Cloud Computing: Rackspace Challenges VMware With ‘Host Anywhere’ Strategy

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Rick Jackson is the former chief marketing officer at VMware. His exit was one of several earlier this year that seemed to say there was a mass migration going on from what had been one of the Silicon Valley’s leading companies. His followed on the heels of VMware CTO Steve Herrod’s and co-president Tod Nielsen’s departures.

Then, on the other hand, there had been regime change, with Pat Gelsinger coming in as CEO for Paul Maritz. Smart people don’t always wait around for the new boss to discover you’re closely associated with a high-profile failure of the previous administration, the vRAM pricing foray, and Rick Jackson was one of those smart people…

"I was the one most nervous about the introduction of vRAM," he recalled in an interview in the hang-out space on opening day at this year’s VMworld. The user group event got underway in San Francisco Monday. As VMware’s chief marketing officer during VMworld 2011, "I was concerned about how such a move was going to be publicly perceived, and I said so."…

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