Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, prepared for a final day of interviews with IT leaders at VMworld 2015. As the two discussed the highlights and the buzz around the showroom floor, Gracely gave his take on the current state of the developer community.

“What was always interesting to me were the new applications, some call them cloud native, and how they impacted business,” he said. “The infrastructure piece always impacts the bottom line. It’s becoming clear that there’s a camp of tech-centered people, technology and companies. But when you take it back to mainstream, that DevOps gets teased apart, and we realize that the ops needs to be better. They need to automate more. They need to make more consistent environments. There’s a business imperative to automation.”

How do containers impact storage?

Miniman asked Gracely how containers impact storage.

“What we’re hearing is containers plus virtualization is a reality,” Gracely said. “What we saw from VMworlde this week from Project Bonneville, Project Photon, vSphere, they are adapting the virtualization technology. It’s got to get faster, more nimble. Now that people are starting to understand containers, they’re going to start to align that infrastructure and it’s not going to move as fast, which is good for this crowd because they’ve got enough coming at them as it is.”

The cohosts agreed that VMware, Inc.’s “slow and steady” approach is good for the company. “People want infrastructure to be steady and highly available,” said Gracely. “There’s always a certain amount of progress at VMworld. I’m excited that VMware is branching out into DevOps and developers, and people seem to be excited about converged infrastructure.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld 2015.

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