>>> Carl Eschenbach: The software-defined enterprise starts, first and foremost, with

a fundamental architectural shift we are seeing in the industry. And that is the movement

to a software-defined data center. And that software-defined data center can be delivered

on-premise or off-premise, known in the world as hybrid cloud computing. That's where the

world is going. At the same time, people want to use whatever device they want, whenever

they want, to get access to any application. And for IT, we gotta make sure it's very secure.

VMware's vision strategy and direction is around the software-defined data center, the

hybrid cloud and end-user computing.

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>>> Carl Eschenbach: We now, with a technology like NSX and our software-defined data center

approach, allow you, at time of virtual machine creation, to set, simultaneously, your security

policy and rules at your virtual machine. As your virtual machine moves around in a

very fluid or liquid environment, the policies move with it.

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>>> Carl Eschenbach: Virtual SAN allows all

of you, in your VMware environments, to take advantage of local disk and flash that you

have sitting there idle on your servers. Most everyone who deploys VMware environments uses

external arrays. Well, there's a lot of use cases like test and dev and VDI and your low-hanging

fruit applications that could actually run on a lower tier storage like virtual SAN,

right in your existing data centers, on unused capacity that you haven't tapped into at all

in VMware environments. If you want to go and start to leverage a technology that EMC

has called ViPR, which gives you storage virtualization across heterogeneous storage

environments, we will interface into it and the policy engine will point your virtual

machines to the right tier of storage that you require.

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>>> Carl Eschenbach: And one thing we hear

often, "We don't want to get locked in." And we do not want to lock you in. In fact, we

announced that technologies like OpenStack, which is a framework for building clouds,

can run right on top of VMware's platform, and VMware will deliver it to the market.

At the same time, there's this emergence of something called containers. And containers

are really about application virtualization. And they're creeping into the enterprise to

allow you to very quickly spin up, if you will, new applications on top of a highly

virtualized environment. And it can also run on top of VWware.

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