VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost
Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises
Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21
Acquisitions
Toshiba considering 11 possible futures
Management reveals 10 suitors, plus a digital transformation plan to become a software-defined business
Software03 Jun 2022 | 1
VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see
It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla
Virtualization31 May 2022 | 39
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses
Virtualization30 May 2022 | 36
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45
Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion'
Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...?
Virtualization24 May 2022 | 23
BROADER TOPICS
Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports
Michael Dell could be the key to any deal
Virtualization23 May 2022 | 8
Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled
A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44
Private equity snaps up datacenter operator Switch for nearly $11b
DigitalBridge Group and global infrastructure investor IFM Investors to acquire all outstanding shares
On-Prem12 May 2022 |
Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers
Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now?
Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5
When companies invest, they invest in software – report
Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment
Software26 Apr 2022 | 2
Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff
Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one
Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 159
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud
PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 10
Investment firm KKR buys Barracuda Networks
Plans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE
Security13 Apr 2022 | 3
Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki
Startup sells software and hardware as a subscription to make private 5G easy
Networks12 Apr 2022 | 1
Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate
Updated Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product
Software31 Mar 2022 | 1
Mnuchin's private equity firm buys security startup Zimperium for $525m
Mnuchin to be board chair of Softbank-backed security startup Zimperium
Security29 Mar 2022 |
$5bn+ Big Tech mergers in cross-hairs of draft US laws
Democrat-backed bills would also grant watchdogs powers to undo takeovers
Legal17 Mar 2022 | 6
SentinelOne pays $617m for identity biz Attivo Networks
Security consolidation du jour
Security15 Mar 2022 |
Arm China boss happy with Nvidia acquisition collapse
Plus: Rogue CEO's outfit could derail public listing
Systems23 Feb 2022 | 7
US DoJ gets more time to consider Oracle-Cerner merger
Big Red must wait to gets its teeth into health records giant
Software14 Feb 2022 |
Citrix says benefits are safe for staff – except maybe visa holders
Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done
Software10 Feb 2022 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
