Cloud Computing: VMware Hires Ex-SAP Exec to Head End User Computing Business

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: DH Kass.

VMware (VMW) reached into SAP’s (SAP) executive ranks to nab Sanjay Poonen, a 20-year IT industry veteran who’s been the visible leader of the developer’s mobility and Big Data analytics initiatives, to run its End User Computing business unit as executive vice president and general manager.

Poonen, whose background reads like an IT who’s who with executive roles at Symantec (SYMC), Veritas and Informatica (INFA) following software engineering stints at Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL), is tasked with handling strategy, products, engineering and delivery across all of VMware’s end user computing solutions…

Boiled down to the basics, his job will be to get IT pros to use VMware’s desktop virtualization technology, a task that Boaz Chalamish, who has been at the company since 2009 and headed the End User Computing unit for the past two years, served notice internally last May that he would relinquish his role this month in favor of the venture capital business, according to VMware…

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