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Australia was the leading country in the world for virtualisation and according to Duncan Hewett, senior vice president and general manager for VMware’s business in Asia Pacific and Japan, the country’s transition to consuming multi-cloud environments is accelerating faster than anywhere else as well.
“Australia also has such a strong government push to engage in these next-generation technologies.”
Drawing from his experience in previous roles before he landed at VMware, Ulander said that some of the work he did with the likes of Melbourne’s RMIT was all government funded.
“There’s so much money into driving this technology adoption in public sector as well private industry … we didn’t have to deal with the cultural changes,” he explained.
“For us, whether it’s in the Americas or Europe, the cultural shift of thinking about technology not just as technology — it’s a little harder as they have more established ways of doing things … especially in the networking side.”
According to Ulander, many parts of the world look at things once set up as something that shouldn’t be touched, and said Australia generally doesn’t have that problem.
“You have more of a ‘Hey let’s do this better’ attitude; between Australia and New Zealand there’s just that exploratory let’s check it out way,” he added. “So whether that’s the strategic insight into really leveraging technology for business benefit, or if it’s the curiosity of saying how do we change, how do we get better.”
Disclosure: Asha McLean travelled as a guest of VMware to VMworld in Las Vegas
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