reader comments 87 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… Read More »
reader comments 39 VMware’s new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company’s partner programs. It’s unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April 2024, leaving potential for tens of thousands of businesses to be disrupted. Broadcom, which closed its VMware acquisition in November, told The… Read More »
reader comments 132 Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses with VMware products. VMware, whose $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom closed in November, also announced on Monday that it will no longer sell… Read More »
reader comments 87 Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that it would buy VMware for $61 billion and take on an additional $8 billion of the company’s debt, and on November 22 of 2023 Broadcom said that it had completed the acquisition. And it looks like Broadcom’s first big move is going to be… Read More »
Enlarge / Unsurprisingly, getting a standard amd64-based Linux image installed as a virtual machine on an ARM-based Mac results in sadness. Kevin Purdy reader comments 29 with 24 posters participating, including story author Share this story Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox 7.0 arrives with a… host of new features. Chief among… Read More »
Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty Images reader comments 14 with 12 posters participating Share this story For decades, virtualization software has offered a way to vastly multiply computers’ efficiency, hosting entire collections of computers as “virtual machines” on just one physical machine. And for almost as long, security researchers have warned about the potential dark side… Read More »
Bloomberg | Getty Images reader comments 47 with 39 posters participating Share this story PC pioneer Michael Dell is set to cap his climb back to the top of the computing world on Monday with one of the largest corporate spin-offs. Dell Technologies will shed its 81 percent stake in publicly traded VMware, creating an… Read More »