A single platform for producing real value from data isn’t just one more technology product to throw on the heap. It finally sweeps together the heap, marking the true beginning of the Information Age, according to Bill Coleman (pictured), chief executive officer of Veritas Technologies LLC.

“We’ve called this the Information Age for 50 years. But it’s not been about information; it’s been about technology,” Coleman said.

That technology has been anything but a breeze to configure. “It’s like building a Rube Goldberg device to get 27 different software products, 14 different hardware products to sort of work together,” he said. All that churning to create just enough actionable intelligence to butter the company’s bread and keep them competitive. “That’s all disappearing,” Coleman added.

Coleman spoke to Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during today’s Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas. (* Disclosure below.)

Cloud-agnostic data diagnostics

Cloud infrastructure has abstracted the product heap and returned a utility consumption model. Now, the cream — information itself — can rise to the top. “We finally have the ability to address that information and do it over the internet,” Coleman said. The information or data level is where businesses now must differentiate, compete and deliver value to customers.

However, some unification of parts at the end-user level is still needed in the cloud world, according to Coleman. Most businesses are using several clouds and software-as-a-service applications. This is why Veritas’ 360 Data Management suite is infrastructure agnostic, he said. The suite can be used in all major public clouds like Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure.

If enterprises want a policy-based, visual tool to discover, categorize, manage and analyze data from one interface end-to-end, “that can only be one platform. You can’t have two platforms deleting, moving data asynchronously,” Coleman stated.

Veritas offers such a platform where companies can quickly and easily access data and information to inform business decisions, Coleman concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Veritas Vision 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Veritas Vision 2017. Neither Veritas Technologies LLC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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