made in China Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 1
Desktop hypervisors are like buses: None for ages, then four at once VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 23
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7
AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices Virtualization05 Sep 2024 | 29
Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware More help for Nutanix, too Software02 Sep 2024 | 23
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware's end-user compute biz – represents new risks Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty Virtualization28 Aug 2024 |
VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products VMware Explore Also working to clean up inconsistent APIs and lack of SSO across vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, vRealize and more Virtualization26 Aug 2024 | 1
Broadcom promised to reform VMware so it enables better hybrid clouds. Will it deliver? VMware Explore It needs to – Virtzilla's customers, allies, and enemies are all pondering off-ramps and trying to lure unhappy users VMware Explore26 Aug 2024 | 8
HPE nabs long-time ally Morpheus Data The CMP boasts to be the orchestration platform behind GreenLake since 2022 Software15 Aug 2024 |
Xen hypervisor quadruples its possible core count for version 4.19 Pesky test infrastructure woes seem to be solved, too Virtualization01 Aug 2024 | 4
Desktop hypervisors are not dead: Oracle preps major VirtualBox update Solaris support persists and support for Armed Macs improves VMware Explore30 Jul 2024 | 29
Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace' We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny VMware Explore26 Jul 2024 | 3
VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions VMware Explore24 Jul 2024 | 9
Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6
Xen Project in a pickle as colo provider housing test platform closes Updated Admits it may struggle to fund and implement replacement infrastructure Virtualization11 Jul 2024 | 26
Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday Citrix, SAP also deserve your attention – because miscreants are already thinking about Exploit Wednesday Patches10 Jul 2024 | 19
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power VMware Explore03 Jul 2024 | 46
Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 4
VMware by Broadcom makes its stack easier to live with, as promised Compute, storage, and networking virtualization brought together – with live ESXi patching VMware Explore25 Jun 2024 | 5
How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v Devconf.cz Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly VMware Explore21 Jun 2024 | 17
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers HPE Discover It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes Virtualization19 Jun 2024 | 4
VMware by Broadcom warns of two critical vCenter flaws, plus a nasty sudo bug Specially crafted network packet could allow remote code execution and access to VM fleets Patches18 Jun 2024 | 8
Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 attacks vSphere and Azure to run VMs inside victims' infrastructure Who needs ransomware when you can scare techies into coughing up their credentials? Security17 Jun 2024 | 5
VMware revenue plunges $600M, but Broadcom assures investors growth plan is on track Costs cut deeply, with more to come, and forward bookings surge Virtualization13 Jun 2024 | 16
VMware and Dell back together with fresh OEM agreement Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging Systems11 Jun 2024 | 6
Google takes on virtual desktops with acquisition of app-streamer Cameyo Legacy apps on Chromebooks is the goal, which won't terrify VDI incumbents like Citrix and Omnissa Virtualization06 Jun 2024 | 2
Broadcom’s VMware strategy looks ever more shaky - and less relevant Opinion Yes, it’s that darned AI again Virtualization03 Jun 2024 | 25
VMware by Broadcom has a licensing portability win with Microsoft If only customers could find their keys after support portal migration Virtualization03 Jun 2024 | 12
Lenovo claims Dell has run off the VxRails and can't sell hyperconverged VMware Big Mike's server shack offered a cryptic response. PLUS: Nutanix results Virtualization30 May 2024 | 11
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Next Computershare CTO says he got a bill 15 times his previous quote Virtualization22 May 2024 | 74
John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink Next Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry Virtualization22 May 2024 | 30
IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4
CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed Next Predicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix Virtualization21 May 2024 | 43
Veeam adds support for VMware alternative Proxmox to its backup software Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy Virtualization15 May 2024 | 8
VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition Virtualization14 May 2024 | 91
VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS Virtualization01 May 2024 | 16
VMware’s end-user compute community told to brace for ‘Omnissa’ shift Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts Virtualization26 Apr 2024 | 7
Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers Updated CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Virtualization24 Apr 2024 | 1
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 | 15
Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters Virtualization12 Apr 2024 | 49
VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration Virtualization12 Apr 2024 | 13
Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions There's a new version of Canonical's LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving Virtualization10 Apr 2024 | 7
VMware customer reaction to Broadcom may set the future of software licensing Opinion Enterprise tech slingers want to see what Hock Tan can get away with – and replicate it Virtualization05 Apr 2024 | 25
VMware by Broadcom plots pair of Cloud Foundation releases that will show off its strategy Exclusive But unhappy European buyers have called for regulators to step in Virtualization02 Apr 2024 | 3
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs Virtualization27 Mar 2024 | 3
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom Claims members will be bankrupted by new VMware licensing regime, and vital services disrupted Software21 Mar 2024 | 24
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers Databases21 Mar 2024 | 1
VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers Exclusive 'White label' program also means retaining customers Virtualization19 Mar 2024 | 12
Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community But rates his first 100 days in charge a 'strong start' Virtualization15 Mar 2024 | 35
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11