Yesterday was time for celebration on the VMware Cloud team – we finally have a product. Well, we’ve had the technology for the product for some time and have been very busy building clouds with it around the world but yesterday we actually hit GA for VMware vCloud Director.
As you can see from some of the blog posts starting to show up we had a really good time as a group last night. Boy, I’m feeling it this morning. Now the real work begins. Unlike what Simon Crosby thinks, there are a lot of VMware powered clouds. And also unlike what Simon is saying it’s not there to lock you in but rather to give you choice. You no longer have to make a decision to go and get stuck in some Uber Cloud run by a bookstore company. Now you can choose where you want to run your public cloud services based on real business decision such as existing relationships with the providers, the lowest cost, the best geographic location, or even compliance support for your industry. That’s the real power of the vCloud Ecosystem is the choice you get on where you want to run public cloud services and how. Of course it doesn’t hurt that all of these environments are 100% compatible with what you’re running in-house today (unless you’re that 2% of the world running on Xen or Hyper-V).
Like I said, now the fun begins because the cat’s out of the bag on what VMware has to offer and I’m sure people are going to be calling a lot if for nothing else than to explore the offering a little more. That brings me to the part of the post where I beg. PLEASE, if you are a smart person or know a smart person and you’re looking to join the tip of the cloud spear then contact me or go to the VMware job site and apply for a position on my team. I look for 3 main skills to help build the cloud:
1) Networking
2) Storage
3) Programming (Java preferably)
With over 1,100 providers already signed up to build clouds the team can use all of the help it can get. Anywhere in the world is good for location but on the top of my list right now is APAC (specifically Japan, Singapore, and China) and EMEA (northern or southern Europe doesn’t matter). You will travel a good bit (maybe 30 – 50%). You will have a great time at VMware. You will work hard but have a great time doing it. The team already reads like the who’s who in the virtualization world. Basically if Chad Sakac hasn’t already snatched them up then I’ve got them on my team. And since Chad and I work closely together all the time it’s sort of one large virtual team anyways.
Enough rambling. I’m sure everyone is just waking up and getting ready for the 3rd day of VMworld so I’ll stop here. If you happen to be awake today I’ll be in the following places if you want to come say “hi” or chat:
10 am – noon – The Lab Room (Moscone West)
noon – 1 pm – Speaking: Networking Best Practices in the Cloud (Moscone West 2006)
2 – 3 pm – Secret underground meeting with some strategic partners
5:30 – 7:30 pm – Office of the CTO Party
7:30 – 10 pm – VMworld Party
See you around VMworld!
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