News that Broadcom intends to sell VMware’s End User Computing business unit, which consists of VMware Horizon, VMware App Volumes, and VMware Workspace ONE, to private equity firm KKR raises a number of questions. Though I’ve tracked the EUC space for decades and even wrote about the expected sale, it’s difficult to form a complete … Read more
After I joined TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, I wrote an article about all the alternative VDI and DaaS platforms I could think of that stood to gain from the disruption happening among the top three companies in the industry: Microsoft, Citrix and VMware. With 11 names on the list, I felt like it was fairly … Read more
A critical VMware vulnerability that was patched in October was exploited in the wild two years ago by a China-nexus threat actor, according to new research from Mandiant. On Oct. 25, VMware first disclosed an out-of-bounds write vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-34048 and a partial information disclosure flaw assigned CVE-2023-34056 that affect vCenter Server. The … Read more
When Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware closed at the end of November, we learned that it was going to seek “strategic alternatives” for VMware end-user computing. In Broadcom’s fourth-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Hock Tan put a bit more wood behind the arrow on his plans, confirming that Broadcom officially intends to divest itself … Read more
NetApp aims to bring flash storage to the masses and wade into disaster recovery with a new service for protecting VMware environments. The enterprise storage vendor showcased its new all-flash SAN array (ASA) C-Series storage hardware today at its annual NetApp Insight conference. The new hardware provides buyers a cheaper quad-level cell (QLC) flash … Read more
Automating tasks in your VMware vSphere environment can boost productivity. With just a few commands, Ansible can pair with vSphere to help teams automate IT tasks with ease. In the past, administrators solely worked with scripting languages like PowerShell to manage environments. While still a viable method, you must define all steps to create … Read more
Flash memory specialist Pure Storage is wading into the disaster recovery business for virtual machine workloads to complement the company’s container protection suite, Portworx. Pure Protect DRaaS is the vendor’s new disaster recovery-as-a-service offering enabling enterprises to replicate on-premises VMware vSphere VMs to the cloud as EC2 instances in AWS. Customers can then convert … Read more
One of the most common questions heard at VMware Explore 2023 was “When will VMware announce the sale of Tanzu as a consequence of the recent Broadcom acquisition?” This dialogue sparked discussions within the tech community about Tanzu’s future in the modern application development and management world of Tanzu’s cutting-edge solutions for modern application … Read more
This year’s VMware Explore conference kicked off with a big announcement. In the keynote address Hock Tan, Broadcom CEO, announced that Broadcom would be investing $2 billion into VMware. Half of this money will be allocated to research and development. When you look at VMware’s current R&D investment levels, this would add an additional … Read more