VMware by Broadcom, A New Chapter Forward

With Broadcom acquisition of VMware completing in 22nd Nov, there have been lots of assumption made by many sources what will become of the business direction.

Here are some of the updates that are publicly announced if you have not catch up on the news. To start with, VMware is now known as VMware by Broadcom and all originally VMware software will remain to be branded under VMware.

The first announcement 27th November, Carbon Black is now an autonomous unit within Broadcom. In my opinion this is good news. I have seen not much integration on Carbon Black ever since acquired by VMware so with that move, it allows Carbon Black to innovate and do what they do best in Cyber security landscape.

Next from the acquisition completion, there are many speculation on after the acquisition what will end up of End User Computing? With the announcement on 8th December, The End User Computing (EUC) division will be a diverse business. With that understanding, EUC division will operate on their own with VMware concentrating on the platform, EUC will have the full ownership on end user solutions strategy and experience direction. Not to forget, one of EUC offering, VMware Horizon, depends alot on the platform. In my opinion, this would allows EUC to innovate their offerings such as Horizon to support perhaps multi-hypervisor? Or even do more than they can before VMware. Having full control of what they like to do freely.

With the EUC division operating on their own, many would wonder does that means the desktop hypervisor such as Fusion and Workstation will follow suit? 

On 11th December, two announcements were made.

One, the desktop hypervisor will remain in main VMware business. This is definitely understandable as many of the feature or function of the well known vSphere has always come from the desktop hypervsior first before introduced into the main platform.

Two, which I have posted earlier, is to streamline their pasts complicated licensing model. In a way, merging all the products pillar under VMware Cloud Foundation. With this move, there are also cost optimization been done to the offering which made it even more beneficial for many new or existing customers.

From all the announcement made, we can clearly see where the main VMware is putting their focus and concentration. I definitely for one will be looking forward on what is coming in innovation from VMware just like in the past in the next momentum with the focus now been addressed.

Let's wait and check out what's next.