HPC will be virtualised
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Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:55

HPC will be virtualised


VMware's Uday Kurkure says

High-performance computing will be virtualised according to VMware's Uday Kurkure.

Broadcom might buy VMware
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Monday, 23 May 2022 13:01

Broadcom might buy VMware


Price is right

Chipmaker Broadcom is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware.

Dell spins off VMware stake
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Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:23

Dell spins off VMware stake


Debt reduction plan


Dell has said it will spin off its 81 percent stake in cloud computing software maker VMware, in a move that will help the PC maker reduce its debt.

VMware sues former exec
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Thursday, 31 December 2020 10:02

VMware sues former exec


Ramaswami met with rivals claim

VMware said that one of its former top executives, Rajiv Ramaswami, violated his contractual obligations while being courted to be the chief executive officer of rival Nutanix and has sued him.

VMWare reports record growth
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Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:17

VMWare reports record growth


Would have been better if it had not been for that pesky virus

VMware has reported third quarter growth that beat guidance offered earlier in its financial year but said results would have been better but for a slowdown in “transformational projects”.

VMware upgrades with Kubernetes
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:03

VMware upgrades with Kubernetes


Most significant update in a decade

VMware today is overhauling its portfolio of products to include native support of the Kubernetes orchestration manager for software containers along with a host of new tools for shifting and managing applications across multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructure stacks.

Oracle and VMware reach cloud deal
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Tuesday, 17 September 2019 11:05

Oracle and VMware reach cloud deal


Bury the hatchet

Oracle and VMware announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for them to move to Oracle’s cloud computing service.

VMWare spends $4.8 billion on two companies
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Carbon Black and Pivotal

Software company VMware said it's acquiring Carbon Black at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion and Pivotal at an enterprise value of $2.7 billion.

VMWare’s GPL woes continue
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Monday, 11 March 2019 11:25

VMWare’s GPL woes continue


Court case drags on

For the last decade, VMware has been accused of illegally using Linux code in its VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine hypervisor.

Troubled VMware too buggy to live
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Tuesday, 09 August 2016 12:36

Troubled VMware too buggy to live


New NSX needs to be uninstalled

VMware, which has not been having a good time as the virtualisation market slows, has told users that its latest version of NSX is so buggy it needs to be rolled back.