Comments on: EMC’s Paul Maritz: it takes leadership to move companies toward a data-driven future http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/emcs-paul-maritz-it-takes-leadership-to-move-companies-toward-a-data-driven-future/ Sat, 25 May 2013 04:10:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jawaid Ekram http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/emcs-paul-maritz-it-takes-leadership-to-move-companies-toward-a-data-driven-future/#comment-1321920 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:10:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=622394#comment-1321920 Paul is the right leader to not only move Pivotal to new platform. He has the unique capability to move the industry to this new platform. He is also very correct that this transformation can only happen when the new data driven platform is not tied to one cloud.

There would be two challenge that Pivotal / VMware would have moving forward. One would be engineering & technology and I think they would be able to execute on this front.
The bigger challenge Pivotal / VMware would be in running large cloud. Pivotal / VMware lack this DNA and it would be some time before they would learn this. It is more than just Dev/Ops automation. A service company requires a very different culture, how you think and interact with customer is totally different. Simple things like selling and customer’s service is very different. Service company product definition and execution is 180% opposite to product companies. Companies like Microsoft which have been running service for more than decade do not execute well on services because of their legacy product background.

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