 This is the Silicon Angle and Wikibon's coverage of IBM EDGE, this is where all the action is happening for IBM's ecosystem around big data, storage, infrastructure. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of Silicon Angle and I'm joining my co-host. Hi everybody, I'm Dave Vellante at wikibon.org and this is EDGE, this is the Cube. We're here with Joe Jagaditch who's the Vice President and CIO of Elaston. They provide construction services out of Ontario. Joe, welcome to the Cube, thanks for coming on us. Talk about your role. So you know in the CIO you're the president of the EdgeBuilder Division, right? Yes, I wear two hats which is a very different way to look at a CIO's role. It's very much in line with the business. I have my own profit and loss center and basically what I do is I build, my team is a very creative team that builds collaborative construction management software for the construction industry. Silo, IT obviously touches every part of the industry, is that one reason? Well, I think it is one reason but the most important reason is that information, decision support is so critical for our people. Construction isn't about bricks and mortars, construction is about innovation, it's about planning, it's about strategy, it's about reducing end-to-end risk for our clients who are actually the people that are coming to us to say we want you to effectively go out, take our funding and build something beautiful for us, something very functional. But we take away all the risk and in order to do that we have to have the information available to us to make all the right decisions at the right time. Silo, I got to ask you, what kind of new devices do you see throwing off data? Obviously instrumentation is not a new concept in the industrial world but in terms of measurement like construction, whether it's facilities, effort on eco-building, all kinds of new sustainability, all kind of data-driven examples of what you've seen. Sustainability is a huge thing when we look at, and this is a common issue in construction, you mentioned facilities management. The demographics is such that there used to be facility managers that did things intuitively. Now everything is measured, absolutely everything. There's no more light switches in a lot of the new buildings being designed today. Every corner of a building has heat sensors. All of that translates into data. So when you ask about smarter buildings, that's exactly what we talk about and all of it translates into petabytes of information that we have to obviously look at and really the data is now driving the type of applications that we're building whether it be a mobile application or a web-based application, it's all derived from the need to take that data and transform it into information. Did you ever think about why don't we just outsource this to the public cloud, go to Amazon or some other public cloud? Talk about that sort of decision point if you would. Well, I'll tell you, one of the things that we have always been very cautious of is having the ability to control and manage our information and our data. We are very transparent about it, but we have 60 years of construction experience. People in the construction business, if I'm going to sell to another general contractor, they want to know that it's a construction guy selling them that software because it gives them some form of confidence in the software itself. So that's been one of our trademark success. Data architecture, let's unpack that a little bit. What kind of advice would you give your colleagues in trying to understand the hands around the data architecture? And I think that you talked about it earlier. There's a lot of elements to this, the mobile consumerization of data. Every time a person brings your own device to work, if you're into that type of environment, which many of us CIOs are, you have to worry about your data creep. When I mean data creep, you're talking about data going from, let's say my company's got 1,500 people. If you have 1,500 people with different devices, basically what's happening there is they can be going out to the iCloud. They could go out to different cloud environments. And that's where you start losing control of the valuable pieces of information that your company holds as your crown jewels, for example. I think that term was used this morning. So what you have to do is you've got to know how you're going to integrate and work in this hybrid environment. What's next in your roadmap? Well, in my roadmap, basically what I see is, in my P&L, I see the multi-tenancy becoming greater and greater. As these infrastructures become more of a commodity or utility, I think that the other smaller companies are going to be looking for larger companies like Alistair to provide these alternative services. So we're no longer viewed as just a core construction company. We offer services, and not just in IT, but all different services within the industry. We have moved into insurance. We have moved into bonding capacities. We've moved into research and development. So we are trying to be innovators for the construction industry, and we are being respected for doing that. And just your advice for other CIOs out there, what would you share with those guys out there who are looking at IT and saying, I want to invest in transformation. I want to invest in growing the business top line, as well as manage costs, and still hit this new modern era. What's your advice? My advice to them is move away from the traditional role of the CIO very quickly because you're going to be left behind. And when you're left behind, your company is going to be left behind as well. Take advantage of the new innovations. The nice thing about it is the harmonization of lower cost and greater capability. And if they can sell that message to their CEOs and to their board of directors, that's what they need to be doing. Okay, Joe, thanks for coming on The Cube. We'll be right back here at IBM Edge in Las Vegas. This is where all the action is happening in IT transformation. IBM leading the charge, big company making some big moves around data, storage at the center of the value process. Dave Palante and I have always been saying, storage at the center of the value process is now what IBM it is. We're here with all wall-to-wall coverage in SiliconANGLE. We'll keep on The Cube here at IBM Edge for the next two days. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.