VMware announces plans to acquire Carbon Black for $2.1 billion

Minimalist · Aug 22, 2019

Enterprise software giant VMware on Thursday said it would acquire endpoint security company Carbon Black in a move to bolster its security offerings and ability to detect advance cyberthreats.
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guest · Aug 26, 2019

VMware’s latest acquisitions point to emerging platform war
August 26, 2019
https://www.computerweekly.com/news...t-acquisitions-point-to-emerging-platform-war

VMware’s planned acquisitions of endpoint detection and response (EDR) specialist Carbon Black and cloud-native platform supplier Pivotal point to an emerging platform war, industry watchers say.

In an interview with Computer Weekly, Simon Piff, vice-president of security practice at IDC Asia-Pacific, noted that the $2.1bn acquisition of Carbon Black, in particular, is part of VMware’s efforts to build out a strong security offering within its own platform.
Piff said, however, that Carbon Black customers that are not using VMware may not be satisfied with this move, especially if they are OpenShift or OpenStack users.

“IBM clearly sees VMware as their primary competition in the virtual platform market, and hence its acquisition of Red Hat,” Piff said. “The deal is good news for VMware customers, but not so good for Carbon Black customers that are not already, or don’t plan to become VMware customers.”
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guest · Aug 27, 2019

Can VMware become a leading cybersecurity vendor?
August 27, 2019
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3433864/can-vmware-become-a-leading-cybersecurity-vendor.html

When you think about VMware and cybersecurity, two products have always stood out. NSX, which has evolved into a common micro-segmentation tool for east/west traffic within ESXi, and AppDefense [...]
Now, VMware has other security capabilities, but few cybersecurity pros know a thing about them. Why? Because despite its strong technology, VMware has never established itself as a cybersecurity vendor.

To its credit, VMWare recognized two things:
• Its future hybrid cloud leadership needed a much greater security presence, and
• It couldn’t get there on its own.
For those reasons, VMware acquired Carbon Black last week. Yes, this acquisition can help VMware address its historical cybersecurity shortcomings, but Carbon Black has the potential to contribute much more.
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Rasheed187 · Aug 31, 2019

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/carbon-black-vmware-acquisition/
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I don't see why Carbon Black thinks it's better off with VMware. And please stop posting articles from cyberscoop.com, I can't stand the always visible and stupid tooltip.

Minimalist · Aug 31, 2019

Rasheed187 said: ↑

And please stop posting articles from cyberscoop.com, I can't stand the always visible and stupid tooltip.
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Sorry I can't help you here. I will continue to post articles from there if I find them interesting. But you don't have to read them.

Rasheed187 · Sep 7, 2019

Minimalist said: ↑

Sorry I can't help you here. I will continue to post articles from there if I find them interesting. But you don't have to read them.
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OK too bad, won't be reading those, cyberscoop are a bunch of amateurs, why can't they spot such an annoying bug?

guest · Oct 8, 2019

VMware Completes $2.1 Billion Acquisition of Carbon Black
October 8, 2019
https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-completes-21-billion-acquisition-carbon-black

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure giant VMWare (NYSE: VMW) announced on Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of endpoint security firm Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK) in an all-cash transaction for $26 per share, representing an enterprise value of $2.1 billion.

With the acquisition now complete, VMware is launching a new Security Business Unit within the company led by Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley. As the general manager of the new group, Morley will report to Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer, Customer Operations at VMware.

"Joining VMware helps us reach a broader range of organizations, and enables us to build security into the underlying fabric of the compute stack," Morley said in a statement. "We are thrilled to join forces as we further our vision of creating a world safe from cyberattacks and see and stop modern attacks."
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