As announced on May 26, 2022, Broadcom acquires cloud computing company VMware. On October 30, 2023, Broadcom and VMware provided an update on the pending transaction. They announced their expectation that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware (the “Transaction”) will close soon, but in any event
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has recently become a part of the VMware Cloud Universal Program, marking a significant development in cloud technology. This collaboration allows customers to seamlessly run VMware workloads on Oracle’s cloud platform, ensuring flexibility and choice in their cloud infrastructure solutions.
Effective April 30, 2023, general support for all VMware Horizon 7 versions expires. To continue receiving support, you will need to upgrade to Horizon 8 or Horizon Cloud. Refer to this VMware Knowledge Base article for additional details, upgrade guidance and several resources to
Effective October 24, 2022, VMware vSphere 8 is available. VMware’s new enterprise workload platform, vSphere 8: brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console seamlessly integrates with add-on
Effective August 30, 2022, VMware Aria, a multi-cloud management portfolio, is available and is the new brand for a number of renamed VMware products. VMware Aria provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud
Effective July 12, 2022, VMware vSphere+ and VMware vSAN+ are generally available. Note that vSphere Advantage is now vSphere+. vSphere+ modernizes consumption for on-premises vSphere deployments, creating a low-maintenance, centrally managed workload platform that provides organizations with an easy way to procure and operate
Effective August 4, 2022, the following price adjustments to VMware products take place: A 10% price increase for perpetual licensed Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software (VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize) and related bundles/packages that include these offerings. Price changes to reflect currency exchange rates
Effective May 26, 2022, Broadcom acquires cloud computing company VMware in a $61 billion cash-and stock deal, the chipmaker’s biggest and boldest bid to diversify its business into enterprise software. VMware, which was owned by Dell until it was spun off last year, focuses
Effective June 2, 2022, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.0.x and 4.1.x as well as VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.0 reach their End of General Support (EOGS). Accordingly, these versions stop being available for download from the VMware download pages