In today’s digital environment, developments in the software and solutions side of enterprise technology continue to evolve, pushing the boundaries for performance, scale and functionality.

This week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba announced that it has partnered with edge computing startup Pensando Systems Inc. on its latest offering: the CX 10000.

“We’re heading into a whole new class of products here, something that can address future designs,”  said Alan Weckel (pictured), founder and technology analyst at 650 Group LLC. “We’ve been looking at a market where we created a new class, a category about 15 years ago in data center switching. And we’re at a point where we need to start looking forward in the market to address new use cases and sort of customer pain points that are out there.”

Weckel spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the Aruba and Pensando Announce New Innovations event. They discussed Weckel’s thoughts on this week’s major product announcement from the Aruba/Pensando collaboration. (* Disclosure below.)

Both companies mean serious business

While Aruba is backed by an undisputed industry giant in HPE, which acquired the startup in 2015, Pensando has always fought to play with the “big boys” in the enterprise cloud solutions space.

“Whether it’s multicloud or how we’re deploying applications and security, things are different and we need a new class of product in order to address that,” Weckel explained. “If we look at the opportunity here, we’re talking about a market and a class of products that are going to do north of $10 billion in just a couple of years. So we have a magnitude and a market category that makes sense to kind of be differentiated from how we’ve been looking at the markets in the past.”

Following its recent round of funding, the company made public its intentions to compete with Amazon Web Services Inc. in the edge computing space. Both companies have joined forces to launch this new product, with Aruba providing the data center switching expertise and Pensando coming in with its Elba data processing unit.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Aruba and Pensando Announce New Innovations event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the “Aruba and Pensando Announce New Innovations” event. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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