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HPE announces VM Essentials – the VMWare competitor that isn’t
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled Virtual Machine Essentials (VME) this week at its annual European conference, HPE Discover Barcelona 2024. The company’s virtual machine plans were teased in June at its flagship conference but are now finally starting to be made available to customers outside of just its private cloud offering. VME is available both as an embedded software…
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CISPE unveils cloud watchdog for Microsoft – and plans to monitor Broadcom, VMware too
A European cloud group has unveiled its plans to monitor Microsoft’s adherence to a controversial deal designed to boost competition in the market — and said it will keep a close eye on Broadcom and its subsidiary VMware, too. The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) unveiled the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to monitor software licensing and cloud…
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Critical RCE bug in VMware vCenter Server now exploited in attacks
Broadcom warned today that attackers are now exploiting two VMware vCenter Server vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical remote code execution flaw. TZL security researchers reported the RCE vulnerability (CVE-2024-38812) during China’s 2024 Matrix Cup hacking contest. It is caused by a heap overflow weakness in the vCenter’s DCE/RPC protocol implementation and affects products containing vCenter, including VMware vSphere…
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VMware makes Workstation and Fusion free for everyone – Computerworld
VMware this week announced that the virtualization company’s hypervisor products, VMware Workstation and Fusion, will be completely free for both personal and commercial users, as well as for educational purposes. The move follows a decision last May, when VMware made both Workstation and Fusion free for personal use; those who wanted to use the software for commercial purposes still had to sign…
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VMware makes Workstation and Fusion free for everyone
VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use. In May, the company also made VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro free for personal use, allowing students and home users to set up virtualized test labs and experiment with other OSs by running virtual machines and…
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“Don’t believe the hype”: Broadcom claims it’s been able to solve most of its customer issues following VMware acquisition
Customers shouldn’t believe the negative reports about VMware following its acquisition by Broadcom, the latter’s EMEA CTO Joe Baguley told ITPro. While there’s been a lot of noise in the press around the results of the acquisition, Baguley said his response has been to ask customers whether they’ve spoken to the firm directly. “Then you have that conversation, and it…
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Cloud repatriation may be nipping at hyperscaler market share, but it’s a boon for VMware
Cloud repatriation presents an opportunity for VMware, according to company executives, amid reports that hyperscalers are feeling the heat from enterprises moving workloads back to private setups. VMware is actively targeting repatriated workloads to shift them onto the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform, Broadcom’s UK&I managing director Tamar Brooks told press at VMware Explore 2024. “We would definitely be trying…
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VMware needs to win back trust – and VMware Explore Barcelona 2024 is its chance to do so
It’s been a year since VMware was last in Barcelona for its annual VMware Explore conference, and quite the year it’s been. At last year’s conference, Broadcom was just around the corner from finalizing its $61 billion acquisition of the firm, leaving it in a tumultuous position. While the firm announced some data management and private AI offerings, there was…
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VMware Review & Alternatives for 2024
There are a number of analyses of the virtualization market available, and all of them provide different market share figures for each of the major players. Despite a large variation in the numbers, all of those surveys agree that VMware has the largest client base. The dominance of VMware is helped by its range of products, while most of the…
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VMware fixes bad patch for critical vCenter Server RCE flaw
VMware has released another security update for CVE-2024-38812, a critical VMware vCenter Server remote code execution vulnerability that was not correctly fixed in the first patch from September 2024. The flaw is rated critical (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8) and stems from a heap overflow weakness in vCenter’s DCE/RPC protocol implementation, impacting the vCenter Server and any products incorporating it, such…
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