UPDATED 18:29 EDT / AUGUST 30 2016

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Is VSAN becoming the foundational layer of business’ modern infrastructure? | #VMworld

As VMware, Inc. spotlights its cross-cloud architecture, the possibilities for mobile access and deployment are drawing much of the attention from eager developers. But VMware’s engineers and planners are looking to wow customers with potential beyond what has already been realized.

Yanbing Li, SVP and GM of Storage and Availability at VMware, and Rawlinson Rivera, principal architect, Office of the CTO, at VMware, joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2016 to talk about Virtual SAN (VSAN), cross-cloud operations, and what they see as the key to VMware setting itself apart from competitors.

VSAN dominance

To Rivera, the future for VMware is waiting in the creative assemblage of the multiple architecture components the company’s products enable, with Virtual SAN and its networking capabilities being the biggest key. To move into a fully optimized deployment of those interconnected powers, he says that VMware will “enable that true vision completely [with VSAN].”

“VSAN is really becoming that foundational layer of your modern infrastructure,” Li added, describing it as a “foundational element fueling all these others,” with “today’s application, tomorrow’s application powered by VSAN.”

Policy and function

Rivera also highlighted the potential of VMware’s “policy-based framework,” which will have innumerable applications. “What makes that possible is the cloud foundation,” Rivera said. “We are the only company that can do this today, and that’s all because of the way our components come together.”

And VSAN comes into play here as well, though Li sees its adoption as being initially driven by another factor. “I think lots of our customers bought VSAN because of the incredible cost savings they saw,” she said. “But … simplicity is what customers fall in love with VSAN for.”

“VSAN is an essentially key pillar of the stack,” Rivera stated, with Li noting that it serves to “bring the entire stack together [and] put it in the context of the cross-cloud.”

“This same sort of logic technology … is available in virtual volumes,” Rivera said, but to him, the key differentiator between VMware’s offerings and other solutions on the market is found in the policy operations framework: “It changes not just the technology, but the operational functions in the data-center.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld 2016.

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