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Former VMware CEO Maritz to lead new EMC and VMware spinoff

If you've been wondering what former VMware CEO Paul Maritz has been doing for the last eight months or so, last week the proverbial cat was let out of the bag. Maritz has been acting as chief executive of a new entity called Pivotal, a San Francisco-based cloud services company being spun off from a combined collection of EMC and VMware technologies and developers.

After being replaced by Pat Gelsinger as CEO of EMC-owned VMware last July, Maritz was given the title "chief strategist" at EMC, a role many believed to be a temporary placeholder on his way to becoming heir apparent at EMC, if and when Joe Tucci steps down as CEO. When Gelsinger took over the reins at VMware, Tucci explained it was time to move on to the next phase of cloud computing and solving the problems of the post-PC era where there was a tremendous opportunity around data and new products.

Maritz said that moving on from VMware would give him the freedom to think about some of these new application-oriented opportunities and address two of those very big opportunities: cloud infrastructure and what you can do on top of that cloud infrastructure.

Evidently, eight months was just the right amount of time needed for Maritz to get things kicked off. Last week, ahead of the formal announcement planned for April 29, the two companies unveiled their new Pivotal spinoff as a well-financed and technology-rich competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud service providers such as Rackspace, GoGrid, Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.

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Read the entire InfoWorld Virtualization Report article.

 

Published Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:16 AM by David Marshall
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