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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

VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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

Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix

South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami speaking at the .NEXT 2026 keynote

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

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

Illustration of a bug over some computer circuit board diagrams

Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat

Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes

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Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028

Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped

Man being kicked by oversized leg with city in background

'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'

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

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

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

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

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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

WinApps on Ubuntu 25.10's GNOME desktop, showing OneNote, the app launcher, and VMM.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

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

Broadcom 'bulldozes' VMware cloud partners as March deadline looms

Many European CSPs are being cut loose, sources say, forcing customer transitions

Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them

China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure

Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild

AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor

VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options

Nutanix takes another swipe at VMware with sovereign cloud push

On-prem control planes, dark-site upgrades, and multicloud policies target regulated deployments

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on stage at VMware Explore 2024

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

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware

IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona

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

Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor

Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too

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

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Logging on to an AI-enabled Cloud PC in the Windows app

Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC

And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

It’s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner

The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B

How to stay stable when the market shifts around you

Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware

This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners

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

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

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

OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions

Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt

VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks

Promises to get it right this coming weekend

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

Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy

Virtualization tool for hyperscalers now scales to 8,192 vCPUs

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

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

Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world

Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?

VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?

Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages

DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix

But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission

vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

Nor is its Arm port

We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine

VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines

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

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

VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps

Because AI, like everything else this year

VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland'

The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support

Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware

Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs

Human usage set to double, AI agents might need them too

Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants

Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up

Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters

Microsoft Windows and 'Tux' Linux logos next to each

How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows

A working copy of your site can run under Windows Subsystem for Linux

VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support

VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support

Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation

Not again road sign with cloudy background

VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out

Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today

Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs

'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'

Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t quite ready for the job

Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundles