Simon Sharwood 
Lobby group CISPE – a collective representing Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe – has called for regulators to investigate VMware by Broadcom’s software licensing arrangements, which it claims will bankrupt some of its members and hurt end-users. The group on Tuesday objected to what it described as Broadcom “unilaterally cancelling license terms for essential virtualization … Read more
Exclusive VMware by Broadcom appears to have made concessions to some of the cloud service providers it has previously indicated it will spurn. Pre-acquisition VMware ran a Cloud Services Provider (VCSP) program that saw some partners offer various VMware applications as cloudy managed services, plus a VMware Cloud Providers Program (VCPP) that saw channel orgs … Read more
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has rated his enterprise’s first hundred days as the owner of VMware “a strong start,” but also acknowledged the rapid changes at the virtualization giant have been hard for some to digest. “While much work remains, we’ve made substantial progress as we build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company,” Tan wrote … Read more
Exclusive Every vendor capable of spelling “virtualization” has spent a good chunk of 2024 making a pitch for its products as a fine alternative for folks discomfited by Broadcom’s takeover of VMware. Canadian outfit 45Drives has taken matters a step further by creating an entire product – the Proxinator – to lure those considering the … Read more
Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.” The Register learned of the new offering after asking Broadcom to verify information presented at a recent VMware User Group Town Hall event at which attendees were told the … Read more
Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by “double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over quarter, through the rest of the fiscal year.” Speaking on Broadcom’s Q1 2024 earnings call, president and CEO Hock Tan said “This is simply a result of our … Read more
Citrix has created a “Platform License” that it will offer by invitation only, and stopped selling some products outside bundles. The new license covers everything Citrix already develops – plus any code it acquires in future – and is billed as everything needed to run, secure, and manage virtual desktops, the endpoints that touch them, … Read more
Nutanix doesn’t expect a rush of VMware users to adopt its platform, because many signed up for long-term deals before Broadcom acquired the virtualization giant. “Many customers signed multi-year enterprise agreements with VMware prior to the deal closing,” Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami told investors today on a Q2 earnings call. “It buys them some time … Read more
Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware’s SD-WAN and Symantec’s Security Service Edge, by today debuting the “VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec” at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Symantec Security Service Edge is already classified as a SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge – a term coined by analyst … Read more
VMware’s end-user compute business unit is set to be acquired by private equity firm KKR, according to a Reuters report that claims the deal will see $3.8 billion change hands. If the deal is done, it will see VMware’s desktop virtualization and application publishing estate offloaded, per plans Broadcom announced in December 2023. The Register … Read more