How R&D culture impacts acquisitions and trend-spotting at VMware

It’s All-Stars season for VMware Inc. The virtualization company rounds out a week of recognition with RADIO, a one-day gathering to honor VMware’s elite engineers. The annual research and development event follows close behind VMware’s Sales Club ceremonies. For Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger (pictured), the back-to-back events are characteristic of VMware’s culture and worthy of his personal attention.RADIO long preceded me, but when I got here, I’m going to keep doing it, of course,” Gelsinger said. “This is like the party for the top engineers. They get to come geek out, share their best ideas, and interact with each other. It’s become one of those unique pieces of our development culture.