INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After announcing that it would acquire Pivotal back in August for $2.7bn, VMware has revealed that it has now closed the deal.The
acquisition will fuel the company's efforts to transform from a pure virtual machine company into a cloud native vendor with the
capabilities to manage infrastructure wherever it lives.Alongside Pivotal, VMware also purchased Heptio and Bitnami this year
This recent string of acquisitions will likely strengthen VMware Tanzu which aims to bring Kubernetes containers and VMware's virtual
machines together in a single management platform.In a blog post announcing that the deal had closed, executive vice president and general
manager of VMware's modern applications platforms business unit Ray O'Farrell explained how Pivotal, Heptio and Bitnami will help expand
VMware brand called Tanzu
VMware Tanzu is built upon our recognized infrastructure products and further expanded with the technologies that Pivotal, Heptio, Bitnami
traded on the New York Stock Exchange but now the company has become a wholly owned subsidiary of VMware.VMware and Pivotal have a history
as both were part of a consortium of companies that Dell purchased when it acquired EMC back in 2015 for $67bn
However, while both companies were part of EMC and then Dell, each company operated separately and independently.Pivotal's ties to VMware go
back even further though as the company was originally created by a combination of EMC, VMware and GE with the aim of providing large
organizations with a separate company to help undertake transformation initiatives.In August, Pivotal's stock dropped by 42 percent in one
day and it was at this time that VMware first proposed buying the company at $15 a share.Via TechCrunch
