Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said agencies seeking to modernize their information technology infrastructure should know more about the security and behavior of their applications and eliminate apps’ reliance on the physical infrastructure. “When an application is independent of the infrastructure, agencies have the …

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DVMT) said it will buy out VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) tracking stock in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $21.7 billion in a move to go public again without filing for an initial public offering, Reuters reported Monday. Dell will swap 1.3665 shares of its Class C stock, or …

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DVMT) said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday that its board of directors has begun to assess potential business opportunities that include a possible merger with VMware (NYSE: VMW). Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Technologies said it also considers an initial public offering of its …

Jan. 29–Dell Technologies might be pursuing a reverse merger with VMware, as reported Monday in Yahoo Finance. According to people familiar with the matter, in what might likely be biggest deal in the history of the tech industry. The reverse merger, where VMware’s $60 billion cloud computing and virtualization software company …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 7, 2017 — A subsidiary of Cubic‘s (NYSE: CUB) mission solutions business has put a company-built virtual server under compatibility checks with VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) vSphere ESXi 6.5 platform for inclusion into the VMware Compatibility Guide, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. DTECH Labs‘ M3-SE-VSVR-P server received clearance for use in tactical cloud virtualization with …

Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said government agencies seeking to ensure security of applications within the network should initially change their mindset through the adoption of the “zero trust” model. Schneider wrote that implementing such a model “means you have to …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2017 — Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said the military services under the Defense Department as well as the Justice Department utilize hybrid cloud to support operations amid security challenges associated with data centers, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. WTOP reported Wednesday that …

Amy Fliegelman Olli, formerly senior vice president and general counsel of Avaya, has been appointed to a similar dual-role at VMware (NYSE: VMW) in a move that takes effect Aug. 28. VMware said Monday that Olli will bring more than 20 years of legal experience in the enterprise technology sector to …

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware’s (NYSE: VMW), has said software-defined networking platforms are designed to help agencies build and compartmentalize networks without shutting down the entire infrastructure in the event of a cybersecurity breach. Rowan wrote that SDN tools could help agencies manage workloads in public cloud …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 25, 2017 — VMware (NYSE: VMW) and the state of Utah have inked a nine-year agreement for the delivery of infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service platforms through the National Association of State Procurement Officers’ ValuePoint vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Thursday the agreement works to enable state governments and other …