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Virtualisation management strategy

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  VMware patches put spotlight on support

  Recent security updates in VMware products have highlighted the challenge IT decision-makers face as they navigate Broadcom licensing changes

• April 22, 2025 22 Apr'25

  Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix

  Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  How Telefónica avoided VMware price hike

  While some some organisations look for alternatives to VMware, Telefónica Germany has taken a different approach based on third-party support

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

  A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2024

  Southeast Asia’s 2024 tech landscape saw major companies embracing AI, shifts in open source and the emergence of local large language models to address the needs of a diverse region

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  VMware customers seek alternatives amid licensing changes

  Research reveals that while most VMware customers are satisfied with their current software, they are exploring alternatives due to concerns over rising costs

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Dutch politicians raise concerns over Big Tech reliance

  Dutch political parties have warned about the Netherlands’ growing reliance on US tech giants

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

  Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers

  SUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns

  Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  What are the options when migrating from VMware?

  Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing means some people are facing big price increases – we look at how these can be avoided

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support

  VMware is not going away anytime soon. While some IT leaders may be feeling the pain of Broadcom’s changes, they still need to seek a long-term plan

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

  Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware

  It may take several years to move off VMware. In the meantime, Nutanix and Rimini Street have ramped up efforts to target unhappy customers

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity

  During its annual Next conference in Barcelona, Nutanix has expanded its hardware partner programme to grab new business from Broadcom

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

  Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware: Broadcom faces EU complaint over unfair licensing

  CEO Hock Tan responds to complaints, opening up partner programme to smaller resellers and standardising on core licensing

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management

  Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

  Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?

  Nutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

  The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support

  Customers are being offered a big discount to migrate onto a VMware subscription service

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  CIO interview: Keith Woolley, chief digital information officer, University of Bristol

  With Bristol set to host the UK’s biggest supercomputer, its technology chief is looking to make the most of internal and international collaboration to drive digital improvements

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  How a Node4 virtual datacentre proved better than MS cloud for mental health charity

  Charity Together For Mental Wellbeing managed to migrate legacy servers into a new virtual environment and fix a major disaster recovery issue

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• September 05, 2023 05 Sep'23

  VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

  VMware launches new iteration of vSAN Max with up to 8.6PB of independently scalable storage, NSX gets a “+” as it unifies networks and Ransomware Recovery ups efficiency

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  UK competition watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware deal green light to go ahead

  After several months of deliberation, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has concluded its investigation into Broadcom's $61bn bid to acquire VMware

• August 04, 2023 04 Aug'23

  VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region

  MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up

  The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC

  VMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Google researchers identify hole in Intel TDX

  Intel has worked with Google to figure out how to harden the TDX module in Xeon chips to boost the security of virtual machines

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  CMA deepens probe into VMware-Broadcom merger over concerns it could hike server prices in UK

  The UK Competition & Markets Authority has become the first antitrust watchdog to express concerns over the impact Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware could have on server pricing and innovation

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  BNP Paribas moves to Swedish datacentre in high-performance computing strategy

  BNP Paribas is moving data-intensive workloads to a Swedish datacentre to increase capacity while reducing its carbon footprint

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  Why CIOs need to revisit desktop virtualisation

  Cloud computing is the next revolution in infrastructure, but desktop IT is still very much on-premise

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  Ransomware operator turns their fire on two-year-old VMware bug

  A vulnerability in VMware ESXi servers that users should have patched in 2021 is now being exploited to spread ransomware

• February 01, 2023 01 Feb'23

  Cisco fixes two bugs that could have led to supply chain attacks on users

  Two vulnerabilities uncovered in Cisco hardware could have opened the door to serious supply chain cyber attacks, according to the Trellix researchers who found them

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  CIO interview: Ed Higgs, group director of IT shared services, Rentokil Initial

  The pest control provider has consolidated 77 datacentres globally to just three – but with a corporate culture of acquisitions, there’s still a lot more to do

• December 27, 2022 27 Dec'22

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2022

  Despite the challenges over the past year, ASEAN businesses have taken things in stride as they press on with digital transformation, whether it is empowering citizen developers or building cloud-native applications

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2022

  We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the opportunities and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2022

  We look at the main trends driving desktop computing and end-user computing this year

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  OpenSSL vulnerabilities ‘not as bad as feared’

  As previously trailed, OpenSSL patched two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, neither of them as impactful as had been feared

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Prepare today for potentially high-impact OpenSSL bug

  OpenSSL trailed a critical vulnerability patch last week, which will be only the second such flaw ever found in the open source encryption project. Unfortunately, the first was Heartbleed

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  VMware Cloud on AWS debuts in Hong Kong

  VMware has expanded its VMware Cloud on AWS to Hong Kong, following the launch of the Alibaba Cloud VMware service in Greater China

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  VMware’s vSAN 8 gets a rebuild for the solid-state storage era

  At VMware Explore 2022, we interview VMware’s John Gilmartin about the new, faster vSAN, plans to use DPUs, the vSAN+ cloud offering, and VMware Ransomware Recovery

• September 05, 2022 05 Sep'22

  VMware doubles down on cloud in ASEAN

  Paul Simos, VMware’s managing director and vice-president for Southeast Asia and Korea, dives deeper into the company’s cloud strategy for the region

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  VMware beefs up Tanzu portfolio, adds OpenShift support

  The Tanzu Application Platform will include support for Red Hat OpenShift, air-gapped installations and other capabilities to improve developer productivity and code security