Following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Carbon Black will continue to operate as a standalone business unit with full autonomy.

After China finally agreed to Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Broadcom immediately took action to adjust. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that VMware would focus on four business areas: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Tanzu (TNZ), Software-Defined Edge (SDE) and Application Networking and Security (ANS). One product group is excluded: end-user computing such as VDI and VMware Anywhere Workspace. Wait and see what that will be.

Much remains to be decided, but today one thing is clear again: Carbon Black will now stand on its own two feet as an independent business unit within Broadcom. Broadcom said before the summer that it had those ambitions. The cloud-based endpoint platform is being spun off from VMware after the company acquired Carbon Black for $2.1 billion in 2019.

What’s special: Through its previous acquisition of Symantec for $10.7 billion, Broadcom already has the necessary security knowledge on board. Layoffs therefore seem inevitable in order to further rationalize everything.

Carbon Black did not achieve the best marks in a recent independent safety test by AV-Test. Nobody performs worse, while Symantec is in the top group.

At the helm of the new division is Jason Rolleston, who was previously responsible for Carbon Black when it was still under VMware.