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title: Is VMware’s curious double down on end-user computing crazy or inspired?
date: "2013-08-15T17:33:50-07:00"
modified: "2013-08-15T17:33:50-07:00"
author: kims
url: "https://dominoresearch.com/is-vmwares-curious-double-down-on-end-user-computing-crazy-or-inspired"
categories: The Domino Effect
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description: By Fritz Nelson On August 12, 2013In the past 12 months, VMware and EMC have spun out key assets to create Pivotal, a standalone entity for big data analytics and platform-as-a-service, with former VMware CEO Paul Maritz at the helm, and moved EMC COO…
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# Is VMware’s curious double down on end-user computing crazy or inspired?

[![6659313](//img.1.rp-api.com/thumb/6659313)](http://s.tt/1J3to)[**Is VMware’s curious double down on end-user computing crazy or inspired?**](http://s.tt/1J3to) (via [Pando Daily](http://s.tt/1J3to))

By Fritz Nelson On August 12, 2013In the past 12 months, VMware and EMC have spun out key assets to create Pivotal, a standalone entity for big data analytics and platform-as-a-service, with former VMware CEO Paul Maritz at the helm, and moved EMC COO…

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