Speaker Profile: 



Joe Baguley Chief Technology Officer EMEA, VMware

Joe Baguley is VMware’s Chief Technology Officer in EMEA. He helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As CTO, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use cloud technologies to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes.

Joe is a recognised leader within the European cloud community and considered one of the top 50 most influential leaders in UK IT, according to Computer Weekly (link: www. computerweekly.com/news/2240164326/ UKtech50-2012-Who-are-the-most-influential-people-in-UK-IT). He has played a key role in Cloud Camp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. Joe previously spent ten years at Quest Software where he was CTO of EMEA, shaping its direction and strategy.

In addition, Joe is also on the Industry Expert Group at SIENA and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
Joe is based in the UK but his remit is across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

“Software Defined" this, "Software Led" that, what next? The industry is buzzing with talk of commoditisation and 'moving focus up the stack' - what is actually going on, and what will the datacenter of the near future look like?Why is this happening, and is it just more complexity?" Said Joe Baguley, CTO EMEA, VMware.