VMware, a innovator in enterprise software, completed the acquisition of Carbon Black, a provider of cloud-native endpoint protection, for $2.1bn. “The security industry is broken and ineffective with too many fragmented solutions and no cohesive platform architecture. By bringing Carbon Black into the VMware family, we are now taking a huge step forward in security and delivering an enterprise-grade platform to administer and protect workloads, applications and networks. With this acquisition, VMware will also take a significant leadership position in security for the new age of modern applications delivered from any cloud to any device,” Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO.