VMware is closing out the year by putting a bow on its $2.7 billion deal to buy Pivotal Software, which was first announced in August.
While VMware previously worked with Pivotal, the deal is a key element in the company’s transformation into an end-to-end cloud-native vendor for telcos and enterprises.
By buying Pivotal outright, along with previous deals to buy Kubernetes startup Heptio and Bitnami, VMware is taking on the likes of Red Hat via a new Kubernetes platform called Tanzu. VMware has said the new Tanzu products and services would help enterprises build modern applications, run Kubernetes with consistency across environments, and manage all their Kubernetes clusters from a single control point.
