Explosions in cloud computing have created new opportunities for a range of companies and consumers. One significant development enabled by the cloud market is the emergence of businesses created solely to support data growth efforts through assistance in migration, backup and discovery, such as Igneous Systems Inc.

“We … enable businesses … with lots of file data on-premises, as well as in the public cloud, to better manage … this. … The first thing we do is enable them to backup and protect all this data on-premises into public clouds, like AWS, so we have scalable solutions,” said Kiran Bhageshpur (pictured), chief executive officer of Igneous Systems. Igneous helps its enterprise customers better manage their data as they move from single data centers to multiple clouds.

Bhageshpur spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd.,  during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed the exponential growth of cloud computing and Amazon’s role in this industry-wide transformation. (* Disclosure below.)

Giving customers a better view

Cloud computing has become attractive to a range of businesses for many reasons. At Igneous, Bhageshpur finds most customers are interested in a hybrid cloud system that allows them to maintain existing on-prem infrastructure while leveraging the elasticity of public cloud as needed.

“To do that, you require agility of applications and data between on-premises and the public clouds and AWS. That’s where we come in,” he said.

Because many customers utilize multiple clouds, Igneous also provides management support to enable efficiencies and reduce duplicates of data that increase costs. “Customers will tell us that they have hundreds of systems. It’s not infrequent that they have infrastructure in Santa Clara as well as in Israel, and it’s the same copy … in both places because they have no way of globally looking at this,” Bhageshpur said.

Igneous offers visibility into data assets and ensures they are migrated in a systematic way that reduces manual processes and enables scalable growth. Giving customers the ability to discover, protect and migrate data safely allows them to more efficiently action on it, and make better business decisions.

“It’s not useful to just find [data]; you want to know what you have, where you have it, how it’s changing, [and] who is accessing it. … Today, that is an extremely manual process within businesses,” Bhageshpur said.

Just a year into its journey, Igneous is poised for growth through its strategy to automate those manual processes and enable greater innovation for customers.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Igneous Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Igneous Systems nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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