VMware Folds Pivotal Into New Modern App Biz Unit
Sdxcentral | December 30, 2019
VMware closed on its $2.7 billion purchase of Pivotal, folding those operations into a new business unit headed by a long-time VMware executive. The move also sets VMware up to take advantage of its newly acquired Kubernetes assets heading into 2020. Pivotal’s operations have been combined with VMware’s Cloud Native Applications team under the newly formed Modern Applications Platform business unit. Ray O’Farrell will lead that unit as EVP and GM. O’Farrell previously served as EVP and executive sponsor of VMware’s Cloud Native Applications business, and prior to that was EVP and CTO. He has been at VMware since 2003.