Does technology really matter? Craig Muzilla, Red Hat, Inc. senior vice president, Applications Platforms Business, kicked off his keynotes at Red Hat Summit 2015 asking attendees that very question.

It’s an unusual question for a tech conference, and his answer was equally surprising: no.

Digitization and convergence matter

“What matters is not the technology itself, but how you create new value with that technology and create new business models,” he said. “What matters is a process called digitization. We are moving from a manufacturing and service economy to a digital economy.”

What matters even more, Muzilla said, is convergence, where social and economic trends merge with technology trends. “When these trends come together, it provides the possibility of creating new value and business models.”

Three technologies make the most impact on convergence, Muzilla continued: mobile technology, DevOps and Cloud application platforms, and integration technology.

Red Hat leads the way in all three of these areas, according to Muzilla. In the area of mobile technology, Red Hat announced the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform, a back-end system for developers to create mobile applications at enterprise scale. In the Coud, Red Hat offers OpenShift, its Platform-as-a-Service that allows developers to develop, host and scale applications in a Coud environment. In the integration arena, JBoss Fuse is Red Hat’s premier solution.

After discussing the products, Muzilla turned over the keynote to his middleware team. Burr Sutter, product development director, developer products for Red Hat, introduced the products, while other middleware experts gave demonstrations of each. In real time, the crew created a mobile app and created and deployed more than a thousand Docker-based form instances to audience members’ mobile devices.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit 2015.

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