Traditionally in the enterprise, data was held and managed in silos. But times have changed. Now, businesses are applying a more modern, services-based approach and spreading those services across the siloed data.

“You are bringing the entire organization [under] one single umbrella, sharing their data, and thereby benefiting much more than what they were getting in the past,” said Krish Subramanian (pictured), founder and principal analyst at Rishidot Research LLC.

Subramanian recently joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during the Cisco DevNet Create event in San Francisco.

In addition to discussing the functions of data, Subramanian also analyzed Cisco Systems Inc.’s position in the cloud and the popularity of cloud-native applications. (* Disclosure below.)

Internet of Things helps Cisco’s cloud play

For its cloud approach, Subramanian believes that Cisco has taken the right track. Unlike some other legacy companies, instead of coming in and trying to run public cloud and go head-to-head against Amazon Web Services Inc., they waited for the right moment.

Cisco initially started its InterCloud fabric, which didn’t go very far, but when the Internet of Things came into the picture, they were perfectly positioned for that, he added.

“With the increasing focus on developers, they are going right to capture the minds of developers, especially for IoT,” Subramanian said.

Cloud-native is popular because developers understand that the old way of building applications is not going to work in the cloud, he stated. When containers appeared, they really made it easy for developers to develop cloud-native apps, and it got them to take advantage of the more distributed nature of the underlying infrastructure. Therefore, containers are the main reason why cloud-native has become a household term, even in the enterprises, Subramanian stated.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Cisco DevNet Create 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Cisco DevNet Create. Neither Cisco DevNet nor other sponsors have editorial influence on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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