3. Harish Grama, Kyndryl

Broadcom, which last month agreed to acquire VMware for $61 billion, will preserve and enhance VMware’s ecosystem.

Some partners fear that Broadcom will run VMware the same way it operates other software companies it acquired. Specifically, after acquiring CA and Symantec in 2018 and 2019 respectively, Broadcom narrowed the companies’ go-to-market focus.

Harish Grama, global cloud practice leader at Kyndryl, told Channel Futures that he understands the fears among partners and customers. Such concerns are to be expected when a player with an ecosystem the size of VMware is acquired, Grama said. He made waves for calming down the channel community about the acquisition.

“The worry always is, ‘Will the strategy be derailed; will they be underinvested and milked for money, etc?’” Grama said. “None of those seem to be true because of the strategic importance, the size of the business and the premium that they are paying.”

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