>>live from Orlando, Florida It's the cue covering Microsoft Ignite Brought to you by Cohee City. >>Welcome back, everyone to the cubes. Live coverage of Microsoft ignite here in Orlando, Florida. I'm your host, Rebecca Night, along with my co host Stew Minimum. We are joined by David Noi. He is the VP of cloud at cohesively, which is where we are. We're in the Coe City boots. So I should say thank you for welcoming us. >>My pleasure they found over here. >>So you are pretty brand new to the company. Ah, long time Tech veteran but new newish to Cohee City. Talk a little bit about what made you want to make the leap to this company. >>Well, you know, as I was, it was it was time for me to move from. My prior company will go to the reasons they're but a CZ. I looked around and kind of see who were the real innovators, right? You were the ones who were disrupting because my successes in the past have all been around disruption. And when I really looked at what these guys were doing, you know, first, it's kinda hard to figure out that I was like, Oh my gosh, this is really something different, Like it's bringing kind of the cloud into the enterprise and using that model of simplification and then adding data service is and it is really groundbreaking. So I just like, and the other thing was, I'll just throw this point out there. I read a lot of the white papers of the technology, and I looked at it and having been, you know, Tech veteran for a while, it looked to me like a lot of people who have done this stuff before we got together and said, If I had to do it again and do it right, what were things I wouldn't d'oh! And one of the things I would do, right? Right, so that was just fascinating. >>So, David, I was reading a Q and A recently with Mohit, founder of Cohee City, and it really is about that data you mentioned. Data service is, Yeah, bring us inside a little bit way in the storage and I t industry get so bogged down in the speeds and feeds and how fast you can do things in the terabytes and petabytes and like here. But we're talking about some real business issues that the product is helping to solve. >>I totally agree. Look, I've been in the in the storage industry for a while now, and you know, multi petabytes of data. And the problem that you run into when you go and talk to people who use this stuff is like old cheese. I start to lose track of it. I don't know what to do with it. So the first thing is, how do you search it? Index it? That's, you know, so I can actually find out what I have. Then there's a question of being able to go in and crack the date open and provide all kinds of data. Service is from, you know, classifications. Thio. Uh oh. Is this Ah, threat or business? Have vulnerabilities in it. It's really a data management solution. Now, of course, we started with backup, right? But then we're very quickly moving into other. Service is back on target file an object. You'll see some more things coming out around testing dead. For example, if you have the world's data is one thing to just keep it and hold it. But then what do you do with it. How do you extract value out of it? Is you really gotta add data management Service is and people try to do it. But this hyper converge technology and this more of a cloud approach is really unique in the way that it actually goes about it. >>I speak a little bit of that. That that cloud approach? >>Yeah, So I mean, you know, But he comes from a cloud background, right? He wrote was big author of the Google foul system. The idea, basically is to say, Let's take a look at a global view of how data is kept. Let's basically be ableto actually abstract that with the management layer on top of that and then let's provide service is on top of that. Oh, by the way, people now have to make a decision between am I gonna keep in on premise or keep it in the cloud? And so the data service is how to extend not just to the on Prem, but actor actually spend Thio. Pod service is as well, which is kind of why I'm here. I think you know what we do with Azure is pretty fascinating in that data management space, too. So we'll be doing more data management. Is the service in the cloud as well? >>So let's get into that a little bit. And I'm sure a lot of announcements this week with your arc and another products and service is. But let's dig into how you're partnering and the kinds of innovative things that go he see a Microsoft are doing together >>what we do. A lot of things. First of all, we weave a very rapid cadence of engineering, engineering conversations. We do everything from archiving data and sending long term retention data into the cloud. But that's kind of like where people start right, which is just ship it all up there. You know, Harvard, it's held right. But then think about doing migrations. How do you take a workload and actually migrated from on Prem to the cloud hold? We could do wholesale migrations of peoples environments. You want to go completely cloud native, weaken, fail over and fill back if we want to as well so we can use the cloud is actually a D. R site. Now you startle it. Think about disaster. Recovery is a service. That's another service that you start to think about what? About backing up cloud native workloads? Well, you don't just want to back up your work Clothes that are in the on Prem data certainly want to back him up also in the cloud. And that includes even office 3 65 So you just look at all of what you know. That means that the ability then could practice that data open and then provide all these additional when I say service is I'm talking about classifications, threat analysis, being able to go in and identify vulnerabilities and things of that nature. That's just a huge, tremendous value on top of just a basic infrastructure capabilities. >>David, you've been in the industry. You've seen a lot of what goes on out there, help us understand really what differentiates Cohee City. Because a lot of traditional vendors out there that are all saying many of the same word I hear you're Clough defying enters even newer vendors. Then go he sitio out there >>totally get it. Look, I mean, here's here's kind of what I find really interesting and attractive about the product. I've been in the storage history for a long time, so many times, people ask me, Can I move my applications to the storage? Because moving the data to the application that's hard. But moving the application to the data Wow, that makes things a lot easier, right? And so that's one of the big things that actually we do that's different. It's the hyper converged platform. It's a scale out platform. It's one that really looks a lot more like some of the skill of platforms that we've done in the past. But it goes way beyond that. And then the ability. Then say, OK, let's abstract that a ways to make it as simple as possible so people don't have to worry about managing lots of different pools and lots of different products for, you know, a service one versus service to versus service three, then bringing applications to that data. That's what makes it really different. And I think if you look around here and you talk to other vendors, I mean don't provide a P eyes. That's one thing that's great and that's important. But it actually bring the applications to the data. That's you know, that's what all of the cloud guys dont look a Google Gmail on top. They put search on top. They put Google translate on top. Is all of these things are actually built on top of the data that they store >>such? Adela This morning in the Kino talked about that there's going to be 500 million knew at business applications built by 2023. How is cohesive? E position to, you know, both partner with Microsoft and everyone out there to be ready for that cloud native >>future. That's a great question. Look, we're not gonna put 500 million applications on the product, right? But we're gonna pick some key applications that are important in the top verticals, whether it's health care, financial service is public sector and so long life sciences, oil and gas. But in the same time, we will offer the AP eyes extensions to say anything about going into azure if we can export things is as your blobs, For example, Now we can start to tie a lot of the azure service's into our storage and make it look like it's actually native as your storage. Now we can put it on as your cold storage shed, a hot storage. We can decide how we want to tear things from a performance perspective, but we can really make it look like it's native. Then we can take advantage of not just our own service is, but the service is that the cloud provides is well on. That makes us extraordinarily powerful >>in terms of the differentiator of Cohee City from a service of standpoint. But what about from a cultural standpoint we had sought Nadella on? The main stage is turning. Talking a lot about trust and I'm curious is particularly as a newer entrants into this technology industry. How how do you develop that culture and then also that reputation. So >>here's one of the interesting things when when I joined the company and I've been around for a while and I've been in a couple of very large brand names, I started walking down the holes and I'm like, Oh, here, here. Oh, you're here. Wait, you're here. It's like an old star cast, and when you go into, you know, some of the customer base and it's like, Hey, we know each other for a long time. That relationship is just there. On top of that, I mean the product works, it's solid. People love it. It's easy to use, and it actually solves riel problems for them. On Dhe, you know, we innovate extraordinarily fast. So when customers find a problem, we're on such a fast release cadence. We can fix it for them in extraordinarily, uh, in times that I've never seen before. In fact, is a little bit scary how fast the engineering group works. It's probably faster than anything I've ever seen in the past. And I think that helps that build the customers trust because they see that if we recognize there's a problem, we're gonna be there to soldier for >>them. There's trust of the company when we talk about our data. There's also the security aspect. Yes, cohesive. He fit into the A story with Microsoft and beyond. >>The security part is extraordinarily important. So look, we've already, as I said, built kind of our app marketplace and we're bringing a lot of applications to do things like Ransomware detection, um, vulnerability detection day declassification. But Microsoft is also developing similar AP eyes, and you heard this morning that they're building capabilities for us to be able to go and interact with them and share information. So we find vulnerabilities because share it with Ambika. Share with us so we could shut them down. So way have the native capabilities built in. They have capabilities that they're building of their own. Imagine the power of it being able to tie those two together. I just think that that's extraordinarily powerful. >>What about Gross? This is a company that is growing like gangbusters. Can you give us a road map? What you can expect from Coach? >>Look, I've never seen growth like this. I mean, I joined specifically to look at a lot of the cloud, and the file on Object service is and, you know, obviously have a background in backup data protection as well. I haven't seen growth like this since my old days when I was a nice guy. Started in, like, Isil on back in the, you know, way, way old days, this is This is you know, I can't give you exact numbers, but I'll tell you, it's way in the triple digits. And I mean and it's extraordinarily fast to see from an an azure perspective. We're seeing, you know, close to triple digit growth as Well, so I love it. I mean, I'm just extraordinarily excited. All right, >>on the product side, Give us a little bit of a look forward as to what we should be expecting from cohesive. >>Absolutely so from a look forward perspective. As I said, we protect a lot of on premise workloads, and now and we protect, obviously, as your work clothes as well. So we protect observe e ems. But as we think about some of the azure native service is like sequel in other service is that air kind of built native within a azure. We'll extend our application to be able to actually do that as well will extend kind of the ease of use and the deployment models to make it easier for customers to go on, deploy and manage. It really seems like a seamless single pane of glass, right? So when you're looking at Cory City, you should think of it as even if it's in the cloud or if it's on premise. It looks the same to you, which is great. If I want to do search and index, I can do it across the cloud, and I can do it across the on Prem so that integration is really what ties it together makes it extraordinarily interesting. >>Finally, this is this is not your first ignite. I'm interested to hear your impressions of this conference, what you're hearing from customers. What your conversations that you're having. >>You know, it's a lot of fun. I've been walking around the partner booths over here to see, like, you know, who could we partner with? That's more of those data management service is because we don't think of ourselves again. You know, we started kind of in the backup space. We have an extraordinarily scalable storage infrastructure. I was blown away by the capabilities of the file. An object. I mean, I was as a foul guy for a long time. It was unbelievable. But when you start to add those data management capabilities on top of that so that people could either, you know, again, either your point, make sure that they can detect threats and vulnerabilities are you find what they're looking for or be able to run analytics, for example, right on the box. I mean, I've been asked to do that for so long, and it's finally happening. It's like It's a dream >>come true, Jerry. Now >>everything you ever wanted software defined bringing the applications to the data. It's just like, if I could ever say like, Hey, if I could take all of the things that I always wanted a previous companies that put him together it's cohesive. I'm looking around here and I'm seeing a lot of great technology that we can go and integrate with >>Great. Well, David, No, I Thank you so much for coming on the Cube. >>Thank you very much. I appreciate it. >>I'm Rebecca Knight, First Amendment. You are watching the Cube.