VMWare closes Carbon Black acquisition, affecting 120 Boulder employees
PALO ALTO, California and BOULDER — VMWare Inc. (NYSE: VMW) closed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Carbon Black Inc. last Friday, meaning about 120 employees working out of a Pearl Street office in Boulder have a new employer.
In filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, VMWare said Carbon Black, which builds cloud security software, would form a new security business for the Palo Alto-based virtual computing company. The merger finished months ahead of schedule; VMWare previously said it expected the deal to close next January.
Carbon Black announced that it would open an office…
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