Disaggregating is a big theme in IT these days. Some companies are moving the bulk of their data centers off-prem. It all amounts to a lot of dots to connect in order to keep things running smoothly. This is why some see networking as the next area of IT ripe for disruption and innovation.

“You can almost argue that networking is the next frontier,” said Radhika Krishnan, GM of Converged/Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Networking at Lenovo Group Ltd. She told John Walls and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that with the storage problem mostly solved, the networking unknown looms larger.

The networking equation

Krishnan said that the trend toward scale-out and hyperscale is driving the demand for improved networking.

“If you think about what you need in order to enable those hyperscaled types of environments with thousands of servers, networking becomes the backbone,” she said, adding that increased virtualization is required for networking to reach the next level.

Lenovo embarks on networking voyage

Krishnan said that Lenovo has a rich networking heritage, and now it is utilizing partnerships to take them into the future. “There is obviously an organic set of products that we bring to the market, and then there is our partnership with Juniper as well that allows us to complement and bring together a very comprehensive set of offerings in the networking arena,” she said.

She noted the one of  Lenovo’s Cloud Networking Operating System’s strengths is that it is programmable, so it’s not necessary to do things in a “piecemeal” fashion.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Lenovo Tech World 2016.

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