The Cloudcast

The Decisions that VMware made


Listen Later

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?

SHOW: 685

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"

SHOW SPONSORS:

  • CloudZero -- Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings
  • Section is the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective way to run applications across multiple clouds.
  • Cloudcast listeners can experience the benefits of unparalleled performance and uptime, plus the ability to scale as needed. There’s no risk to try it out – run one project for free with no credit card required!

SHOW NOTES:

  • EMC acquires VMware for $625M (2004)
  • VMware’s 1st IPO (2007)
  • History of VMware acquisitions
  • Diane Greene replaced by Paul Maritz as CEO (2008)
  • VMware revenue history (2005-2022)
  • VMware acquires Nicira (2012)
  • Pat Gelsinger named CEO (2012)
  • VMware launches VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (2013)
  • VMware launches vSAN hyper converged (2013)
  • VMware acquires Airwatch (2014)
  • VMware on AWS cloud service announced at AWS re:Invent (2016)

 

HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWN

  • VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?
  • What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

  • What happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?
  • What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft? 
  • What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?
  • What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)
  • Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)? 
  • What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019? 

FEEDBACK?

  • Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
  • Twitter: @thecloudcastnet
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The CloudcastBy Massive Studios

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

147 ratings


More shows like The Cloudcast

View all
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source by Changelog Media

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

290 Listeners

The a16z Show by Andreessen Horowitz

The a16z Show

1,095 Listeners

Software Engineering Daily by Software Engineering Daily

Software Engineering Daily

623 Listeners

Talk Python To Me by Michael Kennedy

Talk Python To Me

584 Listeners

Soft Skills Engineering by Jamison Dance and Dave Smith

Soft Skills Engineering

288 Listeners

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn by Jon Krohn

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

302 Listeners

NVIDIA AI Podcast by NVIDIA

NVIDIA AI Podcast

333 Listeners

Tech Brew Ride Home by Morning Brew

Tech Brew Ride Home

961 Listeners

Practical AI by Practical AI LLC

Practical AI

204 Listeners

AWS Podcast by Amazon Web Services

AWS Podcast

205 Listeners

The Real Python Podcast by Real Python

The Real Python Podcast

141 Listeners

Big Technology Podcast by Alex Kantrowitz

Big Technology Podcast

501 Listeners

This Day in AI Podcast by Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

This Day in AI Podcast

228 Listeners

AI + a16z by a16z

AI + a16z

36 Listeners

The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz

The Pragmatic Engineer

71 Listeners