>> live from Boston, Massachusetts. It's the queue covering your red. Have some twenty nineteen brought to you by bread hat >> and welcome back to the Red Hat Summit. We're live in the B, C, E C, the Boston Convention and Exposition Center, along with two metal men. I'm John Walls were joined by Stephanie Cheer us. Who is the vice president? GM and Red had Enterprise. Lennox? Yes. Good to see here. >> Nice to see you teach >> back in Boston, right back >> in Boston. Home turf. >> You feel at home here? I would give you a big day for you. Right. Relic comes out generally available now a big impact on the marketplaces. Talk about that baby that you've given birth through here today. >> Wear so excited and, you know, having put in all the time. Part of this is representing all the work the team has done and the communities have done. When you think about all the work that goes into a Lennox distribution, it is everybody. It's the communities, It's the partners. So we released the Red Hat Enterprise Lennox eight beta in November mid November. We've had forty thousand downloads of that beta since November. People who have provided feedback and comments, suggestions, all of that fed into what we've released today as the Red Hat Enterprise Lennox eight. General availability. So it's a big day, and part of it is we're just so proud of how we've done it and what we've done. And we've really redefined what are not the value of an operating system with Red Hat Enterprise on its eight >> Dannic students, even saying earlier. Excuse me still, but you're saying there's many years in the making, right? Twenty fourteen It was That was the last was when. Seven. >> That's right. It's been five years. >> And so Hobart Theatre, editor of Process That You went through especially, you know, through that beta stage of a little interested in that are a lot interested in that. In terms of of the changes that were still made at that time that once you heard from users and actually put it into practice, >> yes, so we one of the things that part of our subscription model is getting feedback from customers. It's critical for us and tow advocate for those asks upstream because, of course, everything we do is done upstream. So this is part of the way we build, I would say relate was quite different in the sense that I focus all the features and functions we put into it into two pockets. We wanted to make sure that it helped customers with all the changes that have happened in the industry, helped them run their business better. So things like, Is it hard to find Lenox skills? How did we build a Web console to make that easier? Is it hard to orchestrate a data center? We put in a new capability that's a rules based engine, as a software is a service offering in every rail subscription that takes all that we have learned in the market to how to run an efficient Lennox data center. And it sends that out an assassin offering toe every rail subscription owner right that helps them be more efficient. And then there's the whole set of features and functions we put in to help customers grow the business things like container tooling so they can take that one step into containers right from the operating system. Application streams pull in new versions, so I look at everything we've done. Is it relate, really focuses on running the business better, more efficiently and helping grow the business. It's combination of those two things, and the feedback has been great, right? The relic Beta was great. Some tweaks, some tuning. Some. I like how this is too hard. Take out the friction. That's what we were working on since November. >> Stephanie. It is fascinating to me because, you know, I remember last year Saturn with the right hat team. They talked about just that. The amount of change that goes in tow. Lennox, you know, talk about, you know, it's twenty one point six million lines of code. Over the last two years, a third of the code base has changed, and it's something that you know, since it's open source. There's a lot of visibility by the community has been coming for years, yet something you've been working on for five years. We know how much change there's been in the industry. You just talk a little bit about how you balance those dynamics of, you know, that the caves of released cycle. I understand there's going to be a very systematic approach going forward, as how releases are how right that looks at things >> and and one of the roles that we see that we play in the industry is sitting between all the innovation and the outlook work that's being done in the communities and the enterprise, customers who need to know that they're going to run this hardware and it's gonna work. They're going to run this application and it's going to work, and we serve to bridge that gap in between. We advocate for our customers upstream. We make sure that innovation has tried true and tested by the time it reaches them in rail and we sit in that bridge. So to your point, we're constantly getting input from customers about things that are critical to them, things like life cycle capabilities. Now in an upstream community, they probably don't care about a ten year life cycle. But if you're running it on the floor of a data center, they do and we bridge that gap, feeding that back and forth, and it is a bit of a balance. We need to make sure we're pulling in the next generation of things that are important. But we're also protecting what's important to accustom, earthy, enterprise level and honestly stew. It's a constant given take and a constant balance. But, you know, there are a few things that we hold on principle one, it will always be upstream first to it will always serve our customers. In the enterprise. We do it on their behalf. So you know, the beauty of open source is everyone can play in the three million communities that exist in all of that innovation, the challenges everyone can play. So now how do you take that and run your business on it? That's where we come in. So this is why it's so important in this subscription, we constantly get that input from customers. >> Yeah, absolutely way. When we look at this face in the cloud world, I'm kind of used tto running on the latest and greatest on platform. Takes care of it. And as we you know, customer state, they're living in that hybrid and multi cloud world, and we need to bridge from the old. Okay, I'm running in minus two because I haven't finished testing it yet. I want to make sure I've got the latest security one of Les trois and care of the latest features. So I need to be ableto balance both of those, and it's challenging. >> It is challenging and to your point balancing, that is, you know, we had focused on relate because we really wanted to change the >> value. >> Um, but now moving forward, What we've heard from customers is it's a real business advantage for them to know when they're going to get a new release so they can time it with their hardware updates and their eyes. V update. So, as you mentioned as we head into rally, much more predictable life cycle will have minor releases every six months, major releases every three years. And, you know, as an engineer, you always say what I want to have this and I want to have this and and then sometimes it can divert your schedule. What we've heard from our customers is No, no, no. My schedule is really important. I need to plan. I need to predict. So now we put the schedule first. Going forward will put in everything we can into that version and prioritize what we can. But schedule became very important customers. So, to your point, predictable life cycle is important in relative, >> so huge impact in the business that way, you're giving them stability and certainty and predictability. Let's talk about the economic impact, if you will, because you did a fascinating study. I DC did it for you about this global economic impact that's being realised by rail. And the figures are there beyond impressive. They're staggering in terms of positive economic contributions. Wouldn't talk about that a little bit. >> Yeah, absolutely. You know, when I when I think about what we all want to do every day, we all want to have impact. It's not always easy to measure impact. And so when we worked with I D. C. And we asked them to go off and do this study, it really was about measuring and economic impact in the world, and I was even flabbergasted at the numbers. But if you look at all the applications and the software that run on rent had Enterprise Lennox, collectively, it will touch ten trillion dollars of business revenue this year. That's amazing. I think partly partly that speaks to several things. It speaks to the importance of Lennox and the market and where it stands with respect to being running core business and mission critical work made what dollars in sense touch, as well as where the new applications are being written. That's the importance of Lennox. I think it's also an astounding statement to say Lennox is built around an ecosystem. It's built by communities, and when you start to make that self sustaining, that's the kind of impact that it can have. But it's incredible. >> Yeah, I loved we had one of the customers we had already was DBS Bank, and they talked about the financial industry on DH. You know, security and innovation and helping to become a technology company themselves. And it's not sitting in a silo. And they had insourced rather than outsourced, and its partnership with Red Hat that that helps enable a lot of that transformation for, you know, company that people don't necessarily think of, you know, banking as you know, that driver of technology innovation, >> right? And when they looked at when they looked at for customers, for customers who use it just is, you say, because they kind of are now technology companies. How do they look at the value of rail? Roughly, it was about a fifty fifty split between savings and productivity, which feeds into savings and growth right, new revenue being driven. So it really ties back to clinics being Yes, what we run and how do we maximize efficiency for it? And yet how do we grow our business? So it's it's It's absolutely, I mean the use of the software that's being run on Red Hot enterprise Lennox will will reach economic benefits for those customers of a trillion dollars a year. That's huge. That's huge. So it's great. >> Yeah, So out of that ten trillion, I don't know if you could put it in the buckets if you can, but just or maybe the most impressive buckets, if you will, is it through efficiency is the truth time say, visit through better higher production? Uh, I mean, where are those big chunk gains being realised? >> So they provided a breakout of productivity and cost savings in the center and then revenue growth. And honestly, it's a fifty fifty split between savings and growth, and I think that's a huge statement, right about not only what can be done to do cost savings, because that starts to change the way you know everyone starts to think of. A commodity is no once I get into a commodity, I'm going to just save money, and I'm going to pull every cent out. But when its strategic, that's when you grow. And so to me, seeing a fifty percent split pea to and what I can save with it and what I can grow with it. The operating system is anything but a commodity, right? It's a complete strategic decision for a company. So it was great, >> right? So Stephanie would talk. Talk about economic impact. Something I always loved to talk about at this show is what's happening with jobs. Six year we've been doing this show in the early years. It was that Lennox operating model is just becoming pervasive. You look at what happened in the cloud, lookit what topping and software to find, whether it be networking or other piece of the environment. If you understand Lennox, chances are those operating models or what they're using in your that time to get up to speed on those new skills is going to be smaller, can talk about what you're seeing kind of thie ecosystem of jobs, not just, you know, red hat. You know the customers using it, but but even beyond. >> Yeah, so we see that. I mean that this study will show that but nine hundred thousand jobs are being driven by the rail ecosystem. That's massive. That's massive. And and while many of those companies air global, a lot of that is domestic. So I think that as we look at the skills group, that air moving forward and you look at even the operating system adoption and they're operating system adoption of Lennox and those skills customers right now are saying Lennox skills are hard to find. We're working to make it easier. But nine hundred thousand jobs, that's all. That's a lot of work being driven by this ecosystem alone. >> Well, you said jobs where you just talked about difficulty in some respects. What about educating the modern workforce or or an updated workforce? I mean, what kind of impact can you have on that? Or do you want tohave on that in terms of finding the right people in order to keep driving you forward? Because I think a lot of people share that concern is just coming up with that, that brain power, if you will, that that firepower to keep this innovative cycle to keep it rolling like it like it is. Where you going for that? How you doing that? >> You know, I think I think there's a couple. There's clearly things we can do in the product we added in something called Web Console. It's built off the upstream called cockpit, but it comes in and it is. You know, you can run your Lennox service now from your phone off of a Web portal, and it'Ll be shown in a demo tomorrow morning, which is is just the coolest toe Launch up your system Jets grade, and we worked very closely to make sure that the gooey and the feel and the way it was done with similar toe windows. Because many companies certainly have Windows installations, they have Lennox installations. The more we can make the most of the skills that customers have and be able to have that be cross compatible is really important, and clearly we have. The market has recognized the importance of developers not only as influencers but developed, but developing the next applications. What will come down the pipeline in? Let's face it, many customers, we're seeing all. I didn't know my developer was doing this, but they're coming in with real, you know, growth opportunities for the business. So we have really put in a play for developers. We have developer subscriptions that they can use. So a very focused effort with our team to reach out to the developers, make sure they have the tools they need, the capabilities they need. We've put in build a pod, man and scope eo right into the rail sub so that, you know, they can start to build their containers right from the OS. >> All right, So, Stephanie, we've talked a bunch about relate. And I know that Hunza session you're going to be in the keynote today. >> Yes. Give us >> a You know, a key nugget or two that, you know, it might be overlooked if if if you didn't shine a light on it, you know, love to get your take on what you're geeking out on when it comes to relate. >> Yeah, So I'm actually one of the things and and I know you'LL have a deep dive on this later. One of the things that I love about it is we have pulled in This relate launch is very much to me. A Portfolio launch Redhead is a portfolio company of enterprise software. It's not a product company. We're not just an OS company, although that's important. We're portfolio company. So what you'LL see in the relative announcement is really how it ties to the rest of the portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Lennox Core OS As part of feeding into open shift, that's important. Having universal base image be the way we allow developers. We allow eyes ves to build containers that are ready to deliver that well experience on open shift Iran. Well, that's huge for us. Pulling in capabilities like management within sites, pulling that directly into every sub. Every rail. Six seven eight sub. Right to me, we've taken Rail eight is the first real step where we launch a product, but it's a portfolio launch. And, uh, and that's partly why it makes me so excited, right? I mean, being in relics like being being in all the products, that red hat, because where the foundation of it, that's what I hope people walk away feeling right that the OS is important and its core to the whole portfolio that red hat can deliver, >> but we look forward to the keynote tonight. Yes. You're gonna knock it out of the park as you always do. Thanks for joining us. And maybe if you have a little expertise on the side, give Brad Stevenson call Celtics coach. I think you could use a win right now. Every celtics on thin ice right now, but Red Hat very much Bruins once. All right? Okay. All right, >> I'll take it. >> It's a win, right, Stephanie? Thank you. Thanks, Joe. It's a pleasure to have you back with more for the redhead summit. You're watching the cue. >> How well