‘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
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
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
âThe paralysis that had overtaken the VMware EUC business is gone,â said Jed Ayres, CEO of ControlUp, a leader in the digital employee experience software market. âKKR is going to provide innovation, investment, leadership, vision and stability. KKR is going to be a stabilizing force for this business. This is a great thing for the … Read more
Dell represented VMware’s “largest route-to-market” and it has generated $17.3 billion in sales for the virtualization giant, as of November 2023, according to SEC filings. But Dell nixed the deal that hauled in that revenue last week. Dell Technologies has generated at least $17.3 billion in revenue for VMware since 2021, and it annually provided … Read more
‘I’m optimistic that we will meet the revenue criteria and continue to be partners, but I’m scared [expletive]-less about what is going on inside VMware,’ a longtime partner tells CRN. They might be scared, or angry, large or small, but the one thing all VMware partners have in common these days is a “termination notice” … Read more
Broadcom’s CEO vows to find ‘good homes’ for Carbon Black and VMware’s End-User Computing businesses as he lays out revenue projections for VMware that include double-digit growth and microservices. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan is betting that VMware—minus Carbon Black and VMware’s End-User Computing Group—will deliver $12 billion in revenue in the next 11 months and… … Read more
Virtualization News O’Ryan Johnson, Steven Burke November 28, 2023, 07:36 PM EST Broadcom is directing VMware partners not to mix products from Carbon Black and VMware End-User Computing in with sales of other products as it considers “strategic alternatives” for those business units, which it picked up last week when it closed its … Read more