On Monday, VMware Inc. and Druva Inc. jointly announced that Druva’s data protection platform would become available on VMware Cloud Marketplace and certified for VMware Cloud on AWS.

The announcement indicated that it was the first time that a data protection and software as a service solution had been certified for both.

“If you are deploying a lot of new edge locations in the data centers or new cloud services, Druva is a perfect partner to bring data management along with it,” said Jaspreet Singh (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Druva. “Now it’s all about infrastructure and infrastructure management, which is getting to be a cloud-native, public cloud-oriented SaaS world. This is where Druva comes in.”

Singh spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Justin Warren (@jpwarren), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the VMworld event in San Francisco. He was joined by Kit Colbert (pictured, left), vice president and chief technology officer of the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware, and they discussed how VMware’s recent Kubernetes announcements can benefit Druva customers and provide more choice for enterprise users (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Benefits of Kubernetes integration

In addition to the Druva certifications, VMware also announced Project Pacific, a re-architecting of vSphere to integrate and embed Kubernetes. The newly announced technology will allow VMware’s vSphere customer base to more easily move and manage large workload deployments, according to Colbert.

“We’re able to take that massive footprint and move it forward almost overnight by building Kubernetes into vSphere,” Colbert said. “This is a huge force multiplier for our customers. If a customer gets Project Pacific and uses Druva and they start provisioning some pods into Kubernetes on vSphere, Druva will see those; they can manage the data. It’s all automatic.”

The ultimate goal is to give enterprise customers more choice in how to manage data and see an immediate return.

“There’s what we call the world of two ransomwares,” Singh said. “There’s the ransomware when you are worried about a data breach or data loss, and there’s another where your data protection vendor or hardware vendor says, ‘Give me five years of money upfront’ with the promise to manage the data eventually.”

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

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