Saar Gillai, HP, at HP Discover 2013, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante TheCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante were joined in Las Vegas by Saar Gillai, SVP & GM of HP Converged Cloud, on the second day of HP's annual Discover event, to talk about convergence in the data center, and other industry trends. Saar Gillai is responsible for driving HP's cloud portfolio and solutions that enable enterprises to build, operate, and consume cloud services seamlessly across traditional, public, private, and managed clouds. He loves the current environment, where everything is so dynamic and moving at a high speed. A Holistic Approach to Convergent Cloud: Common-User Experience Customers Gain Portability With a Single Architecture Vellante asked Gillai to elaborate on the meaning of Converged Cloud. Gillai explains that, when HP is looking at how Cloud is going to evolve, they believe the world is going to be a Hyper-World. There's not going to be one single deployment, of either public, private or hybrid Cloud. Instead, people are going to have a Hyper-World. Convergent Cloud means that there's going to be one architecture and one experience model across the entire gammut of cloud deploying modules, whether they're public, private or managed. HP has solutions across all of them: services, cloud system for private cloud, cloud services business unit that give public cloud,or enterprise VCS public cloud. There are solutions for each of them, but the idea is for those solutions to be holistic, based on a single architecture, so that customers could have portability and common user experience. When Shadow IT Drives Innovation Regarding OpenStack, a constant theme at this event, Gillai points out that HP is one of the founding members of the Open Stack community, having a long history with the initiative. The funny thing about Cloud is that is moving faster than previously anticipated. HP offers Cloud services that provide professional assistance for people who look into using the Cloud. In time, says Gillai, people are going to be less and less focused on the specific cloud delivery model, and more focused about solution. The question will be "what problem are you trying to solve, and how are you going to solve it with the cloud module," says Gillai. Shadow IT is innovative. A couple of years ago Rogue Access Points were circumvented by the introduction of WiFi. Today, shadow IT can be ridden by making the IT flexible and by giving people what they want. "IT is now realizing that the best way to get ahead of it is to actually get ahead of it," concluded Gillai.