To leverage the full benefits of their data centers, enterprise CIOs and CTOs should analyze, integrate, and optimize their use of data virtualization solutions. Virtualization allows multiple independent computing sessions to run on a single physical computer, maximizing hardware resources and reducing total cost of ownership. Citrix Hypervisor offers a variety of GPU options and … Read more
Artisanal server vendor SoftIron smells blood in the water since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware led to considerable price hikes for many users, so has developed an alternative server virtualization platform whose key selling point is the ability to run with existing external storage hardware. SoftIron’s offering is called VM Squared and is based on the … Read more
VMware warns customers that CVE-2023-34048, a vCenter Server vulnerability patched in October 2023, is being exploited in the wild. Source link
The objective of this study is to identify the market opportunities and estimate market size by segments and countries for last few years and to forecast the values to the next five years. The report incorporates both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the industry with respect to each of the regions and countries involved … Read more
Broadcom finally (!) closed on its $69 billion acquisition of VMware, bringing to a close 18 months of intrigue. Source link
Something likely to be absent from Microsoft’s Ignite event is talk of a fix rolled out to deal with malfunctioning Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machines following a problematic update from the company. The culprit was the KB5031364 October update, which contained a variety of fixes and updates for Windows Server 2022, from changing the spelling … Read more
Microsoft fixed a known issue causing blue screens and boot failures in Windows Server 2022 virtual machines (VMs) deployed on VMware ESXi hosts. Windows admins first reported experiencing VM start issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] after deploying last month’s KB5031364 cumulative update. The company confirmed the issue days later, saying it only affects guest VMs on VMware … Read more
Microsoft publicly acknowledged a known issue causing Windows Server 2022 virtual machine (VM) blue screens and boot failures on VMware ESXi hosts. Windows admins reported experiencing VM start failures [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] after installing the KB5031364 October 2023 cumulative update. Now, Redmond has confirmed these ongoing issues, saying that they affect only VMware … Read more
Microsoft has confirmed that the latest October 2023 Patch Tuesday for Windows Server 2022 (KB5031364) is triggering blue screens of death (BSODs) upon start up failures on VMware ESXi hypervisors with the error / stop code “PNP DETECTED FATAL ERROR”. Microsoft has identified that the issue is not affecting all systems or configurations and is … Read more
VMware has released patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in its centralized management utility, vCenter Server, which could enable remote code execution attacks. vCenter Server helps users manage virtual machines, ESXi hosts, and other components from a centralized location. The flaw (CVE-2023-34048) is an out-of-bounds write issue that specifically stems from the implementation of DCE/RPC, the … Read more