Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon (Tue, 08 Jun 2021)
Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg Desktop virtualization is not the kind of thing that gets a mention in Apple’s big product announcements, and today's effort that revealed macOS 12 — code-named Monterey — was no exception. But sharp-eyed observers have spotted some changes that will make Macs, including those powered by Apple’s own Arm-compatible silicon, more adept at running guest operating systems.…
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Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published (Wed, 02 Jun 2021)
Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)' Security researchers have posted proof of concept code that exploits a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. The bug enables code in the guest to crash the host, and in some circumstances compromise the host's security.…
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VMware’s incoming CEO promises to change ... almost nothing (Fri, 28 May 2021)
And why would he change when quarterly revenue just cracked $3bn for the first time? VMware’s incoming CEO Raghu Raghuram has outlined his plans for the company on its Q1 2022 earnings call, essentially promising more of the same – but even better once the virtualisation giant is spun out of Dell.…
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Snowflake agrees it's good to share... on its platform, while Databricks opts for a more vendor-neutral approach (Fri, 11 Jun 2021)
Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field Among the blizzard of new language support for Snowflake's data warehouse this week was a plan to beef up its data marketplace, which promises users somewhere to buy, sell, and otherwise share data on the platform. The problem is that it is far from the only game in town.…
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SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches (Wed, 09 Jun 2021)
Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.…
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Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too (Tue, 08 Jun 2021)
Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow Snowflake Summit  Cloudy data-wrangling outfit Snowflake has opened itself up to Java and Scala developers.…
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