VMware vSphere Key to Slicing Red Hat’s Kubernetes Head Start

VMware is betting that its Kubernetes plans will quickly surpass that of rival Red Hat thanks to its already established base of vSphere customers. Speaking at a Raymond James Technology Investor Conference this week, VMware COO Sanjay Poonen told attendees that the company is focused on getting its current base of “hundreds of thousands” of vSphere customers to bite on its Kubernetes efforts. According to a Seeking Alpha transcript of the session, Poonen said the company’s goal was to get “tens of thousands of customers over the next several years” to adopt its container technology running on top of its vSphere virtualization platform base.