live from the mandalay bay convention center in las vegas it's the cues covering vmworld 2016 rock you buy vmware and its ecosystem sponsors welcome back everyone we're live here in las vegas for vmworld 2016 where the mandalay bay convention center in the hang space winding down day three of three days of wall-to-wall coverage been a great vmworld i got to say it's been one of the best ever i've been to in the past seven years with the cube and a lot of great announcements i'm john ford's costume in this week and the two sets coming to an end our next guest final guest is a GF it tells the senior vice president of product development for vmware cloud services business unit welcome to the q great to see you thanks here great to be here I'm glad you spent the time to come on board here and talk to us so they had a lot of things going on it's been a cloudy picture these days and VMware certainly with the cloud strategy but also clearly in pat's keynote on Monday opening day and certainly Smoove announcements answer from Sanjay putin and others you see that coalescing around what the cloud strategy is for VMware it's not to have their own public cloud but to really be that cross cloud connector correct architectural II like Lego blocks are all snapping together nsx viste and all this that's working together so take a minute to just talk about which products that you guys have other in this new cloud business unit so first of all thank you for the opportunity i run a business unit we form last year called cloud providers software business unit the only reason for my existence now is to make software for service providers VMware last year made the shift from being our cloud service for let ourselves we cloud air to being enabling other cloud providers to build VMware base clouds and the result of the world the great work will be doing is vmware called foundation vmware car foundation is that packaging of compute network storage virtualized to build any cloud and IBM is an example of a week other network partner who is building out a vmware base cloud using the american foundation so think about the cloud and network as our distribution channel for standing up and delivering VMware IP for building clouds through their cloud services the two things the roots of VMware software-based absolutely and partnering absolutely you gotta say hey you know what do we go all in on cloud get distracted or do we go back to our roots data center right and let the cloud game play out that you have some time for a lot of your customers aren't fully going to public loud and they are in different forms absolutely absolutely a cloud needed startup life so I'll give an example right I have 4,200 service providers in might be caught our network 119 countries 99.5 percent temp covered with partners who have their capital deployed using VMware technology with their unique managed services show me one other cloud that's built on any other technology that has a scale this reach these kinds of services that's really what we call it a network is all about it's a big chest move I want you to just I'm going to ask it again so we can get it on camera here describe what the vCloud air network is yes so vCloud air network is 4,200 service providers in 119 countries delivering VMware compatible cloud the epitome of that is someone who's delivering a complete cloud built on vmware cloud foundation but many of my partners have vSphere base clouds vSphere plus NSX and when they take all the components of software-defined data center integrate them that's we can wear my cloud foundation and IBM is an example who said we're all in we're going to give you a full data center in minutes using VMware cloud foundation early in October announced a similar partnership with OVH Oviatt can stand up a STD see on demand in 60 minutes think about it your data center in 60 minutes on a public cloud fully compatible watch what you're running on from this is huge so AJ I'm wondering if you can for audience kind of give us a little compared and contrasted Oh VMware's really dominant in the enterprise data center you're talking about a you know a nice software stack that goes in the service providers would be it with the azure stack that Microsoft's talking about bringing out next year you know there's some similarities absolutely competitive yeah but the beauty for me 15 million Williams about fifteen percent of them are going to move to the cloud what's the simplest way for a customer take a VMware we em and move it to a public cloud our customers want to get other data center business they don't want to get out of vmware they want a private cloud experience in a public cloud setting and get it on demand VMware offers that with the stack we offered with vmware cloud foundation great well you know one of the you know interesting dynamics to watch in this vmware ecosystem is kind of the changing role in the channel now the channel has been critically important to you know really the beginning days of vmware um you know service providers is who you're working at you talk about kind of that dynamic there's some part of the channel that really understands cloud some are turning in service writers some work with service providers what do you see happening what's happening inside out so you know the marketplace of solution providers of ours we used to sell software and set it up and on Prem a service provider with a cloud holster and I called sis Oh who's trying to provide consulting or managed services on third-party cloud that's all blurring right my focus at the bu is on those guys building clouds but also reselling third-party services so the market is moving between build a cloud high-margin tap into third-party cloud services and deliver a complete cloud experience to our customers CPS be you might be you is really focused on those 4,200 service providers delivering that on the go-to-market side were shifting the company from a perpetual company to a subscription sales company so everything I do is subscription-based what we haven't told the market is weak area network is a couple hundred million dollar subscription business for us we grew twenty five percent year-on-year ten percent quarter-on-quarter this is huge you know there's a mid-year that everything is going to public cloud the reality is everything is going to a VMware managed cloud delivered through a week later Network well if those service providers can attract the onboarding of new customers absolutely the question we just thought with module earlier is that you know I look at like the iPhone the iPhone came out a whole new generation of that came on the iphone that was a growth spurt so if you look at all net new companies going starting right they'll probably start native on the cloud correct will they have a role for VMware absolutely as they're going to probably want to interface via their cloud all right so let's take your typical enterprise how much percentage of the development is net new development how much percent of the budget goes to net new app development don't know less than ten percent in a typical organization unless your netflix or uber and that is your business that is your budget so anywhere from five to fifty traditional enterprise about ten traditional enterprise correct right so ninety percent of the workload what customers saying is I want to be out of the data center business I want to free up that cost so i can put more money for net new development when they do that they first want to move to a public cloud hopefully a vmware managed service private cloud and then they're saying let me add new application with containers cloud service etc so i don't think it's VMware losses and the public clouds win it's an extension this is why we introduced cross cloud services yeah we're expecting customers to use public mega clouds and these VMware clouds in a mix-and-match manner tell me an example so let's just say that Amazon doesn't want to play ball with you guys or Azure and they kind of get let me stay tuned on that one by the way I know that so Pat Pat's answer was we just you know sling api's around we'll do it that way so you could have a lightweight in to interface with API like get that so if they kind of don't play ball if they do hope you sneering that they might that's going to be important to have that use my view is the cloud is a new hardware we will make our software available on as many clouds as we make possible and where we don't our valuable move beyond compute to add value in the air security management right governance visibility we don't need them to open up the api's you already have api's that's the design center we need to add value on top VMware always has been a management company a delivery company for optimizing workloads the new hardware is a cloud vm will continue i'd value on top so aj one of the concerns i'd heard from the really the vmware partners on vCloud air was how do they differentiate how do they make money so did tell us with vCloud air network and cloud foundation you know what is the answer so what we're doing is we're leveling the playing field of VMware IP that we had in vCloud air and our on prem and making available to everyone every partner differentiates itself in a different way so when i go to a soft layer they're differentiating on their bare metal service their compliance their GTS service when you go to OVH they're providing a soft service developer cloud as well as they were to go after the mid-market very cost-effectively when you go to a skyworks they're doing on security and compliance every one of them has their unique IP and their managed services there is no one-size-fits-all they are differentiating and they're all growing all growing north of thirty percent which is a great you know the market is really evolving and people are finding that niche as they go after this business what I love about vmworld this year is the competitive strategy 3d chess game going on with the VMware exec it is plus the clarity absolutely other the back to the roots back to the roots of the roots on software back to the data center and looking at that future but in the cloud I think you got some time my opinion you have time to catch up to what how that hardware game plays out as you say but the question on the software you mentioned your job is to is to do software right the role of the developers will be the canary in the coal mine yes how do you guys look at the developer community because if they all flock dude as Pat calls amazon the developer cloud right how are you guys going to engage the developer community has that fit of your plans oh uh Greg I just got my IBM friend sent me their forest a report for IBM was rated as the number one developer car for enterprise here's an example of bluemix cognitive services all being pulled in running on a vmware cloud our strength is they're taking the best of breed ecosystem making sure that the workload then lands on a vmware cloud I don't think what a developer company amex Oracle I know what it takes to build a java community and we're not going to get there on our own and working with Cabernet DS for the container imposter manager that's the strategy we support those working with Cloud Foundry I'm the treasurer of our foundry it's about enabling the ecosystem we hide Dirk as an open source leader it's about embracing the open source community bringing the communities to VMware was just trying to create our own so that's hardcore for you the national strategy absolutely the case of central of our strategy we've been Switzerland we won the game we continue wanted to be Switzerland and attract the marketplace that's awesome and one final question your big takeaway as you leave vm world this year all the conversations you talk to customers here's a very customer centric very impressed with the customers doing a lot of talking here and seeing like people going to relieve they can see the clarity and the strategy and kind of how the products are fitting together and certainly the integration I was very strong this year what's your takeaway for for you to go back to the ranch and talk to your your team and your colleagues I think the excitement is really the customer momentum we have the number of conversations were having with customers their plans to start adopting it I had an IBM rep called me and saying who's the VMware rep I can call because all the stuff i saw i want to bring vmware into my accounts so a channel is pulling for us yeah we're in a great position I'm really excited for the name it brings back to either VMware that was that independent absolutely no software work with everyone the hardware vendors brought us even in the weekend were optimizing their the infrastructure we believe the similarly the service providers the system integrators they need an a VMware landing pad and when Herod had a great line on the cube yesterday when I asked you know what is take on vmware is and we were riffing he was thinking out loud and he said something pretty profound he said vmware is always in their DNA has always been to solve complex problems make them simplify and create an abstraction layer this audience of this cloud networks interesting you're creating a cloud abstraction layer in the power of numbers I love numbers and that is a competitive move against the the Amazon Web Services and Azure tell me 119 countries who has data centers there I do all right without a single penny out of my pocket okay cloud is the new hardware according to AJ AJ thank you for spending time wrapping up vmworld for us this year thank you thanks for being here again and we'll talk more about cloud foundry as we'd love cloud foundry so that's the cube I'm John Force too many men wrapping up vmworld day three thanks for watching all the videos are up on youtube.com slash SiliconANGLE of course code SiliconANGLE com so going on 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