DevOps and containers are freeing up developers from “plumbing” concerns and allowing them to work and innovate high up the stack. Will advances in storage allow storage pros to graduate from grunt work in a similar way? Infinidat Inc. says companies using their InfiniBox storage array are seeing just such a change in their storage team’s productivity.

At last month’s Infinidat Waltham Ribbon Cutting, Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke to Craig Hibbert, Infinidat’s director of technical solutions, about the company’s enterprise customer feedback on its storage products, including its new Infinibox storage system.

“What [customers] like too is the no-tuning and the fact that we have these host power tools,” he stated.

Users can provision from the host layer, so they don’t have to open tickets to the storage team, according to Hibbert. “So the storage team is freed up from all the ancillary and mundane requests to provision […] and they can go on and start becoming proactive in the environment, which is something they need to do to get to cloud and some of the other things.”

Head in the clouds

“I say to customers, ‘How can you get to cloud with 25-year-old architecture?’ When you’re still using a service processor to transcend commands, you can’t go to the cloud,” he said. “The cloud’s about liquidity; it’s about motion; it’s about fluidity.”

Infinidat’s cloud strategy is very much in the foundation of the product, including the way it’s built, its dynamism, its redundancy, it’s reliability, and then its ease of use through the APIs, Hibbert explained.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Infinidat Waltham Ribbon Cutting.

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