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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 | 10

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

How are you supposed to secure your workers when they could be anywhere?

Find out at the Anywhere Workspace Event

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

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

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Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure

Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

Why? Because the Mac has lost its way and modern OSes are too controlled and too complex, creator argues

Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'

UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets

Like the massive ships with miniguns

Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps

Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?

Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated

99% accuracy in testing

Open-source projects glibc and gnulib look to sever copyright ties with Free Software Foundation

Project maintainers follow GCC in dropping copyright assignment requirement

Funny how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, famous for hyperlinks, is into NFTs, glorified hyperlinks

Source code auction 'similar to selling an autograph copy of a book'

You had one job: Akamai's Prolexic Denial-of-Service protection system fingered after users in Australia denied, er, services

Major banks, websites, gaming services, and more taken down

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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 | 7

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

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

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