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VMware to Acquire BYOD Security Specialist Airwatch

VMware to Acquire BYOD Security Specialist Airwatch
Craig Matsumoto
Craig MatsumotoJanuary 22, 2014
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VMware is expanding into mobile security and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend with planned acquisition of privately held Airwatch, announced Wednesday morning.

VMware is offering $1.175 billion in cash plus another $365 million of “installment payments and assumed unvested equity” for Airwatch, an 11-year-old, Atlanta-based company that’s still privately held. The deal would be fueled by VMware’s cash (of which there’s $5.8 billion available, as of October’s earnings report) and some debt provided by parent company EMC.

Airwatch’s team would apparently remain intact under the deal, continuing to report to CEO John Marshall. Airwatch would be folded into VMware’s End User Computing Group under Executive Vice President Sanjay Poonen. There, it would join Destktone, the “desktop-as-a-service” company that VMware acquired in October.

VMware expects to close the deal by March 31.

VMware has been expanding beyond server virtualization into the personal space with offerings like its Horizon Suite for mobility. With Airwatch, VMware adds the tools for enterprises to manage security for mobile devices, apps, and content, which could let VMware extend the workspace “from desktop, to laptop, to tablet, to phone, to car,” as Poonen notes in a blog post published Wednesday. They even made him record a video about it:

As part of the same announcement, VMware noted it had a pretty good fourth quarter. Revenues came out to $1.48 billion, according to preliminary results; that’s at the high end of VMware’s earlier forecast and beats the analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.47 billion, according to Bloomberg.

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Craig Matsumoto is managing editor at SDxCentral.com, responsible for the site's content and for covering news. He is a "veteran" of the SDN scene, having started covering it way back in 2010, and his background in technology journalism goes back to 1994. Craig is based in Silicon Valley. He can be reached at craig@sdxcentral.com.

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