Cloud Computing News: Broadcom-VMware, Google-Anthropic, Red Hat, More

If you’ve been tracking Broadcom’s intended, $61 billion purchase of VMware, we have an update. The antitrust arm of the European Union has made a significant decision amid its investigation.

If you’ve been wondering about Google’s place in the recently revved up AI arms race, wonder no more. The company intends to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft in artificial intelligence (although its investment isn’t quite as large as its rival’s).

Also, Google Cloud and Red Hat have some mutual-ish news. If you’re on the developer side and keen on automation, you’ll want to check out the recent announcement.

Recall 2021’s record data center M&A numbers? New stats show that 2022 was not far behind, indicating investor faith in the cloud sector. That comes from Synergy Research Group.

In additional cloud computing news, find out where Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all rank now that their fourth-quarter earnings have been released.

And, finally, we take a look at cloud storage and how much it’s costing organizations, courtesy of a new Virtana.