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VMware’s earnings and revenue fall short of Wall Street’s expectations

VMware Inc.’s stock fell slightly in after-hours trading today after it reported lower-than-expected earnings and revenue in what is likely to be one of its final earnings calls as a publicly traded company.The virtualization software giant reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.47 per share, below Wall Street’s estimate of $1.58 per share. As for revenue, the company delivered $3.21 billion, up just 1% from a year ago and below the consensus estimate of $3.37 billion. That resulted in a net profit for the period of $231 million, some way below the $398 million in profit it posted one year earlier

Three insights you might have missed from VMware Explore

VMware Inc. spent the better part of the last week in August outlining a vision of the future for its customers.That vision will be multicloud or services for cross-cloud applications based on announcements made by the virtualization pioneer during the event. VMware focused on multicloud solutions that extended collaboration with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Inc. for workload deployment and released new features for application and Kubernetes management in Tanzu.The company’s ambitious Project Monterey, a processor-based initiative to reimagine hybrid cloud architecture, received a boost with the unveiling of data processing units in the latest release of vSphere 8

VMware CEO weighs in on Broadcom acquisition, multicloud and why supercloud is the future

In theCUBE’s breakdown of day one at VMware Explore, theCUBE analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante speculated that Broadcom Inc. chief executive officer Hock E. Tan may have “bought more than they thought” with its planned acquisition of VMware Inc.Were they correct? When Raghu Raghuram (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware, joined the analysts at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, Furrier had the chance to ask.“[Tan] certainly feels like he got a phenomenal asset base,” Raghuram said. “He said that to me even today after the keynote