(uplifting music) >> Hello and welcome to this Cube Conversation. I'm John Furrier, host of theCube here in Palo Alto, California. We've got two great remote guests to talk about some big news hitting with Scality and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Jerome Lecat CEO of Scality and Chris Tinker, Distinguished Technologist from HPE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jerome, Chris, great to see you both Cube alumnis from an original gangster days as we'd say back then when we started almost 11 years ago. Great to see you both. >> It's great to be back. >> Good to see you John. >> So, really compelling news around kind of this next generation storage cloud native solution. Okay, it's really kind of an impact on the next gen, I call next gen, dev ops meets application, modern application world and something we've been covering heavily. There's some big news here around Scality and HPE offering a pretty amazing product. You guys introduced essentially the next gen piece of it, Artesca, we'll get into in a second, but this is a game-changing announcement you guys announced, this is an evolution continuing I think is more of a revolution, but I think, you know storage is kind of abstractionally of evolution to this app centric world. So talk about this environment we're in and we'll get to the announcement, which is object store for modern workloads, but this whole shift is happening Jerome. This is a game changer to storage and customers are going to be deploying workloads. >> Yeah, Scality really, I mean, I personally really started working on Scality more than 10 years ago, close to 15 now. And if we think about it I mean the cloud has really revolutionized IT. And within the cloud, we really see layers and layers of technology. I mean, it all start at around 2006 with Amazon and Google and Facebook finding ways to do initially what was consumer IT at very large scale, very low credible reliability and then slowly creeped into the enterprise. And at the very beginning, I would say that everyone was kind of wizards trying things and really coupling technologies together. And to some degree we were some of the first wizard doing this, but we, we're now close to 15 years later and there's a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience, a lot of tools. And this is really a new generation. I'll call it cloud native, or you can call it next gen whatever, but there is now enough experience in the world, both at the development level and at the infrastructure level to deliver truly distributed automated systems that run on industry standard servers. Obviously good quality server deliver a better service than others, but there is now enough knowledge for this to truly go at scale. And call this cloud or call this cloud native. Really the core concept here is to deliver scalable IT at very low cost, very high level of reliability, all based on software. And we've, we've been participated in this motion, but we feel that now the breadth of what's coming is at the new level, and it was time for us to think, develop and launch a new product that's specifically adapted to that. And Chris, I will let you comment on this because the customers or some of them, you can add a customer, you do that. >> Well, you know, you're right. You know, I've been in the, I've been like you I've been in this industry for a, well, along time. Give a long, 20 to 21 years in HPE in engineering. And look at the actual landscape has changed with how we're doing scale-out software-defined storage for particular workloads. And we're a catalyst has evolved here is an analytics normally what was only done in the three letter acronyms and massively scale-out parallel namespace file systems, parallel file systems. The application space has encroached into the enterprise world where the enterprise world needed a way to actually take a look at how to, how do I simplify the operations? How do I actually be able to bring about an application that can run in the public cloud or on premise or hybrid, be able to actually look at a workload optimized step that aligns the actual cost to the actual analytics that I'm going to be doing the workload that I'm going to be doing and be able to bridge those gaps and be able to spin this up and simplify operations. And you know, and if you, if you are familiar with these parallel processes which by the way we actually have on our truck, I, I do engineer those, but they are, they are, they are they have their own unique challenges, but in the world of enterprise where customers are looking to simplify operations, then take advantage of new application, analytic workloads whether it be smart, Mesa, whatever it might be, right. I mean, if I want to spin up a Mongo DB or maybe maybe a, you know, last a search capability how do I actually take those technologies, embrace a modern scale-out storage stack that without without breaking the bank, but also provide a simple operations. And that's, that's why we look for object storage capabilities because it brings us this massive parallelization. Back to you John. >> Well before we get into the product. I want to just touch on one thing Jerome you mentioned, and Chris, you, you brought up the DevOps piece next gen, next level, whatever term you use. It is cloud native, cloud native has proven that DevOps infrastructure is code is not only legit. It's being operationalized in all enterprises and add security in there, you have DevSecOps, this is the reality and hybrid cloud in particular has been pretty much the consensus is that standard. So our defacto center whatever you want to call it, that's happening. Multicloud are on the horizon. So these new workloads are have these new architectural changes, cloud on premises and edge. This is the number one story. And the number one challenge all enterprises are now working on. How do I build the architecture for the cloud on premises and edge? This is forcing the DevOps team to flex and build new apps. Can you guys talk about that particular trend? And is it, and is that relevant here? >> Yeah, I, I now talk about really storage anywhere and cloud anywhere and and really the key concept is edge to go to cloud. I mean, we all understand now that the edge will host a lot of that time and the edge is many different things. I mean, it's obviously a smartphone, whatever that is, but it's also factories, it's also production. It's also, you know, moving moving machinery, trains, planes, satellites that that's all the edge, cars obviously. And a lot of that I will be both produced and process there, but from the edge who will want to be able to send the data for analysis, for backup, for logging to a call, and that call could be regional, maybe not, you know, one call for the whole planet, but maybe one corporate region the state in the U.S. And then from there you will also want to push some of the data to public cloud. One of the thing that we see more and more is that the D.R that has centered the disaster recovery is not another physical data center. It's actually the cloud, and that's a very efficient infrastructure very cost efficient, especially. So really it, it, it's changing the paradigm on how you think about storage because you really need to integrate these three layers in a consistent approach especially around the topic of security because you want the data to be secure all along the way. And data is not just data, its data, and who can access the data, who can modify the data what are the conditions that allow modification all automatically erasure of the data? In some cases, it's super important that the data automatically erased after 10 years and all this needs to be transported from edge to core to cloud. So that that's one of the aspects. Another aspects that resonates for me with what you said is a word you didn't say, but it's actually crucial this whole revolution. It's Kubernetes I mean, Kubernetes is in now a mature technology, and it's, it's just, you know the next level of automatized operation for distributed system, which we didn't have 5 or 10 years ago. And that is so powerful that it's going to allow application developers to develop much faster system that can be distributed again edge to go to cloud, because it's going to be an underlying technology that spans the three layers. >> Chris, your thoughts hybrid cloud. I've been, I've been having questions with the HPE folks for God years and years on hybrid clouds, now here. >> Right (chuckles) >> Well, you know, and, and it's exciting in a layout right, so you look at like a, whether it be enterprise virtualization, that is a scale-out general purpose virtualization workloads whether it be analytic workloads, whether it be no data protection is a paramount to all of this, orchestration is paramount. If you look at that DevSecOps, absolutely. I mean, securing the actual data the digital last set is, is absolutely paramount. And if you look at how we do this look at the investments we're making, we're making enough and look at the collaborative platform development which goes to our partnership with Scality. It is, we're providing them an integral aspect of everything we do, whether we're bringing in Ezmeral which is our software we use for orchestration look at the veneer of its control plane, controlling Kubernetes. Being able to actually control the active clusters and the actual backing store for all the analytics that we just talked about. Whether it be a web-scale app that is traditionally using a politics namespace and now been modernized and take advantage of newer technologies running an NBME burst buffers or a hundred gig networks with Slingshot network of 200 and 400 gigabit looking at how do we actually get the actual analytics, the workload to the CPU and have it attached to the data at risk. Where's the data, how do we land the data? How do we actually align, essentially locality, locality of the actual asset to the computer. And this is where, you know, we can look leverage whether it be a Zair or Google or name your favorite hybrid, hyperscaler, leverage those technologies leveraging the actual persistent store. And this is where Scality is, with this object store capability has it been an industry trendsetter, setting the actual landscape of how provide an object store on premise and hybrid cloud run it in a public cloud, but being able to facilitate data mobility and tie it back to, and tie it back to an application. And this is where a lot of things have changed in the world of analytics, because the applications that you, the newer technologies that are coming on the market have taken advantage of this particular protocol as threes. So they can do web scale massively parallel concurrent workloads. >> You know what let's get into the announcement. I love cool and relevant products. And I think this hits the mark. Scality you guys have Artesca, which is just announced. And I think it, you know, we obviously we reported on it. You guys have a lightweight true enterprise grade object store software for Kubernetes. This is the announcement, Jerome, tell us about it. What's the big deal? Cool and relevant, come on, this is cool. Right, tell us. >> I'm super excited. I'm not sure, if you can see it as well on the screen, but I'm super, super excited. You know, we, we introduced the ring 11 years ago and they says our biggest announcements for the past 11 years. So yes, do pay attention. And, you know, after, after looking at, at all these trends and understanding where we see the future going. We decided that it was time to embark (indistinct) So there's not one line of code that's the same as our previous generation product. They will both exist, they both have a space in the market. And Artesca was specifically designed for this cloud native era. And what we see is that people want something that's lightweight especially because it had to go to the edge. They still want the enterprise grid that Scality is known for. And it has to be modern. What we really mean by modern is, we see object storage now being the primary storage for many application more and more applications. And so we have to be able to deliver the performance, that primary storage expects. This idea of a Scality of serving primary storage is actually not completely new. When we launched Scality 10 years ago, the first application that we were supporting was consumer email for which we were, and we are still today, the primary storage. So we have, we know what it is to be the primary store. We know what's the level of reliability you need to hit. We know what, what latency means and latency is different from throughput, you really need to optimize both. And I think that still today we're the only object storage company that protects data from both replication and original encoding Because we understand that replication is faster, but the original encoding is more better, and more, of file where fast internet latency doesn't matter so much. So we we've been being all that experience, but really rethinking of product for that new generation that really is here now. And so where we're truly excited, I guess people a bit more about the product. It's a software, Scality is a software company and that's why we love to partner with HPE who's producing amazing servers, you know for the record and the history. The very first deployment of Scality in 2010 was on the HP servers. So this is a long love story here. And so to come back to our desk is lightweight in the sense that it's easy to use. We can start small, we can start from just one server or one VM I mean, you would start really small, but he can grow infinitely. The fact that we start small, we didn't, you know limit the technology because of that. So you can start from one to many and it's cloud native in the sense that it's completely Kubernetes compatible it's Kubernetes office traded. It will deploy on many Kubernetes distributions. We're talking obviously with Ezmeral we're also talking with zoo and with the other all those of communities distribution it will also be able to be run in the cloud. Now, I'm not sure that there will be many true production deployment of Artesca going the cloud, because you already have really good object storage by the cloud providers but when you are developing something and you want to test that, you know just doing it in the cloud is very practical. So you'll be able to deploy our Kubernetes cloud distribution, and it's more than object storage in the sense that it's application centric. A lot of our work is actually validating that our storage is fit for this single purpose application. And making sure that we understand the requirement of these application, that we can guide our customers on how to deploy. And it's really designed to be the primary storage for these new workloads. >> The big part of the news is your relationship with Hewlett Packard Enterprise is some exclusivity here as part of this and as you mentioned the relationship goes back many, many years. We've covered the, your relationship in the past. Chris also, you know, we cover HP like a blanket. This is big news for HPE as well. >> This is very big news. >> What is the relationship, talk about this exclusivity Could you share about the partnership and the exclusivity piece? >> Well, there's the partnership expands into the pan HPE portfolio. we look, we made a massive investment in edge IOT device. So we actually have how did we align the cost to the demand. Our customers come to us, wanting to looking at think about what we're doing with Greenlake, like in consumption based modeling. They want to be able to be able to consume the asset without having to do a capital outlay out of the gate. Number two, look at, you know how do you deploy technology, really demand. It depends on the scale, right? So in a lot of your web skill, you know, scale out technologies, it putting them on a diet is challenging. Meaning how skinny can you get it. Getting it down into the 50 terabyte range and then the complexities of those technologies at as you take a day one implementation and scale it out over you know, you know, multiple iterations over quarters, the growth becomes a challenge so working with Scality we, we believe we've actually cracked this nut. We figured out how to a number one, how to start small, but not limit a customer's ability to scale it out incrementally or grotesquely. You can eat depending on the quarters, the month, whatever whatever the workload is, how do you actually align and be able to consume it? So now whether it be on our Edgeline products our DL products go right there, now what that Jerome was talking about earlier you know, we, we, we ship a server every few seconds. That won't be a problem. But then of course, into our density optimized compute with the Apollo products. And this where our two companies have worked in an exclusivity where they scale the software bonds on the HP ecosystem. And then we can, of course provide you, our customers the ability to consume that through our GreenLake financial models or through a CapEx partners. >> Awesome, so Jerome and, and Chris, who's the customer here obviously, there's an exclusive period. Talk about the target customer and how the customers get the product and how they get the software. And how does this exclusivity with HP fit into it? >> Yeah, so there there's really a three types of customers and we've really, we've worked a lot with a company called UseDesign to optimize the user interface for each the types of customers. So we really thought about each customer role and providing with each of them the best product. So the, the first type of customer are application owners who are deploying an application that requires an object storage in the backend, you typically want a simple object store for one application, they want it to be simple and work. Honestly they want no thrill, just want an object store that works. And they want to be able to start as small as they start with their application. Often it's, you know, the first deployment maybe a small deployment, you know applications like a backup like VML, Rubrik, or analytics like (indistinct), file system that now, now available as a software, you know like CGI does a really great departmental NAS that works very well that needs an object store in the backend. Or for high performance computing a wake-up house system is an amazing file system. We will also have vertical application like road peak, for example, who provides origin and the view of the software broadcasters. So all these are application, they request an object store in the backend and you just need a simple high-performance working well object store and I'll discuss perfect for that. Now, the second type of people that we think will be interested by Artesca are essentially developer who are currently developing some capabilities or cloud native application, your next gen. And as part of their development stack, it's getting better and better when you're developing a cloud native application to really target an object storage rather than NFS, as you're persistent. It just, you know, think about generations of technologies and NFS and filesystem were great 25 years ago. I mean, it's an amazing technology. Now, when you want to develop a distributed scalable application object storage is a better fit because it's the same generation. And so same thing, I mean, you know, they're developing something they need an object store that they can develop on. So they want it very lightweight, but they also want the product that their enterprise or their customers will be able to rely on for years and years on. And this guy's really great fit to do that. The third type of customer are more architects, I would say are the architects that are designing a system where they are going to have 50 factories, a thousand planes, a million cars, they are going to have some local storage which will they want to replicate to the core and possibly also to the cloud. And as the design is really new generation workloads that are incredibly distributed but with local storage Artesca are really great for that. >> And tell about the HPE exclusive Chris. What's the, how does that fit in? Do they buy through Scality? Can they get it for the HP? Are you guys working together on how customers can procure it? >> Both ways, yeah both ways they can procure it through Scality. They can secure it through HPE and it's, it's it's the software stack running on our density optimized compute platforms which you would choose and align those and to provide an enterprise quality. Cause if it comes back to it in all of these use cases is how do we align up into a true enterprise stack, bringing about multitenancy bringing about the, the, the fact that you know, if you look at like a local coding one of the things that they're bringing to it, so that we can get down into the DL325. So with the exclusivity, you actually get choice. And that choice comes into our entire portfolio whether it be the Edgeline platform the DL325 AMD processing stack or the Intel 380, or whether it be the Apollos or like I said, there's, there's, there's so many ample choices there that facilitate this, and it's this allows us to align those two strategies. >> Awesome, and I think the Kubernetes piece is really relevant because, you know, I've been interviewing folks practitioners and Kubernetes is very much maturing fast. It's definitely the centerpiece of the cloud native both below the, the line, if you will below under the hood for the, for the infrastructure and then for apps, they want a program on top of it that's critical. I mean, Jerome, this is like, this is the future. >> Yeah, and if you don't mind like to come back to the myth on the exclusivity with HP. So we did a six month exclusive and the very reason we could do this is because HP has such breadth of server portfolio. And so we can go from, you know, really simple, very cheap you know, DL380, machine that we tell us for a few dollars. I mean, it's really like simple system, 50 terabyte. We can have the DL325 that Chris mentioned that is really a powerhouse all NVME, clash over storage is NVME, very fast processors you know, dense, large, large system, like the APOE 4,500. So it's a very large graph of portfolio. We support the whole portfolio and we work together on this. So I want to say that you know, one of the reason I want to send kudos to HP for the breadth of their server line really. As mentioned, Artesca can be ordered from either company. In hand-in-hand together, so anyway, you'll see both of us and our field working incredibly well together. >> Well, just on that point, I think just for clarification was this co-design by Scality and HPE, because Chris you mentioned, you know, the, the configuration of your systems. Can you guys, Chris quickly talk about the design. >> From, from, from the code base the software is entirely designed and developed by Scality, from testing and performance, so this really was a joint work with HP providing both a hardware and manpower so that we could accelerate the testing phase. >> You know, Chris HPE has just been doing such a great job of really focused on this. I know I've been covering it for years before it was fashionable. The idea of apps working no matter where it lives, public cloud, data center, edge. And you mentioned edge line's been around for awhile, you know, app centric, developer friendly, cloud first, has been an HPE kind of guiding first principle for many, many years. >> Well, it has. And, you know, as our CEO here intended, by 2022 everything will be able to be consumed as a service in our portfolio. And then this stack allows us the simplicity and the consumability of the technology and the granulation of it allows us to simplify the installation. Simplify the actual deployment bringing into a cloud ecosystem, but more importantly for the end customer. They simply get an enterprise quality product running on an optimized stack that they can consume through a orchestrated simplistic interface. That customers that's what they're wanting for today's but they come to me and ask, hey how do I need a, I've got this new app, new project. And, you know, it goes back to who's actually coming. It's no longer the IT people who are actually coming to us. It's the lines of business. It's that entire dimension of business owners coming to us, going this is my challenge. And how can you, HPE help us? And we rely on our breadth of technology, but also our breadth of partners to come together in our, of course Scality is hand in hand and our collaborative business unit our collaborative storage product engineering group that actually brought, brought this to market. So we're very excited about this solution. >> Chris, thanks for that input and great insight. Jerome, congratulations on a great partnership with HPE obviously great joint customer base. Congratulations on the product release here. Big moving the ball down the field, as they say. New functionality, clouds, cloud native object store. Phenomenal, so wrap, wrap, wrap up the interview. Tell us your vision for Scality and the future of storage. >> Yeah, I think I started in, Scality is going to be an amazing leader, it is already. But yeah, so, you know I have three things that I think will govern how storage is going. And obviously Marc Andreessen said it software is everywhere and software is eating the world. So definitely that's going to be true in the data center in storage in particular, but the three trends that are more specific are first of all, I think that security performance and agility is now basic expectation. It's, it's not, you know it's not like an additional feature. It's just the basic tables, security performance and our job. The second thing is, and we've talked about it during this conversation is edge to go. You need to think your platform with edge, core and cloud. You know, you, you don't want to have separate systems separate design interface point for edge and then think about the core and then think about cloud, and then think about the diverse power. All this needs to be integrated in a design. And the third thing that I see as a major trend for the next 10 years is data sovereignty. More and more, you need to think about where is the data residing? What are the legal challenges? What is the level of protection, against who are you protected? What is your independence strategy? How do you keep as a company being independent from the people you need to be in the band? And I mean, I say companies, but this is also true for public services. So these, these for me are the three big trends. And I do believe that software defined distributed architecture are necessary for these trends but you also need to think about being truly enterprise grade. and that has been one of our focus with design of Artesca. How do we combine a lightweight product with all of the security requirements and data sovereignty requirements that we expect to have in the next thing? >> That's awesome. Congratulations on the news Scality, Artesca. The big release with HPE exclusive for six months, Chris Tinker, Distinguished Engineer at HPE. Great to see you Jerome Lecat CEO of Scality, great to see you as well. Congratulations on the big news. I'm John Furrier from theCube. Thanks for watching. (uplifting music)