Chad Dunn @VXchad, VP of Product Management and Marketing, Dell EMC & Matt Herreras, Sr Director Product Marketing, VMware join CUBE hosts Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara) at Dell Technologies World 2018 in Las Vegas, NV #DellTechWorld #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/05/31/power-of-the-portfolio-dell-emc-merger-grows-hci-marketplace-delltechworld/ ‘Power of the portfolio’: Dell EMC merger grows HCI marketplace Dell EMC recently declared success on its mission to accelerate its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio growth. It’s now the number one HCI provider in the market. “The obvious thing that everybody sees is the power of the portfolio that we now have,” said Chad Dunn (pictured, left), vice president of product management and marketing at Dell EMC. “So having the power both internally and power for our customers to tap into, all the things across the portfolio — VMware, Pivotal, RSA, Secure Works … I mean, it’s a really amazing IT portfolio.” Dunn and Matt Herreras (pictured, right), senior director of product marketing at VMware Inc., spoke with Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), principal at The CTO Advisor, at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed Dell EMC’s merger and the way it affected product offerings throughout the enterprise, including the company’s HCI product portfolio. (* Disclosure below.) Dell EMC strengthens through merger As Dell EMC strengthens its offerings through the merger, what does this mean for both VMware and Dell? It’s the partnership that is born between these two, according to Herreras. “When we partner up with somebody like Dell, who was able to bring unique value on their hardware platforms that’s cognizant of all of [our software] capabilities … we’re able to really get a lot of traction in the marketplace,” Herreras explained. Dell was always easy to work with even before the merger, and it’s only gotten easier for VMware since the merger, he added. “That just makes the conversation more meaningful,” Herrera stated. Dell EMC is very happy with the market share and traction with products VMware has brought to the table for the hyperconverged portfolio — such as the VxRail appliance that combines compute, storage, networking and virtualization, and the VxRack SDDC designed for multi-cloud hyperconvergence, according to Dunn. “On VxRail, we added new capabilities like 25 gig ethernet, [non-volatile memory express] drives, new security capabilities, new graphical processing unit, high density memory,” Dunn explained. “On the VxRack side, we’re now on Dell 14G servers … again, we’re starting to sort of merge the divisions of these two products so they become consumption models of the same technology.” Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)