VMware no longer runs at the speed of the CIO: VMware Explore 2025
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All right. If you can't tell by the background, I'm in Vegas for VMware Explorer 2020 2025. And VMware no longer moves at the speed of the CIO. They now move at the speed of the developer. The developer works for the CIO typically, right? So what does that mean? I've said this in previous VMware Explorers and VM Worlds that the CIO moves at a much different pace than the business and the developers that they serve would like. That is a result of the CIO's mission is about risk avoidance, making sure systems stay available while developers and the business is trying to meet the immediate business need.
This is something that you've heard Red Hat talk about when it comes to open shifts. So VMware has moved some of the complexity away from the developer and their updated model and back onto the backend to the operator. Again, this is not something new. If you've built private cloud, hybrid cloud platforms, you're used to dealing with this complexity. The difference is that VMware is trying to bundle it all in VCF9. If you've gone down this route, you're probably not interested in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 because you've built the processes and the technology and moving from one technology to another technology is probably not in your best interest or it could be.
Take a look at the keynote. The challenge is is for organizations that want to mature to this level and I can tell you this is not a technology problem. This is a silo problem. There are technologies that solve this problem. If you're a VMware shop and you want to keep a consistent operating model and you want to adopt this strategy, you're going to be poised with some challenges. is.
