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Is your brain doing a job your software can do? Automate it | #VMworld
DevOps, containers and other developments have made it an exciting time to be a developer. The easy, agile, software-defined tools available today allow them to spin up a world of applications limited only by imagination. Unfortunately, many companies still waste their developers’ time and talent bogging them down with infrastructure plumbing. Suppose the plumbing could all be automated? How much more productive would developers be?
John Gilmartin, VP and GM of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc., says automating can help companies get more juice from their developers. “Traditional infrastructure still very much stands in the way of people trying to support their developers,” he told Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2016. “Enterprises spend too much time plugging components together, trying to make things work together — and that’s just not value-added activity.”
Brain drain
Gilmartin said brains should not be wasted on tasks a computer can do, and companies should “take everything that they do today that’s not value-added activity, put that in software, automate it — public and private cloud — and they can focus on what is value added to their business on top.”
He said VMware’s new Cloud Foundation service offers this kind of automation to customers.
A new layer for the intercloud world
Gilmartin went on to say that VMware is introducing Cross-Cloud Architecture (not to be confused with cross-cloud service).
“Just like with server virtualization — we were able to abstract multiple layers of servers and provide a consistent layer — we’re going to do the same thing as we work across multiple clouds, even non-VMware-based clouds.”
Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld 2016.
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