Dell EMC recently announced the integration of PowerEdge servers with its hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio. In a recent interview with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman on theCUBE at Dell EMC World, Chad Sakac, President of Converged Platforms & Solutions at Dell EMC, shares why this announcement is so meaningful to the industry and to Dell EMC customers as well as the benefits to ordering infrastructure “off a menu” as opposed to building it from scratch.
Chad Sakac leads the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) efforts at Pivotal where he brings together the Engineering, Marketing and GTM aspects of the business – with the goal of building the best Enterprise Container Platform together with VMware – part of how Pivotal is transforming the way how software and the future is built.
PKS is a joint effort with VMware – and the effort involves bringing the immense resources of two great companies together. This alliance part of Chad’s role extends to all of the elements of how Pivotal works with Dell Technologies (Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream, Boomi) - across the transformational methodologies (Pivotal Labs, Platform Acceleration Labs, Application Transformation and more) and technologies (all of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Data) of Pivotal as a whole.
Prior to this role, Chad spent 14 years at Dell EMC where he was responsible for several technical customer focusing on customer and partner innovation – most recently as the President and GM of the Converged Platform and Solutions Division (CPSD), and prior to that leading all global Systems Engineering team. Before joining EMC, Chad led the Systems Engineering team at Allocity, Inc.
Chad authors one of the top 20 cloud, virtualization and infrastructure blogs, “Virtual Geek”
He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
