Stefan Mileschin

Would have been better if it had not been for that pesky virus

VMware has reported third quarter growth that beat guidance offered earlier in its financial year but said results would have been better but for a slowdown in “transformational projects”.

Revenue for the quarter was $2.86 billion, up eight percent year on year. Net income hit $434 million, up from $407million in the same period in 2019.

The company singled out 44 percent growth in subscription and SaaS revenue, which reached $676 million. By contrast on-prem perpetual licences fell 12 percent year-on-year to hit $639 million.

CFO Zane Rowe said that’s the first quarter in which VMware’s subscription and SaaS revenue topped cash from licenses but noted the company’s Q4 is usually a big source of licence sales.

But VMware is clearly on the way to selling more subscriptions. CEO Kicking Pat Gelsinger said the company is “on track to make most of our major product offerings available as subscription and SaaS in the next calendar year” and looked forward to that achievement giving customers the option to buy VMware kit with “the flexibility they need”.

Gelsinger said VMware has seen a slowdown in big projects and said that when they are on the table “those large deals just take longer”.

“There’s another sign off required”, he said. “They’re looking and saying: ‘Boy, my priorities are shifting around because I’m not spending as much time in the data centre yet. We can’t have our teams back in place’.”

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