The New Stack 
Last year, Forrester predicted that 20% of VMware customers would ditch the ecosystem. With Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, it looks like that is coming true — fast. Thousands of VMware customers have suddenly been hit by a wave of changes. Dozens of products are being dropped, permanent licences being abandoned and expected costs … Read more
To many enterprise IT observers, Broadcom — the new owner of what used to be known as VMware for 25 years — believes that its prized $69 billion acquisition’s product line was too complicated, far-flung and perhaps even becoming irrelevant here in the mid-2020s. Why else would Broadcom discontinue 56 (and counting) standalone products that … Read more
Broadcom Inc., which has been in the process of acquiring enterprise software giant VMware Inc. for 18 months, will lay off at least 401 VMware employees — 184 in Broomfield, Colo. and 217 in Atlanta — less than one week after it completed the $69 billion merger on Nov. 22. This is merely the first … Read more
VMware is entering into collaborations with Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec and IBM to supply various new data services for its own Cloud Foundation and is beginning an initiative to guide users in incorporating generative AI into their software-defined edge architectures. At its Explore 2023 conference earlier this month in Barcelona, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company … Read more
Who knows anything about pre-trained models? Who can explain how to use generative AI? Developers, platform teams, infrastructure teams, security teams — no one is that advanced. Everyone knows just a smidgeon about using pre-trained models or generative AI. Few know that a pre-trained model consists of a large data set that gets trained with … Read more
Developers and operations folks are understandably wondering how AI will impact their current and future job roles amid the substantial noise and hype surrounding it. The gradual emergence of AI-driven disruptions is becoming more apparent. Following last week’s VMWare Explore 2023, the company communicated clear possibilities for developers, IT teams and organizations to leverage and … Read more
Enterprise software provider VMware is expanding its Kubernetes platform to include an internal development portal and a runtime for applications to span multiple clouds. The company unveiled these enhancements Tuesday at its annual user conference, VMware Explore, being held this week in Las Vegas. “We have expanded the definition of Tanzu Application Platform to include … Read more