As modern applications gain space, companies start to have two clear demands: an adequate infrastructure that allows the management of both new and legacy systems and data protection and security tools suitable for this environment.

Supporting these new enterprise requirements is a focus of the integration between VMware Inc. and its parent company Dell Technologies, according to Lee Caswell (pictured, right), vice president of marketing at VMware.

“As you now basically develop new applications more quickly … it means that for the teams that are managing infrastructure, it really helps if you have a consistent model, where you can get more done with the same teams and leverage all the experience you have, as well as the security and infrastructure resiliency model that we are bringing together to our customers,” he said.

Caswell and Caitlin Gordon (pictured, left), vice president of product marketing at Dell Technologies, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Dell Technologies World Digital Experience event. They discussed the challenges related to application modernization, how Dell and VMware are working together to address them, and the advances of Project Monterey and its prospects for the future. (* Disclosure below.)

Making it simple for customers

The way to make IT infrastructure more modern and, at the same time, reliable is to make it simpler for businesses, according to Gordon. To this end, Dell has developed many different solutions to support the VMware environment.

“Whether it’s a three-tier architecture with PowerEdge, PowerStore or leveraging VxRail — or very commonly it’s going to be both of those — you have the right infrastructure to support the production workloads and have a consistent operating model between them, leveraging the vVols and primary storage side and all the integrations we have with VxRail,” Gordon explained.

On top of that, Dell offers PowerProtect Data Manager, which is designed to support what the VM admin needs and gives consistent protection, storage and operating model for all IT, enabling developers to move faster.

What Dell and VMware are doing together is aimed at accommodating the fact that containers are spun faster or destroyed faster, according to Casswell.

“They’re shared across the hybrid cloud more frequently, and without an inherent security model and built-in data protection, it’s really hard to go and see how you can deploy these with the enterprise resilience that is demanded at enterprise scale,” he concluded.

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 Digital Experience event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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