Enterprise IT is facing a critical moment as the long-standing friction between developers and operations teams collides with the need for faster, more resilient applications.

From tangled infrastructure and heavy approval chains to the demand for agile, secure delivery, the divide has slowed innovation and complicated modernization. A new generation of platforms is reshaping this dynamic by giving enterprise IT the governance it requires while enabling developers with the freedom to build and deploy at speed, according to Dilpreet Bindra (pictured, left), senior director of engineering at VMware by Broadcom.

VMware’s Dilpreet Bindra and Canonical’s Mark Lewis discuss enterprise IT simplification with theCUBE.

“Developers want to be able to drive their applications as quickly as possible, and they don’t really care about security sometimes,” Bindra said. “They don’t care about compliance; they don’t care about certain aspects that the IT admin really cares about. The key thing is to be able to separate their functions reasonably so you can give the IT administrator the controls they require within their platform but also be able to then give the keys over to the developer. Hence, he has access to the various tools needed.”

Bindra and Mark Lewis (right), vice president of global ISV partnerships at Canonical Ltd., spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Rebecca Knight at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how the strengthened VMware–Canonical partnership is helping organizations accelerate innovation without sacrificing security or control. (* Disclosure below.)

Bridging the divide between developers and enterprise IT

A universal truth with developers is that they’ll always choose the easiest route. In recognizing this, Canonical has worked with VMware on secure, production-ready “chiseled containers,” delivering pre-hardened assets that reduce tedious tasks for developers while satisfying IT’s security demands, according to Lewis.

“The chiseled containers are designed for production; they’re secure by design,” he said. “For me, the lazy developer, it takes a whole lot of steps out. I want to be writing code. I don’t really want to be wrestling with containers to make them secure, to then pass some audit, et cetera.”

The partnership between VMware and Canonical builds on Ubuntu’s dominance as the primary cloud operating system — and the leading OS for artificial intelligence workloads. By extending this strength into VCF, enterprises gain a cloud-like experience on-premises, enabling them to run modern applications with the same agility as public cloud environments, Bindra added.

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

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

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