Traditional businesses looking to shift their applications and other infrastructure into a Cloud-based network face challenges that newer companies — so-called “cloud-born” companies — sidestep. However, with the elasticity of the building blocks and global balance “natively built-in Amazon Cloud,” the process has been “made simple.” In the case of traditional box company Juniper Networks, Inc., the move to the cloud has been a three-and-a-half-year process.

Nevertheless, AWS is helping Juniper Networks “pivoting toward software,” as well as moving its products into virtual availability, according to Gary Clark, IT CTO and Corporate VP, during an interview with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Amazon re:Invent 2015.

Leveraging AWS’ new ecosystem

During the interview, Clark discussed the “challenges of re-platforming,” stating that Juniper has “leveraged the new ecosystem around Amazon Web Services.” Quoting a speaker from the event, Clark remarked, “‘Complex systems are born of simple ideas.’ It’s automate or die,” he determined, going on to clarify: “Complexity will consume us if we don’t automate.”

Juniper Networks has been in the industry for over 17 years. Clark said the company has “focused on network excellence and innovation.” Juniper recently acquired a new management team made up of “young product guys.” Juniper is both a partner and a customer of AWS, which is “driving innovation to meet their ever-growing needs.” Clark is “looking forward to a server-less experience” as the company finishes the transition to the cloud, a process currently at 85 percent.

Watch the full 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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