As technology advances, so do the demands of companies and enterprises as they navigate the digital transformation and look to the future of utilizing cloud, leveraging cloud and autonomous infrastructure of cloud. The roadmap ahead is clear, according to many, and the growth has only just begun.

“We expect 60 to 70 percent of all organizations by 2020 to have at least one real-time application running in a mission-critical environment,” said Sam Grocott (pictured), senior vice president of marketing, Infrastructure Solutions Group, at Dell EMC. “It’s going to start accelerating here over this year.”

Grocott spoke with Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed technological advances of cloud and where it will take companies in the future. (* Disclosure below.)

Next-generation applications, cloud the roadmap

As traditional enterprise continue to embrace applications that are considered mission critical, these applications will not be going anywhere, according to Grocott. “Those are needed to require the highest levels of resiliency and data services and everything you would expect from an enterprise,” he said.

The new trend, however, is that next-generation applications that been run off the beaten path are becoming mission critical too. “This is where you find things like AI, ML, deep learning, IoT,” Grocott said. “It moves to IT, because that’s where they run their end-to-end data services, their resiliency plans, their data replication plans, business contingency. The expectations of those use cases now are at the enterprise level.”

Because of all of this, cloud is really running the roadmap of future innovation, according to Grocott. “So it includes everything from mobility of information, from an on-prem hybrid, to exclusively cloud-native off-prem,” he said. “We’re innovating in all of those vectors. You really can’t just pick one anymore.”

Another huge area of innovation is the vision on autonomous infrastructure so that the need to manage day-to-day storage is eliminated. “The more we can get them out of the managing and migrating and protecting data and into the application there where they’re adding a lot more value to the organization — I think that’s a win-win for both organizations,” Grocott said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* Disclosure: Dell EMC sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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