Simon Sharwood 
Explore VMware by Broadcom is continuing its pre-acquisition tradition of using its European conference to make public a handful of product updates. This year the most topical piece of Euro-news from the Explore conference in Barcelona is… Source link
This will both ease and exacerbate price concerns and competitive sniping VMware by Broadcom has upped the storage capacity allowed under licenses for its vSphere Foundation bundle – a move that addresses competitors’ attacks, but may also give… Source link
OpenStack Dalmatian, the 30th edition of the open source cloud stack, has bounded out of the kennel. The Open InfraFoundation, which tends the project, is excited about this release amid what it calls “a significant surge in adoption, attributed… Source link
Amazon Web Services is doing something rather odd – promoting itself as a migration target for users of its own VMware Cloud on AWS service. The promo appeared in recent days with the title “Save when you migrate VMware Cloud on AWS workloads to AWS.” Those who take up the offer are even eligible for … Read more
VMware by Broadcom has made some fresh concessions to its cloud service provider community – and the customers who rely on it. As reported by The Register in March, not all members of VMware’s Cloud Services Provider (VCSP) program were invited to continue. Those dropped as VCSP members were instead offered the chance to acquire … Read more
VMware by Broadcom’s breakup with its end-user compute products will enter a new phase next week, with cloudy service providers and customers both warned of imminent changes. Service providers who offer the old VMware’s Horizon range as a service have the worst of it: an email seen by The Register advises them that they have … Read more
Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don’t want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions. In a Monday post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan restated his belief that VMware’s portfolio was too complex, and too poorly integrated, for the virtualization giant to represent true competition for hyperscale … Read more
Opinion Cancel your Netflix account. Delete Season 2 of House of the Dragon from your diary. This year’s must-watch drama will play out in three episodes that will appear in the early weeks of June, September, and December, when Broadcom reveals its financial results and perhaps also whether its model for software licenses is viable. … Read more
VMware’s end user compute products appear likely to be rebranded as Omnissa after being sold off. Broadcom decided to sell VMware’s portfolio of desktop and application virtualization products after it acquired the biz, deeming them surplus to requirements. They were picked up by private equity operation KKR for around $4 billion. The Omnissa name appeared … Read more
Artisanal server vendor SoftIron smells blood in the water since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware led to considerable price hikes for many users, so has developed an alternative server virtualization platform whose key selling point is the ability to run with existing external storage hardware. SoftIron’s offering is called VM Squared and is based on the … Read more