Virtualization


Commvault Expands AgentRecover to Restore AI Agents and Affected Systems

New capabilities target Microsoft Foundry and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, connecting agent activity with recovery of affected enterprise resources.

Recovery Studio Targets Full-Stack Business Restoration

Commvault's planned orchestration capability will coordinate recovery of applications, identities, infrastructure, configurations and data through automated runbooks.

CNCF Research: VMs Hold Their Ground as AI Isolation Needs Grow

A survey of 492 cloud native practitioners finds VMs running 53% of production applications on average, alongside growing plans for MicroVM sandboxing and confidential computing.

Seven New Rules to Keep One Hypervisor Hack from Taking Down Everything

Virtualization security expert Joey D'Antoni outlines how to protect the hypervisor, isolate administrative access and recover even when attackers hold the keys to your virtual infrastructure.

AI-Driven Virtualization & VM Provisioning ('What Have I Created?')

Tom Fenton tests whether an agentic AI assistant can install a hypervisor, build and manage virtual machines, move workloads between storage devices, and stand up a three-tier application using only natural-language prompts. He created something new but is unsure of what it should be called. Regardless, "It feels like the future of IT to me."

Can AI Provision Your Storage? Automating iSCSI and NFS Creation

Tom Fenton explores how AI can benchmark local NVMe storage and provision iSCSI and NFS shares on a compact NAS using natural-language prompts.

I Asked AI to Provision and Benchmark Storage for a $259 NAS. Here's What Happened

A $259 Beelink ME Mini all-flash NAS led Tom Fenton to explore its hardware, install Ubuntu, and test whether an AI assistant could benchmark storage.

vMotion for Containers? How DevZero Uses CRIU to Cure Kubernetes and AI Sprawl

Tom Fenton interview explains DevZero uses CRIU-based live migration and workload-aware scheduling to reduce Kubernetes and AI infrastructure waste without disrupting running applications.

Stop Blaming the VM: How DEX and XLAs Pinpoint the Real Root of Bad User Experience

Experience Level Agreements combine technical telemetry and user sentiment to help IT teams identify the causes of poor digital workspace experiences, guide investment decisions and improve service outcomes.

Gartner: Broadcom's VMware Deal Has 'Reinvigorated' Server Virtualization

Licensing changes, forced bundling and shifting vendor strategies are reshaping a once-stable infrastructure market that sees Nutanix called out for its ability to execute and Broadcom (VMware) for its vision.

An Interview with Chris Wolf -- Beyond the Hype: Three Years of Enterprise Private AI Realities

Chris Wolf explains how enterprise private AI has evolved from early hype to practical platform decisions around open runtimes, virtualization tradeoffs, cost controls, and governance for agentic systems.

VCF AI Assistants, Gated Lab Licenses and a New Vegas Venue: My Highlights of VMware Explore 2026

Tom Fenton recaps VMware Explore 2026, including VCF 9.1 updates, AI operations, TrueSource, customer deployments, certification changes, and the conference's new Las Vegas venue for 2027.

VMware Explore 2026: Highlighted Announcements

VMware Explore 2026 announcements show Broadcom expanding VMware Cloud Foundation into an AI-native private cloud spanning infrastructure, operations, security, agents and data.

My VMware Explore 2026 Agenda: From Raspberry Pi to Private AI

Tom Fenton previews a VMware Explore 2026 agenda spanning community resources, Raspberry Pi edge workloads, private AI, Kubernetes, memory tiering, CPU scheduling and storage.

VMware Explore 2026: What to Expect and How to Prepare

VMware Explore 2026 will combine technical education on private cloud and private AI with hands-on learning, community networking and opportunities to reconnect with peers

Navigating the DRAM Crisis: Memory Tiering in vSphere 9

Tom Fenton examines how vSphere 9 Memory Tiering combines DRAM with enterprise NVMe storage to help organizations offset soaring memory costs, increase VM density and reduce server spending.

Nutanix NCI 7.6 Adds Dell PowerStore Support

Dell Private Cloud now provides a validated Nutanix AHV deployment on PowerStore with automated lifecycle management and independent scaling.

OpenTelemetry Pushes Deeper into Cloud Observability

CNCF graduation comes as Azure, AWS and Google Cloud expand OpenTelemetry support across cloud monitoring, Kubernetes and hybrid infrastructure.

HPE Private Cloud Adds Kubernetes Management in GreenLake Updates

HPE announced new GreenLake updates spanning private cloud, storage and data protection, led by planned unified management of virtual machines and containers in HPE Private Cloud.

Red Hat Positions OpenShift Virtualization as a Broader Platform Play

Red Hat Summit 2026 announcements around Telenet Business and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show OpenShift Virtualization being positioned as a platform for VM modernization, hybrid cloud operations and future containerized workloads.