At HPE Discover, HP Enterprise announced its new Synergy line of servers for hybrid cloud workloads. It’s the “industry’s first infrastructure designed from the ground up for composability,” according to Neil MacDonald, VP and GM of HPE BladeSystem, Converged Data Center Infrastructure, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE).

Customers struggle to balance the needs of traditional IT infrastructure with what MacDonald calls “the new challenge, where IT has become the engine of revenue generation and margin delivery. There is huge pressure on IT from the lines of business to deliver infrastructure and enable applications and services to be provided much more rapidly. Synergy has the ability to give one infrastructure that whole range of needs.”

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, asked MacDonald during HPE Discover 2015 in London about Synergy’s journey from idea to product. “The fundamental principal was rather than have discrete chunks of infrastructure, all of which are individually overprovisioned, we wanted to get to a model where you have a more fluid pool of resources that you can consume based on the needs of your applications and services,” MacDonald said. “You would compose them dynamically as you need them.”

HP had to make some hard choices in system design regarding architecture and technologies. “But the key thing is the composable infrastructure is a very tight combination of management software capabilities with the hardware,” MacDonald said. “And they have to be codesigned. When you do, you can deliver breakthrough experiences.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover 2015 — London. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting live with theCUBE hosts during the event.

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