Last week, Broadcom CEO, Hock Tan, announced changes to its newly acquired cloud computing company VMware’s licensing condition after receiving complaints from EU businesses and a leading trade group.
The complaints included changes which allowed customers to move their workloads from their own data centres to cloud providers, and significant price cuts to VMware’s cloud platform.
CISPE, a trade body whose members include Amazon and 26 small…
When it comes to cloud computing and server virtualization, VMware has long dominated the market. In November of 2023, IC design company Broadcom acquired VMware, officially marking its entry into the cloud market and setting into motion a firestorm of changes for employees, partners, and clients alike.
While the acquisition was announced well in advance, many failed to realize the far-reaching impact and weren’t prepared for the long-term residual effects these changes would…
Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.
CISPE, or Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, claimed that Broadcom is trying to “obfuscate the main issues in this dispute” by framing its licensing changes as pro-competition and pro-innovation, and ignoring concerns about price hikes and tying products together.
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Banking software company Temenos has appointed Jean-Pierre Brulard as CEO, effective May 1.
Brulard will succeed Andreas Andreades, who will retire from the company, Temenos said in a Tuesday (April 23) press release.
Brulard was most recently with VMWare, a $61 billion U.S.-listed cloud computing and virtualization software company, according to the release. He was with the company 14 years and served as executive vice president, worldwide sales and a member of the…
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced that it has received 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year awards for Infrastructure in the categories of Networking and Virtualization.
Broadcom, including the recently acquired VMware, Inc., is being recognized for the company’s achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem collaborating with Google Cloud to help mutual customers reshape their network observability as well as…
Meanwhile, moving to a subscription pricing model makes sense for both VMware and its customers, Tan wrote. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.
“Subscription licensing is the model all major enterprise software providers deploy today and ensures that customers have the latest and greatest in VCF while providing the kind of predictability needed to fuel continuous innovation for our customers,” Tan…
A new exploit targeting VMware ESXi Shell Service has been discovered and is circulating on various hacking forums.
This vulnerability poses a significant risk to organizations using VMware for their virtual environments, potentially allowing unauthorized access and control over virtual machines.
The exploit, which explicitly targets the VMware ESXi Shell Service, was reported in a tweet from a Dark Web Intelligence account on Twitter.
The ESXi Shell, an essential component for managing VMware…
ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, today announced the company is now a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle tier partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for the North American market to help mutual enterprise customers innovate by adopting VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as their private cloud infrastructure. TierPoint delivers new managed…