virtualization VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals Says license was never about moving VMs
on-prem Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE
virtualization Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now? SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back
virtualization VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
virtualization A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
virtualization Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere
virtualization If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable ‘densification’ and dodge the RAMpocalypse
virtualization VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill
virtualization Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries Promises ‘secure artifacts’ for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite
virtualization The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads
virtualization Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse
virtualization CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?
security CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it’s finally time for the USG to plug the gap
virtualization What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio
os platforms NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work
virtualization Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure
virtualization Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
virtualization Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
storage NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says
virtualization Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations
virtualization The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.
virtualization Foxconn unit drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!
virtualization OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
virtualization Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer
virtualization Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out CA and VMware both suing insurance giant
virtualization Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back
virtualization T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out 303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door
virtualization Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications
systems Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads
virtualization Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art
virtualization Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting
virtualization Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute
virtualization HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape
off-prem Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
virtualization Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land
virtualization VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview Supports Nvidia Grace and Ampere processors
virtualization Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration
off_prem VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock
on_prem Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
on_prem Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management
Virtualization NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes 'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said.
Systems A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise
Virtualization Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything
Virtualization Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster
Virtualization Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps
Virtualization Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now
Patches Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes
Virtualization Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped
Channel 'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'
Virtualization Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream
Systems One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM
Virtualization Why flexibility will define the future of functionality Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock
Virtualization AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC
Virtualization Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
Applications Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course
Virtualization VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany
Virtualization Broadcom 'bulldozes' VMware cloud partners as March deadline looms Many European CSPs are being cut loose, sources say, forcing customer transitions
Virtualization Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them
Virtualization China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild
Virtualization AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
Virtualization Nutanix takes another swipe at VMware with sovereign cloud push On-prem control planes, dark-site upgrades, and multicloud policies target regulated deployments
Virtualization VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu
Virtualization Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people
Virtualization Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters
Virtualization HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona
Virtualization VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts
Virtualization Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too
Virtualization Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V
Virtualization Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only
Virtualization Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief
Virtualization Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives It’s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner
Storage The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B How to stay stable when the market shifts around you
Virtualization Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners
On-Prem Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy
Off-Prem IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service Blames Broadcom’s licensing changes that haven’t caused other hyperscalers to pull the pin
Legal Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell As negotiations stalled, Broadcom feared Tesco no longer saw it as a long-term partner
PaaS + IaaS OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt
Virtualization VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks Promises to get it right this coming weekend
Virtualization Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365 As old-school virtual desktop player Omnissa distances itself further from VMware
Virtualization Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy Virtualization tool for hyperscalers now scales to 8,192 vCPUs
Virtualization Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender One console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments
Virtualization VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’ Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off
Applications Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?
Virtualization VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?
Virtualization Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators
Virtualization Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
Virtualization DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission
VMware Explore We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines
VMware Explore VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango
VMware Explore Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
Virtualization Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs
Cloud Infrastructure Month VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Virtualization Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t quite ready for the job
Virtualization VMware must support crucial Dutch govt agency as it migrates off the platform, judge rules
Virtualization Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
Virtualization Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision
Virtualization Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
PaaS + IaaS HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches
Virtualization ‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix
Virtualization Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger
Virtualization Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills
On-Prem Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it
Virtualization Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware
Virtualization Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers
Virtualization Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs
Virtualization XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative
VMware Explore Broadcom promised to reform VMware so it enables better hybrid clouds. Will it deliver?
VMware Explore Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace'
VMware Explore VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner
Virtualization Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch
Virtualization HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers
Security Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 attacks vSphere and Azure to run VMs inside victims' infrastructure
