VMware’s Virtual SAN (VSAN) is an enterprise-class shared storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure optimized for today’s all-flash performance. And according to Christos Karamanolis, fellow and CTO of VMware, Inc.’s Storage and Availability business unit, VSAN is taking over the mainstream as more companies move through an overhaul and start the process of digital transformation.

Karamanolis recently talked with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the recent VMworld conference about VMware storage.

The storage solution

In the past two years, VSAN has steadily grown in popularity, “especially in all-flash configurations,” said Karamanolis. Customers want the best operational efficiencies, and VMware has created a storage system that provides users with “public cloud efficiencies in private data centers,” according to Karamanolis.

Along with efficiency in the cloud, VMware is also providing better security functions and a range of products that can be “integrated up the stack,” said Karamanolis.

All those analytics

With a digital transformation comes a stronger emphasis on IT. The IT world is evolving, and VMware wants to deliver value to customers “based in the cloud,” said Karamanolis. VMware provides tools in the form of products that allow its customers to monitor “infrastructure, network, devices and more,” Karamanolis added.

The influx of data means an emphasis on analytics, and VMware wants to deliver those analytics in rapid cadence. It extracts data internally and from the cloud in order to deliver “high-level actionable feedback,” said Karamanolis.

Develop and innovate

VMware has made some amazing leaps and bounds in the world of storage, Karamanolis explained. It has always been an engineering-based company, and that experience has led to amazing “grass roots innovation,” he said.

The digital transformation is happening, and companies have to change along with it. As storage catches up to the rest of the digital revolution, VMware will be on the cutting edge delivering a “new generation of storage and solid state devices,” Karamanolis concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld 2016.

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