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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.
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By Tom Fenton
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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By Tom Fenton
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.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
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.
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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.
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By Tom Fenton
Although Workstation has a GUI interface that is easy to use and very powerful, sometimes it is more useful to perform an action using the command line or a script than using a GUI.