In July 2008, the VMware Board of Directors voted to remove the founder Diane Greene as CEO of the company. Greene was offered another position that she declined, leaving the company that she created and led through one of the most impressive IPO in the IT history . Two months after her departure, his husband Mendel Rosenblum, left too . Rosenblum co-founded VMware and was the Chief Scientist declining the company vision. The board immediately replaced her with Paul Maritz, a long-time Microsoft executive that joined the EMC ecosystem after his startup Pi was acquired in February 2008.

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While VMware continues its transformation from a virtualisation vendor to a company that wants to compete with Microsoft, Google, IBM and soon Oracle , the massive replacement of its workforce, which virtualisation.info documented in details for months, goes on. Last week we covered the departure of Chris Hammans , Regional Director for UK and Ireland. This one it’s the turn of Joanne Syben , Senior Director of R&D, in charge for ESX R&D. Specifically she led the Core Storage team for ESX Server, including VMKernel components, FC and iSCSI. Syben componentized core storage stack to support native and 3rd party multipathing, policy and array specific modules.

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