The growing complexity of managing virtualized, containerized and cloud environments highlights the need for a unified management platform.

In response, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. recently took a significant step by acquiring Morpheus Data LLC. This move leverages hybrid cloud orchestration tools to streamline end-to-end governance, enabling enterprises to manage diverse environments with greater ease, according to Hang Tan (pictured, right), chief operating officer of hybrid cloud at HPE.

“We’re obviously very excited to have Morpheus join [the] HPE family,” Tan said. “What really drove this decision is really looking at the end-to-end landscape and really understanding that the customer’s environments are increasingly more heterogeneous. If not done in the right way, that heterogeneity leads to fragmentation and siloed management. We really wanted to have this capability where you deliver a unified management capability that allows you to orchestrate your workloads across all of your estate.”

Tan and Brad Parks (left), chief product and go-to-market officer at Morpheus, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay, during a CUBE Conversation at SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio in Palo Alto. They discussed the need for a unified management platform based on the rise of different environments. 

Simplifying IT consumption with a unified management platform

Based on the high adoption rate of artificial intelligence and enterprises increasingly becoming cloud-native, Morpheus seeks to offer an orchestration layer in-house in the form of a unified management platform across hybrid IT, Parks pointed out.

“If you haven’t heard of us, we’ve been around since about 2015, and our goal really is to simplify the consumption of IT,” he said. “If we think about that, the big consumers of IT inside big enterprises are often project teams, database analysts [and] application developers who need to very quickly spin up new application services. We connect VMware, Nutanix, KVM [and] all the private cloud choices, as well as all the public cloud endpoints, and provide that unified orchestration plan for provisioning for governance and guardrails.”

To unlock infinite possibilities, expanding private and hybrid cloud solutions is critical. As a result, Morpheus heeds this call based on its integration with VMware Cloud Foundation, according to Parks.

“Morpheus plus VCF is probably one of our biggest attach points,” he explained. “We turn that VMware stack into a true private and hybrid cloud while also providing customers with choice to embrace other technologies for different workloads. It’s win-win for them, [a] win-win for everybody. With AI obviously increasing, there’s more and more of a need to orchestrate provisioning on infrastructure for those workloads, whether it’s out at the edge, in the data center, [colocated] or in the public cloud.”

Here’s theCUBE’s complete interview with Hang Tan:

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