![]() ![]() Sometimes you may want to test the end-user machine in your Lab in Gns3. Since Gns3 supports a lot of different ways you can create a multivendor networking lab, I love to work on it, moreover, it’s open-source, and it’s free too! I have been running a virtualized environment for both my Network POC’s and the Labs for years now using Gns3. ![]() +COMMENT The Register struggles to reconcile the many references on Broadcom's earnings call to VMware Cloud Foundation as an ideal product for global enterprises, the plan to de-emphasize "loose" sales of unbundled products, and past insistence that smaller VMware customers will continue to get the innovation and service they need.īroadcom is currently offering those customers little succour or information – and they're openly fearful and contemplating alternatives.I like to work on physical equipment when it comes to networking, but what if I cannot afford to own one, then the only option is to Virtualise them. Net income was essentially steady for the year and quarter.įY 2024 revenue was forecast to reach $50 billion, helped by the addition of VMware, secular increases in demand for semiconductors, and some help from the AI boom. ![]() The biz reported $9.3 billion revenue for Q4 – up four percent year on year, and an eight percent annual revenue increase to $35.8 billion. It is a growth product to be able to create a virtualized cloud environment in your own datacenter on-prem for any global company."īroadcom forecast VMware will generate $12 billion of revenue for eleven months of its next financial year, excluding $2 billion for end-user computing and Carbon Black. Tan said VMware is different because "… we're selling a product of the present and of the future. Smaller users – and the partners who serve them – both reported indifference from Broadcom. Tan's remarks about Broadcom's plan to focus on global enterprises reflect the playbook the voracious conglomerate followed after the acquisitions of CA and Symantec, which both saw product development focus on the needs of larger customers. While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage.VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it.VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint.Broadcom's latest Trident switch silicon packs neural net processor to terminate congestion.In its Form 8-K, Broadcom revealed it "expects to take charges of approximately $1.3 billion through fiscal year 2025 for the implementation of cost reduction activities." The Register has made several requests to Broadcom to detail those job cuts, and how they will change the experience of working with VMware, but it has not responded. Public filings suggest VMware has axed over 2,000 jobs in the US. Some of those savings will clearly come from job cuts. Spears also revealed that by the end of FY '24, VMware spending will shrink to $1.4 billion per quarter – down 40 percent from a year ago. "We are also converting an install base of licenses that is over 60 percent perpetual today to one that will be mostly subscription by the end of fiscal 2024," she announced on the earnings call. CFO Kristen Spears foreshadowed another change for VMware customers, in the form of a push to subscriptions when they renew their licenses.
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