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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton examines how the VMware community is processing Broadcom’s acquisition through the five stages of grief, detailing impacts on licensing, partner programs, culture, and the shift toward VCF 9, private AI, containers, and event-driven architectures.
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By Tom Fenton
At VMware Explore 2025, questions about whether the event will continue overshadowed sessions showcasing VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, AI-native private cloud advances, and new security integrations, as attendance and expo size shrink under Broadcom ownership.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton recounts how EUC World Amplify 2025’s final "unconference" day featured candid, vendor-neutral discussions on app packaging, hypervisor strategy amid VMware licensing shifts, and modernization tradeoffs, plus updates from Parallels, Nerdio, Dizzion, Google, and IGEL, with talk of a Melbourne expansion.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details the conference keynote and major announcements about the company's products and direction.
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The mess in a tl;dr: "You have to pay more for what you had, buy more cores, and you can't scale down, and you have to buy more features, and Broadcom probably hates having you as a customer."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton says Day 1 at Broadcom VMware Explore 2025 felt leaner and more engineering-driven. Conversations centered on packaging/licensing tradeoffs and hands-on use of the full VMware stack. Highlights included deep dives on vGPU management for AI in VCF 9, a 100-level VCF platform tour, and bite-size Quick Talks on scripting GPU ops with PowerShell and Python, capped by a lower-key welcome reception.
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By Tom Fenton
EUC World Amplify 2025 lived up to its billing as the must-attend end-user computing event of the year. Across keynotes, panels, and sponsor sessions, the first two days showcased the industry’s vendor-agnostic spirit, deep dives into AI’s practical role in VDI, new strategies around virtualization, and bold product announcements.
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By Tom Fenton
With Explore (FKA VMworld), VMware's annual conference, less than a month away, Tom Fenton thought he would go back and look at five previous VMworld/Explores that have reshaped the IT world.
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Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) finds adoption expanding beyond remote work to include cost, operational and sustainability drivers. Strategic planning assumptions project that by 2027, virtual desktops will be cost-effective for 95% of workers.
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Columbia Engineering's HyperQ system introduces cloud-style virtualization to quantum computing, allowing multiple users to run programs simultaneously on a single machine. Learn how it works, why it matters, and highlights from other recent quantum breakthroughs from leading institutions and vendors.
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Nine months after its release, Windows Server 2025 is proving Microsoft hasn’t lost focus on on-prem. From GPU live migration to VMware alternatives, WAC upgrades, hotpatching and more, our IT pro and 1-person SOC from Down Under explains in exhaustive detail what’s new--and what’s next.
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By Tom Fenton
This year looks pretty solid, Tom says, especially with VMware's big push to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the transformational changes we see in AI.
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By Tom Fenton
Ever since VMware sold its End User Computing business, VMware has effectively excluded EUC sessions from VMware Explore, its annual conference. says Tom Fenton, who as a result has been searching for a conference to replace it.
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By Tom Fenton
It was introduced at VMware Explore last year as a unified platform designed to integrate all their enterprise tools to manage private and public clouds seamlessly, from a single interface.
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By Tom Fenton
The VMware Explore site is now live, presenting its reasons for attending the event. Tom Fenton has his own reasons for attending, some of which align with theirs, while others do not.
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Paul Schnackenburg, working in the IT trenches every day as a 1-person SoC, looks at how the cybersecurity kill chain is evolving in the SaaS era, where identity is the new perimeter and attackers exploit cloud app integrations, SSO, and OAuth to gain and maintain access.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton tests MacStadium's remote macOS desktops and finds a smooth, high-performance experience -- despite Apple's virtualization hurdles.
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By Tom Fenton
After writing about Orka Desktop, Tom Fenton turns his attention to the company behind it, MacStadium, and its other wares in the macOS virtualization landscape.
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By Tom Fenton
Longtime IT pro Tom Fenton was disappointed -- along with many others -- when Broadcom discontinued the free version after acquiring VMware, but he's excited it's back.
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Enhanced integration allows customers to secure and protect data from virtual machines (VMs) and containers within their Red Hat OpenShift environments using Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup.
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By Tom Fenton
With his home network a mess, Tom Fenton explores how to bring some sense of order using readily available, easy-to-use, free tools.
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Veeam Software, a data resilience specialist, announced the enhancement of its disaster recovery capabilities for Microsoft Hyper-V environments through the introduction of orchestration features.
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By Tom Fenton
Concluding his series, Tom Fenton provides step-by-step instructions for creating a VM from different Linux distributions and discusses issues with running Windows on it.
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By Tom Fenton
In part three of his series, Tom Fenton configures ESXi to use an NTP server for precise time synchronization, enables SSH access, and adds a datastore for storing and running virtual machines.
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Post-acquisition defections have been trumpeted by benefactors, with the latest being Nutanix announcing that Evalueserve, a global research and analytics firm, has chosen Nutanix to replace its VMware-based virtualization infrastructure.