After Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami was “approached” about a role with a competitor, the Nutanix board responded with an “off-cycle” stock award worth nearly $50 million, citing “immediate retention concerns,” according to a… Article Source https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/2024/nutanix-ceo-pay-package-jumps-to-51m-after-being-approached-by-rival
‘The transformation of the business model of VMware continues to progress very well .. The success of this strategy was reflected in the performance in Q3. We booked more than 15 million CPU cores of VCF,’ Broadcom CEO Hock… Source link
‘Our partners now are going to be able to have a much more comprehensive conversations with their customers on that hypervisor strategy topic,’ Dell Technologies executive Drew Schulke tells CRN. Dell Technologies and Nutanix are partnering on new storage device products and new go-to-market strategy that is taking dead aim at the market looking for … Read more
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami updated investors on the company’s performance and highlighted the challenges posed by larger deals that require strategic decisions and C-suite approvals. The shift in VMware customers due to Broadcom’s price changes is leading to more discussions about switching, but the complexity of these deals is making short-term revenue predictions difficult. The … Read more
‘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
Cloud News Wade Tyler Millward August 21, 2023, 09:00 AM EDT ‘Our goal is to make the IBM Cloud proposition the best on the planet,’ IBM Cloud GM Alan Peacock tells CRN.