{"id":28644,"date":"2019-08-23T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/vmware-spends-4-8b-to-grab-pivotal-carbon-black-to-secure-develop-integrated-cloud-world\/"},"modified":"2019-08-23T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:26:00","slug":"vmware-spends-4-8b-to-grab-pivotal-carbon-black-to-secure-develop-integrated-cloud-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/vmware-spends-4-8b-to-grab-pivotal-carbon-black-to-secure-develop-integrated-cloud-world\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware spends $4.8B to grab Pivotal, Carbon Black to secure, develop integrated cloud world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All things cloud are major topics of conversation at the VMworld user conference next week, ratcheded up a notch by VMware’s $4.8 billion plans to acquire cloud development firm Pivotal and security provider Carbon Black.<\/p>\n

VMware said during its quarterly financial call this week it would spend about $2.7 billion on Pivotal and its Cloud Foundry hybrid cloud development technology, and about $2.1 billion for the security technology of Carbon Black, which includes its Predictive Security Cloud and other endpoint-security software.  Both amounts represent the enterprise value<\/a> of the deals the actual purchase prices will vary, experts said.<\/p>\n