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VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort giant

Mandalay Bay, restaurant hit with lawsuit after Las Vegas gathering axed mid-bite
93 Comments
30 Aug 10:02

Analysts gawp at network function virtualization through rose-tinted specs

$4,500 report tells us its gonna be huge by, er, 2022. No, really
29 Aug 10:58

It's 2018 – so, of course, VMware is touting open-source blockchain code, Internet-of-Things tools

VMworld USWhat's the virty giant up to now...
29 Aug 05:04

ESXi on Arm? Yes, ESXi on Arm. VMware teases bare-metal hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers

VMworld USNo, we're not pulling your leg
13 Comments
27 Aug 19:52

VMware AWS cloud goes down... under, launches in Asia-Pacific, touts devops-ish tools, etc

VMworld USYour quick announcement summary
27 Aug 12:00

All clouds rain into VMware's steadily swelling coffers

Everything's embiggening – just don't ask about the Dell split
24 Aug 22:56

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Who, me?Tried to blame it on a bug, but logs don't lie
234 Comments
23 Jul 08:05

QEMU Qicks out release Qandidate, new Qadence for version 3.0.0

Some qode qleanup, some tweaks and also an arbitrary numbering thing
16 Jul 02:02

Desktop hypervisor fiends. Both of you. VMware's testing a new cut of Workstation

Complete with a REST API for automated amusement
12 Jul 06:58

Xen 4.11 debuts new ‘PVH’ guest type, for the sake of security

Take some paravirtualization, add hardware extensions and – voila – QEMU flies away
11 Jul 01:47

Google’s Android Emulator gains AMD and Hyper-V support

But Intel’s HAXM is still ‘Droid’s preferred hypervisor
10 Jul 02:02

Xen 4.11 is over a month late and its devs are mostly cool with that

Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence
05 Jul 03:58
Bitcoin punch cards

VMware set to reveal blockchain, better app store, new AWS client

VMworld content catalogues are live and we’ve trawled ‘em
21 Jun 06:25
SDN software-defined networking

VMware scales its virtual switches to tackle NFV, old school networkers

Software-defined networks are getting serious, at scale
14 Jun 07:30
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Wait, what? Citrix Receiver sessions run on crocked crypto!

Fixed now, as Receiver 4.12 for Windows deprecates unsound ciphers, if you want
08 Jun 02:58

VMware preps NSX network virtualization for smaller customers

Q1 2019 beats expectations, full-year guidance raised
01 Jun 02:54

VMware declares energy-guzzling blockchains 'immoral'

Virtzilla's annual innovation rally sees it express admiration for Adobe's SaaS transformation
17 Comments
31 May 02:27

Open Source MANO Release FOUR lands

Smaller feet, more monitoring, better interoperability
24 May 04:05

Red Hat's CloudForms to slum it by wrangling boring old VMs

Life's suite for hybrid infrastructure running under new RHV update
17 May 05:58

VMware to finally deliver full-function HTML5 vSphere client

It’ll only have been two-and-a-half years from launch to landing
37 Comments
10 May 07:35

Virtual desktops won’t save cash in clouds or on-prem. So why care?

Because they might save operational costs and improve security. If you do it right
16 Comments
02 May 04:58

Xen turns it up to 4.11 and shrinks itself to contain containers

New version turns Meltdown mitigation into a feature
24 Apr 01:53

Forking hell! VMware now has TWO current versions of vSphere

One for vSphere veterans, one for hybrid hipsters, plus a security surprise
17 Apr 12:01

Application publishing gets the WebAssembly treatment

Containerise apps to run in a browser, on anything. Annoy Citrix and VMware as you go
10 Comments
10 Apr 03:58

VMware vids revealing new vSphere vanish

Blink and you’ll have what missed what looks like a premature promo release
09 Apr 02:58

VMware’s end-user compute kit buffed with 2018’s tick-box options

Proactive fault-finding? Yup. Security alliance? Yup. CX checks? Yup. And an eloquent little licence change, too
22 Mar 02:02

VMware's cloud migration play beams down whole data centres

As Virtzilla-on-AWS lands in London and heads for the world
07 Mar 16:01
Crowdfunding

Open source XenServer project is go after crushing crowdcash call

First XCP-ng release, based on Xen Server 7.4's new GPU goodness, due March 31st
06 Mar 05:58

VMware's GM for networking and security jumps to Google

Veteran Jeff Jennings to get the band back together with VMware founder Diane Greene
06 Mar 02:02
Wildebeest crossing the Mara River during the annual great migration between Tanzania and the Masai Mara in Kenya.

You can survive the migration from Windows vCenter server

The promised land of VCSA – time to start packing
13 Comments
05 Mar 09:34
VMware sign

VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX

Q4 and FY18 results beat expectations, with end-user compute starring
02 Mar 01:58
Ubunutu Enhanced Session Mode under Hyper-V

Microsoft to make Ubuntu a first-class guest under Hyper-V

And loads up the migration cannon to aim at VMware
33 Comments
01 Mar 06:29
Robots in love image via Shutterstock

Roses are red, violets are blue, VMware's made a new vSphere for you

Version 6.7 should land in Q2, may end support for older CPUs
14 Feb 02:58
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Laggard Cisco stumbles over, puffing: 'HyperFlex now supports Hyper-V'

Version 3.0 scales up, shows some container love and promises validation

STOP! It's dangerous to upgrade to VMware 6.5 alone. Read this

Please don't be like the admin who failed to update PSC first
39 Comments
25 Jan 09:04
Wine photo via Shutterstock

Have three WINEs this weekend, because WINE 3.0 has landed

Wine Is Not an Emulator Windows-on-POSIX software now handles Windows apps on Android
54 Comments
19 Jan 07:32
Network scientists

VMware’s NSX world domination plan advances with not-just-point release

Version 6.4 brings the NSX GUI to the vSphere client
17 Jan 08:21
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