VMware completes $2.7bn Pivotal Software acquisition

Enterprise software player VMware has completed the acquisition of US-based Pivotal Software for $2.7 billion. Pivotal’s offerings will be core to the VMware Tanzu portfolio of products and services designed to help customers transform the way they build, run and manage their most important applications, with Kubernetes as the common infrastructure substrate.“It's my pleasure to announce Ray O'Farrell as the leader of VMware’s new modern applications platform business unit—uniting the Pivotal and VMware Cloud Native Applications teams,” said Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware (pictured).“And as Pivotal is now part of VMware, I want to thank the Pivotal leadership team for building a great company. Together, we’re poised to be the leading enabler of Kubernetes with a deep understanding of both operators and developers.”VMware said that combining the cloud-native platform provider’s developer-centric offerings to its Kubernetes run-time infrastructure and management tools will deliver a comprehensive enterprise solution that enables dramatic improvements in developer productivity in the creation of modern applications.