An International Data Corp. research has tabbed the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, market as the fastest-growing converged systems segment for the first quarter this year. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are clearly intent of taking full advantage of that growth as evidenced by recent announcements during VMworld in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dell EMC will now offer turnkey solutions for both the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and Native Hybrid Cloud. The goal is to provide customers with one contact support and full lifecycle management for a simpler journey to the hybrid cloud.

“If you look at our hybrid cloud platforms, they’re really intended to be that easy button for deploying either a full VxRail suite stack in our enterprise hybrid cloud or Pivotal Cloud Foundry for native hybrid cloud,” said Kevin Gray, director of product marketing, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, at Dell EMC.

Gray stopped by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with co-hosts Peter Burris (@plburris) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante) at VMworld 2017. They discussed the recent announcements, the role of Pivotal in the native hybrid cloud and how one customer has accelerated application delivery. (* Disclosure below.)

The turnkey solutions give VMware Inc. customers the ability to run application workloads in the public cloud or on-premises. The NHC platform is a more focused solution optimized for development, which Dell EMC executives have described as the simplest way to run Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Pivotal and VMware join CNCF

Pivotal and VMware joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation at the highest level of support, which means a substantial donation of time and money to cloud computing technologies. “They are moving really fast,” said Gray in discussing Pivotal. “They have a release every 90 days.”

One factor driving enterprise hybrid cloud adoption is speed. A Dell EMC customer – CICC in China – migrated to the hybrid cloud platform to improve delivery of applications.

“By implementing enterprise hybrid cloud, they were able to accelerate the time it took to get new application services by 60 percent,” Gray said. “This is simply a means of taking IT out of the middle and really being able to accelerate the delivery of IT services.”

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

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