What happens when two tech titans, each with their own strengths and challenges, merge together? All sorts of unforeseen complexities. One company’s business model may clash with its new partner’s, or their current projects fail to converge. However, with the emergence of Dell EMC this past year, the opposite is the case, according to Peter Cutts, senior vice president of hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Platforms and Solutions Division, at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group.

The nascent collective has pooled its resources to provide simplified and faster hybrid cloud solution, Cutts explained.

“We at Dell EMC have a group that develops software and life cycles … so you can think above the value line, focus on your business, your customer interaction, your app and transforming your business, as opposed to focusing on making the stuff underneath work,” he said.

Cutts spoke to John Walls (@JohnWalls21), and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Nevada. They spoke about how his division is working to ensure a stable architecture that will allow businesses to thrive. (*Disclosure below.)

The group is concentrated on developing solutions for data protection, data sovereignty and other vital services essential for today’s cloud-based commercial environment. Speeding up the process is another key innovation, according to Cutts.

“Remember, we can help a lot of our customers deliver services to their businesses 65 percent faster than they tried to do on their own. … Again, the hybrid model is key to making sure that you can consume both private and public,” he said.

Businesses understand that their job is to “take the complex and make it simple,” Cutts explained. If clients don’t have to concern themselves with a program’s inner-workings or the maintenance and logistics of their platforms, they will be better prepared to carry out their responsibilities as a business, he added.

Dell EMC teams up with Microsoft Azure for hybrid cloud

The unique experiences of Dell and EMC has played an integral part in helping the merged company’s cloud service evolve. This is best illustrated by the status of its partnership with Microsoft, Cutts explained. The Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is an on-premises hybrid cloud platform for delivering infrastructure and platform-as-a-service.

“We’re really looking at taking Azure on-prem. With all the learnings we’ve had building hybrid cloud across the board, we’re now able to take that, invest into the Microsoft Azure stack and help bring multi-site, turnkey packages … data protection, data sovereignty experience across that,” Cutts said.

Dell has combined its time crafting and exploring cloud platforms with EMC’s offerings, which pull everything together, according to Cutts. Both businesses are utilizing their resources to “really differentiate in this space,” he added.

Dell EMC’s services, in general, and Azure, in particular, can work in both an on-prem and off-prem context. “… A customer or any entity that wants to make sure they have a hybrid nature means that they can provision, control, protect, geofence, give all of the leads that they have to their business, but they can give that resource, when required, on-premises … but then also broker and control all of the relationships out to the public cloud,” Cutts said.

The merger of Dell and EMC has made possible the current boom in cloud-based infrastructure, according to Cutts. And this is particularly manifesting in the soon-to-be finalized release of Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Dell EMC World 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell EMC World. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial influence on content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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