It's about virtualizing network and storage, not just compute. Virtualization is the key technology in the software-defined data center.

VMware vCloud Suite addresses the management needs of our customers, cloud infrastructure and extensibility.

We need to drive the data center: “You can't scale vertically.”

Move hardware silos to software defined data center.

Partners should expand into virtualization, and expand horizontally into storage.

We have never had such clear alignment with our priorities before.

We need to all be focused on our three missions. “If you're not focused on one of priorities, you're not doing your job.”

“We're not trying to boil the ocean. We're trying to be really focused on our core value that we've brought to the market over the past decade.”

If we all align on these priorities, we will enjoy 2013 and beyond.

Enterprise organizations (5,000 plus): VMware led, partner support; Mid-market organizations: VMware and partner led; and SMB: partner led VMware, support.

“We need to get an alignment on messaging and marketing campaigns.” Our marketing campaigns are at all levels: enterprise, mid-market, and SMB.

VMware works with a coordinated services approach. We are not here to compete. We are focused on enterprise services.

We need to understand how our customers are consuming our technology, as well as challenges they may have. If we don't understand what they need, how can we make it better? Lastly, we are leaving the rest of the market for you.

Partners' service focus is commercial.

We're focusing on the size and needs of our customers.

Focus on more automation, less management.

CIOs are the bottleneck, and people are going around them. We need to help the CIO in organizations to become the IT broker of services.

We need CIOs to be the IT broker for IT service delivery.

The level of trust needs to be between the CIO and the line of business. We want to reduce the restriction between IT and consumer.

You will serve more services than our software, and we're okay with that.

There is a $41.5 billion in services opportunity for private cloud by just  2015.

85 percent of revenue comes through partners. “This is a statistic for the last decade that will never change.”