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About the Company

VMware is the leader in cloud infrastructure, business mobility and virtualization software. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and policy-driven automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace. With 2014 revenues of $6.04 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers, 75,000 partners, and 18,000+ employees in 120+ locations around the world. At the core of what we do are our employees who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community.

About the Person

Scott Davis is CTO for VMware’s End User Computing BU and staff member in VMware’s Corporate CTO Office. Scott is a public facing executive leader and internal technology/product strategist. Previously, he was President and Founder of Virtual Iron, which was acquired by Oracle and CTO at Mangosoft, an Internet software and storage company. Earlier, Scott was Technical Director for Digital's industry acclaimed VAXCluster and VMS Volume Shadowing products, as well as DEC’s Windows NT clustering technology. Scott holds 16 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld.