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With a joint customer base of more than 200,000, VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have partnered to address the changing business consumption model through different engineering, according toMark Nickerson (pictured, left), director of go-to-market and compute solutions at HPE. For instance, Project Monterey has been tailored to change how servers are built, he explained.

Weve actually done a lot of joint engineering over the years, continuing to do that co-development as we bring products like Project Monterey or next generations of VCF solutions to live in a GreenLake environment, Nickerson stated. Thats an area where customers not only see the benefits of GreenLake from a business standpoint on a consumption model, but also around the efficiency operationally.

Nickerson andPaul Turner (pictured), vice president of product management, vSphere, at VMware, spoke with industry analystsJohn Furrier andDave Vellante at last yearsVMware Exploreevent, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias livestreaming studio. They discussed how the VMware-HPE partnership is centered around operational efficiencies and innovation. (* Disclosure below.)

Since every release by VMware and HPE is jointly qualified, the collaboration is based on the need to boost innovation, according to Turner. For instance, the vSphere 8 enhanced storage architecture was led by this objective.

The next generation of vSphere, weve got that immediately qualified, ready on HPE equipment, he pointed out. We built out new AI servers, actually with Nvidia and HPE. And, were able to actually push the extremes of AI and intelligence on systems.

To meet enterprise needs, solutions are not only based on the operating environment and software stack, but also on the specific use case, according to Nickerson. As a result, a holistic approach is used.

I think Project Monterey is a great example of where that cadence expands into really understanding the solutioning that goes into what the customer is expecting from us, he said.

vSphere 8 seeks to take the virtualization aspect a notch higher. The solution updates were in response to enterprise demands, according to Turner.

vSphere 8 can now virtualize anything, he said. It can virtualize your CPUs, your GPUs, and now what we call DPUs, or data processing units. That gives us an ability to run applications and some of the virtualization services actually down on that DPU.

Heres the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs coverage ofVMware Explore:

(* Disclosure: VMware Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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