A hot topic for business right now is virtualization. Companies want to find the best and most cost-effective way to transform their infrastructure. Getting ahead of the issue, VMware, Inc. is working to provide virtualization that is effective and secure.

David Convery, field solutions architect, Virtualization, at CDW, LLC, and Lee Caswell, VP of Products, Storage and Availability at VMware, Inc., talked with John Walls (@johnwalls21) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during this week’s VMworld conference. The guests discussed the ins and outs of virtualization.

It’s all about storage

With the amount of data that businesses handle on a daily basis, they’re always looking for more efficient means of storage. VMware is looking to use virtualization to provide the type of storage businesses have been hunting for. To do so, VMware offers Virtual SAN (known as VSAN, an enterprise-class shared storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure), which “can be added to any virtualization,” said Convery, whose company uses VSAN to simplify its own infrastructure.

Customers want to spend less time looking over code and more time coming up with solutions, so VMware created storage that provides the “performance and space customers need,” Convery added.

Make it easy

VMware is working on virtualization that works across platforms and in tandem with other aspects of an infrastructure.

Customers are looking for a storage solution that works in the cloud and in their infrastructure while providing an opportunity for additions. Essentially, you have to “make everything easy for the customer,” said Caswell.

Flexibility

In a data-centric era, customers are becoming more and more acclimated to having options and “looking at what type of flexibility they really want,” said Convery. VMware supplies that flexibility not just in their services, but also across platforms, he said.

No matter the infrastructure or platform, VMware is ready with a “peanut butter of policy” that can be used by any enterprise, said Caswell.

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

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