Cloud Computing: Virtustream CEO – Being Part of a Larger Dell Is ‘Exhilarating’
October 25, 2016
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
Rodney Rogers, who co-founded the cloud IaaS company in 2009, says Virtustream can pursue its roadmap while taking advantage of Dell’s industry reach. Virtustream, the cloud computing company that now is part of the larger post-EMC-deal Dell Technologies, has been on something of a wild ride over the past 18 months or so.
The company, which was founded in 2009 as a cloud infrastructure provider for the big, complex mission-critical business applications that run in almost every organization and launched its first product in 2010, was bought in May 2015 by EMC for $1.2 billion as part of the data storage giant’s efforts to grow its cloud computing capabilities…
Five months later, Dell announced it was buying EMC for more than $60 billion in the largest merger in tech industry history, and there was almost immediate speculation about what would happen to EMC’s various companies—including Virtustream—within its federated business model. For a couple of months, it looked like Virtustream would be spun out as a cloud services joint venture between EMC and VMware, another EMC company…
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