Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left ...

A Chinese data-protection vendor fronted The IT Press Tour in Boston with a cut-price, multi-hypervisor backup story aimed at ...

Veeam has launched a fresh update to its Data Platform, offering an abundance of hypervisor integrations that look to entice disgruntled VMware users by looking beyond the Broadcom-owned vSphere.

Enterprises running hypervisors on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems typically have backup options available to them that are not available to those running on generic hardware. Such ...

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.

Changes to VMware licensing in the wake of the Broadcom acquisition caused many enterprises to reassess their virtualisation platform options. A 2024 survey among 110 VMware customers by US-based ...