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VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

Network World

The conference, the first after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, highlighted the growing trend of companies bringing workloads back from public clouds to on-premises environments. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov. 1, 2024: V Mware increased the vSAN capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x

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VMware Explore 2024: Post-Broadcom acquisition concerns will abound

Network World

While the conference promises to showcase the combined strengths of both companies, concerns over pricing, licensing and the direction of VMware products are likely to dominate discussions. However, the buzz has hardly died down. Overarching concerns regarding the impact of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware still abound.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

VMware customer concerns linger : Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction, licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover. Customers want to continue to see innovation across the VMware portfolio, says one analyst.

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Broadcom tosses VMware users a bone, extends vSphere 7 support six months

Network World

And if it was the extra little bit of runway perpetual license holdouts needed in order to move to VCF, why not get some good press about it rather than including it as a ‘standard concession’ on every deal they are inking and signing over the next 12 months?” Single sign-on across all VSF product components.

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Sapphire 2017: McDermott declares SAP indirect licensing policy change

Computer Weekly

At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott rules out of court charging for static read access in third-party systems

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China seeks 30% growth in national compute capacity by 2025

Network World

Separately, another state-owned outlet on Sunday quoted one official from China’s Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) saying that the country’s total computing capacity in 2024 had reached 230 exaFLOPS during a conference on digital economy. China ranks second after the US in compute capacity, according to CAICT.

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SAP faces breakdown in trust over innovation plans

CIO Business Intelligence

And last week, Paul Cooper, chair of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG), made the focus of his opening keynote speech at the organization’s Connect conference about what he called the “breakdown in trust” resulting from SAP’s treatment of customers. A change of leadership This is Cooper’s last conference as chair of UKISUG.

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