VMware mobile-cloud vision stirs memories of Sun ‘network is computer’

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Eileen Yu.

Organizations are moving to the mobile-cloud world and virtualization vendor, VMware, wants to provide the tools they need in this new era, spanning from the network and storage to the desktop. A "tectonic shift" is underway today with businesses are transitioning from a client-server computing realm to one delivered on virtualization and cloud computing, said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, who has been evangelizing the company’s vision to become a leading cloud services player.

In Singapore on Tuesday to champion its message at VMware’s Partner Exchange On Tour conference, Gelsinger told reporters here the vendor was "uniquely positioned" to tap this transition since virtualization is the underpinning technology in the mobile-cloud era. VMware is looking to drive its vision by focusing on three primary areas: end-user computing, software-defined data center, and hybrid cloud…

To deliver on these, the vendor has further identified the need to drive development in other key areas, such as virtualizing storage as well as network for speed and efficiency, and increasing market penetration rate. Gelsinger noted that there’s a huge gap in Asia, for instance, where several markets are only 20 percent virtualized…

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