‘Hopefully [Broadcom] brings good things. If they bring bad things, we’ll have to deal with it. Deep down I don’t want them to screw it up. … It’ll be a big deal if they screwed up,’ says one top executive from a national VMware channel partner.
From recent acquisition comments made by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to VMware’s chairman and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, here are five important things to know about Broadcom’s potential acquisition of VMware.
‘I put eight years of my life - my soul - into VMware. So, I was a bit startled reading that,’ Gelsinger tells Bloomberg TV in response to news of VMware’s potential deal with Broadcom.
‘(Rubrik is) partnering with traditional security vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Splunk and others because they have access to infrastructure intelligence, and we are bringing the data intelligence around security, and the combination of the two is the Zero Trust security that every business needs,’ says Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha.
Companies should focus on “culture add,” not “culture fit” when diversity is a hiring goal, said Dr. Rebecca Baumgartner, VP of Human Resources for the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, at the Women of the Channel West 2022 event.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip company will also update its platform to accommodate the new CPUs on Zen 4 architecture, which will require a new motherboard.
“For me, an ally means I‘m speaking in rooms that you haven’t been invited into yet. In order for me to do that, I have to feel comfortable that you’re comfortable with taking feedback as well as giving feedback.”– Larry Gilreath II, worldwide system integrators solutions architecture for AWS.
From Accenture and Deloitte to DXC Technology and Infosys, here are the 19 companies who made Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Oracle Cloud Application Services on a worldwide basis.
‘Whenever an opportunity arises, take it,’ Red Hat account executive Deborah Brown says at The Channel Company’s Women of The Channel Leadership Summit West conference. ‘It may not be the direction you want to go in, but it’s a stepping-stone to get you where you want to go.’
‘Our clients are trying to engage their own customers and users digitally. Some compete with digital natives, and are being forced to move faster. They are feeling the heat to transform. We have retailers who compete with Amazon looking to leverage digital to reach their customers. And we have customers like Budweiser who may not sell direct to consumers but who reach consumers digitally,’ says CI&T co-founder and President Bruno Guicardi.
Technology Integration Group, or TIG, has in 40 years built an enterprise, education, and government end-to-end technology and IT infrastructure solutions business with clients in 70 countries, and will be bringing its expertise to Converge Technology Solutions, which has in the last few years acquired over 30 solution providers.
VMware says the vulnverabilities it disclosed in April have since been exploited. The federal government is warning the software’s users to immediately patch five products: VMware Workspace ONE Access (Access), VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Cloud Foundation, and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor powerhouse has updates planned for its Xeon line of processors through 2024, starting with its fourth-generation business class processor, Sapphire Rapids.
‘I challenge you to think in a manner of: am I creating and contributing to a culture that I crave or culture that makes me cringe? Everything starts with you,’ says Katie Kunker, founder and CEO of The Art Of Hustle and Heart, at WOTC West 2022.
Ingram Micro used an event this week for major announcements including the summer release of its Xvantage ‘digital twin’ platform and an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services.