Enterprises do not just want an enhanced experience; they want one that meets their needs, tastes and preferences.

With a joint customer base of more than 200,000, VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have partnered to address the changing business consumption model through different engineering, according to Mark Nickerson (pictured, left), director of go-to-market and compute solutions at HPE. For instance, Project Monterey has been tailored to change how servers are built, he explained.

“We’ve actually done a lot of joint engineering over the years, continuing to do that co-development as we bring products like Project Monterey or next generations of VCF solutions to live in a GreenLake environment,” Nickerson stated. “That’s an area where customers not only see the benefits of GreenLake from a business standpoint on a consumption model, but also around the efficiency operationally.”

Nickerson and Paul Turner (pictured), vice president of product management, vSphere, at VMware, spoke with industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at last year’s VMware Explore event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how the VMware-HPE partnership is centered around operational efficiencies and innovation. (* Disclosure below.)

The cadence of the partnership

Since every release by VMware and HPE is jointly qualified, the collaboration is based on the need to boost innovation, according to Turner. For instance, the vSphere 8 enhanced storage architecture was led by this objective.

“The next generation of vSphere, we’ve got that immediately qualified, ready on HPE equipment,” he pointed out. “We built out new AI servers, actually with Nvidia and HPE. And, we’re able to actually push the extremes of AI and intelligence on systems.”

To meet enterprise needs, solutions are not only based on the operating environment and software stack, but also on the specific use case, according to Nickerson. As a result, a holistic approach is used.

“I think Project Monterey is a great example of where that cadence expands into really understanding the solutioning that goes into what the customer is expecting from us,” he said.

vSphere 8 seeks to take the virtualization aspect a notch higher. The solution updates were in response to enterprise demands, according to Turner.

 “vSphere 8 can now virtualize anything,” he said. “It can virtualize your CPUs, your GPUs, and now what we call DPUs, or data processing units. That gives us an ability to run applications — and some of the virtualization services — actually down on that DPU.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of VMware Explore:

(* Disclosure: VMware Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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