What’s up with… Broadcom, Optus, Telecom Italia’s NetCo

What’s up with… Broadcom, Optus, Telecom Italia’s NetCo

In today’s industry news roundup: Broadcom starts the year with improved revenues, driven by its recent takeover of VMware; post-outage troubles continue for Optus as, having already lost its CEO, it now faces the departure of its network head too; Canadian investment firm agrees to buy a minority stake in Telecom Italia’s landline network business, … Read more

What’s up with… Vodafone & VMware, Rakuten, Open RAN

What’s up with… Vodafone & VMware, Rakuten, Open RAN

In today’s industry news roundup: Vodafone and VMware have figured out a way to ease the network and user burden of endless video clip delivery by the social media giants; Rakuten is developing AI tools for telcos with OpenAI, while its Symphony unit has bagged some Open RAN engagements in Saudi Arabia and Ukraine; Mavenir … Read more

What’s up with… Broadcom and VMware, BT and Starlink, Sunrise

What’s up with… Broadcom and VMware, BT and Starlink, Sunrise

In today’s industry news roundup: Broadcom has private equity firms queueing up to purchase VMware units it acquired last year; BT is looking into using Starlink’s low-earth orbit satellites for broadband services in remote locations; Sunrise confirms it will reduce its headcount by 200 employees by the end of March; and much more!  Broadcom is … Read more

Broadcom intends to divest VMware EUC: What’s next? | TechTarget

Broadcom intends to divest VMware EUC: What’s next? | TechTarget

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

Microsoft: IOMMU, VBS part of what’s causing EPYC Windows Server VMware BSODs, boot fails

Microsoft: IOMMU, VBS part of what’s causing EPYC Windows Server VMware BSODs, boot fails

Microsoft has confirmed that the latest October 2023 Patch Tuesday for Windows Server 2022 (KB5031364) is triggering blue screens of death (BSODs) upon start up failures on VMware ESXi hypervisors with the error / stop code “PNP DETECTED FATAL ERROR”. Microsoft has identified that the issue is not affecting all systems or configurations and is … Read more

What’s next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine

What’s next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine

Broadcom’s takeover of VMware is on track to conclude in just over four weeks, and while the semiconductor company’s CEO Hock Tan has pledged extra cash for R&D to boost Virtzilla’s multicloud offerings, The Register has also heard of looming job cuts, and noted silence on whether some of VMware’s products figure in Broadcom’s plans. … Read more

What’s up with… Deutsche Telekom, BT and Infovista, Broadcom and VMware

What’s up with… Deutsche Telekom, BT and Infovista, Broadcom and VMware

In today’s industry news roundup: Deutsche Telekom has opened a quantum lab to explore the future secure communications networking options; Infovista helps BT with the automation of its fixed voice operations; Broadcom and VMware report sales increases ahead of their impending nuptials; and more!   Broadcom will be in a chipper mood right now. Following various … Read more