Faster is better. To gain the edge in speed, tech companies have been turning to hyper-converged infrastructure so they can spend less time with their information technology foundations and more time innovating. Now, hyper-converged solutions are going to the cloud.

“How do customers spend less time integrating and maintaining their infrastructure and more time supporting their end users?” asked Jon Siegal (pictured), vice president of product marketing, Converged Platforms and Solutions Division, at Dell EMC.

Siegal spoke to host Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the business of helping companies go agile. (* Disclosure below.)

Speed, agility, hyper-converged

For customers, the word on the street is “agility.” Everyone wants to know how they can be more responsive to changing business needs. From an IT perspective, everything is about speed and agility. However, it’s hard to keep that speed if they have to slow down and integrate new technology, Siegal stated.

Because of that, the fastest-growing part of IT today is around hyper-converged infrastructure, he explained. It’s about helping companies spend more time innovating. To this end, Dell EMC offers turnkey solutions that allow customers to waste less time fiddling with their infrastructure.

As the industry’s response to agility, hyper-converged is taking off, according to Siegal. Most of the enterprise-level companies are adopting it. The next step is moving to software-defined systems, but then the network becomes important. They have to treat the network as part of system design, he stated.

“What we found is a lot of customers underestimated the importance of the network,” Siegal said.

From the market’s point of view, hyper-converged brings an agile on-premises solution with an option to leverage the public cloud, he added. Medium and larger companies are using this to create hybrid cloud solutions. This allows providers to spin up new applications and users they couldn’t do before with traditional technology.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Dell EMC World 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell EMC World. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial influence on content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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