VMware Exits Continue as Cloud Exec Clayville Heads to AWS
July 4, 2013
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: DH Kass.
Mike Clayville, VMware’s (VMW) former Cloud Infrastructure Product Marketing vice president, became the third exec to exit the virtualization kingpin in recent weeks, joining cloud computing giant and rival Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) as the company’s new Worldwide Commercial Sales vice president.
Clayville’s switch to AWS, which was first revealed in a NetworkWorld report, comes amid Amazon adding some 200 enterprise sales reps in the last two years. The company is gearing up perhaps to pursue bigger enterprise customers not just for its public cloud business but also with an eye to challenging VMware’s private cloud dominance, as speculated by Business Insider…
Clayville, who also handled North American Sales at VMware, adds an experienced sales exec to the mix familiar with the enterprise market. Hmmm….. Two other high-level execs walked on VMware last week—Tod Nielsen, who ran Cloud Foundry and then moved over to EMC/VMware spinoff Pivotal, left for the chief executive slot at Heroku, a Salesforce.com-owned platform-as-service (PaaS) provider…
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