>> Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re:Invent 2018. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services, Intel and their ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back. Here live on theCUBE, which we continue our day one coverage of AWS re:Invent, along Lauren Cooney. I'm John Walls and 40,000 of our best friends. >> Closest friends. >> That's right. It's a great venue. The Sands is. We're joined now by Tyson Clark. He's the technical director of Air Bud Entertainment. Tyson, thanks for joining us here on theCUBE. >> Thank you for having me. >> First off, let's talk about Air Bud. I mean so, you guys made Air Bud, right? >> We did. >> And you have other projects going as well? >> Yep. Right now we're working on a TV series for Disney. It's going to be about 22 episodes teaching how puppies become puppies while their owners are at school. >> How puppies become puppies? >> How puppies become puppies! >> Coming to a theater, maybe a TV channel near you? >> Disney Streaming. >> Disney Streaming? Good enough, fair enough. >> Aw, very cool. >> Alright tell us about technical director. So, you're the IT guy. >> I am the IT guy. >> You're handling a multitude of problems from a lot of different stakeholders. Tell us about it. >> So I do everything from password reset and the easy stuff all the way up to the most complicated, setting up our whole network, rendered farms, et cetera. >> So you're doing full stack IT? >> I'm doing absolutely everything. Full stack, everything. >> That's pretty impressive. >> A rare breed. >> It is. It's definitely a hand full. >> What do you work on that I would say, we've been talking to folks, like Cohesity and things along those lines. Do you use Cohesity? What are some of the things that you do with them? >> I definitely use Cohesity for our backups. They are a lifesaver. Tape backup just wasn't cutting it for us. We were generating way too much data to be able back it up to tape. Cohesity has allowed us to backup to that and pass it off to the cloud for archival. >> Well, wow. >> Sp what, in terms of the entertainment company, you talk about the data that their generating. >> Yes. >> I mean what are they trying to keep track of? What are you trying to do for them in that respect that hasn't been done before? >> So what we're doing is when we film something, we don't want to get rid of those assets. They're pretty expensive to make. So, we got to hold on to them. We got to make sure they're all recorded. We pass it off to the cloud for archival and then, next movie, say we need a dog from that movie, or an object we built. We can always bring it back and then reuse it. >> From a security standpoint, because there have been some instances-- >> Some pretty bad ones, yep. >> Where's that fit on your pyramid of concern? >> That's extremely high. In the media entertainment business it's very strict on what security rules are. We're right up there. It's pretty much number one. >> Great, so what do you hear? What's interesting for you here at AWS re:Invent? >> Pardon me? >> What is interesting for you here at AWS re:Invent? What are the things that you see as exciting and that you really want to put your hands on? >> Well, what I'm really interested in right is being able to burst in the cloud. So I'm trying to find a solution that will let me scale out my render farm on demand, instantly, pretty much. So, going up to, who knows how many cores. Just to get that render through so we can get our shots done in time. >> Great, anyone that you're looking at here? >> Not yet. Still trying to look around and find someone. >> Very cool. >> A lot of good contenders. >> So what is it in terms of how your job has evolved? If you had to cite, these are probably two or three of maybe the larger concerns that we've had that are being addressed now and fast forward that to next step, next iteration about what kind of, if there's anything that keeps you up at night, what that is? >> Well, what keeps me up at night right now is switching to 4K. A lot of people think you just flip the switch, it's easy, but that means we have four times the amount of data. It takes twice as long to render. It takes four times longer to move things around. It just, it's insane. >> So you're really excited about 5G? >> 5G will help, but right now we're looking at quadrupling pretty much all our storage. It's going to be a very exciting time and a very scary time for us. >> Who are you stakeholders, internally, and how do you handle them? Because I assume that its a dispersate group. You've got a lot of different people with a lot of different priorities, and because you're wearing that IT hat, you're the guy. You're the department that everybody's coming to for answers. >> The biggest person I deal with, personally is the CFO. The other one is the CEO, and they're both worried because I'm telling them I need to buy $5 million worth of infrastructure. The only way I can justify that is showing them. Hey look, it's working better than it was ever before. It's a better product every day. >> Yeah and we're seeing that more and more across the board with IT really having to be the partner of the CFO to actually get the budget to do what you want to do. I think that's pretty consistent for organizations that want to move forward. >> And the budgets are just getting bigger and bigger unfortunately. >> Do you find that rationalizing becomes, is a more critical factor now? >> Absolutely. Before you could get away with a lot smaller, like 10 terabytes was great. Now we're looking at petabytes. It's definitely, rationalizing is needed a lot more now. >> Is there anybody beyond the CFO? I would assume. You're got a lot of people knocking, or CFO, a lot of people knocking on your door. Hey Tyson. I need this, I need this. >> The CFO and the CEO are two best friends, and they're both the top dogs. They're the ones kind of running the whole show there. I'm pretty lucky in that aspect. >> What are you going to do to help solve their problems? Say in the coming year, if you had to say, okay this is going to be a bottleneck. This is going to be a problem. This is how I'm going to address it. What would that be for you in 2019? >> The biggest bottleneck, like I said, is just going to be data. We've got to get four time more or our Isilon. We've got to get four time more of our Qumulo. We've also have to get four times more of our Cohesity, and that's the main part. If we don't have that cohesity, we're done. >> Well I can solve a problem for you for next year. If you're looking for another dog, Lauren's got this gorgeous mix of dane lab. About 120 pounder. >> His name is Milo. He'd be perfect for a film. >> Milo, all right. >> Perfect. >> Just let us know if you need help next year. >> Absolutely. As long as that dog loves treats. >> I'm sure that's not a problem. Tyson, thanks for being with us. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. >> We'll continue our coverage here, live on theCUBE. We're at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. (upbeat music)

>> Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re:Invent 2018. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services, Intel and their ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back. Here live on theCUBE, which we continue our day one coverage of AWS re:Invent, along Lauren Cooney. I'm John Walls and 40,000 of our best friends. >> Closest friends. >> That's right. It's a great venue. The Sands is. We're joined now by Tyson Clark. He's the technical director of Air Bud Entertainment. Tyson, thanks for joining us here on theCUBE. >> Thank you for having me. >> First off, let's talk about Air Bud. I mean so, you guys made Air Bud, right? >> We did. >> And you have other projects going as well? >> Yep. Right now we're working on a TV series for Disney. It's going to be about 22 episodes teaching how puppies become puppies while their owners are at school. >> How puppies become puppies? >> How puppies become puppies! >> Coming to a theater, maybe a TV channel near you? >> Disney Streaming. >> Disney Streaming? Good enough, fair enough. >> Aw, very cool. >> Alright tell us about technical director. So, you're the IT guy. >> I am the IT guy. >> You're handling a multitude of problems from a lot of different stakeholders. Tell us about it. >> So I do everything from password reset and the easy stuff all the way up to the most complicated, setting up our whole network, rendered farms, et cetera. >> So you're doing full stack IT? >> I'm doing absolutely everything. Full stack, everything. >> That's pretty impressive. >> A rare breed. >> It is. It's definitely a hand full. >> What do you work on that I would say, we've been talking to folks, like Cohesity and things along those lines. Do you use Cohesity? What are some of the things that you do with them? >> I definitely use Cohesity for our backups. They are a lifesaver. Tape backup just wasn't cutting it for us. We were generating way too much data to be able back it up to tape. Cohesity has allowed us to backup to that and pass it off to the cloud for archival. >> Well, wow. >> Sp what, in terms of the entertainment company, you talk about the data that their generating. >> Yes. >> I mean what are they trying to keep track of? What are you trying to do for them in that respect that hasn't been done before? >> So what we're doing is when we film something, we don't want to get rid of those assets. They're pretty expensive to make. So, we got to hold on to them. We got to make sure they're all recorded. We pass it off to the cloud for archival and then, next movie, say we need a dog from that movie, or an object we built. We can always bring it back and then reuse it. >> From a security standpoint, because there have been some instances-- >> Some pretty bad ones, yep. >> Where's that fit on your pyramid of concern? >> That's extremely high. In the media entertainment business it's very strict on what security rules are. We're right up there. It's pretty much number one. >> Great, so what do you hear? What's interesting for you here at AWS re:Invent? >> Pardon me? >> What is interesting for you here at AWS re:Invent? What are the things that you see as exciting and that you really want to put your hands on? >> Well, what I'm really interested in right is being able to burst in the cloud. So I'm trying to find a solution that will let me scale out my render farm on demand, instantly, pretty much. So, going up to, who knows how many cores. Just to get that render through so we can get our shots done in time. >> Great, anyone that you're looking at here? >> Not yet. Still trying to look around and find someone. >> Very cool. >> A lot of good contenders. >> So what is it in terms of how your job has evolved? If you had to cite, these are probably two or three of maybe the larger concerns that we've had that are being addressed now and fast forward that to next step, next iteration about what kind of, if there's anything that keeps you up at night, what that is? >> Well, what keeps me up at night right now is switching to 4K. A lot of people think you just flip the switch, it's easy, but that means we have four times the amount of data. It takes twice as long to render. It takes four times longer to move things around. It just, it's insane. >> So you're really excited about 5G? >> 5G will help, but right now we're looking at quadrupling pretty much all our storage. It's going to be a very exciting time and a very scary time for us. >> Who are you stakeholders, internally, and how do you handle them? Because I assume that its a dispersate group. You've got a lot of different people with a lot of different priorities, and because you're wearing that IT hat, you're the guy. You're the department that everybody's coming to for answers. >> The biggest person I deal with, personally is the CFO. The other one is the CEO, and they're both worried because I'm telling them I need to buy $5 million worth of infrastructure. The only way I can justify that is showing them. Hey look, it's working better than it was ever before. It's a better product every day. >> Yeah and we're seeing that more and more across the board with IT really having to be the partner of the CFO to actually get the budget to do what you want to do. I think that's pretty consistent for organizations that want to move forward. >> And the budgets are just getting bigger and bigger unfortunately. >> Do you find that rationalizing becomes, is a more critical factor now? >> Absolutely. Before you could get away with a lot smaller, like 10 terabytes was great. Now we're looking at petabytes. It's definitely, rationalizing is needed a lot more now. >> Is there anybody beyond the CFO? I would assume. You're got a lot of people knocking, or CFO, a lot of people knocking on your door. Hey Tyson. I need this, I need this. >> The CFO and the CEO are two best friends, and they're both the top dogs. They're the ones kind of running the whole show there. I'm pretty lucky in that aspect. >> What are you going to do to help solve their problems? Say in the coming year, if you had to say, okay this is going to be a bottleneck. This is going to be a problem. This is how I'm going to address it. What would that be for you in 2019? >> The biggest bottleneck, like I said, is just going to be data. We've got to get four time more or our Isilon. We've got to get four time more of our Qumulo. We've also have to get four times more of our Cohesity, and that's the main part. If we don't have that cohesity, we're done. >> Well I can solve a problem for you for next year. If you're looking for another dog, Lauren's got this gorgeous mix of dane lab. About 120 pounder. >> His name is Milo. He'd be perfect for a film. >> Milo, all right. >> Perfect. >> Just let us know if you need help next year. >> Absolutely. As long as that dog loves treats. >> I'm sure that's not a problem. Tyson, thanks for being with us. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. >> We'll continue our coverage here, live on theCUBE. We're at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. (upbeat music)