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.
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.
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.
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.
The Raspberry Pi 500 integrates a Pi computer into a full-sized keyboard, offering a compact computing platform, says Tom Fenton in his first look.
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton tackles deployment.
Aim is to help organizations modernize their VMs and applications while enhancing cyber resilience, offering features like easier migration, faster data recovery, and unified data management across virtualized environments to help better protect against evolving threats.
It just became free for commercial use along with earlier permission for personal use, so Tom Fenton shares some of the cool things you can do with this venerable virtualization platform.
Nutanix announced a new hybrid cloud offering parked on AWS that can help users extend their on-premises Nutanix environments to the cloud, offering perks to other users possibly disgruntled by the ongoing Broadcom/VMware tumult.