VMworld Opener: CloudHealth Acquisition, Edge Preview, and Gelsinger’s New Tattoo

LAS VEGAS — VMware jumped into the edge and will acquire multi-cloud management startup CloudHealth Technologies, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said on stage today at VMworld. He also showed off his new ink — a VMware tattoo that runs the entire length of his forearm — that he got earlier this week on the Vegas Strip. CloudHealth provides a cloud operations platform across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. It has more than 3,000 customers including Yelp, Dow Jones, Zendesk, Skyscanner, and SHI. VMware plans to roll its existing cloud automation, compliance, and governance tools into a new CloudHealth suite to make multi-cloud operations easier, Gelsinger said. “We will make CloudHealth the cloud operations health platform of choice,” he said, adding that with the acquisition, VMware has “the most complete set of multi-cloud management tools in the industry.”