Spanning more than two decades, the VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. partnership has evolved to be expansive in scope.

Both companies have worked to deliver solutions that combine software and hardware to enable cloud experiences that cater to today’s increasingly complex applications and data needs.

“Great software needs great hardware, it needs great infrastructure and great cloud infrastructure,” said Paul Turner (pictured, right), vice president of product management vSphere at VMware Inc. “We’re always innovating. One of the areas that we’re innovating next is how we actually deliver you that full cloud experience while still being able to run in the data center of your choic, on-premises if you want to.”

Turner and Chris Eidler (left), vice president and general manager of Cloud Modules, GreenLake, at HPE, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Lisa Martin and Rob Strechay at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how both companies are unlocking enterprise value areas across on-prem and public cloud infrastructures. (* Disclosure below.)

Enabling apps to take full advantage of the cloud

With complexities like application programming interfaces, containerization and nuanced security, today’s apps are more demanding than ever before. Companies, therefore, expect their cloud implementations to be reliable, scalable and secure.

“They expect reliability, they expect availability, they expect scalability, they expect security,” Eidler explained. “But I think what we’re seeing is that mostly what they’re starting to expect now is that they run on a cloud and that they have the ability to interact with the infrastructure on which they’re hosted in a somewhat common factor.”

Operating in a multicloud environment is now a given for enterprises, and a seamless interplay between an infrastructure’s moving parts is crucial. HPE GreenLake for VMware allows users the choice of how they set up their multicloud and how they tailor consumption according to cost, Eidler explained.

“Making the entire offering consumable in a pay-as-you-go, pay-per-drink kind of way is critical,” he said. “Now we’ve done multicloud integrations in some of our other offerings as well, but in this case, this offering is really targeting the VMware-centric user.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE and Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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