VMware boss believes clients are too fat

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 15 October 2008 05:56

IT Industry - Strategy

"Instead of giving you a physical device, you would get a virtual device living in a virtual container. All you need is a USB stick to pull stuff down and wherever you log on that device belongs to you.

"There are big challenges for organisations is to get out of the plumbing business. It involves unentangling their applications from their infrastructure and that's what we'll help customers do."

According to Maritz, Australia is apparently a poster child for virtualisation among the developed world.

"Australia has adopted virtualisation at twice the rate of other developed countries," the VMware CEO said.

At least part of VMware's success in Australia could well be attributed to the green IT message it is sending to the government sector, the country's largest buyer of technology.

"We're meeting with (Environment Minister) Peter Garret to reinforce the importance of virtualisation in carbon emmission reduction strategy," said VMware's Australian and New Zealand managing director Paul Harapin

"Darwin City Council reduced 13 servers to 3 servers and cut carbon emmissions by 114%. We've virtualised the whole of the Tasmanian Government."

The visiting CEO said the green IT message is also getting through to corporate CEOs.

"Every time an organisation turns off one server, it's equivalent to taking one and a half cars off the road," said Maritz.