Business has changed. The old way to run a company involved getting all your technology under one roof with the people and the hardware to drive it all. Now, cloud services and Internet business apps allow companies to build an infrastructure completely outside their own walls, saving time and money. Google is one of the leaders in this push to externalize the business technology environment, and its suite of applications is used by millions of people every day.

To shed some light on this changing infrastructure trend, John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke with Adam Swidler, product marketing manager of Google Enterprise, during the Enterprise Connect 2016 conference in Orlando, Florida.

Building bridges

The discussion started with a look at the purpose behind Google Apps. Swidler said that Google Apps helped companies unlock the creativity and productivity in their workforce. They were designed with a desire for technology that would allow people to connect and communicate.

While Google is focused on the future of work, the company also understands the need for bridges to the past that let older technologies integrate into the new environment. However, giving too much room for older tech allows it to become a drag on a company, so Google also provides a push toward more modern ways of working.

Trends and the future

Swidler then turned toward the subject of open source. “Open source has always been a big part of what we do at Google,” he said. Android and Chrome are good examples of Google’s open-source products. Open source, he said, is part of the fuel that drives computing in the direction the founders, and the people who work at Google, would like to see it go.

As to the future, Swidler was confident. Video, he said, is huge everywhere and growing. Beyond that, the dynamic cloud and remote services model lets a company do what it was formed to do, he said. Now, a company doesn’t have to worry about infrastructure; they can buy tech as they need it and get back to their mission.

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

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