Sudeep Goswami

"the way to solve the fragmentation is through abstraction, and you create the right abstraction layer. And what we launched this week is this concept of a unified application intelligence layer that operates at a higher level closer to the applications."

"So if they do the VM migration one way, then they go to the modernization and they have a different stack for that. Then they come to transformation and then they have a different stack. How do you unify them? How do you manage them at scale? You have the skill shortage that is still a real issue. You have the complexity that continues to grow."

"one of the defining things about being sovereign is you have the option to leave. If you cannot leave a particular environment, it doesn't matter what you're doing, you're just not sovereign."

"sovereignty matters as well, where they want to store their data, from our standpoint, because we are the runtime governance layer, we want to follow the workload. So therefore, we need to coexist in multiple places and therefore, these partnerships that we have with Nutanix, with SUSE, with IBM Cloud, with TIBCO, with OVHcloud and many more coming, it's really, really important because it's all about giving the customer the choice."

"you get away from this isolated management of you control the VMs one way, you expose the VMs a different way than containers and serverless. You have to expose, secure, manage and govern them through a consistent policy layer, consistent lens."

"There's an opportunity right now because of this forcing function that is put on us by Ingress NGINX where you have to change a fundamentally critical piece of infrastructure. Let's not let this crisis go to waste. Let's take a step back, make a strategic decision on the right platform, the right architecture that will give them leverage and that will give them speed."