Interviews

• PROFILE: Harnessing the power of the hybrid cloud and beyond

  By Patrick Budmar | 21 June, 2011 11:40

  With the virtualisation needs of Australian and New Zealand companies continually expanding, VMware Australia has stepped up to meet ITS ever growing expectations through the cloud. ARN spoke to VMware Australia Vice-President and Managing Director, Duncan Bennet, about his recent promotion, making virtualisation work and the journey to the cloud.

• Vendor Awards: Software - VMware

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 16:12

  VMware has had a stellar year. Riding high on the virtualisation phenomenon that has persisted as cloud becomes the hot new topic of interest, the vendor picked up Software Vendor of the Year for the second consecutive year.

• Q&A: EMC's David Webster talks integration and the cloud

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 07 June, 2010 11:34

  EMC recently held its annual Inform conference in Sydney. Keynote speaker, EMC President for Australia and New Zealand, David Webster, sat down with Matthew Sainsbury to discuss the event, market issues and its vendor partnerships.

• Partnering to success

  By Georgina Swan | 27 September, 2009 15:17

  VMware is not just any IT company — the winner of the 2009 ARN Software Vendor of the Year has a partner community that runs through the entire channel.

• Q&A: VMware CEO Maritz on his new gig, competing against Microsoft and the virtual server 'time bomb'

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 September, 2008 10:35

  Paul Maritz became the president and CEO of VMware in July, after the EMC-owned company's board of directors fired co-founder and CEO Diane Greene. Maritz is now competing in the hot virtualization market against his former employer Microsoft, where he worked from 1986 to 2000 and led many of the company's major software initiatives. EMC executives put him in charge of VMware just a few months after EMC acquired Pi Corporation, a company Maritz founded. Maritz was in Las Vegas this week for VMware's annual VMworld conference, and sat down with Jon Brodkin to talk about company strategy.