Paul Maritz en-us Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:35:53 -0500 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:35:53 -0500 The latest news on Paul Maritz from Business Insider Business Insider Here's A Great Explanation Of The 'Big Data' Phenom In 8 Words (EMC) Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:13:00 -0400 Julie Bort <p><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="Pivotal Paul Maritz" /></p><p>A little over a year ago, EMC and its subsidiary, VMware, gathered up 1,000 employees (500 from each company), and spun out a new company, called Pivotal. The man who ran VMware became CEO of Pivotal, Paul Maritz.</p> <p>Pivotal offers enterprise cloud computing services. But it isn't focused on hosting their apps, like the cloud services from Amazon, IBM or Microsoft. It wants to help them write new and unique apps that could never have been written before. It has two divisions, one that sells app development software. The other writes custom apps for enterprises,&nbsp;Maritz told the crowd at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen on Monday.</p> <p>Maritz says Pivotal is part of a third "massive" shift in why companies use computers. The first shift was the mainframe computer which was "all about automation of accounting." The second shift was using computer servers and PCs, known as "client/server" in the tech world. That one was all about "automating the paper-based process of white collar workers," he says with things like Microsoft Office and email which is why PCs have files, folders, inboxes/outboxes.</p> <p>Today, thanks to the technologies known as "big data" computers can capture things as they are happening and <strong>"can</strong> <strong>affect events as the events are unfolding."</strong></p> <p>Those 8 words: "can effect events as the events are unfolding" are huge.</p> <p>This ability, to see what a single user is doing in realtime and make a decision to influence behavior, is what turned Google into the search giant it is today.</p> <p>It's also a really hard engineering problem for a lot of enterprises who don't have the software development skills to tackle it, he says.</p> <p>Pivotal wants to do that for every enterprise.</p> <p>For example, a phone company today might know it drops 1% of calls, "but can&rsquo;t tell you whose call they dropped," he said. With realtime cloud apps, if a network gets overloaded, it can "kick off the person paying us the least amount of money, not the one paying us the most amount of money," he describes</p> <p>GE was so excited by this prospect that it became a customer and an investor, <a href="">paying $105 million for about a 10% equity stake, shortly after Pivotal was founded.</a></p> <p>Maritz said that the decision to do a spin in, was "unashamedly" a "repeat in a different form" of what EMC did with VMware. EMC's CEO Joe Tucci calls this <a href="">tactic a "federation" strategy</a>.</p> <p>"When you see a [business] opportunity as big as your existing business, the correct response is not to integrate it back into the mothership," Maritz said.</p> <p>That means that Pivotal's culture can be, and is, vastly different from both EMC and VMware.</p> <p>For instance, he jokes, "If you are under the age of 35 or don't have at least two tattoos, you can't work at the San Francisco office" but are "sent down to the Palo Alto office."</p> <p>Human resources is unique at Pivotal, too. Everyone works in pairs, he says. Less experienced folks are teamed with older mentors. Teams are switched up frequently so everyone learns every aspect of the business.</p> <p>"Software, at its core, is a team sport," he says. And HR problems bubble up quickly. "If someone doesn&rsquo;t want to pair with someone, that&rsquo;s a red flag, coming in real time," Maritz says.</p><p><a href="">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> These Are The Four People Microsoft Has Talked To About Becoming CEO (MSFT) Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:19:00 -0400 Jay Yarow <p>When Steve Ballmer said he was retiring, <a href="">he said he would leave in 12 months</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">People at the company we spoke to said it would likely happen much sooner than that.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>Bloomberg News is &nbsp;confirming what employees thought, <a href="">saying the board wants to have a new CEO picked by the end of this year</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>So, far Bloomberg reports that the board has talked to four people: two outsiders, and two insiders.&nbsp;</p> <p>Here's a run down of each of the candidates.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="Steve ballmer alan mulally" />Outsider #1: Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford</strong></span></p> <p><strong>PROS:</strong> Mulally is friendly with Ballmer, and consulted on Microsoft's recent reorganization of the company. As a result, he has some idea about what's happening at Microsoft, and what needs to happen at Microsoft to get the company pointed in the right direction.</p> <p>He was a dynamo at Boeing, which is where he was before Ford. At Ford, he didn't need government bailout money, and has successfully led a transformation of the company.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CONS:</strong> He's old &mdash; 68 years old. Does he really have the energy/desire to run a massive company like Microsoft? He doesn't have any high-tech experience. He's also not seen as a visionary. Can this guy fend off aggressive companies like Apple and Google? Does he have a clue about what's coming next in personal technology?&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="Paul Maritz" />Outsider #2: Paul Martiz, CEO of cloud company Pivotal</strong></span></p> <p><strong>PROS: </strong>He was CEO at VMWare, and did an amazing job. He has a lot of experience with enterprise businesses and understands cloud computing. Microsoft's future is in enterprise products, so he's perfect for taking the company to the next level. He previously worked at Microsoft, leading development of Windows 95, which was Microsoft's pinnacle.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CONS: </strong>He was close to retiring, and it's unclear if he has the passion to take on a job of this magnitude.<strong>&nbsp;</strong>He doesn't have experience in leading a turnaround, which is what Microsoft needs.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="steve ballmer and stephen elop show off lumia windows phones" />Insider #1: Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia</strong></span></p> <p><strong>PROS:</strong> Technically he's an outsider since Nokia is still an independent company. But, Elop is an insider. He led Microsoft's Office division for three years before he went to Nokia. He knows Microsoft, he's been the CEO of a public company at Nokia, and he has a technology background.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>CONS:</strong> The reason he's coming back to Microsoft is that he failed to save Nokia. The company lost a lot of value under his leadership. He showed no particular vision or insight to smartphone market. What would he bring to Microsoft that would significantly enhance operations?</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="tony bates" />Insider #2:&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tony Bates, ex-CEO of Skype</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>PROS:</strong> Bates has a good mix of enterprise and consumer experience. He worked at Cisco before taking over Skype. He's spent enough time at Microsoft to take its temperature, but not so long that he's indoctrinated into the old way of doing things at Microsoft. His staff seems to like him at Skype. His current role is as a guy hunting for new opportunities for Microsoft.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>CONS:</strong> He ran Skype for less than a year. He's never run a public company. Does he have the managerial skill to run an organization as gigantic as Microsoft?</span></p><p><a href="">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> 9 Enterprise Execs Whose Companies Would Shed Actual Tears If They Left (ORCL, HPQ, VMW, AMZN, CSCO, NVDA, CTRX, GOOG) Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:46:00 -0400 Kevin McLaughlin <p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="niciras martin casado 600" />In the world of enterprise tech, some execs are more vital to a company's success than others.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>Execs in this upper echelon are exceedingly difficult to replace. If they left, their companies would face an uncertain, scary transitional period. It might take years for a company to recover.&nbsp;</p> <p>Tech visionaries and engineering types are obviously represented &nbsp;in this list.</p> <p>But some execs we chose based on other factors like leadership, experience and the company's ability to withstand major changes at the moment.&nbsp;</p> <p><span>We've identified nine execs whose companies would beg them to stay if they turned in their resignation letters.&nbsp;</span>We're not including startup founders, since their departures would, in many cases, make it tough for a company to continue getting funding.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="" >14 Big Data Startups You're Going To Be Hearing A Lot More About </a></strong></p> <h3>Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO</h3> <img src="" alt="" /> <p><p><strong>Year Joined: </strong>2004</p> <p><strong>Why He'd Be Tough To Replace: </strong>He's a cloud visionary and a <a href="">big reason why</a> Amazon Web Services, which lets customers buy access to cloud servers, storage and apps, is such a roaring success.</p> <p>Vogels is also an expert in getting cloud tech to scale to millions of users. He spent 10 years honing his skills as a research scientist in Cornell University's computer science department.&nbsp;</p> <p>In Vogels' view, <a href="">enterprises need to be more like startups</a> and just dive into the cloud and start figuring it out.&nbsp;</p> <p>"The key is to experiment often and fail quickly," Vogels <a href="">said at a tech event in London</a> last April. "In the past some of these experiments were very expensive, and often the budget associated with them was sufficient to kill any new idea. But in the cloud, these price tags have been reduced significantly."</p> <p>Amazon has plenty of cloud talent, but Vogels' brand of visionary thinking doesn't grow on trees. &nbsp;</p></p> <br/><br/><h3>Martin Casado, Chief Networking Architect at VMware </h3> <img src="" alt="" /> <p><p><strong>Year Joined: </strong>2012</p> <p><strong><strong>Why He'd Be Tough To Replace: </strong></strong>Casado was founder and CTO of Nicira, a startup that VMware paid $1.2 billion to acquire last year.</p> <p>Nicira focused on software defined networking (SDN), a tech that turns the high-end features in network switches and routers into software that can run on cheap hardware.</p> <p>SDN is a big threat to networking vendors like Cisco and Juniper. And Casado basically invented OpenFlow, the tech that makes SDN work.</p> <p>He's holding one of the most important roles at VMware right now because VMware needs someone to explain to customers why SDN is something they can't live without.&nbsp;</p></p> <br/><br/><h3>Rebecca Jacoby, CIO and SVP of Cisco's Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group</h3> <img src="" alt="" /> <p><p><strong>Year Joined: </strong>1995</p> <p><strong>Why She'd Be Tough To Replace: </strong>Jacoby holds down two big roles at Cisco. In addition to CIO, she also leads Cisco's&nbsp;Cloud &amp; Systems Management Technology Group.</p> <p>She's leading Cisco's efforts to get more market share in cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), where customers rent&nbsp;<span>hardware and tools to maintain the hardware; and platform-as-a-service, where they rent<span>&nbsp;everything but the app.</span></span></p> <p>Cisco CEO John Chambers has said Jacoby is one of five Cisco execs with CEO potential.&nbsp;&ldquo;Rebecca is one of the most talented leaders in the company," Chambers <a href="">told&nbsp;Rachael King of CIO Journal</a> last November.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p></p> <br/><br/><a href="">See the rest of the story at Business Insider</a> VMware's Paul Maritz Just Turned The Company Over To New CEO Pat Gelsinger (VMW, EMC) Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:02:32 -0400 Julie Bort <p><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="Paul Maritz and Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEOs" width="400" height="300" /></p><p>During the opening keynote at the VMware's customer conference in San Francisco, the outgoing CEO,&nbsp;Paul Maritz, officially turned the company over to the new chief executive, Pat Gelsinger.</p> <p>When&nbsp;<a href="">the company announced this move</a>&nbsp;last month, it came as a shock. But it may turn out to be a positive for VMware and <a class="hidden_link" href="">EMC</a>, the enterprise-hardware company which owns a controlling stake in it.&nbsp;</p> <p>Maritz is moving over to EMC s chief strategist. Gelsinger, who was EMC's president and COO, took on the CEO role at VMware. Many viewed this as setting up Maritz as heir apparent at EMC.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Gelsinger's move could be viewed as a promotion, too, since he's now running a publicly traded company. Gelsinger was responsible for much of EMC and VMware's success, managing critical partnerships such as the one with <a class="hidden_link" href="">Cisco</a>.</p> <p>"Pat is a passionate guy," said Maritz. "No one will accuse him of being laid-back."</p> <p>Attendees cheered as Maritz took a seat offstage to watch the keynote. Maritz, who came from <a class="hidden_link" href="">Microsoft</a>, grew VMware from a young public company that was under attack by his former employer into one of the most important enterprise vendors in the world.</p> <p>Some 60% of <a class="hidden_link" href="">Intel</a> servers are now using virtualized servers, a technology that VMware helped popularize, according to market researchers. Of those, 80% use VMware. It has 400,000 customers&mdash;large, medium-sized, and small.</p> <p>In other words, VMware has won its market under Maritz. Gelsinger's job will be to find the next big growth area.</p><p><a href="">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> CONFIRMED: VMware's Paul Maritz Is Leaving The CEO Role And Moving To EMC (EMC, VMW) Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:32:00 -0400 Julie Bort <p><img style="float:right;" src="" border="0" alt="Paul Maritz" /></p><p><a class="hidden_link" href="">EMC</a> confirmed today that is&nbsp; <a href="">shuffling its top executives</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>As of September 1, <a class="hidden_link" href="">VMware</a> CEO Paul Maritz will vacate the CEO role and move to its parent company, EMC, as chief strategist.</p> <p>EMC owns 80% of VMware.</p> <p>Maritz will report to CEO <a class="hidden_link" href="">Joe Tucci</a> and keep his VMware board seat.</p> <p>This could be a step up for Maritz, maybe even putting him on track to become EMC's next CEO, reports CRN, <a href=";jsessionid=rimeHZHpbga7VwTm6IPujg**.ecappj02">which broke the story yesterday</a>.</p> <p>EMC president and COO Pat Gelsinger will become the CEO of VMware. Gelsinger is known as the guy who managed key partnerships between EMC, <a class="hidden_link" href="">Cisco</a>, and VMware.</p> <p>EMC also said will report Q2 revenue of $5.31 billion and non-GAAP profits of 39 cents a share. Analysts expected $5.29 billion and 40 cents a share, <a href="">reports Forbes</a>.</p> <p>Both execs were recently named to our list of <a href="">The 50 Most Powerful People In Enterprise Tech</a>.</p><p><a href="">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p>