Broadcom’s takeover of virtualisation supplier VMware has brought changes to VMware’s product line-up and its licensing terms. VMware’s storage virtualisation technology – vSAN – is also affected.

Since Broadcom closed its acquisition of VMware in November 2023, there has been much noise from industry pundits and the press. Some of the noise focused on licensing and pricing changes. Some of it ...

The 2023 installment of VMware Explore (formerly known as VMworld) took place in Las Vegas last week, and as you can guess the keynotes and talking points centered on AI, the cloud and the edge. Even ...

IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering ...

Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware Inc. is proceeding almost exactly as we expected when the deal was announced in May 2022. Much of the media and competitor narrative is focused on the increased ...

‘You have to understand, we are not selling individual point products anymore. We are now selling a platform for the private cloud,’ says Krish Prasad, the leader of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation ...

Earlier this year, news hit that computer chipmaker Broadcom Inc. was negotiating to buy the virtualization software giant VMware Inc., a move that won provisional approval in the United Kingdom in ...

VMware created the market for virtualizing x86-based servers when it introduced products in 2001. But the company, which EMC acquired in 2003, is no longer the only game in town. In recent years, ...

VMware was a busy company in 2011. Instead of resting on its laurels, the currently crowned virtualization technology leader continued to be a mover and a shaker — although not everything went its way ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...