VMware vSphere

But being able to get a DBA the storage that he needs and the performance that he needs and do it automagically, keeps the storage admin from having to deal with the DBAs because they can just request it themselves and Fusion helps them place it where it needs to go.

And our plugin to VMware allows you to be able to manage your storage through vSphere.

So you don't need to be bothering the storage admin in that area as well.

It just, like you said, it eliminates the friction and those teams, I wouldn't say they get along, but they don't not get along, right? Because they don't have to talk to each other as much.

And it works that way because the processors are so ungodly fast.

And to be honest, I wrote in 2014 in my book, along with Khan and Mani, the Oracle and VMware, that the two most important software products in the history of the world were the Oracle RDBMS and VMware vSphere.

It's probably not vSphere anymore since virtualization just simply isn't as necessary because of the speed and power of the processors.

I assure you the RDBMS is that important.

There is, yeah.

It's usually a management interface, something like vSphere.

And because that management interface holds the keys to the entire virtualization environment, access to it has to be incredibly locked down.

Like beyond just a strong password?

And so I do my best to do that for others.

So I got in the door because of VMware vSphere experience is what pulled me in the door.

So

it was not at all what I was expecting, right? I was like, you know, I have my Linux Plus and I'm thinking I'm a Linux guru and I've got my switching route down and I could talk, you know, VLANs and we just need you to clone stuff.

I think we're in the early phase of it.

So this is the time to, when I think back, this reminds me of when I was at the hospital and we left Citrix and brought on VMware or vSphere.

And back then, you know, nobody really thought about how big that was because, you know, you never heard of it.

And then you think about stuff like new tenants.

So I asked Pete if I can kick things off here.

I remember, I mean, it must have been like eight years ago, I was down at RTP and we were doing a full stack implementation of vSphere and what was cloud management.

down in your lab in RTP.

And I spent like four or five days down there.