Many of the presentations at 2015’s VMworld took the long view, looking to the future rather than to the immediate present. Robin Matlock, CMO of VMware Inc., said this was by design. The company wants to address the rapid shifts in techs, especially the rise of DevOps. Matlock appeared on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about how the ecosystem is evolving.

“The reality is the world is changing. And it’s impacting IT as part of the core of that transformation. So IT needs to change to be relevant for business,”Matlock explained. “And DevOps is a part of that. How are we going to build applications in this cloud native world? How are we going to do it faster, more agile, and serve our businesses quicker? Well, DevOps plays a key role there, and what we can do is help IT serve that development community.”

Bridging two worlds

This year was the biggest VMworld ever, with more than 23,500 attendees. Matlock said they hoped there was something for everyone at the conference, from tech to business. “I think VMware is doing a lot to help people bridge the two worlds,” she stated. “And that’s a big part of our philosophy. It’s a big part of how we’re helping customers get from point A to point B and helping the practitioners leverage the skills they’ve built over the last decade—and really apply those to what’s going to be required to them over the next decade.”

Most importantly, the VMware team is rallying behind a common narrative. “That’s really this concept of ‘one cloud, any application, any device,’” relying on a unified hybrid cloud strategy for the “one cloud” component and emphasizing flexible implementation. “We’ve worked really hard to make sure that our customers understand …. what we’re doing is enabling them to deliver modern and traditional applications to their business really in any way they want to consume it.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld 2015.

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