Virtualization


EUC World Amplify 2025 Was the Year's Must-Attend EUC Event

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.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: 5 VMworlds/Explores that Reshaped the IT World

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: DaaS Expands Beyond Remote Work in 2025

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.

Quantum Computing Gets Cloud-Style Virtualization

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.

Windows Server 2025 -- Nine Months In

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.

Take 5 with Tom Fenton: My Five Must-See VMware Explore 2025 Sessions

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.

EUC World Amplify 2025: A Dive into the Year's Must-Attend EUC Event

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.

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Ships

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.

VMware Explore 2025 -- Why You Need to Go

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.

The SaaS Cybersecurity Kill Chain

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.

Hands On with MacStadium Remote Desktop

Tom Fenton tests MacStadium's remote macOS desktops and finds a smooth, high-performance experience -- despite Apple's virtualization hurdles.

Cloud-Based macOS Systems

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.

ESXi Is Free ... Again

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.

Cohesity Enhances Support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Workloads

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.

Four Free Network Scanners

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 Introduces Disaster Recovery Orchestration for Microsoft Hyper-V

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.

Creating VMs on a Raspberry Pi 5 Running ESXi

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.

Configuring ESXi 8 on a Raspberry Pi 5

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.

VMware Defections Continue: Nutanix Welcomes Evalueserve

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.

Hands On with Raspberry Pi 500, a Computer in a Keyboard

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.

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