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In the Maze, I Lost My Love for VMware<\/span><\/h1>\n

From Punch Cards to Cloud \u2014 Remembering the Software That Made Complexity Feel Simple<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are some technologies we use.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are some technologies we learn.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there are technologies that leave a feeling behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, VMware is one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, while moving through today’s maze of cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, Kubernetes, GPUs, containers and agentic AI, I suddenly remembered VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I realized:<\/span><\/p>\n

I had lost touch with a technology I once admired enormously.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Not because it disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n

But because the technology world around it became so busy.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware was sleeping in my memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

A wonderful software baby toy.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I wanted to know what happened to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

My journey started long before VMware<\/span><\/h2>\n

My computing journey did not begin with cloud computing.<\/span><\/p>\n

It began in a very different world.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember the era of IBM, punch cards and terminals<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Computing was physical.<\/span><\/p>\n

Machines were expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Computing resources were limited.<\/span><\/p>\n

Software and hardware had a close relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

The computer was the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The operating system belonged to the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Applications belonged to the operating environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then came personal computers, networking, client-server computing, enterprise applications and the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every generation solved some problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every generation also created new ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then came VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

The little magic of VMware Workstation<\/span><\/h2>\n

My own VMware experience was primarily with VMware Workstation<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea was astonishingly simple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Run multiple operating systems on the same physical PC.<\/span><\/p>\n

One machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple virtual machines.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could run different operating systems and environments without needing a separate physical computer for each one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, this sounds completely normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, it felt like magic.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was almost like a software toy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A physical computer became a playground.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could create a computer inside my computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why I like the phrase “software baby toy.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t meant to diminish VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

It expresses the sense of wonder I experienced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes the most important technologies first appear to us as toys.<\/span><\/p>\n

The villain was complexity<\/span><\/h2>\n

The hero of this story is VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

But every good story needs a villain.<\/span><\/p>\n

The villain was\u2014and still is\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

complexity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the early days, the complexity came from hardware and software being closely connected.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you needed another computing environment, you often needed another machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wanted to test something, you needed another environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wanted to isolate workloads, physical infrastructure was part of the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware introduced an abstraction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The physical machine remained underneath.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the user could interact with a virtual machine instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

That small conceptual shift was enormous.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question changed from:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Which physical machine am I using?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

to:<\/span><\/p>\n

“What computing environment do I need?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The baby grew up<\/span><\/h2>\n

VMware was founded in 1998 by five engineers, and VMware Workstation 1.0 was introduced in 1999. Soon after came ESX Server, taking virtualization from the desktop into the server world.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was the point at which my little software toy became part of a much bigger story.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware was no longer simply about running multiple operating systems on one PC.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was about virtualizing the data center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then came technologies and capabilities that made virtualization operationally powerful:<\/span><\/p>\n

vSphere.
vMotion.
High Availability.
DRS.
Virtual networking.
Virtual storage.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The physical server was gradually becoming less important as the primary unit of thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

The virtual machine became the unit of computing.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware changed the question<\/span><\/h2>\n

Before virtualization, the conversation often began with hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n

How many servers?<\/span><\/p>\n

How much memory?<\/span><\/p>\n

How much storage?<\/span><\/p>\n

Which machine?<\/span><\/p>\n

Where should the application run?<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware changed the conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We could start thinking about workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compute became more fluid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Infrastructure became more abstract.<\/span><\/p>\n

The data center increasingly began to look like software.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was a profound change.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then the cloud arrived<\/span><\/h2>\n

The next major abstraction was Cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of owning every physical infrastructure component, organizations could consume computing resources as services.<\/span><\/p>\n

The industry moved again.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware moved with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The company expanded its vision from server virtualization into software-defined data centers, networking, storage, hybrid cloud and application platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The little baby toy had become enterprise infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then VMware itself entered another journey<\/span><\/h2>\n

VMware went through major corporate transitions over the years\u2014from its founding, to EMC, to Dell Technologies, and eventually back to independence before being acquired by Broadcom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware on November 22, 2023<\/strong>. Broadcom subsequently placed VMware Cloud Foundation at the center of its private and hybrid cloud strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

For longtime VMware admirers, this is a very different chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The VMware I remember as a wonderful software toy is now part of a much larger infrastructure strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that strategy is moving again.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware and the AI era<\/span><\/h2>\n

The fascinating part is that VMware has not stopped evolving.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2026, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is positioned as an AI- and Kubernetes-native private-cloud platform for production AI workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broadcom has also introduced VMware AI Factory<\/strong>, describing it as a software-defined foundation for VMware Private AI Cloud, aimed at simplifying the journey from infrastructure to production AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is something almost poetic about that.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware began by helping us separate the operating system from the physical computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now it is being positioned to help enterprises manage the infrastructure beneath AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

The technology has grown.<\/span><\/p>\n

The world has changed.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the underlying problem remains familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n

The villain has changed its costume<\/span><\/h2>\n

This is the part that interests me most.<\/span><\/p>\n

The old villain was:<\/span><\/p>\n

Hardware + Operating System complexity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The new villain is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Cloud + Containers + Kubernetes + APIs + GPUs + AI Models + Agents + Security + Orchestration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have moved from physical complexity to software complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n

The machines have become more powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

The abstractions have become more sophisticated.<\/span><\/p>\n

But complexity keeps returning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps that is one of the great laws of technology:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Every time we solve one layer of complexity, the next layer appears.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that is why I still appreciate VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

VMware did not eliminate complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n

It hid complexity behind an abstraction that people could understand and use<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is a much more profound achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe that is VMware’s real legacy<\/span><\/h2>\n

VMware’s greatest contribution may not be any single product.<\/span><\/p>\n

It may be the idea that infrastructure does not have to look like the hardware underneath it<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

One physical computer can look like many computers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many physical servers can look like one resource pool.<\/span><\/p>\n

A data center can look like software.<\/span><\/p>\n

And perhaps today’s AI infrastructure will require the same kind of thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are again surrounded by complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe we need another generation of abstraction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the next “VMware moment” is already happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

I lost VMware in the maze<\/span><\/h2>\n

My journey started with punch cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

I travelled through IBM systems, terminals, PCs, enterprise applications, the Internet, virtualization, cloud and now Generative AI and Agentic AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way, I lost VMware.<\/span><\/p>\n

But perhaps I didn’t really lose it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I simply moved into another maze.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when I looked back, I remembered that wonderful little software baby toy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one that made one physical computer behave like many.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one that made me feel that computing did not always have to be limited by what I could see physically.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one that quietly taught me a lesson I still find relevant today:<\/span><\/p>\n

Technology does not always defeat complexity by making things simpler underneath.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes it defeats complexity by giving us a better way to think about it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That is what VMware gave me.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that is why, after all these years, I still have a special place for VMware in my memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

From punch cards to cloud.
From VMware to AI.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What a journey.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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