VMware, on the eve of its highly anticipated initial public offering, finds itself with a new partner and investor—Cisco Systems.
On July 27, the two companies announced that Cisco will invest $150 million in VMware and receive about 1.6 percent of the virtualization vendor's common stock. The investment also means that VMware will appoint a Cisco executive to its board of directors after the IPO is formally announced later this year.
The Cisco investment follows a similar move by Intel, which announced on July 9 that it would invest $200 million in the company and also have an representative sit on VMware's board.
In a statement, VMware said that the Cisco investment will lead to a new collaboration that will combine virtualization technology and networking infrastructure that will expand the technology within the data center.
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