VMware Buys Carbon Black and Pivotal, Valued Together at $4.8 billion (cnbc.com) 12
Software company VMware on Thursday said it's acquiring Carbon Black at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion and Pivotal at an enterprise value of $2.7 billion. The deals are expected to close by the end of January 2020. From a report: These are VMware's largest acquisitions yet. The deals build on VMware's strength helping companies run their software in their own data centers. They could help VMware compete better in the security market and hybrid-cloud infrastructure operations. VMware isn't talking about cost synergies that could come out of buying two other enterprise-focused companies. However, CEO Pat Gelsinger told CNBC the companies will be operating profitably under VMware next year. Gelsinger said that by year two, Carbon Black and Pivotal will have contributed more than $1 billion in revenue incrementally, which will mean VMware will have more than $3 billion in hybrid cloud and software-as-a-service revenue.
Carbon Black was founded in 2002 and debuted on the Nasdaq under the symbol "CBLK" in May 2018. The company provides anti-malware and endpoint protection products that can see into many of a company's devices and tell if they have been hacked. [...] Pivotal and VMware go way back: The company was created from assets spun out of VMware and Dell (VMware's controlling owner) in 2013. Its products help companies build and deploy their software across different server infrastructure, including public clouds. Competitors include IBM, Oracle and SAP, among others, as well as cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft. Pivotal's customers include Boeing, Citi, Ford and Home Depot, according to its website.
Carbon Black was founded in 2002 and debuted on the Nasdaq under the symbol "CBLK" in May 2018. The company provides anti-malware and endpoint protection products that can see into many of a company's devices and tell if they have been hacked. [...] Pivotal and VMware go way back: The company was created from assets spun out of VMware and Dell (VMware's controlling owner) in 2013. Its products help companies build and deploy their software across different server infrastructure, including public clouds. Competitors include IBM, Oracle and SAP, among others, as well as cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft. Pivotal's customers include Boeing, Citi, Ford and Home Depot, according to its website.
What about adding CEPH (Not over iscsi) to VMWARE? (Score:2)
What about adding CEPH (Not over iscsi) to VMWARE?
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What about adding CEPH (Not over iscsi) to VMWARE?
Are you expecting someone from VMWare to read that and reply?
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What about adding CEPH (Not over iscsi) to VMWARE?
Are you expecting someone from VMWare to read that and reply?
Of course, this is /. after all.
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Are you expecting someone from VMWare to read that and reply?
I'm from VMware!
Actually, no. I'm from Pivotal. But ... you see where this is going.
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Isn't VMWare owned by EMC which is owned by Dell??? So technically it's Dell doing the acquisition???
Not really. The whole thing is super weird. Pivotal is its own, public company. You can buy stock in it. But the shares are something like 60% owned by Dell Technologies, and I think VMware already owned another 18%. So no, it's an actual acquisition, by VMware ... but it's all in the family, for sure.
VMware out of ideas, buying revenue (Score:2)
More proof that VMware is out of ideas for improving the hypervisor and is now just buying revenue.
I suppose the good news is that there are so many other on-and-off premise virtualization options these days they can't just resort to rent-seeking their existing customer base in support contracts and bogus upgrades.
Pay? (Score:1)
Never heard of Pivotal. I cannot fathom though why anyone would pay anything for Carbon Black.
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People who run java server at big corps use pivotal, allows monitoring and management of internals of its own flavor of tomcat servers. it used to be bundled with vmware at low cost to places that used java ee.
Carbon Black has a third of the fortune 100 as part of its thousands of big corp customers, so vmware can gets its foot in the door with it.
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Never heard of Pivotal. I cannot fathom though why anyone would pay anything for Carbon Black.
Ever heard of the Spring Framework [spring.io] ?
It is quite popular in the Java world...
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