VMware’s Gelsinger: Datacenters Face ‘Tectonic Shift’

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says virtualization and cloud computing have produced a "tectonic shift" in IT operations that will result in software-defined datacenters replacing hardware-defined datacenters. That will be the main topic of his keynote address on April 3 at the Interop conference and exhibition in Las Vegas.

"We think we’re entering an unprecedented phase of IT. The transition from client/server computing to mobile/cloud computing affects everything IT does. It’s a tectonic shift in IT. Our strategy is to build the software-defined datacenter, versus the hardware-defined datacenter," he told InformationWeek in a pre-show interview…

Gelsinger, who has been CEO for two years, said the shift toward hybrid cloud computing is producing "a tipping point" where customers are much more receptive to hearing about VMware’s approach to hybrid cloud computing, vCloud Hybrid Service. But more significantly, perhaps, it’s also increased interest in VMware’s virtual networking, the NSX Platform. While eBay representatives appeared on stage at VMworld with Gelsinger and VMware chief network architect Martin Casado last August to endorse the concept, Gelsinger will bring two new adopters on stage at Interop: the online gaming company Nexon and the US Department of Agriculture…

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