Sept. 9 - 10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

Early Bird Tickets on Sale

VMWare chief technology officer Stephen Herrod believes in a future filled with choices. And he thinks networking companies better start embracing choice, especially open-source software, or face steep consequences.

“There’s not a networking company in the world that doesn’t realize things need to change dramatically,” Herrod said on-stage today at CloudBeat 2012.

VMWare currently has its hands tied to many different projects, trying to find a way forward in software-defined networking, trying to virtualize every piece of the data center, and embracing platform-as-a-service with Cloud Foundry. Herrod cited VMWare’s acquisitions of Nicira and DynamicOps as big wins that will help them continue to innovate in the virtualization space.

Herrod is so dedicated to choice that half of VMWare’s engineers are working on open-source software and the other half are on closed-source software.

“The approach we’re taking is the one that will win in the long term,” Herrod said.

Check out the great full interview with Herrod in the video below.

Photo credit: Michael O’Donnell

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

Early Bird Tickets on Sale

Cloud automation startup VMTurbo has raised a second round of funding worth $10 million, which will be used to expand sales and marketing, product development and customer support.

VMTurbo provides virtualization management solutions that combine real-time operations performance data with customized analytics. Companies that want to move their workloads to the cloud can seek out VMTurbo’s automation software, which comes in three flavors — Community Edition (free), Enterprise Operations Manager ($399/socket) or Cloud Operations Manager ($799/socket).

The new funding round was provided by Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners, both of which are previous investors. VMTurbo’s total funding now sits at $17.5 million, including the new investment.

“Customers are finding that VMTurbo’s unique solution is the only holistic means of managing all resources in virtualized environments,” said Ben Nye, Managing Director at Bain Capital, in a statement. “These businesses depend on their applications, and their applications depend on VMTurbo.”

Waltham, Mass.-based VMTurbo was founded in 2009. The firm’s customers include NASA, Akamai, LexisNexus, L3 Communications, Orange, Omnicare and 6Fusion.

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