Published on: 2025-06-03 17:43:04
Broadcom has cut the lowest tier in its VMware partner program. The move allows the enterprise technology firm to continue its focus on customers with larger VMware deployments, but it also risks more migrations from VMware users and partners. Broadcom ousts low-tier VMware partners In a blog post on Sunday, Broadcom executive Brian Moats announced that the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for VMware Resellers, which became the VMware partner program after Broadcom eliminated the original on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 01:19:21
VMware's business model under Broadcom is "legally and ethically flawed," a group of cloud service provider (CSP) customers and partners alleged in a report released today. The report (PDF) comes from the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which describes itself as "independent monitoring body" composed of members of the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade association, "with the support—acting as observers—of European customer organizations." ECCO says it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 05:41:00
Editor's take: After acquiring VMware in 2023, Broadcom has wasted no time reshaping the company into a profit-focused operation, often at the expense of good customer relations. The latest move in this contentious strategy involves cease-and-desist letters sent to VMware users, warning that they won't receive new patches or bug fixes unless they continue paying for official support. Broadcom wants to push every single VMware customer "owning" a perpetual license to a new subscription-based con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 13:04:34
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed. Following its November 2023 acquisition of VMware, Broadcom ended VMware perpetual license sales. Users with perpetual licenses can still use the software they bought, but they are unable to renew support services unless they had a preexisting contract enabling them to do so. The controversial move aims to push VMware users to buy subscriptions to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 21:08:58
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed. Following its November 2023 acquisition of VMware, Broadcom ended VMware perpetual license sales. Users with perpetual licenses can still use the software they bought, but they are unable to renew support services unless they had a pre-existing contract enabling them to do so. The controversial move aims to push VMware users to buy subscriptions t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 20:11:00
The big picture: Following its acquisition by Broadcom, VMware has become a focal point of controversy in the tech industry. Now, the virtualization company is hitting back by taking Siemens to court over an alleged massive software license infringement. Broadcom has filed a lawsuit against the US arm of Siemens AG, accusing the German conglomerate of using "thousands" of VMware products without proper licenses. According to the lawsuit, the two companies had an agreement for a specific number
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 13:54:33
VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license. VMware filed the lawsuit (PDF) on March 21 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, as spotted by The Register. In the complaint, VMware says that it has had a Master Software License and Service Agreement with Siemens since November 28, 2012. The virt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 20:17:28
Broadcom released security updates today to fix a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows. VMware Tools is a suite of drivers and utilities designed to improve performance, graphics, and overall system integration for guest operating systems running in VMware virtual machines. The vulnerability (CVE-2025-22230) is caused by an improper access control weakness and was reported by Sergey Bliznyuk of Positive Technologies (a sanctioned Russian cybersecurity c
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Bottom line: Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has yielded impressive financial results, according to the company's recent quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ending February 2, Broadcom reported revenue of $14.92 billion, marking a significant 25% year-over-year increase. Net income surged to $5.5 billion, a remarkable 315% rise compared to the same period last year. A key driver of this gro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 23:53:26
U.S. technology giant Broadcom is warning that a trio of VMware vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by malicious hackers to compromise the networks of its corporate customers. The three vulnerabilities — collectively dubbed “ESXicape” by one security researcher — affect VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, which are widely-used software hypervisor products that allow multiple virtual machines to be managed on a single server. Hypervisors are commonly used to reduce the need to take up
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 05:33:36
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers’ networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday. The class of attack made possible by exploiting the vulnerabilities is known under several names, including hyperjacking, hypervisor attack, or virtual machine escape. Virtual machines often run inside hosting environments to prevent one customer
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Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, and CVE-2025-22226) impact VMware ESX products, including VMware ESXi, vSphere, Workstation, Fusion, Cloud Foundation, and Telco Cloud Platform. Attackers with privileged administrator or root access can chain these flaws to escape the virtual machine's sandbox. "This is a situation where an
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