Friday, March 1, 2013

VMware CEO says "if a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever..."

Some quotes that were previously unheard of from VMware. Indicates the changing world.

"We want to own corporate workload," the report quotes Gelsinger as saying. "We all lose if they end up in these commodity public clouds. We want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public cloud and uniquely enable our customers with the benefits of both. Own the corporate workload now and forever."

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VMware President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Eschenbach reportedly told the audience, "I look at this audience, and I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books."

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/28/vmware-to-partners-if-amazon-cloud.html