Tom Gillis On NSX, Cisco, AWS And Channel Momentum
Fresh off another stellar sales quarter, VMware is fired up about the innovation engine around NSX and putting the pressure on its main software-defined networking competitor Cisco.
“Cisco products are really good at hardware switching, at fabric management, but where VMware is really good is at software-defined networking,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager for VMware’s Networking and Security business in an interview with CRN.
Gillis is a longtime IT veteran with decades of leadership experience including being the founder and former CEO of enterprise software vendor Bracket Computing, as well as a four-year stint as general manager of Cisco’s Security Technology Group. Gillis talks to CRN about NSX compared to Cisco ACI, VMware’s future in AWS Outposts and how partners should leverage NSX-T.
