VMware & The Broadcom acquisition
So it’s been about 6 weeks now, and lots of news around this.
Nothing concrete of course, but lots of tidbits of information.
Just a lot of things all going on at once can be a bit…overwhelming?
Dec 11 – Broadcom simplifies Licensing.
Dec 11 – VMware Horizon & VMware Carbon Black “up for sale”
Dec 21 – Broadcom hands VMware Partners “Termination Notice”
Dec 29 – Broadcom ending VMware Channel Program.
Jan 8 – William Lam Highlighting VCF and VVF and other offerings
Jan 17 -Himanshu Singh posted VVF (VMware vSphere Foundations)
Jan 16 – Aria Simplification (licesnsing, cause its part of VCF now)
(VCF – vCloud Cloud Foundation, and VVF – VMware vSphere Foundation)
Jan 22 – VMware blog post discussing end of availability, and what the new product offerings are (as there has been perceived miscommunication….
Jan 25 – CRN article Broadcom making shareholders rich, rivals happy, and VMware Partners bitter.
1Password Blog – Mother of all breaches….
1Password Blog post highlighting the latest breach…
26 billion records breached?
It amazes me how many people don’t use Password Managers.
I’ve been biased to 1Password for over 10 years…
Note a 50% discount ($18) for 1 year subscription near the bottom…
Even Mercedes-Benz had a breach, though poor password/key management.