The new on-premises hybrid cloud platform that Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled in Las Vegas last week is an antidote for buyer remorse. It’s designed to solve a problem when a business moves workloads to the public cloud, decides it was the wrong move, and wants to move it back without having to now deal with two non-unified environments for critical applications.

And based on recent comments from Dell executives, the new hybrid cloud solution, Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, is having an impact with enterprise clients.

“It’s only been shipping for two weeks, and already customers are willing to be references for talking about the potential, the promise, and wanting to work with us on what this could mean for their organizations,” said Shannon Champion (pictured), director of product marketing at Dell EMC. “For customers, they have a complete seamless, all-in-one management experience.”

Champion spoke with Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV) and John Furrier (@furrier), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas. They discussed a new data center as a service offering and the role of VxRail as a core hybrid cloud solution (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Slowing public cloud adoption

A common theme during the Dell conference last week was the impact of VxRail technology. Now three years old with over 5,000 customers, VxRail has emerged as Dell Technologies’ core solution for its evolving hybrid cloud strategy, according to Champion.

VxRail is also central to the company’s newly announced concept of data center as a service, designed to address a change in the pace of public cloud adoption by enterprise customers.

“We started to see customers slow down the adoption of that to some extent because they needed the security and control of having infrastructure on-premises,” Champion said. “That’s what we do with Data Center-as-a-Service. We basically deliver the benefits of both in a monthly subscription model.”

Along with its Data Center-as-a-Service and Cloud Platform offerings, Dell also announced a cloud-based predictive analytics service last week. The Analytical Consulting Engine, or ACE, uses historical data from VxRail appliances.

“We’re seeing VxRail as more than just a catalyst for data center modernization,” Champion explained. “A lot of customers are going to keep choosing it for that turnkey simplicity, but now we’re enabling fast and simple hybrid cloud. As edge cases start to emerge, VxRail and a hyperconverged infrastructure have a lot of promise there too, so we really see it as an opportunity and a foundation for a wide range of use cases with our customers.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2019 event. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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