Padmasree Warrior, CTO & Strategy with Cisco, joined Stu Miniman and John Furrier in theCUBE, straight after her keynote delivered at Red Hat Summit 2014 in San Francisco. She agreed to debate with theCUBE co-hosts some of the industry trends also covered on stage, during her keynote.

“We believe we are at the inflection point in the IT industry, which is fundamentally going through a lot of change, driven by three technology transformations: cloud, mobile and IoT,” said Warrior. “Cloud is the most mature, but all these three things are changing the IT world. The IT industry had, traditionally, been a collection of infrastructure players that sold separate siloed components. We had a server company, a storage company, a networking company and then a middleware company where applications happened,” detailed Warrior.

The model Warrior is talking about is changing. “As we enter this new era, we are shifting to a more converged infrastructure; the middleware is really becoming a platform,” she noted. “We believe we will be one of the leaders in this new model for IT – and open source and OpenStack really play a huge role in that.”

Furrier took the opportunity to ask Warrior about the three ways the Internet is changing.

“We are about to enter this new era of the Internet: the first wave was about digitizing connectivity, email was the killer app back then, then we went to digitizing transactions and B2B interactions got formed and then the rise of the social. What’s next? We believe the next decade will really be about the Internet of everything. This is really about connecting people, processes, data and things,” explained Warrior.

“The time is right for a business’ need for more efficient decision-making process, as connections multiply and users are all coming online. As a technology industry, all we need to do is to work together to push and deliver the right solutions,” concluded Warrior.

Watch the entire interview below, to find out more about Warrior’s take on data virtualization, SDN and PaaS trends.