A sideways look at the enterprise fall out from the musical chairs played by defecting VMware execs Read later Summary: First VMware’s COO resigned to take up the role of CEO at Nutanix, rapidly followed by a lawsuit for breach of contract and fiduciary duty; then the CEO left to join Intel as its new boss. The bigger questions in both cases are the same – what might be the eventual result? (Pixabay) Recent weeks have seen two ‘people’ stories emerge from VMware, both highlighting subtle, but deeply significant changes that are occuring across the IT vendor community right now. Story one concerns VMware’s Chief Operating Officer Rajiv Ramaswami, who has gone off to join Nutanix as CEO, replacing the retiring Dheeraj Pandey. Story two concerns VMware's CEO Pat Gelsinger, who is off to be the CEO of Intel.