Creating the Enterprise Cloud: A Q&A with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger
April 12, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Kurt Marko.
The term “cloud” is by now so overused that most people lump it in with the rest of the marketing buzzword pantheon with terms like “solution”, “leverage” or “ROI.” You’re probably thinking that the cloud is what Google and Amazon do and how could it possibly be relevant to your business? Well it is (what Google does) and it will be (important to every business) and VMware wants to be the company that delivers it.
It’s called the software defined data center (SDDC) and for CEO Pat Gelsinger it’s increasingly a part of discussions with his C-level customers. As I wrote in an earlier column outlining the four pillars of the SDDC, “It’s an expansive vision that could put VMware in the middle of enterprise IT application and service design, construction and delivery. Indeed, if fully adopted by VMware’s customers, …
…it would make VMware the hub around which all business application and IT infrastructure decisions revolve. Meaning that in an era of cloud computing and software as a service, the SDDC could do for VMware what the Windows family of PC and server software did for Microsoft in the age of client-server computing.”…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtmarko/2014/04/11/vmware-gelsinger-interview-part1/