Since its inception, the employees and ecosystem of over 30,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries—from banking, healthcare, and government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation. The company works to solve the toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes, and more–to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.

A Wide Range of Solutions

Raghu and his team at VMware cater to the need of every organization, especially in today’s fast-paced technology. Today, the majority of organizations are looking for a trusted digital foundation that helps them to adapt and transform the company without any unnecessary disruptions. The team at VMware understands the implementation of digital infrastructure and application solutions that helps the customers to build, run, manage, connect and protect all of the apps, anywhere. VMware’s App Modernization helps the customers to build new cloud-native apps, modernize existing apps, and operate infrastructure that serves them all across any cloud. VMware Tanzu; a family of products and services for modernizing applications and infrastructure, enables the clients to deliver better software to production—continuously.

By Opting for the multi-cloud, clients can also take advantage of the innovation and freedom of every cloud with the simplicity of one. Its multi-cloud solution, built on VMware Cloud Foundation, gives the optimal environment for all applications, from the data center to the cloud to the edge. A Virtual Cloud Network powered by VMware NSX provides a seamless, more secure, software-defined networking layer from the data center to cloud to edge. Furthermore, clients can build an end-to-end network architecture, simplify hybrid operations and extend intrinsic security, policy consistency, and automation.

VMware’s Digital Workspace is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that unifies the management of all the end-user environments (mobile phones, laptops, physical and virtual desktops, and related apps). It promotes user choice and flexibility, simplifies Zero Trust security and IT management, and offers support for an agile distributed workforce. Another key feature that the company offers to its client is Intrinsic Security. Recently, with the rise of digitation, there is also been a rise in security concerns. VMware helps the clients to leverage the infrastructure to strengthen the approach to security across any app, any cloud, and any device. Intrinsic security takes advantage of unique, built-in visibility and control across workloads, networks, workspaces, and clouds to better secure the enterprise. It simplifies security against advanced threats with a single console, platform, and agent.

A Celebrated Entrepreneurial Journey

Raghu is an industry thought leader and has successfully steered the company’s strategy and technology evolution across its rich history. He has completed his MBA from the Wharton School of Business and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Raghu began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere. Prior to VMware, Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks, and Netscape. During his tenure at VMware, he has held multiple leadership roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, where he had responsibility for all of VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support, and operational functions. Prior, he led the company’s software-defined data center business as the executive vice president and general manager, where he was responsible for the division’s strategy, business and product planning, and engineering execution. Before, he also led the company’s cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager and led worldwide product marketing, product management, and business planning for the company, as well as served as part of the leadership team that took the company through its initial IPO.

Thriving towards Excellence

Raghu has been an inspiring leader at VMware. He drives the team with passion and intellectual curiosity for technology. This enables the team to commit and provide diverse innovation programs that inspire other members of the VMware community to explore the possibilities. VMware team members are encouraged and empowered to constantly challenge the status quo, ask “what if” and explore new technologies. Under the leadership of Raghu, the team keeps its values at core helping each other to collaborate and keep a keen interest in technical excellence. VMware actively engages with the open-source community through contributions to exiting projects, as well as developing, releasing, and leading new open-source projects and initiatives.

“Our mission is to leave ahead of a better future—to put back more into the environment, society, and the global economy than we take—and to inspire our employees, customers, and partners to do the same. To us, the seemingly impossible is possible. And we work to provide it every day,” states Raghu.

Influencing the Future

Raghu strongly believes that extraordinary ideas that will transform tomorrow are born today. A similar approach can be seen in the company where it motivates new team members through its VMware Research and its Academic Program. This program is home to industry researchers, university faculty, and students from around the world who are collaborating to develop ideas that will influence the future of technology. VMware builds its business resilience into the core of the organization with solutions for a future-ready workforce, future-ready apps, and future-ready infrastructure. The flexibility and choice offered by the company allow the clients to drive complexity out of the technology and prepare for the future with solutions that are engineered to give clients the freedom to choose.

Quote: “VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work.”