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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted.

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

Network World

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. The custom UDNs are being integrated into the open virtual networking (OVN) Kubernetes container networking interface (CNI). In particular, OpenShift 4.18

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.”

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Theyre still the Lamborghini.

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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

There are many alternatives for organizations unhappy with the direction that Broadcom is taking the VMware virtualization platform. Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Heres a brief synopsis of each one: 1.

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VergeIO enhances VergeFabric network virtualization offering

Network World

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. At the core of VergeIOs offering is its VergeOS platform, which takes a fundamentally different approach compared to traditional virtual infrastructure solutions like VMware.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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