Carahsoft Technology and Broadcom have secured a five-year, $970 million blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to consolidate cloud and software procurement and standardize pricing across Department of War components. The Pentagon’s push to modernize cloud infrastructure under a new DISA agreement reflects a br...
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has received a three-year, $92.8 million contract to help the U.S. Army maintain virtual machine software. Dell Federal Systems will provide VMware software and software maintenance services to the service branch under the firm-fixed-price contract....
Semiconductor company Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has finalized its acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware as part of a push to create a leading infrastructure technology company. As a result of the transaction, Broadcom said Wednesday it will invest in the software stack VMware Cloud Foundation to help enterprise clients develop and advance...
Dre’ Abadie, public-sector senior solutions architect at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies that seek to strengthen the cybersecurity of their hybrid cloud or multicloud environments should partner with companies that provide cross-cloud visibility and analytical insights and advance automation of security tasks. Abadie wrote in an a...
Semiconductor company Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has received final clearance from the U.K. government to acquire multicloud services provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) and expects to close the transaction by the end of October. Broadcom said Monday it is in the advanced phases of the process of securing the remaining regulatory approvals before Oct. 30. In M...
Alex Barbato, public sector solutions engineer at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies looking to implement DevSecOps methodologies to advance technology modernization efforts should ensure that development, security and operations teams are aligned by enabling them to have a mindset to work together to deliver on an outcome and achieve miss...
The European Commission has approved Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) proposed $61 billion acquisition of multicloud services provider VMware (NYSE: VMW) following the completion of an in-depth review. Broadcom said Tuesday the two companies believe combining their operations would not hamper cloud market competition and could provide enterprise cust...
Jeremiah Sanders, senior transformation strategist at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies looking to capitalize on the benefits of a multicloud environment should implement a cloud-smart strategy that allows them to adopt a “migrate then modernize” approach when it comes to applications and other workloads. Sanders noted that such an ap...
Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) bid to purchase VMware (NYSE: VMW) via an approximately $61 billion cash-and-stock transaction has secured the approval of stockholders at the cloud and virtualization technology vendor. VMware’s shareholders voted in favor of the acquisition at a special meeting held Friday, the company said. The vote occurred five...
Tom Kellermann, former head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has been appointed senior vice president of cyber strategy at Los Altos, California-based vulnerability assessment software provider Contrast Security. He will oversee Contrast Security’s strategy to support cyber initiatives in the government and financial sector and...
