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Broadcom's acquisition of VMware continues to send shockwaves through enterprise IT. A new survey of two hundred sixty nine VMware customer organizations found nine in ten are now actively eyeing alternatives, driven by sharply higher licensing costs and the end of perpetual license options. That's a remarkable level of discontent for any platform this deeply embedded in corporate infrastructure.
Shifting to crypto, where a New Jersey engineer learned a hard lesson about using privileged access as a weapon. Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of their own network and demanded twenty bitcoin, then worth roughly seven hundred fifty thousand dollars, to stand down. He was sentenced to thirty two months in federal prison, a reminder that insider threats carry real consequences.
And on a lighter note from the world of institutional crypto finance, trading firm GSR is putting one hundred million dollars of its own capital into stablecoin and tokenized gold vaults, betting that onchain credit is moving from experiment to infrastructure. It's one of the cleaner signals yet that serious institutional money is treating blockchain rails as permanent plumbing.
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