By Vadim Lander, Identity Security CTO & Distinguished Engineer - Identity in general is an area that is integral to everything customers do when building products and services or interacting directly with their customers. Everything you do requires your identity to be known at various levels of assurance: logging into a computer, banking transactions, cell phone apps, etc.
Both VMware and Broadcom are willing to put their money where their mouth is in terms of commitment to the historic US$61 billion acquisition that would.
Broadcom acquisition of VMware includes $1.5 billion and $750 million termination fees if the chip maker or software companies’ end the IT merger deal.