{"id":14059,"date":"2019-08-22T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:27:52","slug":"why-vmware-purchased-carbon-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/security\/why-vmware-purchased-carbon-black.html","title":{"rendered":"Why VMware Purchased Carbon Black"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Software company\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=VMW\">VMware<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/08\/22\/vmware-earnings-q2-2020-acquires-carbon-black-pivotal.html\">said<\/a> it\u2019s acquiring\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=CBLK\">Carbon Black<\/a>\u00a0at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion and\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=PVTL\">Pivotal<\/a>\u00a0at an enterprise value of $2.7 billion. The deals are expected to close by the end of January 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carbon Black is a leader in endpoint security and VMware&#8217;s customers are getting hacked &#8211; even with cybersecurity tools in place. This deal allows VMware to have a serious cybersecurity division and to focus on keeping customers safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major software companies like VMWare are seeing that their solutions are susceptible to hacks from adjacent areas. A user clicks on something they see in an email on their PC and subsequently spreads ransomware throughout the virtualized servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies will increasingly need to find ways to plug holes in ever-more-complex systems which may start with IoT sensors at the bottom of the tree and then spread all the way up to hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carbon Black deal allows VMware to have greater exposure to cybersecurity growth while embedding this technology into the company&#8217;s various solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of hybrid cloud, VMWare also purchased Pivotal &#8211; a partner of VMware who spun out of the company in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined deal is worth a whopping $4,8B and shows VMware is becoming a software behemoth growing far beyond its roots of virtualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Learn about the latest in everything you need! UCaaS,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cvxexpo.tmcnet.com\/east\/\">the Channel<\/a>,\u00a0IT, IOT,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentedgeexpo.com\/\">Edge<\/a>, Cybersecurity, AI,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sd-wanexpo.com\/east\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>,\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureofworkexpo.com\/\">Future of Work<\/a>\u00a0at the world\u2019s only\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdwanexpo.com\/\">SD-WAN Expo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mspexpo.com\/\">MSP Expo<\/a><\/strong>, part of the\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\">ITEXPO<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0#TechSuperShow,\u00a0Feb 12-14, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/itexpo-2019-hall-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/itexpo-2019-hall-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/itexpo-2019-hall-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software company\u00a0VMware\u00a0said it\u2019s acquiring\u00a0Carbon Black\u00a0at an enterprise value of $2.1 billion and\u00a0Pivotal\u00a0at an enterprise value of $2.7 billion. The deals are expected to close by the end of January 2020. Carbon Black is a leader in endpoint security and VMware&#8217;s customers are getting hacked &#8211; even with cybersecurity tools in place. 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