Virtualization

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  VMware Names Zane Rowe As Interim CEO

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘VMware remains focused on helping customers optimize their digital infrastructure—from app modernization and multi-cloud to networking, security and digital workspaces. We look forward to continued growth and innovation across our technology offerings,’ says Rowe in a statement.

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  Nerdio Seeing Growth Surge Amid ‘Unbelievable’ WVD Demand

  by Kyle Alspach

  The startup has been at the forefront of enabling MSPs to tap into Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service.

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  VMware Partners Hopeful On VMC On AWS Future With Hogan, Sullivan At Helm

  by Mark Haranas

  Partners believe VMware’s Sandy Hogan and AWS’ Chris Sullivan can solve the channel conflicts surrounding large VMware Cloud on AWS deals being taken direct.

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  VMware Layoffs Confirmed; Global Channel VP Is Out

  by Mark Haranas

  Just weeks after Dell Technologies confirmed its own round of layoffs, VMware has confirmed to CRN that the company is letting go an undisclosed number of employees.

• Virtualization Startup Cameyo’s Sales Surging Amid Coronavirus Crisis

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  The startup is just over two years old, but it’s taking on Citrix and VMware with a quick and affordable offering for app virtualization. Revenue has tripled over the past four months as enterprises scramble to implement work-from-home initiatives.

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  VMware Hires Google Cloud VP As New CMO To Drive Kubernetes

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘Containers are the operating system of the future, and I am excited by what VMware is doing with Kubernetes and Tanzu to help customers accelerate development and run securely at scale,’ says VMware’s new Chief Marketing Officer Carol Carpenter.

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  VMware COO On Salary Freezes, Pay Cuts: ‘This Too Shall Pass’

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘We want VMware to be the best place to work in. So while we had to announce those COVID-19 measures, they’re not forever,’ says Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer at VMware.

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  VMware Confirms Employee Salary Freeze, CEO Pay Cut

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘We can confirm that there have been a number of cost management changes impacting the VMware workforce,’ says VMware in a statement to CRN.

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  VeeamON Goes Virtual: Face-To-Face Event Canceled Due To Coronavirus

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  VeeamON 2020, which was scheduled as a face-to-face conference to be held in the first week of May in Las Vegas, will now become a virtual conference, according to data protection and management software company Veeam.

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  VMware’s Pat Gelsinger: Coronavirus Will ‘Permanently Change’ Work

  by Mark Haranas

  To push remote workforce solutions to combat the coronavirus, VMware is offering free trials of Workspace ONE and its new SD-WAN Work @Home offering.

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  VMware Overhauls Customer Experience Org, Rehires Sumit Dhawan

  by Mark Haranas

  VMware has launched a new 4,000-plus ‘next-level’ Customer Experience Team to create a more integrated and agile customer-facing organization.

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  Why Investors Are Bullish About VMware Stock

  by Mark Haranas

  'We see a compelling risk, reward scenario as we don’t believe recent strategic initiatives and model evolution have been factored into shares,' says global investment firm Oppenheimer in a recent note.

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  Nutanix’s Dheeraj Pandey And VMware’s Sanjay Poonen Show ‘Respect’

  by Mark Haranas

  The competitive leaders from Nutanix and VMware showed their respect for one another during a recent plane ride.

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  Carbon Black Stock Officially Ends As VMware Nears Acquisition

  by Mark Haranas

  VMware completes its tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Carbon Black with Carbon Black’s stock now ceasing to exist on the Nasdaq.

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  HPE, VMware And SAIC Harness The Cloud To Advance Battlefield Capabilities

  by Diana Blass

  HPE’s Paul Miller discusses its co-innovations with VMware that make it easier to deliver the cloud at the edge as seen in a new solution developed by the systems integrator SAIC.