VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz offered a road map for his company's future in cloud computing on Feb. 24 at VMworld Europe. 

Maritz used the forum in Cannes, France, to set out what VMware sees as the components fundamental to building a private cloud. As he stated at the beginning of his presentation, IT departments today spend too much effort "tending to the plumbing, as opposed to [doing] the things that give competitive differentiation."

Maritz continued, "So we're setting about using virtualization as the foundation to turn IT into a service to help IT become fundamentally easier to do, more flexible and more efficient." 

In VMware's eyes, the future means embracing a cloud computing strategy, built on taking industry-standard hardware building blocks and then layering on software that allows scalability.

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