All Is Not Well In VMware’s Cloudy World
February 6, 2016
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Janakiram.
VMware is facing an uphill battle in driving vCloud Air’s adoption among enterprise customers. Launched with much fanfare in 2013 as vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), the platform failed to take off. It’s quickly turning into a liability for VMware. The recent developments in the company clearly indicate that all is not well with the vCloud Air business. The first sign came in the form of departures of vCloud Air’s top executives. Some of the well-known faces that championed VMware’s hybrid cloud strategy are no more with the company.
Ben Fathi, CTO at VMware left the company in August last year to join CloudFlare, a startup that deals with security and web application delivery. Ben was directly responsible for vCloud Air technology roadmap among other initiatives including software-defined-data-center (SDDC) and end-user computing (EUC). He held technical leadership positions at Cisco and Microsoft before joining VMware. Ben defined the initial containerization strategy for VMware which has now evolved into Photon Controller…
In October 2015, Mathew Lodge, VP of cloud services left VMware to take up the COO position at Weaveworks, a company that’s building the networking stack for containers. Mathew was the face of vCloud Air among customers and partners. He took the center stage at VMWorld to pitch VMware’s cloud to thousands of IT Pros and developers…
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