>>from around the globe. It's the Cube covering HP Discover Virtual experience brought to you by HP. >>Hi. Welcome back. I'm Stew Minimum, and this is the cube covers of HP Discover 2020. The virtual experience gonna be digging into Green Lake and help me with that. Happy to welcome to the program. First time guest Arwa Fedora. She is the vice president of worldwide sales for Green Lake with Hewlett Packard Enterprise are a thanks so much for joining us. >>Thanks for having me. All >>right. So as I teed up, you're relatively new in the role. So if you could just >>give us a little bit >>about your background, what brought you to HP And what your focus is there? >>Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me Weeks seven. So definitely new in the role, um, came from sort >>of ah, public cloud. Ah, >>cloud native ah, set of experiences through Microsoft. And previous to that it was Amarin where we focused on a lot of mobile application development. Ultimately, what brought me toe hp? To be honest is the fact that while cloud has brought a ton of innovation to, you know, many companies, many industries, many applications. I think I also see the opportunity that it's not just about public cloud, but it's about bringing cloud experience everywhere. And so, looking at the agility, the innovation, the speed, um, you know, some of the cost savings that the cloud has brought companies. Um, I believe that from a green Lake perspective, we now have an opportunity to modernize I t infrastructure and bring it to our customers in a way that they've never seen before. And so ultimately that that was what brought me >>to HP. >>All right, well, what excited me about having the discussion with you is you talked about some of the application modernization cloud native pieces that you've got history on, you know, my background infrastructure, but has an infrastructure person. We know the role of infrastructure really is to support those application. A term I've used for a number of years now is you want to modernize the platform and then you and modernize the applications on top of you know, what are you hearing from customers? You know, when I talk to developers, often it is, you know, hybrid model of how they're building things that is no longer a monolithic things are changing and moving everywhere. Data, of course, has huge import. Help us understand that role of the application and data when it comes to Green Lake. >>Yeah, and I think one of the great point that you know, whether it's research or our customers. What we ultimately know is 70% of absent data remain on premises today, right? Whether that's the data center, it's in co location or at the edge. Right? And that's where a good business reason that they have to remain in those data centers, right? We have things like, you know, late and see that we have to deal with. We have governance and security. We have data gravity. We have application dependencies, right? And so, being able to think >>about well, how do you solve that >>problem for the remaining 70% of applications? So if they can't move into >>the cloud well, how >>do we bring the cloud to them? Right. And that's exactly where Green Lake then, which is let's create that cloud like experience from everything, for you know, the obvious things that pay as you go the, um, sort of the self service be managed for you right, bringing that in to the customers, you know, Data center again. Coehlo The edge, I think, becomes a really powerful value prop and again, from my experience, right. Not every application is going to be a cloud native application that is being built newly for cloud only capabilities on. And there's still a lot of great applications that can still be built on Prem with cloud like experiences that are brought to you by Green Lake. >>Alright, so are you have the, you know, the sales title. And when I think about HP, HBs had a number of offering customers along that journey towards that cloud model that you're talking about. Ah, lot of them. You know, I think back, you know, go back Seven years ago, it was very much, you know, here is our stack and we have hybrid models and we're working with service providers. Green Lake is very much managed service, So help us understand a little bit, you know, from from the go to market standpoint, the sales standpoint, that mind shift of going from, you know, here's gear or here's the stack we're doing to really It is a managed services offering. So I would think it's it's a different It's if you will. It's a mindset. It's different, necessarily who you might be selling it >>absolutely. And I think if I had to think about what we're announcing at Discover right and how we're evolving Green Lake, it really starts to focus on launching new cloud services like containers, virtual machines, storage, compute right, sort of the core cloud offerings. But then also adding things like machine learning ops, you know, data protection for cloud and on Prem in networking services, right? And from a Green Lake perspective, I think if I had to think about the go to market, it's yes, managed services. But what does that mean, Right? That means new self service cloud experiences the Agree Lake Central, which has very detailed on sort of consumption and billing data to allow you to have that transparency. It also gives you self service capable abilities, right so that you can, you know, spin, spin up virtual machines or configure the services that you need or that you've purchased from us. Um and then also having the ability now to have new work load optimized, sort of T shirt size building blocks, right? So, being ableto very quick really find out from our customers, What is it that they need having sort of small, medium large capabilities again, thinking about those workloads that they're trying to support And then in under 14 days, being able to deliver the capability to their doors and have that spun up and ready to go? >>Yeah. One of the advantages, of course, is, you know, rather than thinking about okay, I've got all of these products. It's now more like a service catalog. I have a lot of different ways. Ah, and you've got things that like Oh, wait, you know, can that running there? You talked about the ML and the analytics. Of course, he's done a few acquisitions in this base to help enhance that light like map Are I know we've been talking a bit about, you know, Blue Data and, like, I'm curious from, you know, the touch points that you're having in customer. Is it shifting from you know, it's not necessarily, I think the person that buys the server, you know, cloud often was the line of business driving from the application down. So how does that alignment between the field and the customer shifting. And how do you expect Green Lake to kind of move that along even more? >>Yeah, that's right. It becomes a business sort of driven conversation, right? So what are the outcomes that our customers are driving for from a business transformation perspective? So if you think about what they're trying to do is they don't want to have to worry about delivering their own I t, which often is slow on, maybe contains supply chain risks. And then, of course, there's sort of the over provisioning risks that come with that as well. The way I see our role from a go to market perspective is we do have to engage, and we are engaging new audiences that we probably haven't been intimately sort of familiar with in the past. And that includes the line of business that includes also, you know, the architect internally within companies that are designing sort of best of breed architectures to deliver the technology infrastructures that will power their next generation of internal applications or even their own solutions to the market it includes. You know, if you're talking about ml ops, it includes talking to data scientists right and understanding. You know, what is that specific machine learning scenario that they are trying to, you know, train a model around? And how do we help deliver the best solution for them? Because we also know that putting that in how most of the time is too far away from your data or the edge, Um, from which you are collecting data from which again becomes super expensive. You have latency issues, and it's not a really great way to solve ml ops, right? We feel like we have a much better solution. And in talking to some of those audiences that are trying to solve those business challenges within our customer base, um, we are finding ourselves also talking to a lot of new audiences. And, you know, one audience that I'm intimately familiar with is obviously the developer audience, right. Developers don't want to worry about i t infrastructure. They don't want to have to walk over and tell someone that day. I need you to configure X y Z in order for me to start, you know, testing my code or my you know, sort of MPP. They want to know that it's all managed that it's quick time to value and that when they're ready to go, the infrastructure is there and ready to be deployed against the project that they're trying to execute. So those are really important audiences that I feel like we're starting to nurture, and we will have a lot more content and relevance for going forward with Green Lake. >>Yeah, a really important point there. I want also, you know, how do you kind of there's There's a big ecosystem around Green Lake. So, you know, give me a little bit about the you know, the differentiation of HP compared to some of the other hybrid solutions out there. And because I look, there's obviously hardware soft where solutions that HP has internally. But then you've also got, you know, VM ware, Nutanix, Red hat and others that are our partners, you know, how do you help customers sort through those? >>Yeah, absolutely. And I think it begins with delivering choice to our customers right. At the end of the day, we need to make sure that we're up optimizing for what our customers are looking to do. So there has to be an element of openness with HP Green Lake that we're pretty proud to deliver. So we have multiple I SD partnerships, partnerships. You mentioned some of them, you know, VM Ware and Nutanix. With respect to delivering some of our solutions, I think from a competitive advantage, you know, I go back to the fact that you know the 70% of absent data that are still sitting on Prem or, you know, in a polo and edges our competitive advantage comes from being able to bring a true cloud experience. Um, to those absent data where I would argue no one else can do this in a way that has, you know, speed from a time to value perspective, scalability, right. Being able to sort of go up and down a managed for you, a true pay per use model and billing at that level of granularity, um, and the self service right, allowing you to self provisioned and do some of those things once we've delivered the core capabilities for you. So from a competitive advantage, I feel like we cover off more of the cloud like experience does than anyone else that does in the market. And then we also have the partnerships and the ability to bring in some of those third party I SP solutions that work incredibly well on relate. >>Yeah. One of the challenges we've seen in the field is, you know, customers they do have Ah e I guess we know he always is added So, you know, you mentioned you know, their shifts. But customers Absolutely. They have their data centers. They're using often multiple public clouds out there. And they are. You know, we've talked a lot to be about the edge, so help us understand. You know, where green Lake fits and how the portfolio helps customers as they need to be able >>to >>manage and optimize what they're doing across all those disparate environment. >>Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. Customers. First of all, we're going to have a multi cloud and sort of a multimodal strategy, right? Some things they're going to put in the different public clouds and some things they're going to maintain on Prem or in a in a polo. And and then some things, of course, work better in an edge scenario. The great part about Green Lake is we solve the on Prem State problem in a really effective and cost effective and time to value perspective really, really well. But with Green Lake Central, we also give you the transparency to manage your public cloud footprint just as well. So we allow you to unify across that the different footprints that you want tohave. And we're also, you know, not proprietary when it comes to Green Lake Central, right? You can again, um, other pieces versus, you know, maybe some of the hyper scaler is that are trying to create more of a walled garden or a lock in scenario where, yes, you get transparency, but only as long as you're within their solution. >>Alright, So I understand there's about 1000 customers. We've passed 1000 customers Happy Green Lake, according to another interview that I did. So you've got sales, give us a little bit, you know, which we expect for kind of customer adoption. And what else do you expect us to be looking at from the Green Lake offerings? >>Yeah, absolutely. And I think from, you know, a customer Women term perspective. It has just been fantastic to be part of this journey, at least for me. For the past seven weeks, and to see our customers really embrace this new way of how we deliver I t. Infrastructure to them, I think, in a way that meet them where they are right as they're transforming. We're bringing that on Prem Cloud like experience to their doorstep without them having to feel the pressure of migrating everything, whether it makes sense or not into the cloud again in terms of what's coming new, Um, I would reiterate the fact that it is looking at all of the basic services like containers VM storage, Compute. It's also starting to optimize around specific workloads again, Teoh the point earlier about ML ops, Um, but from what's new and exciting, I get really excited about Hey, I don't want our customer spending time thinking about how to architect and how to design the right i t. Or infrastructure offering. I want to be able to do that for them in order to deliver that experience that they need. And again, what that helps our customers with is cost time to value and the ability to get a pre configured solution that is already optimized right. We don't want our customers spending all of their time having to configure an architect. I t infrastructure. We want them to worry about the business outcomes and then tell us what they need. And then we create those pre configured solutions on their behalf, given their input. So so again, it's a very cloud like way to deliver value to our customers. And I think it also frees up our customers to focus the resources on the real innovation that they need to drive at their business level versus focusing on things that, you know we're experts in. And we can bring to them in a much quicker and more value of >>way. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You actually what We've heard loud. And they need to be able to shift away from things that they don't have, differentiated, and then don't add value to the business and focus on this business. FN our congratulations on the new position and definitely look forward to watching the continued progress. Good buzz around Green Lake >>and test. Thank you. Still thanks for having me. >>Alright. Stay tuned for lots more coverage from HP. Discover the virtual experience. I'm Stew Minimum And thank you for watching the Cube. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah