Kumar Sreekanti

Kumar Sreekanti is Senior VP and CTO of Hybrid IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Kumar was the co-founder and CEO of BlueData, a leading provider of container-based software solutions acquired by HPE in November 2019. Prior to BlueData, Kumar was vice president of R&D at VMware where he was responsible for new technology innovations such as VSAN, Virtual Volumes, and Virtual Flash.

Run containers on bare metal or VMs, on any cloud, or at the edge

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According to a recent IDC survey,[1] the enterprise market is at a roughly 50-50 split between running containers on-premises (51.55%) versus in the public cloud (48.45%). The same report found a similar 50-50 split when it comes to running on-premises containers on bare metal servers versus on virtual machines (VMs). The survey respondents reported that 51.79% of their containers are on VMs, while their containers on bare metal total 48.21%.
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