Develop Great Managers Podcast

In this podcast, I interview Ray O'Farrell, Executive Vice President and leader of the Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware. In his current role, Ray will envision and extend the company’s strategy and operating model for delivering the Kubernetes platform of the future. Prior to August 2019, Ray served as executive vice president and chief technology officer, where his main focus areas were to ensure VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem and its customers. Prior to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Ray co-led the Software-Defined Data Center Division comprising the vSphere, networking, management and storage businesses and was responsible for the division’s strategy, business, and product planning and engineering execution. Ray joined VMware to lead the ESX Storage team during the early development of the ESX platform. He helped build a large ecosystem of partner