Marc Andreesen famously wrote “Why Software is Eating the World” in August 2011: “More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over […]

I am delighted to welcome Dr. David Tennenhouse to VMware’s R&D community. He has joined as our new Chief Research Officer. The Chief of Research function is a new role within VMware’s CTO Office, and David will lead that team to shape its strategy and execution of its mission of driving thought leadership and accelerating […]

When I heard the news about VMware products winning a flurry of awards at Interop 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada this week – I was thrilled, yet not surprised. Let me explain. First, my heartiest congratulations to all the 129 entries and the 27 finalists for the wide array of innovative products and services, across […]

Today, VMware is excited to highlight the upcoming release of Virtual SAN: a new kind of radically simple storage. It challenges long-held preconceptions about how storage should be done. It’s yet another proof point that the world is moving to a software-defined data center.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Pat Gelsinger (VMware CEO) laid out a clear vision for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) and how it encompasses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The solution really begins with the massive-scale Cloud Data Centers that serve as the “control room” for both mobile operators as well as enterprises around […]