After bringing Kubernetes onto the vSphere cloud computing virtualization platform with Project Pacific last year, VMware Inc. is reimagining hybrid cloud architecture to support the next-generation applications with its new Project Monterey.

Announced this week, the project is a technology preview focused on evolving architecture for data center, cloud and edge to address the changing requirements of new applications. VMware will work with ecosystem partners to deliver solutions based on the project.

“If you think of the Monterey Canyon, it is now going deep,” said Lee Caswell (pictured, right), vice president of marketing of the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. “Monterey will be a new way to look at how we go and efficiently offload CPUs and use these new SmartNIC offload engines as a way to think about where hypervisors run, where’s … software defined, whether it’s storage or compute, and most important probably is security.”

Caswell and Travis Vigil (left), senior vice president of product management at Dell Technologies, spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during VMworld. They discussed details of the new Project Monterey, how it will result in new products, and how VMware and Dell are partnering to rethink this new infrastructure. (* Disclosure below.)

Engineering efforts are doubled

Project Monterey is bringing together the engineering forces of VMware and its parent company Dell Technologies. “The power of these two organizations coming together is what’s going to be needed to help drive forward into this next generation of modern applications and dynamic workloads and disaggregated resources,” Vigil said.

As businesses modernize existing apps and deploy news ones, traditional IT architectures are being stretched to meet their unique requirements. Next-generation apps distributed across environments have produced new challenges for IT organizations, including consuming an increasing amount of cycles on the server CPU and impacting performance, according to Caswell.

The idea is to have an infrastructure that dialogues with all new technology trends, whether it is cloud native, hybrid and multicloud, 5G, machine learning or data-centric applications, according to Vigil.

“If we can offer an infrastructure that is more composable into these disaggregated resources, across the edge, across the cloud, across the core, all software defined and seamlessly managed, that’s a powerful vision,” he said.

One major piece of the project will be security. “One of the things we’re finding that new applications are demanding is encryption, for example, or distributed firewalls,” Caswell pointed out. “And, so, we’re really thinking about how to rearchitect the world of security.”

When designing products within Project Monterey, VMware and Dell will work closely together to ensure that this new technology is fully integrated into the VMware Cloud Foundation and easy for customers to digest, according to Caswell.

“There’s a lot of new technologies coming so fast, [that] really this partnership means that we’re able to consume those more quickly,” he concluded.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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