Systems Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk
Channel 'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'
Systems Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop
Systems Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business
Virtualization Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
Software The metrics that matter: a platform engineer's guide to proving value The clock is ticking for you to demonstrate platform value
Virtualization Broadcom 'bulldozes' VMware cloud partners as March deadline looms Many European CSPs are being cut loose, sources say, forcing customer transitions
Patches Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today If you skipped it back then, now’s a very good time
PaaS + IaaS Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement
Software Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell
Systems Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come
Virtualization VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu
Legal European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better
Virtualization VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts
SC25 Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI With power in such short supply, every watt counts
PaaS + IaaS Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives
Networks Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns
Legal Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell As negotiations stalled, Broadcom feared Tesco no longer saw it as a long-term partner
Systems Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator
Systems Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says
Networks Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second
Virtualization VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’ Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off
Virtualization VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?
AI + ML If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?
Virtualization Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators
Virtualization Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
VMware Explore Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
VMware Explore VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland' The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better
Cloud Infrastructure Month Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead
Patches Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?
Virtualization EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters
Virtualization VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation
Cloud Infrastructure Month VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Networks With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet? The never Nvidia networking party just got another option
Networks Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks
Datacenter Networking Nexus How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead
Virtualization Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO
Virtualization Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications
European Supercomputing Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next
Virtualization Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away
Networks Broadcom aims a Tomahawk at Nvidia's AI networking empire with 102.4T photonic switch Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs
PaaS + IaaS VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
Cyber-crime Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider Tech giant was in process of dropping payroll biz as it learned of breach
Virtualization VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game
Virtualization VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October
Virtualization VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines
Virtualization VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement
Virtualization Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle Now working with seven hyperscalers for custom AI silicon. Not working on acquiring bits of Intel
Virtualization VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant
Virtualization Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently
Systems Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table
Systems Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee
Virtualization Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs
Patches VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant
Virtualization Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers
Virtualization VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses Chips and software giant Broadcom says it's 'flexible and open' on licensing terms, but customers disagree
Virtualization VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon
Virtualization Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Virtualization Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan?
Virtualization Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel
Virtualization Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year
Systems Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use
Virtualization Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient
Virtualization No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had – but that was a mistake, you see
Virtualization AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table
Virtualization A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat Customers are 'all miserable' but not yet deciding to bail - and AT&T appears to have settled its licensing dispute
Networks Broadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking VeloRAIN architecture improves service for fat workloads on the edge
Off-Prem VMware by Broadcom finds friends to advance its private cloud and AI visions User group members offered more generous discounts and licenses we're sure nobody would abuse
Virtualization VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping
AI + ML OpenAI reportedly asks Broadcom for help with custom inferencing silicon Fabbed by TSMC, needed for … it's a secret
Virtualization Veeam tests support for another VMware alternative: XCP-NG As Gartner rates the contenders for those contemplating a move off Virtzilla, with Nutanix on top of the list
Virtualization AT&T and Broadcom may settle VMware support case Fresh filing sees Broadcom admit it discounts deeply – music to the ears of all Virtzilla users coming off contract
Virtualization VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout Traded its shares between 2018 and 2020? You could cash in
Virtualization XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative XenServer fork plans to make its next version a better target for VMware migrations
Software AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant
Virtualization VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu
Virtualization AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant's IT estate
Systems Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too
Virtualization VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation Bug reports made in China
PaaS + IaaS Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move Price rises, uncertainty after Broadcom takeover forcing users to look elsewhere for virtualization needs
Virtualization VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out
Virtualization AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices
VMware Explore Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly
VMware Explore Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle
Networks Copper's reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack?
Off-Prem Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’
VMware Explore VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud … sometime soon Claims just two management consoles will emerge
Virtualization VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products Also working to clean up inconsistent APIs and lack of SSO across vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, vRealize and more
VMware Explore Broadcom promised to reform VMware so it enables better hybrid clouds. Will it deliver? It needs to – Virtzilla's customers, allies, and enemies are all pondering off-ramps and trying to lure unhappy users
VMware Explore VMware by Broadcom makes its stack easier to live with, as promised Compute, storage, and networking virtualization brought together – with live ESXi patching
Virtualization VMware revenue plunges $600M, but Broadcom assures investors growth plan is on track Costs cut deeply, with more to come, and forward bookings surge
PaaS + IaaS Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions
Virtualization VMware by Broadcom plots pair of Cloud Foundation releases that will show off its strategy
Virtualization Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom
Virtualization Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products
Virtualization While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage
Virtualization UK clears Broadcom buying VMware, but deal yet to scale Great Regulatory Wall of China
Virtualization Broadcom CEO promises $2 billion annual boost to make VMware better at the things it already does
Virtualization EU probes Broadcom/VMware deal over impact on hardware, not price hikes or cloudy concerns
