With the trendiness of IT  delivered as a service, bare metal infrastructure is looking less sexy to vendors and consumers alike. But lest anyone forget, infrastructure is still the bedrock of it all. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is hoping its methods for fusing hard infrastructure with as-a-service gratification will renew interest in the IT often hidden under the hood.

McLeod Glass, VP of Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., explained how HPE ties its infrastructure engineering roots to as-a-service marketing. “We believe that the infrastructure really still matters,” he told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU in London.

Easily composable infrastructure

Glass said that easily composable infrastructure lets businesses customize workload execution, whereas companies used to have to reconfigure infrastructure from scratch for different functions (like VDIs). “Using composable infrastructure, you could have VDI during the day,” he said. “You can then take and dynamically re-provision that same infrastructure without having to stand up a new instance of infrastructure to go do something else.”

Businesses want to get out of infrastructure hassles to focus on app development higher up the stack. But Glass said that HPE’s composable infrastructure is irresistibly simple. “It’s a single open API that allows you to manage all of your infrastructure as code so there aren’t different APIs that you have to go interface with,” he said.

Watch the complete video interview, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover EU. (*Disclosure: HPE and other companies sponsor some HPE Discover EU segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither HPE nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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