VMware touts virtual networking capabilities
August 29, 2012 —
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SAN FRANCISCO — For most companies, an annual users conference is a
chance for their CEO to take the stage and explain the grand vision. For
VMware, late August’s VMworld user conference was a chance to publicly
pass the torch between VMware's CEO Paul Maritz and EMC's president and
COO Pat Gelsinger.
Maritz and Gelsinger are swapping jobs:
Gelsinger will now be CEO of VMware, and Maritz will become chief
strategist at EMC, starting Sept. 1.
On Monday, Aug, 27, the pair
took the stage to announce a new road map that includes virtualized
networking capabilities from VMware's July acquisition of Nicira.
“Hypervisors
are given away for free today,” said Maritz. “Today our goal is to
extend virtualization benefits not just to the server, but to the whole
data center. Right at the time Microsoft is saying they're good enough
to pursue virtualization, we're announcing the game's changed.”
While
virtualized networking is a clear part of VMware's future plans,
Gelsinger also indicated that his tenure at the top of this
virtualization company will also include expanded marketing and sales
into developing markets.
“It's very clear VMware is well
established in the more mature markets, but in the less mature markets,
we're not nearly as advanced as we need to be,” he said. Thus, he added,
his priority will be to “make sure the channels are right, and make
sure we have the right sales and support infrastructure as well.”
Joe
Andrews, director of product marketing at VMware, said that Nicira’s
software-defined networking capabilities will be rolled into
VMware's vCloud Suite, but he also said that such new features will take
time to arrive in products.
“There are going to be many steps to
get there. The first step is robust and powerful product capabilities,”
said Andrews. As an example, he cited “looking at allocating IP address
space for tens of millions of machines, versus the old way of being
stuck with having to manually configure VLANs every time you want to add
scale to your virtualized environment. We're going to get here over
time, but I think the pieces are there.”
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