So a guy from Company X just said that all-cloud is the future of IT, and there’s no escaping it. Meanwhile, someone from Company Y said that on-prem is still necessary for maximum security. And a developer from Company Z stated once and for all that hybrid cloud will be the only practical solution for most in the end.

If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Many companies are feeling the pinch of infrastructure insecurity, so storage solutions are springing up to keep their all-important data secure from on-prem to cloud and everywhere in between.

Yuval Dimnik, cofounder and CEO of NooBaa Ltd., said that moving storage to cloud is a decision many companies are still noncommittal and uncertain about. “There’s a huge gap there, and we think there’s a great opportunity for us to fill that gap, and that’s what NooBaa does.”

Dimnik told Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, NooBaa offers a “software-only solution that actually looks at the resources you provide, and it learns them and adopts them as time goes by.” He added that no one can predict the future, so they need an extremely agile storage solution that can go anywhere.

A different kind of data

Dimnik said that five years ago, most data was created by users, “but we see more and more data being created by applications. It could be log applications like Splunk (Inc.); it could be archiving; could be the Internet of Things,” and he added that this shift necessitates agile data storage.

Community edition

Mike Davis, CMO of NooBaa, also spoke to theCUBE hosts and discussed the announcement of NooBaa’s community edition. “We’ve been in beta for about five or six months, and a lot of customers have contributed a ton of feedback to us,” he said, adding that an enterprise edition with greater scalability will follow.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld 2016.

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