He Broadcom CEO Hock TanHas promised invest $2 billion each year in research and development for VMware. This has been confirmed in a post on his company’s blog, in which he talks about how to accelerate the growth of VMware. One measure to achieve this isinvest 2,000 million a year incrementally to achieve improvement in providing value to the customer«.
Half of that investment will go directly to research and development, and the other half will help accelerate the deployment of VMware solutions through VMware Professional Services and partners.
Tan’s ambitions in research and development are focused on offering «next-generation software-defined data centers«, which cover everything from customer premises to private clouds, «andInstead of relying heavily, or exclusively, on a hybrid cloud environment, as we see today«.
Tan has also assured that the core technology to achieve this already exists at VMware, and that Broadcom will make the additional investments necessary to help this technology work together seamlessly. Also to make handling it easier. In addition, with the investments it plans to offer resources so that there are more clients that adopt and deploy this technology that VMware already has.
The head of Broadcom has also indicated in his post on objectives for VMware that, as an extension of its multicloud strategy, “invest in extending the VMware software stack to run and manage workloads in private and public clouds, leading to any business running application workloads easily, securely, and seamlessly; both locally and on the cloud platform of your choice«.
In addition, he has stressed that his objective «will be to achieve this multicloud strategy in a way that is cost neutral for customers, while allowing them to choose whether they want to run applications or workloads«.
So doesn’t say much that it’s different from what VMware is currently targeting already, but it’s It is important that you mention that the products and services you get as a result of the investments will be cost neutral for customerssince many were worried about a possible price increase when Broadcom finally manages to close the purchase of VMware.
In addition to this, Tan’s post also highlights that “As part of Broadcom, VMware will have more resources and scale to support customers who want its technology and services, and to help customers deploy it better than it would be able to as a stand-alone company.«. Likewise, he promisesdouble investment in professional services at VMware to help customers configure, use and take advantage of this technology«.
Meanwhile, UK and EU regulators are still investigating whether Broadcom could harm other vendors in the server case by making other hardware vendors in the server market compulsorily or preferentially use Broadcom’s solutions. Broadcom storage and network adapters so you can run VMware tools on them. Regulators are concerned that these and other actions Broadcom could take will drive up the prices of VMware products and services.
