Thread regarding VMware layoffs

VMware could have been successful with Heptio or with Pivotal

Heptio had the founders, but no leadership skills to build products. Smart move to cash in on their invention, but those folks have zero skill to build a biz. VMware leadership should have realized this, installed more competent people, but failed to do so.

Pivotal’s software offerings have a decent amount of customers, but the world moved on and they missed k8s - in fact arrogantly dismissed it with a wave of the hand.

The rest of the pivotal portfolio is outside the infrastructure space, which VMware has no idea about how to manage or sell either. Those assets might as well have been coat hangers, coat hangers that no sales person was ever incentivized to sell. Just simply not in VMware’s round house.

So I think they would have bother failed even if only one or the other was acquired.

It all comes down to leadership, we have had and still have terrible leaders. Overcompensated, terrible leaders.

My hot take is that there's a chance VMware could have been successful with Heptio or with Pivotal, but absolutely not with both. The culture clash ki-led any hopes for Tanzu.

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Spot on about Heptio.

TanzPoo (the k8s cr-p) will go quietly into the night. No customers will notice.

TanZoo is garbage and will never take off, 4 distributions to support (TKGI, TKGm, TKGs, vSphere 8) - better to jump off the sinking ship with the rest of the rats ... ask them how many customers are actually using it in production? Makes no business sense for Hock to keep this piece of sh1t afloat.

The amount of incompetence in BU leadership, from Directors and up, over the years is truly staggering!

F Tanzu, F Heptio, and F VMware.

Mkay already left, but will enjoy watching the inevitable fall of all this k8s cr-p.

Missed containers,
Missed K8s.

It’s popcorn time…

Anyone want to play Deadpool?

Tanzu has been such an incredible shitshow for years now. The amount of incompetence in BU leadership, from Directors and up, over the years is truly staggering!
The acquisition of Heptio even made it worse. A company with no IP, business plan or strategic muscle, and then the org continued to promote people from that company to leadership positions with no track record of success or appropriate experience, instead of actually trying to hire competent leadership?
Yeah, the writing has been on the wall for a long time...

Hey Tanzu, show me the money.

Where’s my money!

That’s a package up getting ready to sell off. Keeping vRealize CXS where it is gives more evidence of what the main thing is. Exactly what BC needs and wants. Rest of the org is just irrelevant. Trim sales and marketing around core and you’re done. I easily see VMware going down to 10-15k people.

"This move is deck chairs on the Titanic" can't be the theme of the greater VMW reorg.

A different org structure with the same inept leaders won't change the strategic failures. We need significant changes at the VP, Sr Director and Director levels to make a substantive and sustainable difference to the future outlook.

‘Tanzu Intelligence’ is a perfect oxymoron. I have no idea about the reorg as I left the Tanzu org several months back, but in my opinion it’s one of the worst run organisations I have ever seen. To be able to squander the massive opportunity provided by Kubernetes takes a special level of uselessness.

"Raghu's inability to muster the leadership to integrate acquired companies, ie CloudHealth, is quite remarkable. Almost a license to squander company resource whilst making it nearly impossible to execute an integrated sales approach. What a Bo-b"

In Magoo's defense (cringe), the practice of overpaying for and then botching acquisitions was firmly entrenched by PG long before Magoo was instructed to take the reins.

Raghu's inability to muster the leadership to integrate acquired companies, ie CloudHealth, is quite remarkable. Almost a license to squander company resource whilst making it nearly impossible to execute an integrated sales approach. What a Bo-b

I did not receive this email. I am in Tanzu. But if this is true then the writing is on the wall. Tanzu is being neatly packaged together with all the support services to be spun off.

I feel sorry for the Cloudhealth people. Was a great product that they scuppered due to internal politics and lazy leadership in VMW. This move is deck chairs on the Titanic really and maybe an easier package to spin off / sell on one go.

From email within Tanzu:

"With that, I am excited to share that the CloudHealth and Observability Sales and SE teams will be moving to the Tanzu Field Organization, establishing a new Tanzu Intelligence Specialist group led by Nick Venables. This team’s charter will be to cement Aria as the global standard for Cloud Optimization.

Additionally, everyone in CXS (Customer Success, Professional Services, Global Support) and Renewals currently supporting Aria Cost (formerly CloudHealth) and Aria Operations for Application (formerly Tanzu Observability) are transitioning to the Tanzu CXS organization led by Edward Hieatt. Please note that VMware Aria for VMware Clouds (formerly vRealize) CXS is NOT moving and remains under John Sabino's CXS organization."

Not in the Tanzu BU. What reorg?