Welcome to Episode 12 of the Cloud Wars Horizon Minute — featuring news and commentary hosted by Acceleration Economy analyst Tom Smith. Each episode provides insights into one or more new companies that are being covered for the Cloud Wars Audience.
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Highlights
00:10 — A new survey from 451 Research/S&P Market Intelligence takes the pulse of VMware and Broadcom customers in the wake of the latter’s pending $61 billion acquisition.
02:26 — One striking data point: Just how critical and strategic VMware is to its customers; quite the opposite of the “legacy” moniker so often assigned to this provider of virtualization and multi-cloud software
02:48 — 56% of those surveyed currently have a negative view of the deal, fearing loss of innovation and unfavorable changes to licensing terms.
03:10 — A smaller group of customers see the upsides, including benefits in networking and edge technology, as well as greater financial viability.
03:25 — Customers say Broadcom needs to do a better job, post-acquisition, of integrating VMware than it did with its previous deals when it acquired CA and Symantec.
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