The past year has been full of surprises for the people at Virtustream, Inc. between being acquired by EMC and then learning of the Dell, Inc. acquisition of EMC. However, throughout the year, the company has maintained its focus on its core go-to-market approach, and now it’s ready to scale.

Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO of Virtustream, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during EMC World 2016, to offer an overview of the acquisitions and the strength of the company’s products.

Concurrent company integrations

Rogers said Virtustream’s integration with EMC is mostly complete. He explained that the integration necessary for the potential closure of the Dell deal has been a bit easier as the company will be maintaining its operating identity as one of the Dell Technologies Group.

“Michael’s [Dell] been incredibly supportive of what we’re doing, and his questions to me are more like: ‘What can I do to support you growing? What are your impediments to growth?’ We have our charter. It’s quite well defined and my mission is to continue to prosecute it,” explained Rogers.

From heritage to next gen

Virtustream comes to EMC with two heritage platforms — Virtustream Enterprise Cloud and Virtustream Federal Cloud. During EMC World, it was announced that a third platform, Virtustream Storage Cloud, would be added.

“Virtustream Enterprise Cloud is a heritage Virtustream platform,” Rogers said. “Our whole micro-VM technology resource optimization is built for I/O intensive mission-critical type of workloads. That is our core use case, our core go-to-market motion,” said Rogers. He continued to talk about the Virtustream Federal Cloud, which is similar to the Enterprise Cloud but has the necessary certifications for government clients.

The newly announced Virtustream Storage Cloud is a project that was incubated inside of EMC. Rogers clarified, “For EMCers, you would know it as Rubicon. It’s a multi-exabyte, hyperscale type of platform. We brought it over into Virtustream standing it and now connecting it to the various computer components of our enterprise cloud in support of common compute across all platforms and ultimately hardened it.” He continued to explain how the Virtustream team has collaborated with EMC on the project.

Inheriting managed services

According to Rogers, Virtustream brought in 1,200 people from the EMC managed services group.

“These are professionals that largely managed on-premise EMC installations, and we have brought that in and integrated our managed services team at Virtustream … EMC had great people with a lot of maturity around methodology, tools, service desk, ticket processing, all the things that you lack as a young company. We’ve taken great advantage of that,” he said.

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

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