VMware: Get Ready for the New Infrastructure As virtualization continues to grow, the jobs of mediating access to and coordinating hardware is being taken over by a new layer of software VMware calls “extended virtualization,” the company’s President and CEO Paul Maritz told the audience at VMware Tuesday.

VMware’s CEO: OSes being squeezed out of data centers Virtualization and open development frameworks are squeezing out operating systems in data centers, VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz said last week at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco. Though there are still operating systems underlying virtualized infrastructures, their traditional roles are being usurped by new elements that are transforming the world of IT, Maritz said. These developments are helping enterprises run old and new applications in a more efficient, cloud-like manner and get more value from their IT systems, two trends that companies are embracing, he said