The warning signs were already there. When VMware customers on perpetual licences began receiving cease-and-desist letters for applying patches while out of support – and audits started to follow – it became clear that “owning” the software was no longer enough to guarantee the right to use it securely. Recent weeks have seen a wave…
Changes to Java and VMware software licensing that have been rolled out over the past few years have a material impact on the total cost of running existing Java-based enterprise systems. IT decision-makers are having to weigh up the extra costs with the additional cost and potential disruption arising from reengineering enterprise Java applications to…
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Over the past few weeks, VMware customers holding onto their perpetual licenses, which are often unsupported and in limbo, have reportedly begun receiving formal cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom. The message is as blunt as it is unsettling: your support contract has expired, and you are to immediately uninstall any updates, patches, or enhancements released since…
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The cyber security team at Broadcom has acknowledged that during the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Berlin in March, there were three successful attacks on the VMware hypervisor. On 16 March, Nguyen Hoang Thach, a security researcher from Star Labs, successfully exploited VMware ESXi. “This is the first time VMware ESXi was exploited in the Pwn2Own…
Concerns over support for VMware recently made the headlines following a critical vulnerability and the subsequent patch, which was limited to certain versions of the product. Now, it appears that VMware users may well face audits from Broadcom, which purchased the virtualisation software company in 2022 for $69bn. Broadcom ended the sale of perpetual software…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer and market leader Nutanix has added the ability to connect with external storage from Pure Storage from its HCI stack. The move is Nutanix’s second overture towards external storage – the first was to Dell PowerFlex last year – and marks a further rupture with a strict hyper-converged infrastructure model The…
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In another move beyond the bounds of strictly hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Nutanix has launched Cloud Native AOS. In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its HCI products but available for deployment separately and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend…
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With the iPhone 16 now available, rumors focus on the upcoming iPhone 17. This model is expected to be released in the second half of 2025. One of the highlights of this generation could be the iPhone Air, as it seems Apple will no longer bet on a Plus model. Apple executives are calling the upcoming new models…
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Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, Broadcom has simplified the VMware product family, which is now only available as a subscription, licensed on a per-core basis. Some organisations, like Telefónica…
