https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/distributed-services-engine.html
vSphere on DPUs! Just wanna see some thoughts - seems kinda innovative.
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We've hired too many weak leaders that it's impossible to change this.
Don't misunderstand this. This means business and technical leaders. We've hired technical people without interviews, who have never contributed a single line of code to the products they are claimed to 'lead'.
We've hired business leaders who very clearly are only interested in making empires of lackeys for themselves.
OP is certainly young and new to VMware. OP wouldn't ask this question otherwise. Unfortunately, I'll have to burst the hope bubble with some time-tested truth. The problem with VMware is our culture. As soon as Monterey comes out of incubation into one of our BUs, it will die an immediate and slow death. We are terrible at execution. And so good at giving excuses and justified reasons for why we can do something only 10 quarters away. We've hired too many weak leaders that it's impossible to change this. There is only way in such situations - a hard reset. Broadcom will assemble a nimble kick a-s team that gets the job done.
Afik this is one of the reasons BC wanted to acquire VMW
It only prepared the stage for the Broadcom-style acquisition; Broadcom can sell the technology to cloud-scale customers. It doesn't make sense to most of the existing customer install base VMware has.
VMware is 7 years behind AWS in this area. Read about it here, https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2020/10/20/vmwares-project-monterey-marks-a-major-shift-in-modern-infrastructure/amp/