Kit Colbert, VMware | VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Kit Colbert, VP & CTO, CPBU, VMware | @kitcolbert sits down with Jeff Frick to discuss the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.

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Colocation and capacity
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The message that VMware heard loud and clear from its customers was a desire for more horsepower under the on-premises hood.

“This second-generation solution is all about turning the volume up to 11,” Morgan said. “They needed a new class of systems, something a lot more powerful than our first generation, something that could take on all of the workloads. They wanted to have the opportunity to have a full rack that can beat their expectations on the capacity and power side so they can fulfill their requirements. And that’s what this is all about.”

This is also about the edge. While VMware Cloud on Dell EMC delivers a powerful on-prem cloud model for handling complex, business-critical applications, it is also part of the company’s long game for the edge.

This is precisely where LCaaS, cloud compute managed locally, could become a significant factor in the years ahead.

“We have identified a real need at the edge, so let’s not underplay that,” Morgan said. “A 5G cell tower typically needs compute that’s local, and there’s going to be tons of these erected over the next few years. They don’t have on-premises IT infrastructure people to manage that technology, so there’s an opportunity for an approach where the compute is local, but it’s managed as a cloud.”

The VMware blog post by Colbert in 2018 was prescient in this regard. Sending all the raw data from edge devices back to a central cloud would be slow and costly. Instead, VMware would bring cloud and its operational model to the data.

“Customers want their edge locations to be operational even in the face of network failure or power failure problems, requiring local compute for high availability,” Colbert wrote. “The show must go on!”

Watch the complete video interview with Colbert below. (* Disclosure: VMware Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)