VMware has made its pro virtual machine software free to use on Windows, macOS, and Linux — albeit only for personal use. The change means anyone can download VMware Workstation Pro 17, install it, ...

In last week's article, we discussed virtualization and its role in reducing server sprawl. We included VMware server as one of the products used to virtualize a data center. VMware also sells a ...

There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I outlined five of these in a recent article. Now that all major VDI ...

HelloKitty joins the growing list of ransomware bigwigs going after the juicy target of VMware ESXi, where one hit gets scads of VMs. For the first time, researchers have publicly spotted a Linux ...

Operation Cronos didn’t kill LockBit – it just came back meaner Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ...

Cybercriminals behind a string of high-profile ransomware attacks, including one extorting $11 million from JBS Foods last month, have ported their malware code to the Linux operating system. The ...

Few virtual computer environments are as stable, popular and rich in features as VMware. I've been a fan and user of VMware Workstation since version 2.0. I use it for testing network applications, ...

Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows, the company's chief technology officer said on Wednesday.

In August 2006, well-known Linux developer Christopher Helwig spotted Linux source code being used illegally in the VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. Helwig, with the aid of the ...