IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same quarter in 2023, with software revenue growing 5% to $5.9bn. Automation, with growth of 14%, was the biggest contributor to IBM’s software revenue; meanwhile, Red Hat grew 9%. IBM chairman … Read more
Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew a programme offering generous discounts to non-profit organisations. Many customers also face extra costs associated with changes to VMware software bundles now being sold, as well as server licence changes that may disadvantage organisations that … Read more
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami has claimed many VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will remain the right long-term platform for them following Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualisation pioneer. Speaking to Computer Weekly, he said customers are uncomfortable with VMware’s direction, noting that although they have relied on its software to run mission-critical systems, they … Read more
For its 2024 second-quarter filing, Nutanix reported revenue of $525m, with annual contract value rising 23% to $330m, while recurring revenue grew 26% to $1.74bn. The company’s president and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami recently discussed the huge opportunity Nutanix sees in the future: “With VMware now acquired by Broadcom, there’s been a lot of action over the … Read more
eSecurity Planet content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered across multiple systems, including Microsoft Exchange Servers, the Bricks Builder Theme for WordPress, VMware, ScreenConnect, Joomla, and Apple Shortcuts. Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems … Read more
eSecurity Planet content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In this week’s urgent updates, Apple and VMware issued updates for zero-day flaws currently under attack, and researchers detected a rise in attacks on unpatched Apache and Atlassian Confluence servers. Meanwhile, the … Read more
Broadcom’s completion of its $61bn acquisition of VMware has led to major changes to the existing VMware product portfolio, which will see an end to perpetual software licensing contracts. “The portfolio simplification across all VMware by Broadcom divisions stems from customer and partner feedback over the years telling us our offers and go-to-market are … Read more
VMware’s vSphere 8 has mutated into vSphere “8+”, which brings three new storage-related options: disaggregated storage in vSAN Max; NSX+ to support multicloud deployments; and Ransomware Recovery extended to an online service. “vSAN Max is a product that you can buy and deploy in your datacentre,” said CEO Raghu Raghuram at VMware Explore 2023 … Read more