VMware eyeing the Indian telecom sector to boost its growth

Pat Gelsinger
Chief Executive Officer - VMware Inc.

California-headquartered VMware which is part of Dell EMC boasts of $7 billion plus revenue. It has over 5, 00,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide. It helps organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys by modernising data centres and integrating public Clouds, driving innovation with modern apps, empowering the digital workspace and transforming security. VMware brings innovation in products and they have strategic partnerships with major technology players that include Amazon, IBM, HP and Microsoft. In terms of headcount, India has now passed Palo Alto as VMware’s biggest site. The presence of VMware in India has now expanded to six locations, including R&D centres in Bengaluru and Pune.

VMware identifies the key pillars responsible for reshaping industries – cloud, mobility, networking and security. After establishing its presence in the banking and the government institutions in India, Cloud infrastructure and business mobility major VMware is eying the vast telecommunications sector to further boost its growth.

“Bharti Airtel will be making extensive use of our products,” says Gelsinger. “In September, Vodafone entered into a software licensing agreement with VMware in order to access a range of the technology vendor’s products. As part of that agreement, VMware will be one of the vendors to support the operator’s global roll out of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) to accelerate its delivery of future products and services in a rapid, cost-efficient manner. Software-defined virtualised platforms and services are an important part of the plan for service providers as they evolve their mobile networks towards the introduction of 5G in around 2020.

Gelsinger said, “India is a great talent base for me. Developers in Bengaluru and Pune contribute crucial components of VMware’s key technologies and the R&D team in India plays a critical role in product development in all of VMware’s strategic imperatives - the software-defined data centres (SDDCs), Hybrid Cloud and end-user computing.”

The main technology areas are software-defined networking, virtualisation, virtual desktops, digital workspace, enterprise mobility management, Cloud automation and operations monitoring. “India is a great market. Everything is big here in India and moreover, most of the technology companies are here offering us opportunity to partner with them to reach the world. So we have three reasons to be here - the talent, market opportunity and forging global partnerships.”

Lastly, VMware consistently focuses on what it calls cyber hygiene and infrastructure security for its customers. “Technology companies have largely failed our customers in the area of cyber security. So we build many of the base-level security capabilities directly into our products,” he summed up.

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