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Analysts warn about Broadcom VMware merger

Posted on May 31, 2022 by - News

Gartner and Canalys are a little concerned about Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware .

Canalys chief analyst Alastair Elms warned that Broadcom had no experience in merging  VMware with existing software and security assets from CA and Symantec and success will depend on how Broadcom executes against this plan.

“Integrating the different parts of the business will be complex, with some parts overlapping and others lacking clear synergies.”

Elms said the benefit of the deal is it will give VMware “true independence” from Dell, with Michael Dell selling his 40 percent stake, allowing it to pursue its goal of being the ‘Switzerland’ of the IT industry, and strengthen its alliance partnerships.

Broadcom says VMWare channel has nothing to fear from takeover

Posted on May 30, 2022 by - News

Broadcom Software Group’s president has said that VMWare’s channel has nothing to worry about following his outfit’s $61 billion takeover.

Tom Krause [No really] has said the company is ready to “embrace” the channel having learnt its “value” from previous acquisitions, with the company wanting to “continue to support” it.

Broadcom’s deal with Symantec sparked some concern from the channel after rumours spread that Broadcom wanted to take Symantec’s top 1,500 customers direct, disties also feared Broadcom’s channel strategy after buying Symantec.

Krause said:”We see a very valuable channel, I think there are some things we have learned relative to the CA and Symantec acquisitions in terms of the value of the channel. We want to continue to support that channel. That’s going to allow us to support a lot more revenues in a cost-effective way. So we see a real opportunity to leverage that.”

VMware and Broadcom deal goes through

Posted on May 27, 2022 by - News

In a move that will put a chill in some of VMWare’s partners, the Broadcom takeover bid has been given the nod.

Broadcom will pay $61 billion and acquire all of the outstanding shares of VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction.

Raghu Raghuram, chief executive officer of VMware, said: “VMware has been reshaping the IT landscape for the past 24 years, helping our customers become digital businesses. We stand for innovation and unwavering support of our customers and their most important business operations and now we are extending our commitment to exceptional service and innovation by becoming the new software platform for Broadcom.

Gelsinger shocked by Broadcom’s VMware plans

Posted on May 24, 2022 by - News

Former VMware CEO [Kicking] Pat Gelsinger said he has mixed feelings about the outfit’s potential merger with Broadcom.

Gelsinger left VMware to take control of the Intel executive drinks cabinet after making VMware what it is today.  He said that he hopes the deal will make VMware a more “compelling, innovative growth story”.

However he said:  “I’m sort of mixed on the current thinking. If it helps VMware be a more compelling, innovative growth story, then it’s good – if it does not, then it’s not good.”

Broadcom is in talks to buy VMware, the latest in a string of software acquisitions for a company that made its early money in semiconductor chips and hardware. Gelsinger who now helms Intel Corp. was speaking in Davos, Switzerland to Bloomberg TV when he was asked about the deal.

VMWare announces new BT agreement

Posted on January 27, 2022 by - News

BT has signed up for VMware’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as a managed service.

The agreement will mix BT’s networking capabilities and in-depth security expertise with VMware technology to help customers accelerate their digital transformation.

BT says the managed service will provide employees with flexible, secure, and reliable access to cloud-based applications and services, deployed in private clouds, SaaS, or at the enterprise edge. It also aims to support the adoption of technologies such as the IoT and hybrid working.

Kerv snaps up Gyrocom: M&A news

Posted on November 11, 2021 by - News

Cloud and digital transformation services provider Kerv has snapped up SD-WAN specialist Gyrocom.

The move makes Kerv  a £50 million revenue business. The company was created through a three-way merger between DoubleEdge Professional Services, Foehn and Metaphor IT. It acquired Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform specialist cloudThing in May.

Despite security breaches, companies don’t act

Posted on June 7, 2021 by - News

Even when there are security breaches, companies don’t act to protect themselves very well, according to VMware’s latest Global Security Insights Report.

VMware’s 2021 Global Security Insights Report found that there was a lack of urgency despite surge in material breaches. While 81 percent of respondents have suffered a breach in the last twelve months with 82 percent being significant security professionals have underestimated the likelihood of a material breach. Only 56 percent say they fear a material breach in the next year, and just over one-third have updated their security policy and approach to mitigate the risk.

The report highlights a resurgence of ransomware and remote work creates an unpredictable attack surface. More than 76 percent of respondents said attack volumes had increased – with the majority pointing to employees working from home as the cause. Another 79 percent said attacks had become more sophisticated. Cloud-based attacks were the most frequently experienced attack type in the past year, whereas the leading breach causes were third-party apps (14 percent) and ransomware (14 percent).

Raghuram replaces Kicking Pat

Posted on May 17, 2021 by - Moving People, News

VMware’s COO of products and cloud services, Raghu Raghuram, will take over as the company’s new CEO at the start of June.

He has been with the company since 2003 and replaces Pat Gelsinger, who left the business earlier this year to be Intel’s new supreme Dalek.

“VMware is uniquely poised to lead the multi-cloud computing era with an end-to-end software platform spanning clouds, the data centre and the edge, helping to accelerate our customers’ digital transformations/ I am honoured, humbled and excited to have been chosen to lead this company to a new phase of growth. We have enormous opportunity, we have the right solutions, the right team, and we will continue to execute with focus, passion, and agility”, Raghuram said.

Raghuram has helped drive VMware’s direction in areas like its core visualisation business, software-defined data strategy, SAAS transformation and in mergers and acquisitions.

 

 

VMware announces zero carbon initiative for channel

Posted on May 6, 2021 by - News

VMware has announced the launch of its zero carbon cloud partner initiative.

The goal is to encourage the move to zero carbon clouds and help its customers reach their sustainability and decarbonisation targets by connecting them with cloud providers with aligned goals.

Participating VMware Cloud Verified providers must operate infrastructure-, energy- and carbon-efficient data centres based on VMware software-defined data centre (SDDC) technologies and be committed to powering those data centres with renewable energy sources by 2030. European-based partners Atea and OVHcloud and Equinix, IBM, Microsoft and OVHcloud US have joined the initiative.

Atea Sweden Head of Sustainability Chiara Salvetti said: “Atea’s clear 100 percent renewables goal makes it easier for customers to understand the sustainability impact of their IT investments and for Atea’s employees to advise customers on sustainable choices.”

OVHcloud chief industry officer François Sterin said that the world has become data dependent. The wide scale transition from onsite storage toward cloud-based stuff represents an opportunity for the industry to help companies make progress toward sustainability.

VMware expands Partner Connect programme

Posted on July 22, 2020 by - News

VMware has expanded its Partner Connect programme by adding a new VMware Cloud Native Master Services Competency (MSC).

This is the first competency related to the VMware Tanzu portfolio and is a Cloud Native MSC will provide a foundational step to enable partners to architect a Kubernetes-based platform supported by complementary technologies from the cloud native ecosystem for continuous delivery of applications and is intended to recognise partners who specialise in Kubernetes operations, site reliability engineering and DevOps.

Dell might spin off VMWare

Posted on July 20, 2020 by - News

​Tin box shifter Michael Dell has decided that he might want to off-load his 81 percent stake in VMware.

The sale is expected to be worth almost $50 billion and will be dealt with by September next year. Dell confirmed the news after submitting a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The potential move, which is in its very early stages and may not happen.  EMC acquired the company 17 years ago in a $625 million deal and Dell, in turn, gained the asset after merging with EMC in 2016.

Dell CEO Michael Dell said that the two companies have innovated for their customers together for nearly 20 years and created substantial growth and value themselves.

VMware buys security vendor Lastline

Posted on June 8, 2020 by - News

VMware is to buy network detection and response vendor Lastline.

The agreement is set to close by 31 July and  VMware will run Lastline’s malware analysis as a “critical feed” for its Carbon Black EDR platform.

VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit, general manager Tom Gillis,  VMware said: “This is an important step forward for VMware’s vision of Intrinsic Security, as it will allow us to further take advantage of the intrinsic attributes of our virtualisation platform to yield innovative security capabilities.

Carpenter joins VMware vice president of product marketing

Posted on June 5, 2020 by - News

VMware has appointed  former Google Cloud vice president of product marketing Carol Carpenter as its new chief marketing officer.

With over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, Carpenter will be responsible for leading all aspects of the firm’s Global Marketing organisation, including Corporate Marketing, Partner, Segment and Field Marketing.

Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer of VMware, said: “Carpenter’s  passion for solving customer problems aligns well with VMware’s customer-first approach and her expertise will take our marketing team to new heights.”

VMware to acquire Octarine

Posted on May 14, 2020 by - News

VMware has announced its cunning plan to acquire Octarine, whose security platform for Kubernetes applications helps simplify DevSecOps and enables cloud native environments to be intrinsically secure, from development through runtime.

The company has also formed a Next-Gen SOC Alliance along with Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic which it hopes will provide SOC teams with visibility, prevention, detection and response capabilities using the VMware fabric.

The company said that building Octarine’s innovative Kubernetes security platform into the VMware security portfolio presents a major opportunity for VMware to further mitigate risks in several ways:

• Provide full visibility into cloud-native environments so customers can better identify and reduce the risks posed by vulnerabilities and attacks.

Vmware freezes staff pay and cuts managers’ salaries

Posted on May 7, 2020 by - News

VMware  is freezing staff pay and slashing the salaries of its senior management, including chief exec Pat (Kicking)  Gelsinger, to weather the COVID-19 crisis.

Gelsinger, and the company board will  take pay cuts in second and third quarter as part of the measures “to support efforts to manage through the current economic uncertainty”.

A company spokesperson said that the move is part of a “thoughtful and prudent plan designed to address the current uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall economic outlook, while ensuring the company has the skills and talent needed to accelerate growth as the economy stabilises”.