VMworld 2016 will present some changes including a change of venue. Instead of the traditional San Francisco location, the latest iteration will be in Las Vegas. In addition, Pat Gelsinger, CEO o VMware, Inc., will be delivering a Keynote.

Robin Matlock, CMO at VMware, Inc., talked with John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from SiliconANGLE Media team, during EMC World 2016. In addition to giving a preview of VMworld, she described EMC World, saying, “This place is alive!” She reviewed the morning’s Keynote as “exceptional” and commented that EMC is “focusing on what people need to get their business going” while “giving a nod” to the direction the industry is going.

Early details for VMworld 2016

Matlock said to expect “a lot of exciting things” for VMworld. “We laid a vision for the world,” she explained, saying that the conference would focus on multicloud, as well as management, for both on-premise and for digital cloud. Other aspects will be networking, storage and DevOps. Matlock promised a highly “technical conference,” and she said that “most of the real estate” for VMworld has been bought.

Additionally, Matlock talked about Workspace ONE, calling it a “breakthrough.” She discussed the digital transformation of technology, stating that networking is a “bottleneck.” However, having “IT at its core” should ease the transition. Matlock declared today’s applications to be “very different from yesterday’s applications.”

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of EMC World 2016.

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