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The OpenStack community has released its 30th version of the open source cloud infrastructure software, version 2024.2, dubbed “Dalmatian.” The new release comes amid a resurgence of interest in the private cloud software as CIOs take… Source link
MITRE – an organisation set up to “advance national security in new ways” – was breached via a zero day in its Ivanti appliances, with private network NERVE, which hosts a “virtual development environment for all military branches and their respective weapons systems” compromised, in a potentially landmark incident for the US federal and defence … Read more
Nutanix, a company that provides “hyperconverged” compute, storage, virtualisation, and networking, reported a record quarter – amid reports of extreme inflation for VMware customers when it comes to contract renewals. (Nutanix goes head-to-head with VMware across its offering.) The San Jose-headquartered firm reported record quarterly revenue of $565 million late Wednesday (February 28). ARR rose … Read more
Many large enterprises and large organizations still have a mainframe at their heart, restricting their ability to innovate and locking them into their suppliers. Now, what would happen if hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide were strapped into a similar technological straitjacket? That could just be what Broadcom has pulled off with its acquisition of … Read more
Broadcom is killing off VMware’s on-premises perpetual licenses – and getting set to strong-arm VMware customers onto subscriptions, by also ending the sale of Support and Subscription renewals for such customers. VMware described this to customers as part of its plan to “complete the transition of all VMware by Broadcom solutions to subscription licenses.” “We … Read more
“There is a lot of anxiety about the Broadcom-VMware acquisition around pricing, support and other issues” , and The Stack November 21, 2023 . 5:17 PM 2 min read Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn
Work changed. Yes there was a pandemic and we all moved to embrace virtual remote working technologies (spoiler alert: some of us were doing that already) and started to worry about what our Zoom (other video collaboration technologies are also available) cameras were showing on the shelves behind us. But work has changed more fundamentally … Read more
A $61 billion Broadcom VMware buyout is on track to close in late October. That’s according to the chipmaker, after the deal was given final clearance by the UK’s Competition watchdog today (August 21) – despite its earlier forceful criticism of the planned buyout, made in March 2023. Hold on to your horses, folks. As … Read more