VMware Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company’s personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software subscriptions instead. … 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
Webinar The last thing a business needs in the age of constant digital innovation is a brake put on its operations. Even if you are happy as Larry with your VMware – its price, management overhead and reliability – you still might want to consider an alternative. Maybe the price of the licenses keeps you … Read more
Smaller cloud vendors are going after VMware’s customers with aggressive tactics Larger vendors like Cisco haven’t yet noticeably gone after the VMware scraps Larger resellers are being invited back to a Broadcom partner program Broadcom’s remaking of cloud software firm VMware after its $61 billion acquisition of the company has been one of the most drastic … Read more
In 2023, Broadcom shares doubled in price. So far in 2024, the stock is up 10%. (Photo Illustration … [+] by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Shares of Broadcom (AVGO) this week hit a new record high of $1,284 as investors applaud the chipmaker’s more diversified revenue stream following … Read more
Amid the disruptions in the legacy VMware channel following the acquisition by Broadcom, one investor sees Nutanix gaining with the help of affected resellers.By Larry Walsh Broadcom wasted no time in reshaping the VMware channel to align with its go-to-market vision, altering the nature and structure of its relationships with thousands of the virtualization software … Read more
Webinar Speculation over the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, announced in May 2022 and only completed in November 2023, ran rife in the interim period. There was an outpouring of different views over the potential impact on VMware customers during the period, with anxiety over potential price increases, reduced support, and disinvestment in solutions all … Read more
Webinar The start of a new year can come like a comet trailing challenges and opportunities in its wake. And if you’re a customer of either Broadcom or VMware, working out your response to their imminent merger is definitely one of them. Speculation about everything from possible price increases, reduced support to disinvestment in existing … Read more
In-Depth Baseline Performance Testing the SimplyNUC Moonstone Mini-PC In this series of articles, I will look at running VMware Workstation on a high-powered, extremely small PC. In my last article, I discussed VMware Workstation and introduced the system on which I will run it on — a SimplyNUC Moonstone CBM3r9MS. This is from a family … Read more
The Scottish Government is keen to automate as many services as possible. This leads to a demand for new applications which in turn creates a need to spin up environments quickly, including virtual machines and middleware. Enter, VMware. The devolved assembly has been a customer of VMware for more than a decade, increasing its use … Read more