At HP’s latest Press Conference today, Brent Juelich, Vice President of Application Services at Savvis, discussed his perspective on HP’s updated Moonshot with theCube’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Juelich began by reminding us about Savvis’ ambitions as a managed hosting service. Savvis is constantly looking for ways to improve web performance, content, big data, database, middleware, and offering all that in an affordable and scalable model to its customers.

Juelich explained that, from an application development standpoint, the ideal type of infrastructure is reliable, readily expandable and is geared toward applications. This is the reason why my group is very excited about Moonshot, Juelich stated. We’re seeing, for the first time, the production of more physical hardware that is heavily geared toward certain types of application workflows. This makes it possible to automate, provision, and overall prepare application services much more effectively, and, in turn, offer that service at a cheaper price to the customer.

John Furrier asked Juelich how all these developments will affect Savvis’ service offering. Despite such an intimidating question, Juelich described how, throughout Savvis’ progression from colocation, to hosting, to cloud, customers ultimately want something to manage applications. That’s where I see the market heading, and that’s where you’ll find us spending a lot more time, Juelich explained, you’re going to see a lot more services, from cloud databases, to public, to private, to more and more specific application workflows.

Juelich says Savvis, in the interest of its IT performance, has always been on the lookout for developments that will help it construct something that is secure, scalable, and highly automated in order to make its services stand out to customers, and that’s what makes Moonshot so interesting and exciting to the company.

See Juelich’s entire segment below: