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‘The transformation of the business model of VMware continues to progress very well .. The success of this strategy was reflected in the performance in Q3. We booked more than 15 million CPU cores of VCF,’ Broadcom CEO Hock… Source link
‘VMware Cloud on AWS is no longer directly sold by AWS or its channel partners. It’s that simple,’ says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Amazon Web Services and AWS channel partners can no longer resell VMware Cloud on AWS, as Broadcom forces joint customers to have to buy the offering direct from VMware by Broadcom now. … Read more
“It’s created a demand spike for the product. Customers on VMware environments mostly prefer to lock in their perpetual licensing for three more years before any price increases kick in,” one VxRail seller tells CRN. The death of VMware’s perpetual licenses has come calling for Dell Technologies’ VxRail, with customers racing to lock in prices … Read more
Customers will also lose the ability to set user permission, manage enterprise agreements, or purchase support between April 30 and May 6, according to an update to VMware’s knowledge base Tuesday. Broadcom is suspending all VMware sales and upgrades—along with nine other critical features —for a week so it can move VMware’s SAP-based ERP (enterprise … Read more
‘Customers that need VMware and rely on it are going to have to pay a lot more money to use it,’ says an HPE VMware partner, who did not want to be identified. “Short term the HPE Broadcom OEM extension might mean some additional VMware business for us but long term we are looking for … Read more
‘When we look at things like what’s going on with VMware, if you’ve got your partnership with VMware, great, we’re not here to completely replace that,’ says Christie Kanen, Canadian channel manager for Scale Computing. ‘We are understanding what’s going on in the market and the trends and understanding that customers want options.’ From partner … Read more
Broadcom’s board called CEO Hock Tan the company’s ‘driving force,’ while three other executives won praise for their work moving the company’s $69 billion deal to buy VMware through regulators around the world. Compensation for these executives increased 211 percent year over year, from $77 million in 2022 to $242 million in 2023. Broadcom CEO… … Read more
Tan says Broadcom expects double-digit revenue gains from its VMware Cloud Foundation as it is focused on providing resources, support and upselling for VMware’s ‘largest 2,000 strategic customers.’ Broadcom CEO Hock Tan expects his company’s VMware business to grow double-digits for the rest of the year as Broadcom’s sales teams work on upselling the 2,000… … Read more
Nutanix Vice President of Americas Channel Sales Christian Goffi says the company has seen more opportunities as a result of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and touts the partner program advantages he says Nutanix offers. Even Yoda—at least an artificial intelligence version of him—has something to say about the changes at VMware. As part of a … Read more
CRNâs Steve Burke contrasts Michael Dellâs channel leadership and nurturing of VMware as a crown jewel for Dell EMC with the shock to the system that partners have experienced in the wake of Broadcomâs $69 billion acquisition of VMware. When Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell spearheaded the acquisition of EMC and VMware in … Read more