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.
Tom Fenton details the conference keynote and major announcements about the company's products and direction.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/28/2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/27/2025
Tom Fenton tests MacStadium's remote macOS desktops and finds a smooth, high-performance experience -- despite Apple's virtualization hurdles.
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.
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.
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.
With his home network a mess, Tom Fenton explores how to bring some sense of order using readily available, easy-to-use, free tools.
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.