Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is the Chief Executive Officer of VMware as of September 2012. Prior to becoming CEO of VMware he was President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC. Before joining EMC, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel...
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asking challenges customers responding
It's what our customers are asking for. We do have some challenges competitively, and we are responding aggressively.
almost budget challenges consumer cost costs electricity highest labor manager percent pressure running second services spent today
Today, the IT manager is under pressure from many, many different fronts. He has the challenges of budget where almost 80 percent of the IT budget is spent just on running the services that they have in place today -- with the cost of electricity being the second highest consumer of that budget and labor costs being the first.
execution happy sales
I'm not happy with our sales figures, I'm not happy with our execution delays, I'm not happy with our killed projects.
investment shift
We see a fundamental shift away from IT investment in the U.S.,
delivering energy generation grail holy next per performance
Energy per instruction set is the new Holy Grail for delivering performance in the next generation of platforms.
delivery energy grail holy per
Energy per instruction is the new Holy Grail for delivery performance.
bit develop directly manager piece ship silicon
We want to embed just a little bit of the IT manager directly into each piece of silicon we develop and ship into the marketplace.
major minor
This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.
becoming citizen current headed industry maybe perhaps temporary
Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not a temporary thing. Maybe we are headed for becoming a second-class citizen in the world of IT.
energy magic performance reducing step
But the real magic is we did that step up in performance while reducing energy requirements.
neither
It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.
factor positive
It will be a positive factor for upgrades.
benefits performance step users
It's a big step in performance that benefits end users and us competitively.
answer good
Do I feel good or bad? The answer is yes.