Infrastructure adaptation, scaling and simplification have become enormously prominent aspects of IT departments for virtually any tech-linked company, and the significance of those priorities is just as clear to companies employing the data management applications of Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and others.

Enrique Salem, managing director for Bain Capital Venture Partners, LLC, sat down during Amazon re:Invent 2015 to speak with John Furrier and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, about the value his company places on these services.

Aside from the general focus on efficiency offered by integration of cloud technology, the utility of the interface applications has also given Bain Capital new methods of handling that data. “The ability to have visibility into everything that’s run on AWS is huge,” said Salem, for whom the clarity of operations has been paramount. “I’m very focused on infrastructure. My job is all about ‘how does the infrastructure move into the future?’ … A modern infrastructure shouldn’t have to care about [an alphabet soup of services].”

A simplification notion

As companies and applications such as AWS turn an eye toward scalable infrastructure, the old rules of how it’s managed by IT are changing.

“Instead of having to buy infrastructure forward, you have elastic infrastructure,” Salem explained. “The most important thing here is ‘let’s get rid of the concept that we have to own and operate everything our infrastructure runs on.’” With a focus on lowering the run-cost of operations, corporate clientele are finding these options quite handy, he said.

The rise of the very well-informed buyer

Another concern for the company is how to address the growing level of data available to its customers as they consider their business options.

“Customers want to talk to technical people about what is being utilized in their environment,” Salem said, noting that those who don’t understand their sales material on that technical level will be left floundering.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Amazon re:Invent 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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