‘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
Broadcom’s board called CEO Hock Tan the company’s ‘driving force,’ while three other executives won praise for their work moving the company’s $69 billion deal to buy VMware through regulators around the world. Compensation for these executives increased 211 percent year over year, from $77 million in 2022 to $242 million in 2023. Broadcom CEO… … 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
KKR is promising to expand R&D, pursue new strategic partnerships and invest in employee ownership. Partners say the increased investment is a big boost to the strong VDI technology stack. Broadcom announced it would look for a home for the EUC and Carbon Black products when it closed on the $69 billion acquisition of VMware. … 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
‘Change is disruptive and that’s a lot of change all at once. We did look at areas that were successful and retained those elements, taking opportunities to minimize disruption where it made sense. For example, to minimize disruption, we mapped your previous program tier over to the same tier in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program,’ … Read more
Laura Heisman has left VMware as its worldwide chief marketing officer, joining many of VMware’s top leaders who left in the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition. VMware’s global chief marketing officer Laura Heisman has left the company, joining the growing list of VMware’s highest-ranking executives who recently have departed in the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition of… … Read more
Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready says that his company is moving aggressively to capture the Broadcom VMware customer and partner windfall with a VMware “Rip and Replace” promotion. Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready said there is a Broadcom-VMware ‘Rip and Replace’ surge taking hold among partners and customers. “It is just blowing up,”… Source link
‘There are a lot of disenfranchised VMware partners out there who are heading our way,’ said David Gwyn, senior vice president, worldwide channels and customer success, at Nutanix. Two months after buying the global leader in virtualization, Broadcom is making two groups very happy: Broadcom shareholders and VMware competitors. Shareholders have seen the stock… Source … Read more