As heavily touted as the benefits may be, migrating to the cloud is viewed as a perilous trek that must be endlessly prepared for and fretted over. But if you pick the right solutions provider, you may not only get a painless transition — you could start reaping benefits right away.

Peter Cutts, VP of Cloud Solutions of VCE at EMC, spoke about the need for customers who are getting into self-service cloud infrastructure to pick a service that will not promise one thing and deliver another. During the recent VMworld event, he told Stu Miniman (@stu) and Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), host and guest host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, “If you’re going to provide complete self service, you really have to make sure that you have everything set up to make sure you allow that.”

Cutts said that EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) is committed to being there for customers regardless of what on-prem versus public cloud ratio they ultimately settle on. He also stated that EHC customers are seeing a 25-percent cost savings.

The native language

Cutts said that customers looking to start building cloud-native apps need to pace themselves and understand how the switch works in reality. “Cloud-native apps still need to talk to the systems of record, so you have to have both,” he said.

EMC’s Native Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service allows customers a manageable path to developing in the cloud. “When customers look at it, it’s really a two-pronged approach where I can actually automate, take costs out, and I can invest in cloud native apps,” Cutts said

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

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