VMware is also looking at the nuts and bolts of communication within the enterprise and targeting it for transformation.

"Corporate communications has to change," he says. "The way people work today, for the most part, is that we have two tools at our disposal that we use for getting work done: PowerPoint and email. Most communication, at least at a technology company like VMware, is done as part of presentations that are shared over email."

That's not only unwieldy, especially in the case of large files, it's insecure and poses additional problems like version control to boot.

"It's a lowest-common denominator collaboration technology," Soltero says. "The reason we use it is that everybody has it."