VMworld 2015 Summary: Pat Gelsinger’s Five Imperatives

As this year’s VMworld 2015 has come to a close I think one of the biggest impressions I was left with was from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger’s remarks as he closed up the day 2 keynote. Pat mentioned that he expected that in the coming years IT and technology will see more change that at any time in the past.  It seems to me that all of the big technology companies are working hard at transforming the way they do business to embrace mobility and take advantage of the cloud -- not only to change the type of products that they offer but also to change their business models from a per product model to subscription based offerings. VMware is certainly moving in this direction as is Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google and others. Mobility has definitely played a big part here. Pat stated that today the mobile cloud connects 3.1 billion of the 7.3 billion people in the world and that by 2025 80% of the world will be connected. Clearly devices, data and digital connectivity will continue to grow at an unprecedented pace.

To guide businesses in how to deal with this torrent of technological changes Pat presented five imperative for digital business in the coming times: