Data centre is heading to the cloud: Sanjay Poonen, VMware

Grazed from FinancialExpress. Author: PP Thimmaya.

The growing number of connected devices has given an entirely new dimension to the mobile strategy of enterprises. Any device which is plugged onto the internet becomes a mini-computer and has become the new point for end-user computing. The rapid adoption of a mobility strategy has thrown open a huge market opportunity for virtualisation software company Vmware, who enable the running of the applications and securing it on any mobile device. Sanjay Poonen, executive vice-president and general manager, end-user computing, VMware talks about mobility strategy of enterprises and how they are expanding their reach in an interview with PP Thimmaya. Excerpts:

How is VMware expanding its reach into the fast growing area of end-user computing?

VMware is the fourth largest software company and fastest growing. We have built innovative software where we have grown out of the data centre which is now heading to the cloud. The newer area of end user computing has now become the fastest growing big business inside the company…

This is being driven by the mobile workforces who are undergoing a transformation of digitisation and modernisation. The end user computing solution has moved from the traditional world where one stayed at a particular location to a mobile environment be it a laptop, tablet or anything else. This essentially led to an environment where one can use any application at anytime and anyplace. We have got the desktop and mobile portfolio and this combined is a sizeable part of VMware’s growth…

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