VMware disrupted operating systems and, in the process, transformed how companies manage their data centers. The public cloud, in turn, created a whole new market focused on eliminating the need to manage data centers at all delivering globally accessible utility computing. Over the next decade, we will see the stark differences blur, and those differences will blur because of geopolitical trends, technology trends, and physics. Operating systems and system design and management at scale will be radically different over the next 10 years as companies adopt a mix of options that give them different cost and performance and availability tradeoffs that meet different legal and risk profiles. In many ways, we are at an inflection point where innovation in technology was about business models and user experiences, to also become about how systems are designed on a large scale that provides variety, not homogeneity. In this talk, we will talk about the disruption, and how VMware and, in particular, VMware's multi-cloud vision aligns with that future.
Kostadis Roussos holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Brown University, USA and an M.Sc. degree at Stanford University, USA. He has worked at several companies such as SGI, NetApp and Zynga. In the latter, he led the construction of a hybrid cloud platform, creating one of the first SREs outside of Google. Currently, Kostadis Roussos is a Principal Engineer at VMware, responsible for the overall architecture of the vSphere multi-Cloud business leading a world-class engineering organization whose areas include storage virtualization, compute virtualization, and public cloud offerings. As the vSphere Multi-Cloud architect, his interests include CPU, Graphics, storage, memory, data center design, data center management, infrastructure for applications, data centers operation at scale, security, operating systems, and distributed systems.
