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Broadcom grows revenues by 20% following VMware purchase, as customers fume about subscription costs

Network World

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware continues to prove itself a worthy purchase, even as the semiconductor giant has faced harsh criticism, and lost some customers, due to significant price increases. VMware is part of Broadcom’s infrastructure software business unit, which in Q2 2025 grew 25% YoY to hit $6.6 billion in revenue.

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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted.

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VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

Network World

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov.

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

Network World

Broadcom on Tuesday released VMware Tanzu Data Services, a new “advanced service” for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), at VMware Explore Barcelona. VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” Is it comprehensive? Certainly not.

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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

Broadcoms $61 billion acquisition of VMware caused quite a stir in the technology industry and continues to prompt VMware customers to consider alternatives. Related coverage Broadcom distrust drives sales for VMware competition Aug.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

In the wake of Broadcoms acquisition of VMware, many CIOs have considered whether to drop VMware from their IT portfolios. The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says. at market close on Feb.

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VMware offers fixes to severe vulnerabilities in VMware Aria

Network World

VMware has fixed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its cloud management platform (CMP), VMware Aria, which could allow attackers to steal sensitive credentials from the virtualization giants IT management and logging solutions. Continue reading on CSO

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