When Broadcom paid a whopping $69 billion to acquire VMWare, the writing was very much on the wall. Having invested the big bucks, the semiconductor giant had to be patient with the cloud computing solution provider. And they’re doing so by first making changes to the software delivery models of VMWare, and then announcing Google Cloud as its first hyperscale partner.
Under the deal, Google would provide VMware Cloud foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine, a shift towards a…