Public Clouds Are 'Dirty' About VMware's On-Prem Push, Says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
The Register, Thursday, August 29th, 2024
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VMware Explore Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has told members of VMware's user group that public clouds are not entirely happy with his private cloud push.
Speaking at a function during the VMware Explore conference yesterday, Tan told the audience the virtualization giant's mission is now "taking workloads back from the public cloud."
"I already am getting dirty emails from the hyperscalers," the CEO added. "They say something like: 'Hey, what are you telling them? What are you doing to us?'"
Tan said his answer is "No different to what you have been doing to us the last ten years" - a reference to his Tuesday remarks that public clouds have made IT more expensive and complex than their native environments. Now VMware intends to make life harder for hyperscalers.