VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger explains how the 'traumatic' decision to work with Amazon Web Services led to it becoming a secret superpower in the cloud wars
, the Google-created open source software that has since become something of a standard in the industry. A top VMware exec says it's becoming the 'largest force' in the Google-made Kubernetes, as it places a 'huge bet' on a tech that many thought would kill it
Apply this concept more broadly, and you have racks of ten servers that can do the work of a hundred, or a data center packed full of 50,000 servers, carrying the computing workload of a million. It's a concept that makes for the kind of incredible efficiencies of scale that allow mega-clouds like Amazon Web Services to afford to offer their customers functionally unlimited supercomputing power for fractions of a cent per hour.
Diane Greene had only recently been ousted as CEO by VMware's board after a period of poor financial performance, to be replaced by former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz. By 2012, VMware was back on track, and Maritz was ready to move on to the new challenge of running Pivotal Labs, a spin-out combining assets from EMC, VMware, and previous acquisitions into one new software company. Gelsinger was tapped as the logical successor to Maritz.
"While we were getting it right, we weren't really getting success with it at scale," Gelsinger said of vCloud Air. "'This is just an on-ramp, they're going to steal your customers and workloads,'" Gelsinger recalled of the feedback he got. "Is this sustainable?" Gelsinger said that he stood his ground, and got all the technical and product people to handle all the little details that go into such a big partnership, from networking to storage to hardware.
"We have executed. Not that any of these partnerships are perfect, but this is pretty good," he said. "We've said, we're not getting rid of this business model, but we're adding to this business model," Gelsinger said. "I don't get to just flip you to the new busines model."
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