Exclusive: VMware Cloud Chief Exits

Parents Bill, which led to the vCloud air for three years, goes ahead

Parents bills, executive vice president, who led the project VMware vCloud air, leaves the company, according to several sources close to the company.

His role will be filled by two "general co-managers" for the cloud, Allwyn Sequeira and Laura Ortman, sources said. Both were executives with VMware VMW -1.09% since 2008, according to their profiles on LinkedIn LNKD 2,02% respectively.

The news was announced in a note to CEO Pat Gelsinger staff Tuesday, but it was not announced publicly.

Note: A VMware spokesman confirmed the personnel changes and said the two new heads report directly to cloud Gelsinger.

leaving parents are not a big surprise as cloud efforts the company were in the process of change for more than a year ago. This further blur in October, when Dell and VMware parent company EMC EMC -0.31% revealed its planned merger of $ 67 billion. There was an overlap in the cloud strategies of three companies that scrambled over the water.

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Finally, EMC and VMware said they would merge in vCloud Air Virtustream cloud company EMC as Chief Rodney Rogers Virtustream, with parents taking a strategic advisory role to Gelsinger. But the clouds convergence plan was scuttled to help calm the angry shareholders VMware.

During the call of the most recent results of VMware, Gelsinger said the development vCloud Air was reduced although no one seemed to know exactly what that means. (The spokesman said VMware vCloud air now focus on disaster recovery and expansion of data centers specific job.)

Initially dubbed hybrid services vCloud, vCloud air launched three years ago as VMware's answer to Amazon AMZN 9.59% giant Web Services public cloud computing.

A public cloud consists of a network of data centers that massive networks of servers, storage and networks running, all owned and operated by a single company. Guests can rent power and data storage shared infrastructure and pay only for what they use when they use it.

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A public cloud comprises a network of data centers running massive arrays of servers, storage and networking—all owned and operated by one company. Customers can rent out computing power and storage on that shared infrastructure and just pay for what they use when they use it.

Public cloud is seen as an affordable and flexible alternative to building more customer-owned data centers. Amazon’s cloud growth has been explosive, forcing legacy IT companies—including VMware, IBM IBM -0.77% , Oracle ORCL -1.17% , and Microsoft MSFT -0.04% —to react. VMware was (and is) relying on third-party service providers like telephone companies to run its software and provide a counterweight to AWS.

Very few of even the biggest traditional IT companies can field the sorts of resources that Amazon (or Microsoft or Google GOOG 0.29% do which is why the rest of the providers are seen as tier two players. Thus far, then vCloud Air sales have disappointed if you ask anyone outside the VMware executive staff.