A View from Customers

There are still statements coming out from emerging virtualization players that still need some correcting. Given the feedback I've gotten from private emails I believe there's more value in me leaving those corrections to others and instead providing some insight into what I hear from customers on a daily basis. Every day of the week I travel around talking with all sorts of companies. Some of them are long time VMware customers. Some of them are just getting started in virtualization. Some are very large (Fortune 10) and some are very small (a local church with 3 physical servers and 10 PCs). It's always interesting to hear the questions they ask, how they react to the technologies and solutions we pitch, and the very interesting ideas they come up with for new uses for virtualization.

For the benefits of the customers I will keep them anonymous. Please don't take that to mean that I'm making this stuff up. I will include the size of the company and what industry they are in and where possible I'll include where they are basically located. This will help to keep the conversations real and hopefully help others out there gain knowledge from what's happening with companies like themselves.

I hope this will be a beneficial transition of the blog. Please comment freely and ask questions. I will try to get the customers themselves to blog along with me but I'm not 100% sure if that will be possible due to most company's policies against public communication.

If you have a story that you would like to share or questions you would like answered please contact me here. I'll be happy to let you post your own entry.