THE TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEW
“ Performance is important to us , cost is important to us and sustainability is important to us , and all those things are related ”
“ I started at VMware 13 or so years ago , as a systems engineer in the field . I live in Colorado , and at the time we had around 4,000 employees and five products , so it was a little different . And so it was just two account teams , a rep and an SE and we just split the entire state .
“ So I had 75 customers or something that I covered in Colorado , Nebraska and New Mexico . Over time , I moved up through the ranks inside VMware , became a principal systems engineer – the first woman in the company to do that – and then moved to the office of the CTO and became a chief technologist . And I moved into this role a couple of years ago .
“ It ’ s a great place to be , with a great culture and with fantastic people . Technology is always changing . We ’ re always adding directions and building on what we have and expanding our portfolio . So the technologist in me does not get bored at all .”
Q . TELL US A BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS AT EXPLORE THIS YEAR AND WHAT YOU ’ RE MOST EXCITED BY ?
» “ We ’ ve spent a lot of time interacting with Chief Data Officers , CTOs , CIOs and data scientists at various companies across various industries around the globe to really understand what they ’ re doing or wanting to do with generative AI and large language models . All of that information and other information in the industry has helped us define our path forward .
“ One of the most critical areas is around privacy , making sure that our customers can do AI / ML where their data is – whether it ’ s in the public cloud , on-prem or at the edge .
22 November 2023