商务软件制造商威睿公司(VMware)官宣了新一轮人事任命:将提拔拉古•拉古拉姆担任首席执行官,作为帕特•基辛格的继任,填补这一关键职位的空缺——后者在今年2月成为英特尔公司(Intel)的首席执行官。
威睿在5月12日表示,目前负责该公司产品和云服务部门的首席运营官拉古拉姆将于6月正式担任首席执行官。自基辛格在2月离职以来,首席执行官一直由威睿的首席财务官赞恩•罗韦临时担任。
拉古拉姆自2003年起就一直在威睿工作,当时,这还只是一家初创公司。多年以来,威睿已经发展成一家市值将近120亿美元的巨头,销售“虚拟机”,这种软件可以让单个企业服务器同时运行不同的工作系统,从而提高公司网络的运行性能。
拉古拉姆告诉《财富》杂志,他一直在带头推进威睿软件的营销工作,该软件能够让企业在多个云计算服务器和内部数据中心同时运行内部和外部的应用程序。像IBM和慧与(Hewlett Packard Enterprise)这样的公司都在将这种“多重云”、或叫“混合云”技术的概念视为企业IT的未来。
拉古拉姆说,与基辛格相比,他认为自己“更像是一位以技术为中心的领导者。”尽管基辛格是一位训练有素的计算机工程师,但他表现出了“部门发言人”似的领导风格,愿意回应媒体和分析师采访中的政治话题。
例如,基辛格在2019年告诉《财富》杂志,比特币(Bitcoin)“是人类社会的公害”,批评人们将这种加密货币用于非法活动。
而拉古拉姆表示,他“无意”跟随基辛格的脚步——后者的行事风格更类似Salesforce公司的首席执行官马克•贝尼奥夫,经常对政治和社会发表评论。
拉古拉姆说:“总的来说,我会把大部分时间都花在对威睿、客户和行业相关的技术更有利的方面。”
当被问及新冠疫情及其带来的影响时,拉古拉姆称,他预计到今年下半年,一开始由于疫情而削减、甚至暂停投资的企业就会开始在IT软件和技术上追加投入了。
他还说,威睿还计划让员工继续远程工作,并不要求他们全职恢复线下坐班。与Salesforce和谷歌(Google)等科技公司类似,威睿的员工将以线上线下结合的模式工作。
威睿还任命了苏米特•达万担任公司总裁,而首席客户运营官彭桑亚(Sanjay Poonen)则即将离任。(财富中文网)
编译:陈聪聪
商务软件制造商威睿公司(VMware)官宣了新一轮人事任命:将提拔拉古•拉古拉姆担任首席执行官,作为帕特•基辛格的继任,填补这一关键职位的空缺——后者在今年2月成为英特尔公司(Intel)的首席执行官。
威睿在5月12日表示,目前负责该公司产品和云服务部门的首席运营官拉古拉姆将于6月正式担任首席执行官。自基辛格在2月离职以来,首席执行官一直由威睿的首席财务官赞恩•罗韦临时担任。
拉古拉姆自2003年起就一直在威睿工作,当时,这还只是一家初创公司。多年以来,威睿已经发展成一家市值将近120亿美元的巨头,销售“虚拟机”,这种软件可以让单个企业服务器同时运行不同的工作系统,从而提高公司网络的运行性能。
拉古拉姆告诉《财富》杂志,他一直在带头推进威睿软件的营销工作,该软件能够让企业在多个云计算服务器和内部数据中心同时运行内部和外部的应用程序。像IBM和慧与(Hewlett Packard Enterprise)这样的公司都在将这种“多重云”、或叫“混合云”技术的概念视为企业IT的未来。
拉古拉姆说,与基辛格相比,他认为自己“更像是一位以技术为中心的领导者。”尽管基辛格是一位训练有素的计算机工程师,但他表现出了“部门发言人”似的领导风格,愿意回应媒体和分析师采访中的政治话题。
例如,基辛格在2019年告诉《财富》杂志,比特币(Bitcoin)“是人类社会的公害”,批评人们将这种加密货币用于非法活动。
而拉古拉姆表示,他“无意”跟随基辛格的脚步——后者的行事风格更类似Salesforce公司的首席执行官马克•贝尼奥夫,经常对政治和社会发表评论。
拉古拉姆说:“总的来说,我会把大部分时间都花在对威睿、客户和行业相关的技术更有利的方面。”
当被问及新冠疫情及其带来的影响时,拉古拉姆称,他预计到今年下半年,一开始由于疫情而削减、甚至暂停投资的企业就会开始在IT软件和技术上追加投入了。
他还说,威睿还计划让员工继续远程工作,并不要求他们全职恢复线下坐班。与Salesforce和谷歌(Google)等科技公司类似,威睿的员工将以线上线下结合的模式工作。
威睿还任命了苏米特•达万担任公司总裁,而首席客户运营官彭桑亚(Sanjay Poonen)则即将离任。(财富中文网)
编译:陈聪聪
Business-software maker VMware has promoted Raghu Raghuram to be its CEO, filling a spot previously held by Pat Gelsinger, who became Intel CEO in February.
Raghuram, currently VMware’s chief operating officer in charge of products and cloud services, will take the reins in June, the company said on May 12. Chief financial officer Zane Rowe has been serving as VMware’s interim CEO since February.
Raghuram has been with VMware since 2003, when the company was still a startup. Over the years, VMware has grown into a nearly $12 billion business, selling so-called virtualization software that allows a single corporate server to operate like multiple servers, improving the performance of a company’s IT operations.
Raghuram told Fortune he has been spearheading VMware’s push into selling software that lets companies run their internal and external apps in multiple cloud computing services and in-house data centers. Companies like IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are all pushing this notion of multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud, technology as the future of corporate IT.
Compared with Gelsinger, Raghuram said he considers himself “more of a technology-centric leader.” Although Gelsinger was a trained computer engineer, he developed a leadership style like an “industry statesman,” Raghuram said, willing to opine on topics like politics in media and analyst interviews.
For instance, Gelsinger told Fortune in 2019 that Bitcoin was “bad for humanity,” criticizing how people use the cryptocurrency for illicit activities.
Raghuram said he has “no intention” to follow in Gelsinger’s footsteps as an executive more akin to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who regularly comments on politics and society.
“Fundamentally, I’ll be spending most of my time on what’s good for VMware, customers, and associated industry technologies,” Raghuram said.
Asked about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on businesses, Raghuram said he expects companies to spend more money on IT software and technology in the second half of the year after initially pausing or cutting back on spending.
VMware also plans for its employees to continue working remotely and will not require them to return to physical offices full-time, he said. Similar to tech companies like Salesforce and Google, VMware employees will work in a hybrid model.
VMware also named Sumit Dhawan to be the company’s president while COO of customer operations Sanjay Poonen will leave the company.