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Yesterday VMWare announched that founder and CEO of VMWare Diane Greene is replaced immediately by ex-Microsoft executive Paul Maritz. It needs to be said that Paul Maritz, wasn’t working at Microsoft for over 8 years, but nevertheless it’s an interesting move.

For those who keep close track on VMWare’s public activities and announcements it’s known that the CEO of EMC and the CEO of VMWare had some differences in opinion [understatement].

The direct effect at this point is Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that VMware’s CEO Diane Greene presented a five stage vision about the evolution of the virtual datacenter. The five stages (separate, consolidate, aggregate, automate, liberate) shows that the last step will be about cloud computing. I’m wondering if this is only a vision or does VMware already have a solution soon to be announced (VMword 2008 maybe?)…

source: virtualization.info

EWeek.com had a Q&A with VMware’s president and CEO Diane Greene. She talks about how virtualization has changed the last year and how she thinks virtualization will develop the next 12-18 months. It’s a good read, and here are some things that interested me the most: Read the rest of this entry »