VMware will be laying off 800 workers this week as the virtualisation specialist, about to be sucked into Dell-EMC merged entity, after predicting a weak 2016.
The company also appointed new chief financial officer Zane Rowe this week, who held the same position at EMC. Departing CFO Jonathan Chadwick has left to pursue advisory roles.
The news follows a 40 percent fall in VMware’s share price since the announcement of EMC’s sale to Dell back in October.
VMware will also take a $65 million (£45m) charge for axing 800 jobs, with the company planning to reinvest the savings in field, technical, and support resources associated with growth products.
The job cuts and weak forecast put a dampener on what were otherwise strong looking 2015 financial results. VMware’s net income rose 14.4 percent in the quarter ending December 31, up to $373 million (£261m). Revenue as a whole rose 9.7 percent to $1.87 billion (£1.31bn).
“VMware’s Q4 2015 was a solid finish to 2015,” said Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. “We were especially pleased with the growth across our portfolio of emerging products and businesses, including NSX, End-User Computing and Virtual SAN. All of these businesses demonstrated strong growth in both Q4 and for the full year, underscoring the momentum we expect to continue into 2016.”
But CEO Gelsinger’s “multi-cloud, multi-device” strategy leaves behind products such as vSphere and vCloud Air, as sales for these products fall because of a lack of need for core compute virtualisation.
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