Whitehat

Val King is the CEO of Whitehat Virtual Technologies, an Austin, Texas-based company that provides managed IT services as well as vendor management. It is a VMware partner.

“Broadcom does not have a ton of credibility in our space and tends to buy B-tier products companies except in this instance,” King told Channel Futures. “This is a surprise and immediately makes me wonder if this is a step up for Broadcom or what will be a step down for VMware.”

Whitehat has also partnered with Brocade, Symantec and CA Technologies, which Broadcom has acquired.

“Brocade has been good. I see no improvement or significant change with the other two,” he said.

King said he does not anticipate much of a benefit coming to Whitehat through the acquisition.

“Maybe some of these other products will start to work better in VDI environments than they do today, but that is about it. Nothing in this portfolio is very exciting as an add-on to VMware,” he said.