Paul Maritz’s Pivotal Is Working To Build The Operating System For The Cloud
December 5, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bruce Rogers.
Paul Maritz finds himself once again at the center of a paradigm shift in computing. From mainframes to distributed computing to desktops and now the Cloud, Maritz has served a central role in building and scaling computing platforms that change the way we do business and communicate. The former head of the Windows platform at Microsoft, entrepreneur and sought-after technologist and business leader is the founding CEO of Pivotal,an innovative software and services company that positions itself as the operating platform for the future of Cloud computing. The company is a start-up that began life as a nearly billion-dollar baby born of assets spun off from EMC and VMware.
“Pivotal came about through a set of thinking that myself and a few others started doing some three years ago. At the time, I was at VMware, and VMware had been a very successful technology. But it wasn’t about doing fundamentally new things, it was more about enabling people to do what they were already doing, but in a much more efficient and more manageable way…
We realized that there were a new generation of technologies and a new set of competitors who would use technology in different ways to build fundamentally different business models and different ways of engaging customers,” says Maritz of the coming revolution in Cloud computing…
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