Bucking the predominant trend, ComfortDelGro have updated to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and are bringing workloads back.

The project failed. Developers didn’t adopt the private API. We’re about to see the same motion with AI adoption and development.

At Nutanix .NEXT 2026 in Chicago, representatives of Everland and Western Union discussed the limitations of their existing infrastructure and the reasons for their decision to migrate to Nutanix.

CISPE press release claims Broadcom has excluded the vast majority of European CSPs from offering VMware services under any terms; removed end customers’ Bring Your Own License (‘BYOL’) rights, restricting them to Broadcom’s own choice of a few hand-picked partners to host their workloads; imposed relentless unilateral contractual changes and cost increases that are driving European CSPs out of the market. They note SAP has embarked on increasingly worrying practices as well.

VMware has defended its decision to end public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK).

Some 36 percent said moving away from a critical technology provider would take more than a year, while another 10 percent said they had no viable alternative.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon gain seats on the PyTorch Foundation Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council. Ant Group joins as the foundation expands the roster of companies involved in developing the PyTorch software ecosystem. For Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon, Platinum membership brings formal influence over governance and technical direction. Both are expected to work with other members on support for different hardware platforms and accelera

Quote: "The [Australian] federal government’s previous position required new data centres to pay for grid upgrades, avoid pushing up household bills and source additional clean energy, rather than simply rely on existing supply. However, the new standards grant carve-outs...that must not compromise the government’s goals of lowering climate emissions and ensuring that energy remains affordable".

During the next decade, Australia's data centres are forecast to rise from 3% to 13% of operational electricity consumption in the national energy market (NEM).

By Simon Sharwood Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. He’s previously railed against the idea that good documentation can explain the work of developers who use AI to contribute poor code to the kernel, and also complained that the Linux kernel security mailing list has become almost unmanageable due to a flood of AI-generated bug reports, many of them duplicates. Read the full story here.

The first Proxmox VE release with official support for 64-bit ARM (arm64/aarch64). It shares the code base, package repositories, and release lifecycle with its x86-64 counterpart.

(From Hyperframe Research) IBM Q2 2026 brings the cyclical nature of Mainframe revenue into stark contrast as z17 moves into the second half of its product refresh cycle

UK retail giant Tesco is replacing VMware with an alternative product and pressing ahead with its licensing lawsuit against the virtualization pioneer's parent company, Broadcom, which will be considered by the UK's High Court no sooner than November 2027.

As the COOs from both Uber and Microsoft recently learned, encouraging company engineers to use AI aggressively can lead to hefty usage bills, perhaps even offsetting all the gains from laying off employees.

THe KubeVirt Performance Benchmarking Toolkit (virtbench) is an open-source CLI framework for executing reproducible stress tests across KubeVirt-enabled clusters using CSI-compatible storage.

Article published by The Register states Gartner analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration.

A 'marketing lite' argument for VMware Cloud Foundation (by some Broadcom employees you can probably trust).

Anthropic chips in US$1.5 M to continue to critical work of the Python Software Foundation. Bravo Anthropic.

Words of wisdom from Werner Vogel (AWS CTO)

Kingfisher Group CTO Chris Blatchford: "We're not anti-big vendors — especially of ERP systems — but we do need to see the value."