Driving VMware

VMware companies benefited mainly from Canada raghu raghu helped figures, more than a small influence on the direction and VMware shaping the companys products and services in the next few years. Currently vice president of products and solutions, has been attributed mainly served in a number of capacities in product management and marketing in his term of office, in the VMware. He recently in dealing with product marketing, VMwares infrastructure product line.

Before that, he signed on VMware companies benefited mainly from the online product manager in the United States and Netscape. He holds a masters degree in business management, the Wharton School of Business and a masters degree in electrical engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.

Due to sit down with Microsoft editor-in-chief of the Customs and Excise Department Scannell, discussed different technical point of view, Microsoft and VMware have hypervisors, the companys new product launches in its first of the European-based vmworld, VMwares efforts to balance its Windows and open-source-based strategy.

Microsoft: What is the major differences, VMware and Microsoft in how each company views hypervisors? Mainly due to: there are some stark differences. Our view is the core of hardware virtualization layer. It also must be much smaller, in order to reduce attack surface. That is why we have introduced special state-to-state relations framework, which will become mainstream, in the process.

Our products will not be less than 32 MB, but will still have all the functions. Our feeling is that if you open servers, virtual open in at the same time. Our approach is similar to the mainframe and the UNIX machines have a separate virtual operating system software as part of Our construction, so that this concept of a plug-and-play data centres. So, if they need more storage capacity, data center, and then they just roll in a new server, which is automatically virtualization.

Microsofts approach is is a virtual operating system support. With virtual server architecture, a clear dependence on a single layer in the operating system. And Hyper-Threading fifth building, but they still remain dependent on the same operating system, so its not fundamentally different from each other than the virtual servers efforts in this regard. Harm to the clients, is a virtual server architecture is still tied to a commercial operating system, this is a vulnerable, and a large footprints.

Do you think that you as an infrastructure and application software companies, or will you just focus on the infrastructure, let your partner take care of the applications? We do not regard ourselves as an application vendor. Our job is to help our customers in-depth understanding of the operation of this vision, a common effect. We have taken a big step forward, there are still a lot of innovation left to accomplish. This is a full-time work for us. Once you put in place, there are many things that you can do to better, and different. Frankly that is not our area of expertise. So there are many opportunities for the entire ecosystem of companies to take advantage of virtual fabrics, if you will.

How do you view source code, third-party market evolution? What kind of focus, you put on the Windows and open-source partners, together with you to build the infrastructure? Our infrastructure is not tied any one operating system or application, or any hardware platform, because of this incident - in addition to x 86 architecture - so, we have no agenda to our strategy. We can and proprietary systems, software manufacturers and system suppliers, very aggressive. And the open-source market, we have two different forms of activities. One is we do, and the Linux community, that is contributing code. For example, some virtual improve, in the upcoming Linux kernel: We have been working with other members of the community to make this happen.

The other is in a virtual household appliance market. One of the challenges for open-source software vendors facing an increasingly become an enterprise is that when a business and say, We like your function and price, but how do you prove this for all my hardware and support, it stretches I am all the infrastructure needs, and provide it to me? Enterprise management is a challenge to the open-source companies. Its not like they can take care of a household electrical appliances are automatic. One minute they drop out of school that the VMware appliance infrastructure solutions, infrastructure will automatically provide them with high availability, business continuity and a certain degree of manageability, they did not.

Can you talk about the significance of the notice in the vmworld you, in Cannes, France, last month, and how they raise your strategy to move forward? We have already said, virtualization is not only a solution that provides hardware savings. Fundamentally speaking, its a framework for the data center to help users solve problems, the past is very difficult. These issues and more how do you manage and automate the data center, you how to make the data center more secure, and how to make your data center more accessible and flexible.

We see the data center as a self-management, flexible and practical. This is why we announced a set of automation and management products, to the highly automated virtual environment, the system administrator can manage much larger number of virtual instances with the resources they have. Most of our [user] companies are in the fight of its services, not a single application. Its a State Oceanic Administration to provide IT services. The question now is: How do you take this service through the development to test to staging, to get it completed and put into production, and then retired, and this time, it has lost its life cycle? And how you do it with a high degree of predictability, if you do not correct, but save a lot of time and money? Some of these products also address what you are calling it the continuity of the service. How important is that this is your strategy going forward? Very important. Business continuity is the silver bullet for virtualization after consolidation. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all customers have been trying to do business continuity use virtualization. These products are mainly the following: design automation, all processes, so that if you the failure of the data center, you can automatically failover to another data center, and then failed to return. One of the most interesting things, business continuity, because it is so complex, so people have a business continuity plan, the document, but they almost all of the tests. Our products are released so that the automated testing of all sorts of plans.

How much competition you face in these markets? I believe this is that we are pioneering new. One of our advantages in the market now, we are on our third generation of the core of the virtual construction - h ypervisor. Our ability to build on top of it. Our focus is not only hypervisor, but on how we can use virtualization, in order to resolve all these issues persistent, in the data center. Therefore, we can also free access to the areas, business continuity and data center automation, because we already have a solid foundation.

How important, with a focus on security in the VMware companies in the short term? This is a focus of our recent notice. What we did, in a virtual environment, this is not possible in a physical environment. Before we vmotion products, it is fundamentally impossible to run the application and make it from one physical box to another. So one of the regions, we can bring to bear is security. We vmsafe framework is a set of open API, all security vendors can use to establish solutions to solve security problems, but is very hard to do, in a physical world. For example, the type of virus detection, as it is very difficult to find in a material world. One of the problems, testing procedures malicious programs face is that they live in the same address space, because the malicious software itself. Hackers find what kind of malicious software testing procedures at the same time running, and then suspended, and their own happiness means to cause damage. And vmsafe, malicious software testing, to move out of the operating system and application address space. It can look at what happened in the virtual machine. We can not aware of this, but [we can] reached and closed malicious software.

VMware company is not in line with Wall Street expected revenue in the last quarter. This has caused you to rethink some of your pricing structure? Customers still feel that a very high rate of return on investment, our products, so we do not see any change in how customers view us from the point of view of cost-effectiveness. Having said that, we have a rich product line, including clouds, from 500 yuan to 1,000 US dollars hypervisor the VMware provides an infrastructure of 3,000 US dollars VMware infrastructure to provide a 5,000 yuan. We have a full spectrum of products at different price points and capabilities. We believe that we will soon be in the service, already in the market.