The partnership between Lenovo Group Ltd. and Nutanix Inc. has been in the works for more than two years. Today, both companies are seeing business growth around their jointly engineered solutions, according to Kirk Skaugen, president of the data center group at Lenovo, who commented on how the two companies are coming together.

“With Nutanix we’re tightly integrating our management software with their Prism software [for datacenter operations management]. We’re looking at integrating some of the network topology work now with innovation. Rather than a legacy network that people are used to now, we moved to a hyperconverged infrastructure. … So we’ve been innovating together now for almost two years,” Skaugen said.

Skaugen and Sudheesh Nair, president of Nutanix, spoke to Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at this week’s Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Washington, D.C. about their partnership status. (* Disclosure below.)

Delivering on core competencies

One of the primary assets Lenovo brings to the table is a true expertise in hardware development and support. Rather than try and compete up the stack like some of its competitors, Lenovo stays focused on it’s core competencies, Skaugen explained.

“We have over 10,000 support specialists with more than a 90 percent customer satisfaction rating. What we’re bundling with ThinkAgile is premier customer support so you don’t even go to an automated system; you go directly to a local language-speaking person on the phone immediately. You get one vendor to support you across your server, your storage, your networking and the whole configuration,” Skaugen said.

Lenovo’s focus on delivering top-quality hardware and service makes it a prime partner for software-defined organizations, such as SAP SE, which enables additional partnerships across the stack for Nutanix, according to Nair.

“One of the largest SAP partners is Lenovo, and by partnering with Lenovo we are now able to deliver a specific product series called Bridge to SAP Hana. We deliver certified Hana platforms on Lenovo along with the Nutanix software as a production testing environment next to that,” Nair said.

By doing so, customers can have a one-stop shop for analytics, enterprise resource planning and more, Nair concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Nutanix .NEXT US 2017 event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Nutanix .NEXT US. Neither Nutanix Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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