As companies move forward with technology, they must fight an ever-growing mountain of data. Many enterprises are looking into cloud technology and changing their infrastructures, but is that enough? What happens if there’s data left behind on premise?

Jeff Hughes, CTO of Igneous Systems Inc., answered these and other important questions regarding storage. Hughes talked with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the KubeCon 2016 event about on-premise storage.

All that data

With every passing month, enterprises have to deal with an influx of data. Many are moving toward a cloud-based infrastructure, but some companies have an inability to “move all their data to the cloud,” said Hughes. To account for this inability, Igneous Systems provides software that allows businesses to have a cloud-like infrastructure on premise.

There’s no hardware, it’s pay as you go and Igneous Systems installs it right on site, according to Hughes. The company allows enterprises to store their data efficiently with the same “style and ease as the cloud,” he added.

Making sense of it all

With so many companies moving to the cloud, or hybrid cloud, it may be hard to consider on-premise storage. The key driver for Igneous Systems is the deluge of data that companies are currently facing, according to Hughes.

It’s difficult to move all that data to the cloud and even if so, would it be secure? Igneous Systems offers an effective solution that’s more “security focused,” said Hughes.

Igneous Systems also offers software that’s more developer centric. It can be easily understood and is compatible with the cloud, according to Hughes. An on-premise solution that’s expansive and secure could be a great “stepping stone” before making the leap to the cloud, he added.

Scaling and innovation

The problem many engineers are having now is scaling “beyond anything that’s come before,” said Hughes. There are some input devices that literally produce petabytes of data a day. To combat that inundation, Igneous System provides an on-premise infrastructure that can grow  “in scale with the data” said Hughes.

Although the storage capabilities are amazing, the real innovation is the ways Igneous Systems has operationalized enterprise systems, according to Hughes. The software is built right into the databases and allows companies to manage “hundreds of thousands of systems at once,” he said.

*Disclosure: The Linux Foundation and other companies sponsor some KubeCon 2016 segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither The Linux Foundation nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.

Watch the complete video interviews (Part 1 and Part 2) below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon 2016.

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