Source: Arista plans to acquire Broadcom's VeloCloud, which provides SD-WAN tech to telecoms, for less than $1B; VMware bought VeloCloud for ~$450M in 2017
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : X: @kevkubernetes X: Kevin McLaughlin / @kevkubernetes : Late-breaking acquisition news: Arista Networks is in the process of acquiring VeloCloud, a Broadcom unit...
Sources: the EU will conditionally approve US chip design software company Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, the largest tech deal since Broadcom bought VMware
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Sources: the EU will conditionally approve US chip design software company Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, the largest tech deal since Broadcom bought VMware
U.S. chip design software company Synopsys (SNPS.O) is set to win conditional EU antitrust approval for its $35 billion buy of Ansys …
Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations
Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
A look at VMware one year after Broadcom's acquisition: some customers say costs have risen 300%, Broadcom stopped selling perpetual VMware licenses, and more
Ars speaks with users and partners unhappy with Broadcom's changes. … After closing a $69 billion deal to buy virtualization … Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : 300% Price...
Filing: HashiCorp says the company and IBM both received a request from the US FTC for more information on IBM's proposed $6.4B takeover of the software maker
Both companies received a so-called second request seeking additional information on the deal from the antitrust agency late last week … Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @quinnypig Bluesky: Mary B...
In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes
“There's more to come.” — Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners …
Broadcom sells its end-user computing unit to KKR in a deal valued at ~$4B, as part of its efforts to simplify its business after acquiring VMware in 2023
end-compute unit set for billion-dollar deal
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division ends perpetual licenses, moves to subscriptions, and makes a “dramatic simplification” of its product portfolio
Now that our acquisition by Broadcom has successfully completed … Ed Targett / The Stack : Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licences and strong-arming users onto subscriptions Larry Dignan / C...
Broadcom plans to close its $69B VMware acquisition on November 22, after receiving approval from Chinese regulators, which added new restrictions
Broadcom (AVGO.O) said it planned to close its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing firm VMWare (VMW.N) on Wednesday …