VMware Inc. Cuts Guidance Despite Solid Results

The Company also Announces Layoffs virtualization number of employees and a new CFO.

A VMware cloud infrastructure and virtualization solutions provider, its fourth-quarter reported January 26 after the market close.

The company beat estimates of analysts and the income gains, growing from both No. GAAP and GAAP earnings in back-digit percentages. SOME strategic moves, including cuts The Executive Employment Opportunities, is also given a meet.

Despite the solid figures of the fourth quarter, VMware income cut its forecast for 2016 and now expect a lot more in the future growth slow.

Results VMware raw numbers

What Happened with VMware quarter esta?

VMware growth reported by both income WHILE licenses during the fourth quarter and Services The currency had a negative impact.

• Licensing income grew June 1% over the previous year it is $ 825 million. Constantly currency, increased income November 1%. I raise service revenue is up 12.6% year-on-year was $ 1,040 million. 

• Excluding the negative impact would have grown Moneda, one VMware's income by 12% compared to the year earlier total. 

• Free cash flow totaled $ 429 million for the quarter, up 36% year after year. The company spent just $ 75 million repurchase During the fourth quarter of shares below $ 250 million over the period last year. 

• Change income by sequential Licenses more licensing revenue is earned No. 1 February increased% over the previous year, or 6% in constant currency.

VMware also announced some strategic movements.

• If dismiss 800 employees and cargo between GAAP Take A $ 55 million over $ 65 million and the year of the average primer. 

• COO and CFO Jonathan Chadwick are the Company. Zane Rowe, EMC's chief financial officer, has been appointed chief financial officer of VMware. The company said Chadwick "VMware has decided to extend functions and Consulting, working with a number of companies as a member of the executive council No.".

The Company reduced above all forecast YEAR. If you wait 1 Total income between $ 6,785 million are $ 6,935 million, which repre Feb. 1% -4% growth. The company had previously Guided income for Growth in El Alto solo digits lower back. No. 2-GAAP EPS is expected to go are between $ 4.07 $ 4.16 compared to $ 4.06 in 2015.

What To Say I had management

CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the success of its emerging Products

• VMware Q4 2015 was strong final paragraph 2015. WE ARE particularly pleased with the growth in our portfolio and Emerging Businesses including NSX, and End User Computing virtual SAN. All these companies demonstrated a strong growth in Q4 both para whole year, I emphasized that the momentum that we expect continued in 2016.

Total reserves NSX now one of the annual TASA are more than $ 600 million, while reserves virtual SAN is located at an annual rate of more than $ 100 million.
The CFO said leaving Fourth Solid margins for the full year and fourth:

• Our Q4 2015 and results met or exceeded our income and operating margin expectations para el Year and quarter. We are seeing the results Products and Transitions WE Our positive momentum with our new solutions for the 2016

VCP550D Exam Question No 37

Question No 37:

During the installation of ESXi 5.5, the following error message is reported: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS. Which condition would generate this message?

A. LAHF/SAHF is not enabled in the BIOS.
B. NX/XD is not enabled in the BIOS.
C. SSE3 is not enabled in the BIOS.
D. Hyperthreading is not enabled in the BIOS.

Answer: A

Hundreds of jobs to be slashed in VMware cost cutting

The expected impact over the proposed acquisition of storage giant EMC Dell is about to beat VMware employees.

According to a Friday night Fortune, server virtualization company based in Palo Alto prepares to cut 900 jobs, or 5 percent of its total workforce, as of next week. VMware reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday.

The drama around VMware has little to do with the performance of the company and is more a result of the do-si-do financial play between Dell and storage giant EMC.

Dell decided last year to acquire EMC, which owns approximately 80 percent of social VMware for about $ 67 billion. Therefore, VMware has become something of a portfolio tracking, or pawn, depending on your point of view.

As Fortune explains: "Cynics have said that by purchasing EMC, VMware is Michael Dell at a bargain price, because the action of VMware shares of EMC exceeded then the thinking goes, it will turn around and sell beyond VMware gains a scenario. that has left the current shareholders of VMware feel misused. And so the growing perception that the stocks VMWare plans to continue as part of this case will not be enough just to do any shareholders. "

According to Fortune, VMware has been losing jobs, from "people high level of sales" in New York and some managers of global sales.

VCP550D Exam Question No 36

Question No 36:

An administrator is installing ESXi on several hosts attached to iSCSI storage.
Why would the administrator detach the host from the IP storage network prior to installation?

A. It decreases the time the installer needs to search for available disk drives.
B. It allows the installation of a generic VAAI component for IP storage.
C. It prevents ESXi from installing vSphere Flash Cache to the IP storage.
D. It is required when installing ESXi onto a physical server that utilizes IP storage.

Answer: A

VMware Appoints New President For Greater China

Supplier of virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware has appointed Bernard Kwok its new global vice president and president of Greater China.

In this new role, Kwok will be responsible for promoting the company in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Kwok is the replacement for David Sung, who led VMware Greater China for seven years. According to VMware, Sung left the company for personal reasons and will continue to service companies, until the end of February 2016 to ensure smooth transfer.

Kwok is an industry veteran with over 30 years experience. He previously worked for many multinational companies, including Symantec, Fujitsu, Nortel Networks, Alcatel network, and EMC. Prior to joining VMware, Kwok was the consultant and director of several public companies and private companies, suggestions related to strategy, operations and investment projects.

Sanjay Mirchandani, senior vice president and general manager of VMware Asia Pacific and Japan, said that under the leadership of Sung, VMware has seen countless success in China. Sung's contribution is appreciated and wished him all the best in the future. Meanwhile, he welcomed the arrival of Kwok and is waiting to jointly promote business development in Greater China with him.

VCP550D Exam Question No 36

Question No 36:

Immediately after installing ESXi, an administrator observes that the Configure Lockdown Mode option is grayed out in the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI). What is the most likely explanation?

A. The host has not yet been added to a vCenter Server.
B. The BIOS on the host does not have NX/XD enabled.
C. The ESXi host is running in evaluation mode.
D. The host requires a reboot before this feature is available.

Answer: A

Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Sells $12,269,000 in VMware, Inc. (VMW) Shares

19.5% in the fourth quarter, according to his last communication with the SEC. The company had 216,874 shares provider of virtualization software from the sale of 52,522 shares during the period. VMware represents approximately 1.9% of the assets of Gillespie Robinson and Grimm, so the stock of mostly 27th position. Gillespie Robinson and Grimm owned 0.07% of VMware worth $ 12.269 million of its latest filing with the SEC.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently VMW shares bought and sold. Americas MUFG bought a new VMware share in the third quarter amounting to around $ 20,000. Water Island Capital bought a new VMware share in the third quarter amounting to around $ 303,000. Janus Capital Management increased its stake in VMware by 128.0% in the third quarter. Janus Capital Management now has 14,600 shares provider of virtualization software with a value of $ 1.15 million after buying an additional 8,197 shares during the period. Finally, KBC Group increased its stake in VMware 7.0% in the third quarter. KBC Group now has 32,962 shares of virtualization software provider with a value of $ 2.598 million after buying an additional 2,142 shares during the period.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) opened at 54.10 on Friday. VMware, Inc. has a $ 52.72 minimum 12 months and a maximum of $ 93.43 over 12 months. 50-day moving average of the company is $ 58.10 and its 200-day moving average is $ 72.72. The stock has a market capitalization of $ 22.78 billion and a relationship / EP 24.45.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) released its latest set of quarterly results on Tuesday, October 20. The virtualization software provider reported $ 1.02 earnings per share for the quarter, beating estimates of $ 1.00 to $ 0.02 consensus of analysts. During the same period last year, the company posted $ 0.87 EPS. The company had sales of $ 1.68 billion in the quarter, versus expectations of $ 1.66 billion analysts. The turnover of the company for the quarter was 10.2% compared with the same quarter last year. Analysts predict VMware, Inc. posted $ 4.06 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Several research firms have published reports on VMW. Zacks Investment Research lowered VMware shares a "hold" rating to a "sale" in a research report on Monday, December 28th. BMO Capital Markets reiterated its "hold" on shares of VMware in a research report on Tuesday 15 December. Jefferies Group reiterated its "buy" on shares of VMware in a research report Tuesday, December 15. Gabelli assumes coverage of shares of VMware in a research report on Monday, December 14th. They set a "buy" rating and $ 84.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Drexel Hamilton reissued a recommendation from "buy" and issued a $ 73.00 price target on shares of VMware in a research report on Friday, December 4th. An investment analyst estimated sales show off with bilge rating received twenty twelve have been valued for buying and issued a strong note of redemption of shares of the company. The stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and a target price of $ 82.19 consensus.

VMware, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure virtualization. The company develops and markets products and services in three product groups, which include a software-defined data (NYSE: VMW), the hybrid cloud computing and end-user computing (EUC). SDDC Company is designed to transform the data center into an on-demand service that meets the needs of the application in isolation facilities, pooling and automation required in the underlying hardware. The hybrid cloud enables customers to use the capacity of hybrid vSphere cloud-based offsite. IT end-user enables Information Technology (IT) organizations to provide secure access to data, applications and devices for end users to access.

VCP550D Exam Question No 35

Question No 35:

An administrator is evaluating whether to deploy vCenter Server on a Windows server or on a vCenter
Server appliance. The administrator has the following requirements:

• A web browser will be utilized to manage the vSphere environment.
• 16 ESXi hosts will be deployed.
• Licenses must be shared with a vCenter Server at another site. · An external Oracle 10g database server

will be used to host the vCenter Server database.
Why will the administrator need to deploy vCenter Server on a Windows server?

A. Linked Mode is a requirement for the solution.
B. Oracle 10g is a requirement for the solution.
C. The vSphere web client is a requirement for the solution.
D. Management of more than 5 hosts is a requirement for the solution.

Answer: A

VMware is trying to hire angry employees away from crashed unicorn Good Technology

At least one person sees the end not so happy last crushed unicorn Good Technology as an opportunity.
Sanjay would Poonen, general manager running VMware competitor Good. He has good reach deprived employees of their rights, trying to hire VMware, sources tell us

Remember, good technology BlackBerry has sold his longtime competitor by $ 425 million in September, but as the New York Times reported, many good employees the deal would be altered. Its common shares became nearly worthless while preferred shares of investors won almost all the profits.

This came after a period in which good raised a round which estimates that more than $ 1 billion, filed to go public then abandoned plans to IPO and could not make a sale of CA Technologies for $ 825 million .

Given this history, employees with good stock felt cheated - especially some who had paid bills based on previous tax assessments.

Poonen VMware was listed to the CEO of Good

Poonen wine VMware and SAP computer activity VMware end-user, a unit previously known by a revolving door of senior management resumes.

VMware relatives tell us that before taking the role of VMware, Poonen was on the short list to take the CEO position right too.

Shortly after his arrival, he orchestrated one of the most important acquisitions of VMware, AirWatch buying $ 1.54 billion - a good competitor.

AirWatch and good competition in the "Mobile Device Management" (MDM) market, which helps professionals to protect and manage their fleet of mobile devices like tablets and smartphones.

There is a market in free fall from the big software companies like IBM, SAP and VMware began breaking MDM players and managers of the operating system, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft began to add more features to their offerings MDM.

The largest remaining independent competitor is MobileIron, which went public in June 2014, and fought vigorously for some time, its stock is trading around $ 4 - less than half its IPO price

When it sells well his nemesis Blackberry, many employees do not want to go to work for the company were defamed. "Throughout his career and history have passed on Bon, heaping coals Blackberry," said this person. "You can change the culture of a firm night."

This person said many good employees "are are just tired and want out."

So Poonen and VMware saw their chance. Poonen sent this tweet to make his point: