VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

VMware plans to open its hypervisor to security vendors with a set of APIs that make it easier to protect virtual machines from threats including viruses, Trojans and keyloggers. Without these APIs, ...

ESXi version 7 users are still waiting for a full fix for a high-severity heap-overflow security vulnerability, but Cloud Foundation, Fusion and Workstation users can go ahead and patch. A security ...

Nimbula is hoping to better serve enterprises with version 2.0 of its operating system, which adds compatibility with VMware’s hypervisor and other new features. Nimbula Director 2.0, like its ...

Although the current generation Mac Pro is not an Apple Silicon machine, it is an extremely powerful computer that can be used for a number of heavy tasks such as rendering and running virtual ...

If you're willing to color outside the lines, you can use VMware's free ESXi hypervisor for production purposes In case you didn’t know, VMware offers an enterprise-grade hypervisor for free: VMware ...

Hyper-convergence startup Nutanix, which unveiled technology last summer that converts VMware-based workloads to its own KVM-based Acropolis hypervisor format, made it available to customers for the ...

More than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals. Getting real about virtualization Stephen Shankland worked ...

Company advises customers to patch their products after the release of source code dating from 2004 and related to other code released in April VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for ...

MIAMI, USA--Nutanix has introduced two key products that push the vitualization vendor up the software stack, pitting it more firmly against VMware, as it seeks to ease the deployment and management ...

Samsung plans to make phones running VMware’s mobile hypervisor technology and enterprises may be able to better manage those phones with new software from VMware, the virtualization company is ...