Hyperconverged infrastructure has hit the mainstream, and the industry is moving toward a multicloud environment where customization and flexibility are key. Keeping ahead in such a fast-paced environment means listening to what the end user needs and constantly innovating to meet what the marketplace demands. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are working together to meet these multicloud demands.

“Our customers told us that they don’t want to wait between a vSAN release and a VxRail release,” said Gil Shneorson (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of VxRail at Dell EMC. “So every time VMware moves forward … we package it all up and we make it downloadable and upgradeable automatically,” said Shneorson of the company’s popular virtualization and hyperconvergence product lines.

Shneorson spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host John Troyer (@jtroyer), chief reckoner at TechReckoning, during the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the strengths of the relationship between Dell and VMware and how the companies are working together to help their customers maintain a competitive lead. (* Disclosure below.)

Protecting infrastructure investment

Twenty-three percent of companies already use HCI, and the Spiceworks “2018 State of IT report” predicts that HCI adoption will more than double in the next 12 months. Dell EMC’s VxRail Appliance, based on VMware vSAN hyperconverged, software-defined storage, has made both Dell and VMware leaders in the hyperconverged market. And the companies are committed to working together as an integrated team.

“You take the software, you put it with a specific configuration, you automate it to match, and you get something that’s very resilient. And I think both of us know that, and both of us keep investing in it because it’s working,” Shneorson said of the Dell-VMware relationship.

The announcements of synchronous releases for VxRail and vSAN, a future-proof loyalty program to help protect customer VxRail investments, and the release of the new G-Series, VxRail G560, are testaments to the investment between the companies. Looking ahead, Shneorson sees Dell and VMware sharing a roadmap for the multicloud future.

“HCI has its place, but we’re already looking at what multicloud means from an infrastructure standpoint,” Shneorson said. Dell is not only looking to invest in “being the most resilient, robust, vSAN-based infrastructure, but tying to every part of the VMware stack so we can really be that infrastructure for multicloud,” he added. “We need to take the whole breadth of the VMware stack and integrate as appropriate at every level.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld conference. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment, with additional broadcast sponsorship from VMware Inc. Dell, VMware, and other sponsors do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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