Cloud Computing: What’s with this VMware executive diaspora?

August 24, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

Chuck Hollis, a longtime executive with EMC and then VMware, is joining Oracle where he will again work with fellow EMC veteran Dave Donatelli. As to what he’ll be doing? Other than blogging, he’ s not saying much other than “probably a lot of stuff I’ve done before plus some new stuff.” according to a blog post post over the weekend.

Hollis, who joined EMC in 1994 and moved to VMware, part of the EMC Federation , two years ago. At VMware he was chief strategist of storage and availability. The Federation comprises EMC itself and associated companies VMware, Pivotal, RSA, and VCE, in which EMC owns a stake. The federation has come under fire as Elliott Management pressures EMC to sell its stake in VMware. Elliott’s contention is that VMware would do better for shareholders if it was completely spun out from EMC. EMC chairman Joe Tucci has proclaimed otherwise…

Dave Donatelli was a hard-charging storage exec at EMC before he joined Hewlett-Packard in a personnel move that prompted litigation that prevented him from working in HP’s storage business for a year. Donatelli joined Oracle very quietly early this year, but his arrival as the executive vice president of converged hardware was announced in June…

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