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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 | 9

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

VMware builds narrow one-way road to move its crown jewels towards cloudy subscriptions

...but only on clouds it controls. Multi-cloud licensing is still all sorts of fun

31 Mar 12:15 | 1

Working from home is the future, yet VMware just extended vSphere 6.5 support for a year because remote upgrades are too hard

Death of Flash means vAdmins still have work to do to stay alive even with relaxed new deadline

29 Mar 03:09 | 5

Two ransomware strains target VMware’s ESXI hypervisor through stolen vCenter creds

CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER give you extra reasons to patch last week’s critical vCenter bug

01 Mar 00:30 | 5

Linux as root partition on Hyper-V: Microsoft submits patches for kernel 5.12

Next step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux'

17 Feb 15:45 | 6

VMware very strongly suggests TPM for all servers in tightened vSphere security guide

Upgrades to version 7.0 are going to require your full attention, especially if you’re fond of VGA output

11 Feb 06:57 | 7

Incoming Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was offered board seat before sudden pitch for top job

Advice to next vCEO: Execute the plan, faster

02 Feb 07:29 | 5

Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments

Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day

26 Jan 18:31 | 4

VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel

Virtzilla’s next boss has container-centric challenges tho nothing as hard as the task of making Intel great again

14 Jan 01:04 | 3

VMware completes first year of Tanzu with Advanced Edition GA, announces magic tool for app modernization

Enterprise customers 'are struggling with the implementation of Kubernetes at scale' says virty cloud giant

13 Jan 19:13 | 1

Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing

What a time to be alive

13 Jan 05:58 | 47

Pizza and beer night out the window, hours trying to sort issue, then a fresh pair of eyes says 'See, the problem is...'

Cold comfort for manager at the top of the escalation chain

08 Jan 08:16 | 231

Judge rules Corellium iOS research app 'fair use' in slap to Apple

But DMCA claims about circumventing security protections still stand

04 Jan 16:03 | 5

VMware adds vim and vigor to vMotion between different vCenter servers

Improved cloud-hopping capability started as a mere Fling, make AWS an easier target

21 Dec 04:30 | 2

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo

Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

Is there a back button for reality?

iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat

Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

China broke into govt, defense, finance networks via zero-day in Pulse Secure VPN gateways? No way

Crucial flaw won't be fixed until next month

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

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QEMU brings back its one-OS-a-day virtual advent calendar

Open source emulator wishes you a merry VM every day between now and Christmas

02 Dec 04:29 | 12

VMware names virtual firewalls as first workload it will offload to SmartNICs

Stateful L4 and L7 protection coming ... eventually

17 Nov 14:59 | 5

Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit

Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc

07 Oct 06:31 | 6

XCP-ng starts thinking long-term, for support, UEFI, storage and more

Properly FOSS version of XenServer promises at least five years of support for next release, maybe more

02 Oct 04:56 | 1

US-China trade war worse for tech business than COVID-19, says VMware's Asia boss

Buyers aren't super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops

01 Oct 07:30 | 6

Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4

'We were about to embark on an adventure deep in the belly of the memory allocator and Linux address translation layers'

29 Sep 13:31 | 37

ESXi-on-Arm is real and VMware will use it to run networks, storage, and security on SmartNICs

Even third-party software could run there one day, managed by vSphere

29 Sep 12:15 | 5

VMware drops hints that ESXi on Arm is about to become a proper product

Also looks to have security and SaaS news in store for next week’s VMworld

24 Sep 06:31 | 4

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

Imminent demise of IE 11 and Angular JS means upgrades are incoming

21 Sep 04:27 | 18

Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V

Linux on Azure might no longer need Windows

15 Sep 12:43 | 40

Who cares what Apple's about to announce? It owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers

Shift to Arm processors will maroon some users – and Hackintoshes are problematic

15 Sep 11:29 | 134

VMware staff in Silicon Valley can leave a pandemic, wildfire-ridden zone – if they're willing to accept less pay

What's that? You want to breathe clean air? Tough luck then

12 Sep 00:12 | 48

VMware gives its desktop hypervisors the power to spawn local K8s clusters

Fusion and Workstation just got rather more useful for containerised CI/CD pipelines - and also rather cheaper

21 Aug 07:38 | 7

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Also hosed out many Datrium staff on day one

13 Aug 05:54 | 8

Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Parallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation

12 Aug 10:40 | 27

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds

07 Aug 07:38 | 2

Xen and the art of hypervisor introspection: Bitdefender donates meditative tech to open-source virty outfit

And its lightweight virtualized RAM and CPU project, Napoca, too

30 Jul 14:01 | 9

Microsoft delivers CouchOps capability with Android TV upgrade to Remote Desktop app

Also adds Windows Virtual Desktop support and two-factor authentication

30 Jul 04:06 | 9

Brave takes step closer to sensible business model by building subscription VPN into the iOS version of its browser

Relying on ads in software designed to block ads is an uphill struggle

28 Jul 08:03 | 11

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