#virtual-hard-disk

#virtual-hard-disk

AI Armor provides dynamic runtime security and relies on a central policy engine in the Universal Management Suite (UMS) to meet compliance requirements, ensuring that organizations can manage their security effectively.

"For healthcare, government, and contact center environments, reducing risk at the endpoint is essential. By aligning IGEL's immutable endpoint OS and Adaptive Secure Desktop™ with Windows 365 and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, these reference architectures give organizations clear guidance for delivering secured and resilient digital workspaces."

What if I told you that everything you know and everything you do to ensure quality backups is no longer viable? In fact, what if I told you that in an era of generative AI, when it comes to backups, we're all pretty much screwed?

It was the time of Novell networks, RG58 cables, and bulky tower PCs. It was also a time before the telemarketer's IT department employed specialists. Carter and his two colleagues - boss Mike and part-time student Stefan - therefore handled tasks ranging from programming to support, and everything in between.

As businesses contend with ever-increasing data volumes and performance-intensive applications such as AI model training, AI inferencing and high-performance computing, they need infrastructure that delivers speed, scalability and efficiency without added complexity.

The US General Services Administration is flogging discounts of up to 64 percent under a OneGov Agreement covering Broadcom's VMware portfolio - though the actual hypervisor that made VMware famous isn't included. The framework covers VMware Tanzu Platform, Tanzu Data Intelligence, Avi Load Balancer, vDefend, and the Tanzu AI Starter Kit. Notably absent: VMware vSphere Foundation, the virtualization platform most agencies actually use.

Our goal is to provide customer choice. Nvidia has been the market leader and AMD is the other big platform company. We see a lot of that happening now. People do not necessarily see Broadcom as a long-term partner.

Lenovo has a hunch that some of you are about to shift to a different hypervisor and has created hardware to make the move easier. As explained to The Register by Kumar Mitra, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group's executive director for Central Asia Pacific, plus Australia and New Zealand, some organizations are contemplating cloud repatriation projects to on-prem hyperconverged or private cloud rigs.

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."

The new version combines lower costs with improved cybersecurity and offers up to 2 petabytes of storage in a 2U rack space. Companies are struggling with explosive data growth, increasing cyber threats, and limited budgets. Dell Technologies is responding to this with PowerStore 4.3, a platform that addresses storage challenges without compromising performance or security. The latest version brings innovations that double storage density and reduce energy costs.

This new reality is forcing organizations to undertake careful assessments before making platform decisions for AI. The days when IT leaders could simply sign off on wholesale cloud migrations, confident it was always the most strategic choice, are over. In the age of AI, the optimal approach is usually hybrid. Having openly championed this hybrid path even when it was unpopular, I welcome the growing acceptance of these ideas among decision-makers and industry analysts.

Nested virtualization involves running a hypervisor inside another hypervisor. It is not an entirely bonkers idea because it offers the chance to create a test or simulation environment for the collection of linked VMs that makes up many enterprise IT setups. The technique can also be useful in production for containerised workloads, which often see tools like Kubernetes and Docker run in a VM, and every container running in its own VM.

I recently wrote about my migration away from VirtualBox to KVM/Virt-Machine for my virtual machine needs. I've found those tools to be far superior (albeit with a bit more of a learning curve) than VirtualBox. Since then, however, I've found another method of working with KVM (the Linux kernel virtual machine technology), one that not only allows me to create and manage virtual machines on my local computer, but also from any machine on my LAN. That tool is Cockpit, which makes managing your Linux machines considerably easier.