People are no longer nice, they are covering their a--es and knifing each other in the back. Going to managers instead of each other if issues arise, and making them overblown and dramatic. Only wanting to sell "old" stuff and leaving the market wide open to our competitiors for what is actually needed by the market. Telling me Aria is "vaporware" and escalating on me when I show it as a specialist to our customers, who think (as I do) that the market has needed it for a long time. Wanting to sell just renewal upgrades and more licenses, extended by CPU if at all possible. REALLY love this company but don't know how long I can hang
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Lol VMW has been toxic since 2005 when Alan Fudge was brought in to be the VP of Sales. He came from IBM/Tivoli and brought all his transactional cronies to the company. It has never been the same since. Diane Greene fired him when she found out he was going to Joe Tucci (EMC Pres) behind her back vying to be made CEO, but he was here for a year and the damage was done. You are looking at the results of a culture of
"Glengarry Glen Ross" sales company vs Jerry McGuire's mentor Di-kie Fox who said Ät the end of the day it's all about relationships" something transactional sales people can't or won't do.
Look: I am in complete agreement with the idea of talking to customers about what they need.
Trouble is: very few people employed at VMW feel that way. MSFT was also this way 10 years ago. It took a complete change of sales model to transform their attitude towards customers. VMW needs this as well.
Who's using it internally? If R&D won't use it, why should customers? It's a good marketing relaunch externally, but internally there doesn't seem to be a lot of goodwill.
You are a bunch of developers that have been sitting behind a desk in a bubble too long. Get out in the field bro.
Go talk to customers. Aria, even though part of it is marketing and vaporware has re-sparked interest in vRealize Suite which BTW is one of the most profitable and well used products we make. That was the point. Have people asking about it because you wanna know what? Our biggest customers have a fu----g mess going on with Multi Cloud. They couldn't get their data center running correctly when that's all they had to worry about and now they have to worry about that and 3 other clouds. Operationally a disaster. Aria ties it all together. vRealize had the reputation of managing ONLY VMware workloads.
Good to see VMware continue "innovating" buy changing the names on its sad, tired portfolio of broken pottery pieces.
The market doesn't need Aria, bro. VMware is a totally different company because the rude awakening that going forward you need to make revenue or hit the bricks. As others have pointed out Broadcom is basically a PE company and the PE playbook is to milk cash cows till they die.
I hate rebranding. "vRealize Cloud Management" tells me what it does.
What's Aria? Some kind of choco candy?
Hey now, Aria's great rebranding is barely a week out the door. The brand name barely hit the terms of service docs with zero internal fanfare. You can't expect anyone to keep up with the reading the last week of the fiscal year.
Serious Q: So you're saying Aria isn't vaporware?