Open TechCast: EP7: A Bit of a COO – A quick Conflab with Sanjay Poonen

I hope you enjoyed our interview with Pat Gelsinger a few days ago. Today, we have another special treat for you. On Day 2 of VMworld Europe 2017, we interviewed Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer – Customer Operations at VMware.

In the interview, we talked to him about life in general but also at VMware as COO, VMware strategy and cross-cloud integration – amongst other things. He also gave some very good advice to someone thinking about starting in the technology industry.

…and we are go with our second #VMworld special podcast with @spoonen of @VMware – on the website & iTunes now, Stitcher very soon!

— Open TechCast (@OpenTechCast) September 15, 2017

I am also pleased to say that this time, we didn’t have any battery-related drama. Kev was not going to let batteries defeat him this time and attached a reasonably-sized battery pack to the recorder.

We discovered that Sanjay is also a podcaster which also explains why he seemed to be enjoying the interview very much. Many thanks to him for taking the time to talk to us and I hope you’ll enjoy this episode too!

About the Author: Ather Beg

Ather is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect and works for Amazon Web Services. His focus is on all things related to cloud, technology, storage, virtualization and whatever comes in between. Being in the industry for over 27 years, Ather has been a vExpert for 10 years running and is also vExpert NSX/HCX/CloudProvider. He has also been an official VMware blogger at VMworld EU and US and is one of the founding members and contributor to Open HomeLab Wiki and co-hosts @OpenTechCast as well. Ather’s natural habitat is tech events like VMworld, Cloud (and other) Field Days, VMUGs etc. and he thrives on meeting like-minded people and having a good old chat about technology. He’s friendly and not dangerous at all so please do interact with him whenever you spot him in such surroundings.