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Jon Sahs, Charles Mulrooney, John Frey, & Terry Richardson | Better Together with SHI


 

>>Hey everyone. Lisa Martin of the cube here, HPE and AMD better together with Shi is the name of our segment. And I'm here with four guests. Please. Welcome Charlie Mulrooney global presales engineering manager at Athi John saws also of Shi joins this global pre-sales technical consultant. And back with me are Terry Richardson, north American channel chief and Dr. John Fry, chief technologist, sustainable transformation at HPE. Welcome gang. Great to have you all here. >>Thank you, Lisa. Thanks. You good to be here? >>All right, Charlie, let's go ahead and start with you. Keeping the earth sustainable and minimizing carbon emissions. Greenhouse gases is a huge priority for businesses, right? Everywhere. Globally. Can you talk Charlie about what Shi is seeing in the marketplace with respect to sustainable? It? >>Sure. So starting about a year and a half, two years ago, we really noticed that our customers certainly our largest enterprise customers were putting into their annual reports, their chairman's letters, their sec filings that they had sustainability initiatives ranging from achieving carbon neutral or carbon zero goals starting with 2050 dates. And then since then we've seen 20, 40, and 2030 targets to achieve net neutrality and RFPs, RFIs that we're fielding. Certainly all now contain elements of that. So this is certainly top of mind for our largest customers, our fortune two 50 and fortune 500 customers. For sure. We're, we're seeing an onslaught of requests for this. We get into many conversations with the folks that are leading these efforts to understand, you know, here's what we have today. What can we do better? What can we do different to help make an impact on those goals? >>So making an impact top of mind, pretty much for everyone, as you mentioned, John SAS, let's bring you into the conversation. Now, when you're in customer conversations, what are some of the things that you talk about with respect tohis approach to sustainability, sustainable it, are you seeing more folks that are implementing things tactically versus strategically what's going on in the customer space? >>Well, so Charlie touched on something really important that, you know, the, the wake up moment for us was receiving, you know, proposal requests or customer meeting requests that were around sustainability. And it was really around two years ago, I suppose, for the first time. And those requests started coming from European based companies, cuz they had a bit of a head start over the us based global companies even. And what we found was that sustainability was already well down the road and that they were doing very interesting things to use renewable energy for data centers utilize the, they were already considering sustainability for new technologies as a high priority versus just performance cost and other factors that you typically have at the top. So as we started working with them, I guess at beginning it was more tactical cuz we really had to find a way to respond. >>We were starting to be asked about our own efforts and in regards to sustainability, we have our headquarters in Somerset and our second headquarters in Austin, Texas, those are lead gold certified. We've been installing solar panels, reducing waste across the company, recycling efforts and so forth charging stations for electric vehicles, all that sort of thing to make our company more sustainable in, in, in our offices and in our headquarters. But it's a lot more than that. And what we found was that we wanted to look to our vast number of, of customers and partners. We have over 30,000 partners that would work with globally and tens of thousands of customers. And we wanted to find best practices and technologies and services that we could talk about with these customers and apply and help integrate together as a, as a really large global reseller and integrator. We can have a play there and bring these things together from multiple partners that we work with to help solve customer problems. And so over time it's become more strategic and we've been as a company building the, the, the, the, the forward efforts through organizing a true formal sustainability team and growing that, and then also reporting for CDP Ecova and so forth. And it's really that all has been coming about in the last couple of years. And we take it very seriously. >>It sounds like, and it also sounds like from the customer's perspective, they're shifting from that tactical, maybe early initial approach to being more strategic, to really enabling sustainable it across their organization. And I imagine from a business driver's perspective, John saws and Charlie, are you hearing customers? You talked about it being part of RFPs, but also where are customers in terms of, we need to have a sustainable it strategy so that we can attract and retain the right investors we can attract and retain customers. Charlie, John, what are your thoughts on that? >>Yeah, that's top of mind with, with all the folks that we're talking to, I would say there's probably a three way tie for the importance of attracting and retaining investors. As you said, plus customers, customers are shopping, their customers are shopping for who has aligned their ESG priorities and sustainable priorities with their own and who is gonna help them with their own reporting of, you know, scope two and ultimately scope three reporting from greenhouse gas emissions and then the attracting and retaining talent. It's another element now of when you're bringing on new talent to your organization, they have a choice and they're thinking with their decision to accept a role or not within your organization of what your strategies are and do they align. So we're seeing those almost interchangeable in terms of priorities with, with the customers we're talking to. And it was a little surprising, cuz it, we thought initially this is really focused on investors attracting the investors, but it really has become quite a bit more than that. And it's been actually very interesting to see the development of that prioritization >>More comprehensive across the organization. Let's bring Dr. John Fry into the conversation and Terry your next. So stay tuned. Dr. Fry, can you talk about HPE and S H I partnering together? What are some of the key aspects of the relationship that help one another support and enable each other's aggressive goals where sustainability is concerned? >>Yeah, it's a great question. And one of the things about the sustainability domain in solving these climate challenges that we all have is we've got to come together and partner to solve them. No one company's going to solve them by themselves and for our collective customers the same way. From an HPE perspective, we bring the expertise on our products. We bring in sustainable it point of view, where we've written many white papers on the topic and even workbooks that help companies implement a sustainable it program. But our direct sales forces can't reach all of our customers. And in many cases we don't have the local knowledge that our business partners like Shi bring to the table. So they extend the reach, they bring their own expertise. Their portfolio that they offer to the customer is wider than just enterprise products. So by working together, we can do a better job of helping the customer meet their own needs, give them the right technology solutions and enhance that customer experience because they get more value from us collectively. >>It really is better together, which is in a very appropriate name for our segment here. Terry, let's bring you into the conversation. Talk to us about AMD. How is it helping customers to create that sustainable it strategy? And what are some of the differentiators that what AMD is doing that, that are able to be delivered through partners like Shi? >>Well, Lisa, you used the word enabling just a short while ago. And fundamentally AMD enables HPE and partners like Shi to bring differentiated solutions to customers. So in the data center space, we began our journey in 2017 with some fundamental design elements for our processor technology that were really keenly focused on improving performance, but also efficiency. So now the, the most common measure that we see for the types of customers that Charlie and John were talking about is really that measure of performance per wat. And you'll continue to see AMD enabled customers to, to try to find ways to, to do more in a sustainable way within the constraints that they may be facing, whether it's availability of power data center space, or just needing to meet overall sustainability goals. So we have skills and expertise and tools that we make available to HPE and two Shi to help them have even stronger differentiated conversations with customers. >>Sounds like to me, Terry, that it's, that AMD can be even more of an more than an enabler, but really an accelerator of what customers are able to do from a strategic perspective on sustainability. >>You you're right about that. And, and we actually have tools, greenhouse gas, TCO tools that can be leveraged to really quantify the impact of some of the, the new technology decisions that customers are making to allow them to achieve their goals. So we're really proud of the work that we're doing in partnership with companies like HPE and Shi >>Better together. As we said at the beginning in just a minute ago, Charlie, let's bring you back in, talk to us a little bit about what Shi is doing to leverage sustainable it and enable your customers to meet their sustainability goals and their initiatives. >>So for quite a while, we've had some offerings to help customers, especially in the end user compute side. A lot of customers were interested in, I've got assets for, you know, let's say a large sales force that had been carrying tablets or laptops and, you know, those need to be refreshed. What do I do with those? How do I responsibly retire or recycle those? And we've been offering solutions for that for quite some time. It's within the last year or two, when we started offering for them guarantees and assurances assurances of how they can, if that equipment is reusable by somebody else, how can we issue them? You know, credits for carbon credits for reuse of that equipment somewhere else. So it's not necessarily going to be e-waste, it's something that can be recycled and reused. We have other programs with helping extend the life of, of some systems where they look at well, I have a awful lot of data on these machines where historically they might want to just retire those because the, the, the sensitivity of the data needed to be handled very specifically. We can help them properly remove the sensitive data and still allow reuse of that equipment. So we've been able to come up with some creative solutions specifically around end user compute in the past, but we are looking to new ways now to really help extend that into data center infrastructure and beyond to really help with what are the needs, what are the, the best ways to help our customers handle the things that are challenging them. >>That's a great point that you bring up. Charlie and security kind of popped into my head here, John Saul's question for you when you're in customer conversations and you're talking about, or maybe they're talking about help us with waste reduction with recycling, where are you having those customer conversations? Cause I know sustainability is a board level, it's a C level discussion, but where are you having those conversations within the customer organization? >>Well, so it's a, it's a combination of organizations within the customer. These are these global organizations. Typically when we're talking about asset life cycle management, asset recovery, how do you do that in a sustainable green way and securely the customers we're dealing with? I mean, security is top sustainability is right up there too. O obviously, but Charlie touched on a lot of those things and these are global rollouts, tens of thousands of employees typically to, to have mobile devices, laptops, and phones, and so forth. And they often are looking for a true managed service around the world that takes into consideration things like the most efficient way to ship products to, to the employees. And how do you do that in a sustainably? You need to think about that. Does it all go to a central location or to each individual's home during the pandemic that made a lot of sense to do it that way? >>And I think the reason I wanted to touch on those things is that, well for, for example, one European pharmaceutical that states in their reports that they're already in scope one in scope two they're fully net zero at this point. And, and they say, but that only solves 3% of our overall sustainability goals. 97% is scope three, it's travel, it's shipping. It's, it's, it's all the, the, all these things that are out of their direct control a lot of times, but they're coming to us now as a, as a supplier and as, and, and we're filling out, you know, forms and RFPs and so forth to show that we can be a sustainable supplier in their supply chain because that's their next big goal >>Sustain sustainable supply chain. Absolutely. Yes. Dr. John Fry and Terry, I want to kind of get your perspectives. Charlie talked about from a customer requirements perspective, customers coming through RFP saying, Hey, we've gotta work with vendors who have clear sustainability initiatives that are well underway, HPE and AMD hearing the same thing Dr. Fry will start with you. And then Terry >>Sure, absolutely. We receive about 2,500 customer questionnaires just on sustainability every year. And that's come up from a few hundred. So yeah, absolutely accelerating. Then the conversations turn deeper. Can you help us quantify our carbon emissions and power consumption? Then the conversation has recently gone even further to when can HPE offer net zero or carbon neutral technology solutions to the customer so that they don't have to account for those solutions in their own carbon footprint. So the questions are getting more sophisticated, the need for the data and the accuracy of the data is climbing. And as we see potential regulatory disclosure requirements around carbon emissions, I think this trend is just gonna continue up. >>Yeah. And we see the same thing. We get asked more and more from our customers and partners around our own corporate sustainability goals. But the surveying that survey work that we've done with customers has led us to, you know, understand that, you know, approximately 75% of customers are gonna make sustainability goals, a key component of their RFIs in 2023, which is right around the corner. And, and, you know, 60% of those same customers really expect to have business level KPIs in the new year that are really related to sustainability. So this is not just a, a kind of a buzzword topic. This is, this is kind of business imperatives that, you know, the company, the companies like HPE and AMD and the partners like I, that really stand behind it and really are proactive in getting out in front of customers to help are really gonna be ahead of the game. >>That's a great point that you make Terry there that this isn't, we're not talking about a buzzword here. We're talking about a business imperative for businesses of probably all sizes across all industries and Dr. Far, you mentioned regulations. And something that we just noticed is that the S E C recently said, it's proposing some rules where companies must disclose greenhouse gas emissions. If they were, if that were to, to come into play, I'm gonna pun back to Charlie and John saws. How would Shi and, and frankly at HPE and AMD be able to help companies comply if that type of regulation were to be implemented. Charlie. >>Yeah. So we are in the process right now of building out a service to help customers specifically with that, with the reporting, we know reporting is a challenge. The scope two reporting is a challenge and scope three that I guess people thought was gonna be a ways out now, all of a sudden, Hey, if you have made a public statement that you're going to make an impact on your scope three targets, then you have to report on them. So that, that has become really important very quickly as word about this requirement is rumbling around there's concern. So we are actually working right now on something it's a little too early to fully disclose, but stay tuned, cuz we have something coming. That's interesting. >>Definitely PED my, my ears are, are, are perk here. Charlie, we'll stay tuned for that. Dr. Fry. Terry, can you talk about together with Shi HPE and AMD enabling customers to manage access to the da data obviously, which is critical and it's doing nothing but growing and proliferating key folks need access to it. We talked a little bit about security, but how are from a better together perspective, Dr. Fry will start with you, how are you really helping organizations on that sustainability journey to ensure that data can be accessible to those who need it when they need it? And at these days what it's real time requirements. >>Yeah. It's, it's an increasing challenge. In fact, we have changed the H HP story the way we talk about H HP's value proposition to talk about data first modernization. So how often do you collect data? Where do you store it? How do you avoid moving it? How do you make sure if you're going to collect data, you get insights from that data that change your business or add business value. And then how long do you retain that data afterward and all of that factors into sustainable it, because when I talk to technology executives, what they tell me again, and again, is there's this presumption within their user community, that storage is free. And so when, when they have needs for collecting data, for example, if, if once an hour would do okay, but the system would collect it once a minute, the default, the user asks for of course, once a minute. And then are you getting insights from that data? Or are we moving it that becomes more important when you're moving data back and forth between the public cloud or the edge, because there is quite a network penalty for moving that equipment across your network. There's huge power and carbon implications of doing that. So it's really making a better decision about what do we collect, why do we collect it, what we're gonna do with it when we collect and how we store it. >>And, and for years, customers have really talked about, you know, modernization and the need to modernize their data center. You know, I, I fundamentally believe that sustainability is really that catalyst to really drive true modernization. And as they think forward, you know, when we work with, with HPE, you know, they offer a variety of purpose-built servers that can play a role in, you know, specific customer workloads from the largest, super computers down to kind of general purpose servers. And when we work with partners like Shi, not only can they deliver the full suite of offerings for on premise deployments, they're also very well positioned to leverage the public cloud infrastructure for those workloads that really belong there. And, and that certainly can help customers kind of achieve an end to end sustainability goal. >>That's a great point that, that it needs to be strategic, but it also needs to be an end to end goal. We're just about out of time, but I wanted to give John saws the last word here, take us out, John, what are some of the things Charlie kind of teased some of the things that are coming out that piqued my interest, but what are some of the things that you are excited about as HPE AMD and Shi really help customers achieve their sustainability initiatives? >>Sure. Couple comments here. So Charlie, yeah, you touched on some upcoming capabilities that Shi will have around the area of monitoring and management. See, this is difficult for all customers to be able to report in this formal way. This is a train coming at everybody very quickly and they're not ready. Most customers aren't ready. And if we can help as, as a reseller integrator assessments, to be able to understand what they're currently running compare to different scenarios of where they could go to in a future state, that seems valuable if we can help in that way. That's, those are things that we're looking into specifically, you know, greenhouse gas, emissions, relevant assessments, and, and, and within the comments of, of, of Terry and, and John around the, the power per wat and the vast portfolio of, of technologies that they, that they had to address various workloads is, is fantastic. >>We'd be able to help point to technologies like that and move customers in that direction. I think as a, as an integrator and a technical advisor to customers, I saw an article on BBC this morning that I, I, I think if, if we think about how we're working with our customers and we can help them maybe think differently about how they're using their technology to solve problems. The BBC article mentioned this was Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, and they have a big project called merge. And today was a go live date. And BBC us news outlets have been reporting on it. They basically changed the model from a model called power of work, which takes a, a lot of compute and graphic, GPU power and so forth around the world. And it's now called power of stake, which means that the people that validate that their actions in this environment are correct. >>They have to put up a stake of their own cryptocurrency. And if they're wrong, it's taken from them. This new model reduces the emissions of their environment by 99 plus percent. The June emissions from Ethereum were, it was 120 telos per, per year, a Terra terat hours per year. And they reduced it actually, that's the equivalent of what the net Netherlands needed for energy, so comparable to a medium sized country. So if you can think differently about how to solve problems, it may be on-prem, it may be GreenLake. It may be, it may be the public cloud in some cases or other, you know, interesting, innovative technologies that, that AMD HPE, other partners that we can bring in along, along with them as well, we can solve problems differently. There is a lot going on >>The opportunities that you all talked about to really make such a huge societal impact and impact to our planet are exciting. We thank you so much for talking together about how HPE AMD and SSHA are really working in partnership in synergy to help your customers across every organization, really become much more focused, much more collaborative about sustainable it. Guys. We so appreciate your time and thank you for your insights. >>Thank you, Lisa. Thank you. My >>Pleasure. Thank you, Lisa. You're watching the cube, the leader in high tech enterprise coverage.

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Protect Your Data & Recover from Cyberthreats & Ransomware in Minutes


 

>>Welcome back to the cubes coverage of H P S. Green Lake announcement. We've been following Green Lake and the cadence of announcements making. Now we're gonna talk about ransomware, ransomware become a household term. But what people really don't understand is that virtually any bad actor can become a ransomware criminal by going on the dark web hiring a ransomware as a service sticking, putting a stick into a server and taking a piece of the action and that is a really insidious threat. Uh, the adversaries are extremely capable, so we're going to dig into that with Omar assad, who's the storage platform, lead cloud data services at H P E and Deepak verma vice president of product Zito, which is now an H P E company Gentlemen, welcome to the cube. Good to see you. Thank you. >>Thank you. Welcome. Pleasure to be here. So >>over you heard my little narrative upfront. How does the Xarelto acquisition fit into that discourse? >>Thank you. Dave first of all, we're extremely excited to welcome Sir toe into the HP family. Uh, the acquisition of Puerto expands the Green Lake offerings from H P E uh, into the data protection as a service and ransomware protection as a service capabilities and it at the same time accelerates the transformation that the HP storage businesses going through as it transforms itself into more of a cloud native business, which sort of follows on from the May 4th announcements that you helped us cover. Uh, this enables the HP sales teams to now expand the data protection perimeter and to start offering data protection as a service and ransomware as a service with the best in class technologies uh, from a protection site as well as from ransomware recovery side of the house. And so we're all the way down already trying to integrate uh, you know, the little offerings as part of the Green lake offerings and extending support through our services organization. And the more of these announcements are gonna roll out later in the month. >>And I think that's what you want to see from it as a service offering. You want to see a fast cadence of new services that are not a box by a box that are applying. No, it's services that you want to access. So let's, let's talk about before we get into the tech, can we talk about how you're helping customers deal with ransomware? Maybe some of the use cases that you're seeing. >>First of all, extremely excited to be part of the HP family now. Um, Quick history and that we've been around for about 11 years. We've had about 9000 plus customers and they all benefit from essentially the same technology that we invented 11 years ago. First and foremost, one of the use cases has been continuous data protection. So were built on the CdP platform, which means extremely low RTO S and R P O S for recovery. I'll give you example there um, United Airlines is an application that cost them $1 million dollars for every hour that they're down. They use traditional approaches. That would be a lot of loss with Zito, we have that down two seconds of loss in case and the application goes down. So that's kind of core and fundamental to our plaque. The second uh critical use case that for us has been simplicity. A lot of customers have said we make the difficult, simple. So DRS is a complex uh process. Um, give you an example there. Hcea Healthcare Consolidated four different disaster recovery platforms into a single platform in Puerto and saved about $10 million dollars a year. So it's making that operations of having disaster recovery process is much simpler. Um the third kind of critical use case for us as uh, the environment has evolved as the landscape has involved has been around hybrid cloud. So being able to take customers to the platforms that they want to go to that's critical for us And for our customers an example, there is Kingston technology's so Kingston tried some competitive products to move to Azure, it would take them about 24 hours to recover 30 VMS or so with zero technology. They will get about all their 1000 VMS up in Azure instantaneously. So these are three use cases that were foundational. Built. Built the company in the tech. >>Nice. Thank you. Thank you for that. So simple works well these days, especially with all this complexity we have to deal with. Can we get into the secret sauce a little bit. I mean CdP has been around forever. What do you guys do that? That's different. Maybe you can talk about that. Sure. >>Um it's cdp based, I think we've perfected the technology. It's less about being able to just copy the data. It's more about what you do when things go bump. We've made it simpler with driven economies of scale lower and being platform agnostic. We've really brought that up across to whatever platforms once upon a time it was moving from physical to virtual or even across different virtualization platforms and then being able to move across to whatever cloud platform customer may want or or back >>to cbP continuous data protection by the way for the audience that may not know that go ahead. And >>one of the additional points that I want to add to the box comment over here is the the basics of platform independence is what really drew uh hp technologists into the technology because you know, one of the things we have many, we have the high end platform with the H B electra nine Kv of the electro six kids the midrange platform. Then we have a bunch of file and object offerings on the side. What zero does it University universally applies to all those technologies and along with, you know, as you pair them up with our computer offerings to offer a full stack but now the stack is disaster recovery capable. Natively with the integration of certo, you know, one of the things that, you know, Deepak talked about about the as your migrations that a lot of the customers are talking about cloud is also coming up as a D our use case for a lot of our customers, customers, you know, you know, as we went through thousands of customers interviews one of the, one of the key things that came back was investing in a D our data center which is just waiting there for a disaster to happen. It's a very expensive insurance policy. So absurd. Oh, through its native capabilities allows customers to do is to just use public cloud as a D our target and and as a service, it just takes care of all the format conversions and recoveries and although that's completely automated inside the platform and and we feel that, you know, when you combine this either at the high end of data center storage offering or the middle age offering with this replication, D. R. And ransomware protection built into the same package, working under the same hood, it just simplifies and streamlines the customers deployment. >>Come here a couple of things. So first of all historically, if you wanted to recover to appoint within let's say, you know, 10 seconds, five seconds you have to pay up. Big time. Number one. Number two is you couldn't test your D. R. It was too risky. So people just had it in, they had a checkbox on compliance but they actually couldn't really test it because they were afraid they were going to lose data. So it sounds like you're solving both of those problems or >>or you know we remember the D. R. Test where it was a weekend. It was an event right? It was the event and at the end of july that the entire I. T. Organizing honey >>it's not gonna be home this weekend. Exactly what >>we've changed. That is a click of a button. You can D. R. Test today if you want to you can have disaster recovery still running. You can D. R. Test in Azure bring up your environment an isolated network bubble, make sure everything's running and bring it and bring it down. The interesting thing is the technology was invented back when our fear in the industry was losing a data center was losing power was catastrophic, natural disasters. But the technology has lent itself very well to the new threats which which are very much around ransomware as you mentioned because it's a type of disaster. Somebody's going after your data. Physical servers are still around but you still need to go back to a point in time and you need to do that very quickly. So the technology has really just found itself uh appealing to new challenges. >>If a customer asks you can I really eliminate cyber attacks, where should I put my my if I had 100 bucks to spend. Should I spend it on you know layers and defense should I spend it on recovery. Both, what would you tell them? >>I think it's a balanced answer. I think prevention is 100% impossible. Uh It's really I'd say spend it in in thirds. You want to spend a third of it and and prevention a third of it maybe in detection and then a third of it in uh recovery. So it's really that balancing act that means you can't leave the front door open but then have a lot of recovery techniques invested in. It has to be it has to be a balance and it's also not a matter of if it's a matter of when so we invest in all three areas. Hopefully two of them will work to your advantage. >>You dave you you should always protect your perimeter. I mean that that goes without saying but then as you invest in other aspects of the business, as Deepak mentioned, recovery needs to be fast and quick recovery whether from your recovering from a backup disaster. Are you covering from a data center disaster a corrupted file or from a ransomware attack. A couple of things that zero really stitches together like journal based recovery has been allowed for a while but making journal based recovery platform independent in a seamless fashion with the click of a button within five seconds go back to where your situation was. That gives you the peace of mind that even if the perimeter was breached, you're still protected, you know, five minutes into the problem And, and that's the peace of mind, which along with data protection as a service, disaster recovery as a service and now integrating this, you know, recovery from ransomware along with it in a very simple, easy to consume package is what drew us into the >>more you can do this you said on the use the cloud as a target. I could use the cloud as an air gap if I wanted to. It sounds like it's cloud Native, correct? Just wrap your stack in kubernetes and shove it in the cloud and have a host and say we're cloud to No, really I'm serious. So >>absolutely, we we looked at that approach and that that's where the challenge comes in, Right? So I give you the example of Kingston technology just doesn't scale, it's not fast enough. What we did was developed a platform for cloud Native. We consume cloud services where necessary in order to provide that scalability. So one example in Azure is being able to use scale set. So think about a scenario where you just declare a disaster, you've got 1000 VMS to move over, we can spin up the workers that need to do the work to get 1000 VMS spin them down. So you're up and running instantaneously and that involves using cloud Native uh tools and technologies, >>can we stay on that for a minute, So take take us through an example of what life was like would be like without zero trying to recover and what it's like with Puerto resources, complexity time maybe you could sort of paint a picture. Sure. >>Let me, I'll actually use an example from a customer 10 Kata. They uh develop defensive fabrics, especially fabric. So think about firefighters, think about our men and women abroad that need protective clothing that developed the fibers behave. They were hit by ransomware by crypto locker. That this was before zero. Unfortunately it took they took about a two week uh data loss. It took them weeks to recover that environment, bring it back up and the confidence was pretty low. They invested in, they looked at our technology, they invested in the technology and then they were hit with a different variant of crypto locker immediately. The the IT administrators and the ITS folks there were relieved right, they had a sense of confidence to say yes we can recover. And the second time around they had data loss of about 10 seconds, they could recover within a few minutes. So that's the before and after picture giving customers that confidence to say yep, a breach happened, we tried our best but now it's up to recovery and I can recover without having to dig tapes out from some vault and hopefully have a good copy of data sitting there and then try that over and over again and there's a tolerance right before a time before which business will not be able to sustain itself. So what we want to do is minimize that for businesses so that they can recover as quickly as possible with as little data loss as possible. >>Thank you for that. So, Omar, there's a bigger sort of cyber recovery agenda that you have as part of, of green lake, I'm sure. What, what should we expect, what's next? Where do you want to take this? >>So uh excellent question point in the future day. So one of the things that you helped us, uh you know, unveil uh in May was the data services. Cloud console. Data services. Cloud console was the first uh sort of delivery as we took the storage business as it is and start to transform into more of a cloud native business. We introduced electra uh which is the cloud native hardware with the customers buy for persistent storage within their data center. But then data services, cloud console truly cemented that cloud operational model. Uh We separated the management from, from the devices itself and sort of lifted it up as a sas service into the public, public cloud. So now what you're gonna see is, you know, more and more data and data management services come up on the data services. Cloud console and and zero is going to be one of the first ones. Cloud physics was another one that we we talked about, but zero is the is the true data management service that is going to come up on data services, cloud console as part of the Green Lake services agenda that that HP has in the customer's environ and then you're gonna see compliance as a service. You're going to see data protection as a service. You're gonna see disaster recovery as a service. But the beautiful thing about it is, is choice with simplicity as these services get loaded up on data services, clown console. All our customers instantly get it. There's nothing to install, there's nothing to troubleshoot uh, there's nothing to size. All those capabilities are available on the console, customers go in and just start consuming Xarelto capabilities from a management control plane, Disaster recovery control plan are going to be available on the data services, cloud console, automatically detecting electro systems, rian Bear systems, container based systems, whichever our customers have deployed and from there is just a flip of a button. Another way to look at it is it sort of gives you that slider that you have data protection or back up on one side, you've got disaster recovery on one side, you've got ransomware protection on on the extreme right side, you can just move a slider across and choose the service level that you want without worrying about best practices, installation, application integration. All of that just takes control from the data services, cloud concepts. >>Great, great summary because historically you would have to build that right now. You can buy it as a service. You can programmatically, you know, deploy it and that's a game changer. Have to throw it over the fence to some folks. That's okay. Now, you know, make it make it work and then they change the code and you come back a lot of finger pointing. It's now it's your responsibility. >>Absolutely. Absolutely. We're excited to provide Zito continue provides the desert of customers but also integrate with the Green Green Lake platform and let the rest of Green Lake customers experience some of the sort of technology and really make that available as a service. >>That's great. This is a huge challenge for customers. I mean they do, I pay their ransom. Do not pay the ransom. If I pay the ransom the FBI is going to come after me. But if I don't pay the ransom, I'm not gonna get the crypto key. So solutions like this are critical. You certainly see the president pushing for that. The United States government said, hey, we got to do a better job. Good job guys, Thanks for for sharing your story in the cube and congratulations. Thank >>you. Thank you David. >>All right. And thank you for watching everybody. Uh this is the, I want to tell you that everything that you're seeing today as part of the Green Lake announcement is going to be available on demand as part of the HP discover more. So you got to check that out. Thank you. You're watching the cube. >>Mhm mm.

Published Date : Sep 28 2021

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>>from >>around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of AWS reinvent 2020 sponsored by Intel, AWS and our community partners. >>Everyone welcome back to the cubes Coverage of AWS reinvent 2020 virtual. This is the Cube virtual. I'm John for your host this year. We're not in person. We're doing remote interviews because of the pandemic. The whole events virtual over three weeks for this week would be having a lot of coverage in and out of what's going on with the news. All that stuff here happening on the Cube Our next guest is a featured segment. Brown Venkatesh, VP of Engineering at Cloudera. Welcome back to the Cube Cube Alumni. Last time you were on was 2018 when we had physical events. Great to see you, >>like good to be here. Thank you. >>S O. You know, Cloudera obviously modernized up with Horton works. That comedy has been for a while, always pioneering this abstraction layer originally with a dupe. Now, with data, all those right calls were made. Data is hot is a big part of reinvent. That's a big part of the theme, you know, machine learning ai ai edge edge edge data lakes on steroids, higher level services in the cloud. This is the focus of reinvents. The big conversations Give us an update on cloud eras. Data platform. What's that? What's new? >>Absolutely. You are really speaking of languages. Read with the whole, uh, data lake architecture that you alluded to. It's uploaded. This mission has always been about, you know, we want to manage how the world's data that what this means for our customers is being ableto aggregate data from lots of different sources into central places that we call data lakes on. Then apply lots of different types of passing to it to direct business value that would cdp with Florida data platform. What we have essentially done is take those same three core tenants around data legs multifunctional takes on data stewardship of management to add on a bunch off cloud native capabilities to it. So this was fundamentally I'm talking about things like disaggregated storage and compute by being able to now not only take advantage of H d efs, but also had a pretty deep, fundamental level club storage. But this is the form factor that's really, really good for our customers. Toe or to operate that from a TCO perspective, if you're going to manage hundreds of terabytes of data like like a lot of a lot of customers do it. The second key piece that we've done with CDP has to do with us embracing containers and communities in a big way on primer heritages around which machines and clusters and things of that nature. But in the cloud context, especially in the context, off managed community services like Amazon CKs, this Lexus spin apart traditional workloads, Sequels, park machine learning and so on. In the context of these Cuban exiles containerized environments which lets customers spin these up in seconds. They're supposed to, you know, tens of minutes on as they're passing, needs grow and shrink. They can actually scale much, much faster up and down to, you know, to make sure that they have the right cost effective footprint for their compute e >>go ahead third piece. >>But the turkey piece of all of this right is to say, along with like cloud native orchestration and cloud NATO storage is that we've embraced this notion of making sure that you actually have a robust data discovery story around it. so increasingly the data sets that you create on top off a platform like CDP. There themselves have value in other use cases that you want to make sure that these data sets are properly replicated. They're probably secure the public government. So you can go and analyze where the data set came from. Capabilities of security and provenance are increasingly more important to our customers. So with CDP, we have a really good story around that data stewardship aspect, which is increasingly important as you as you get into the cloud. And you have these sophisticated sharing scenarios. The >>you know, Clotaire has always had and Horton works. Both companies had strong technical chops. It's well document. Certainly the queues been toe all the events and covered both companies since the inception of 10 years ago. A big data. But now we're in cloud. Big data, fast data, little data, all data. This is what the cloud brings. So I want to get your thoughts on the number one focus of problem solving around cloud. I gotta migrate. Or do I move to the cloud immediately and be born there? Now we know the hyper scale is born in the cloud companies like the Dropbox in the world. They were born in the cloud and all the benefits and goodness came with that. But I'm gonna be pivoting. I'm a company at a co vid with a growth strategy. Lift and shift. Okay, that was It's over. Now that's the low hanging fruit that's use cases kind of done. Been there, done that. Is it migration or born in the cloud? Take us through your thoughts on what does the company do right now? >>E thinks it's a really good question. If you think off, you know where our customers are in their own data journey, right? So increasingly. You know, a few years ago, I would say it was about operating infrastructure. That's where their head was at, right? Increasingly, I think for them it's about deriving value from the data assets that they already have on. This typically means in a combining data from different sources the structure data, some restructure data, transactional data, non transactional, data event oriented data messaging data. They wanna bring all of that and analyze that to make sure that they can actually identify ways toe monetize it in ways that they had not thought about when they actually stored the data originally, right? So I think it's this drive towards increasing monetization of data assets that's driving the new use cases on the platform. Traditionally, it used to be about, you know, sequel analysts who are, if you are like a data scientist using a party's park. So it was sort of this one function that you would focus on with the data. But increasingly, we're seeing these air about, you know, these air collaborative use cases where you wanna have a little bit of sequel, a little bit of machine learning, a little bit off, you know, potentially real time streaming or even things like Apache fling that you're gonna use to actually analyze the data eso when this kind of an environment. But we see that the data that's being generated on Prem is extremely relevant to the use case, but the speed at which they want to deploy the use case. They really want to make sure that they can take advantage of the clouds, agility and infinite capacity to go do that. So it's it's really the answer is it's complicated. It's not so much about you know I'm gonna move my data platform that I used to run the old way from here to there. But it's about I got this use case and I got to stand this up in six weeks, right in the middle of the pandemic on how do I go do that on the data that has to come from my existing line of business systems. I'm not gonna move those over, but I want to make sure that I can analyze the data from their in some cohesive Does that make sense? >>Totally makes sense. And I think just to kind of bring that back for the folks watching. And I remember when CDP was launching the thes data platforms, it really was to replace the data warehouse is the old antiquated way of doing things. But it was interesting. It wasn't just about competing at that old category. It was a new category. So, yeah, you had to have some tooling some sequel, you know, to wrangle data and have some prefabricated, you know, data fenced out somewhere in some warehouse. But the value was the new use cases of data where you never know. You don't know where it's going to come until it comes right, because if you make it addressable, that was the idea of the data platform and data Lakes and then having higher level services. So s so to me. That's, I think, one distinction kind of new category coexisting and disrupting an old category data warehousing. Always bought into that. You know, there's some technical things spark Do all these elements on mechanisms underneath. That's just evolution. But income in incomes cloud on. I want to get your thoughts on this because one of the things that's coming out of all my interviews is speed, speed, speed, deploying high, high, large scale at very large speed. This is the modern application thinking okay to make that work, you gotta have the data fabric underneath. This has always been kind of the dream scenario, So it's kind of playing out. So one Do you believe in that? And to what is the relationship between Cloudera and AWS? Because I think that kind of interestingly points to this one piece. >>Absolutely. So I think that yeah, from my perspective, this is what we call the shared data experience that's central to see PP like the idea is that, you know, data that is generated by the business in one use case is relevant and valid in another use case that is central to how we see companies leveraging data or the second order monetization that they're after, Right? So I think this is where getting out off a traditional data warehouse like data side of context, being able to analyze all of the data that you have, I think is really, really important for many of our customers. For example, many of them increasingly hold what they call this like data hackathons right where they're looking at can be answered. This new question from all the data that we have that is, that is a type of use case that's really hard to enable unless you have a very cohesive, very homogeneous view off all of your data. When it comes to the cloud partners, right, Increasingly, we see that the cloud native services, especially for the core storage, compute and security services are extremely robust that they give us, you know, the scale and that's really truly unparalled in terms of how much data we can address, how quickly we can actually get access to compute on demand when we need it. And we can do all of this with, like, a very, very mature security and governance fabric that you can fit into. So we see that, you know, technologies like s three, for example, have come a long way on along the journey with Amazon on this over the last 78 years. But we both learned how to operate our work clothes. When you're running a terabytes scale, right, you really have to pay attention to matters like scale out and consistency and parallelism and all of these things. These matters significantly right? And it's taken a certain maturity curve that you have to go through to get there. The last part of that is that because the TCO is so optimized with the customer to operate this without any ops on their side, they could just start consuming data, even if it's a terabyte of data. So this means that now we have to have the smarts in the processing engines to think about things like cashing, for example very, very differently because the way you cash data that Zinn hedge defense is very different from how you would do that in the context of his three are similarly, the way you think about consistency and metadata is very, very different at that layer. But we made sure that we can abstract these differences out at the platform layer so that as an as it is an application consumer, you really get the same experience, whether you're running these analytics on clam or whether you're running them in the cloud. And that's really central to how I see this space evolving is that we want to meet the customer where they are, rather than forcing them to change the way they work because off the platform that they're simple. >>So could you take them in to explain some of the integrations with AWS and some customer examples? Because, um, you know, first of all, cost is a big concern on everyone's mind because, you know, it's still lower costs and higher value with the cloud anyway. But it could get away from you. So you know, you're constantly petabytes of scale. There's a lot of data moving around. That's one thing to integration with higher level services. Can you give where does explain how Claudia integration with Amazon? What's the relation of customer wants to know. Hey, you guys, you know, partnering, explain the partnership. And what does it mean for me? >>Absolutely. So the way we look at the partnership hit that one person and ghetto. It's really a four layer cake because the lowest layer is the core infrastructure services. We talked about storage and computing on security, and I am so on and so forth. So that layer is a very robust integration that goes back a few years. The next layer up from that has to do with increasingly, you know, as our customers use analytic experiences from Florida on, they want to combine that with data that's actually in the AWS compute experiences like the red Ship, for example. That's what the analytics layer uploaded the data warehouse offering and how that interrupts would be other services in Amazon that could be relevant. This is common file formats that open source well form it really help us in this context to make sure that they have a very strong level of interest at the analytics there. The third layer up from that has to do with consumption. Like if you're gonna bring an analyst on board. You want to make sure that all of their sequel, like analyst experiences, notebooks, things of that nature that's really strong. And club out of the third layer on the highest layer is really around. Data sharing. That's as aws new and technologies like that become more prevalent. Now. Customers want to make sure that they can have these data states that they have in the different clouds, actually in a robbery. So we provide ways for them, toe browse and search data, regardless of whether that data is on AWS or on traffic. And so that's how the fourth layer in the stack, the vertical slice running through all of these, that we have a really strong business relationship with them both on the on the on the commercial market side as well as in AWS marketplace. Right? So we can actually by having cdp be a part of it of the US marketplace. This means that if you have an enterprise agreement with with Amazon, you can actually pay for CDP toe the credit sexuality purchased. This is a very, very tight relationship that's designed again for these large scale speeds and feeds. Can the customer >>so just to get this right. So if I love the four layer cake icings the success of CDP love that birthday candles can be on top to when you're successful. But you're saying that you're going to mark with Amazon two ways marketplace listing and then also jointly with their enterprise field programs. That right? You say because they have this program you can bundle into the blanket pos or Pio processes That right can explain that again. >>S so if you think this'll states, if you're talking about are significant. So we want to make sure that, you know, we're really aligned with them in terms off our cloud migration strategy in terms of how the customer actually execute to what is a fairly you know, it's a complex deployment to deploy a large multiple functions did and existed takes time, right, So we're gonna make sure that we navigate this together jointly with the U. S. To make sure that from a best practices standpoint, for example, were very well aligned from a cost standpoint, you know what we're telling the customer architecturally is very rather nine. That's that's where I think really the heart of the engineering relationship between the two companies without. >>So if you want Cloudera on Amazon, you just go in. You can click to buy. Or if you got to deal with Amazon in terms of global marketplace deal, which they have been rolling out, I could buy there too, Right? All right, well, run. Thanks for the update and insight. Um, love the four layer cake love gets. See the modernization of the data platform from Cloudera. And congratulations on all the hard work you guys been doing with AWS. >>Thank you so much. Appreciate. >>Okay, good to see you. Okay, I'm John for your hearing. The Cube for Cube virtual for eight of us. Reinvent 2020 virtual. Thanks for watching.

Published Date : Dec 8 2020

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John Metzger, Veeam - VeeamOn 2017 - #VeeamOn - #theCUBE


 

>> Narrator: Live from New Orleans, it's theCUBE. Covering VeeamON 2017. Brought to you by Veeam. >> We're back, this is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. Covering VeeamON, two days of wall to wall coverage. Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman. One of the key things that we look at in a company is how fast can they go from R&D to actual product that they can sell to customers. We use events like this to understand that pace of innovation. John Metzger is here, the Vice President of Product Marketing at Veeam. John, good to see you. >> Good to see you, thanks for having me. >> You're welcome. So, lots of announcements. You got the yesterday announcements. You got the today announcements, you got the tomorrow announcements that we won't talk about but, to the point that I was making at the open, you guys have been very busy, rapid fire innovation going from R&D out to products. Give us the high level on some of the announcements that you've made this week. >> Yeah, that innovation is something that we pride ourselves on in terms of being able to deliver functionality to the market very quickly. We rabbled some of them off on main stage earlier but the customers think of us in terms of driving that innovation. Things like snapshot integration, instant VM recovery, Veeam Cloud connect. The services that we're delivering is part of those in past announcements. With v10 and the wider platform, what we're announcing this week are some key innovations around what we call always on business continuity. Delivering that digital transformation agility. We deliver that in a couple ways in the announcements that we've supported earlier today. So it's things like native object storage support, which will allow customers to be able to free up where they're putting... Give them more agility into where they're putting their archives. Today if they're putting them into that primary storage through this object storage, we're giving them the ability to store them wherever. It could be less cost storage, could be in the cloud, it could be wherever they want to put that. Giving them some agility there. We're supporting new workloads which we hadn't supported before. Most customers probably think of us in terms of delivering that virtualization backup and recovery services primarily on Prim. We've been moving towards that multi-cloud environment which you heard a lot about today for the last several years but with this announcement today, we're doing things like supporting physical servers, endpoints and those Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud. >> John can I-- >> Yeah. >> Really important point there, cause right, most people, I think Veeam, you think the name of the company, VM is right in the name. Customers are figuring out that multi-cloud hybrid world. A key piece is right, I've got my bare metal physical stuff whether it's Windows, Linux, I've virtualized environments, I've got cloud... How do I wrap my arms around the management of all those pieces and maybe you could speak a little to how Veeam makes sure you get a similar environment, can I just manage 'em all together? >> You can. >> Okay. >> So there's a couple things we announced this week. One is in v10, we are going to have that centralized agent management. So when we talked about that that's both the virtualized machines as well as the agents for Windows and Linux. So whether there's an endpoint or a server, one console being able to manage those in a single pane of glass so to speak. We also announced the Veeam availability console, so we've actually announced this previously, but what we did announce, is that we have our release candidate. This is really targeting those service providers so they can deliver the same theme hosted services, Veeam cloud-connect offerings through this Veeam availability console. Two pieces there that we announced from a management standpoint because we're hearing from our customers obviously they're looking for, and Veeam's known for this, that simplified, easy to use solutions. That centralized management is critical to that. >> Okay and then back to the other announcement that has really caught a lot of attention, is the CDP piece. >> Yes. >> So let's spend some time on that. Understand that a little bit better. >> So this is something that we've positioned ourselves as saying we deliver availability for any application and data for 15 minutes or less. That's really based off of that backup and recovery instant VM recovery is one where we can even say, within seconds or minutes. But what we're looking to do here is for those most critical workloads, those tier one applications, it could be website, it could be point of sale applications. Whatever it is, but those most important applications, to be able to deliver that RPOs of seconds. In the demo we gave earlier, you saw the default as 15 seconds, can go even lower, but we're looking to drive that RPOs with replication very quickly to drive to deliver that solution in the market in addition to our backup and recovery. Now that high-speed replication that is competing with delivering solutions that other legacy vendors aren't. >> Well, okay, so let's talk about this for a second. So one of the problems in the world of data protection has always been, it's kind of a one-size fits all. You don't have the ability to say, okay, these apps, they don't need as much protection as these. They don't have the granularity and the ability, because it's too complex and it's too expensive to say okay, put this level of data protection on these workloads and tighten it up for these. The concepts generally used are RPO and RTO. RPO is recovery point objective which is essentially how much data you're going to lose. So if you're taking snapshots in 15 minute increments, you have the potential to lose that data that's not snapped. Okay fine. And then RTO is the speed of recovery. Okay so those are the basics, the really basics. So you're announcing the ability to have very granular levels of RPO, right? >> Correct, yup. >> And you're doing that, if I understand it correctly, through the V sphere API for iO filtering. That's the key ingredient, an enabler, for you guys. >> Absolutely. Because we're leveraging that API for us to be able to deliver in a way that's supported fully by VMware. Be able to get access to information, that enables us to deliver that faster and many of the others in the space aren't leveraging that same API. It gives us opportunities to differentiate and show results. >> Alright, so we got to ask you the elephant in the room question. We've been asking this question of CEOs at NetApp and Dell prior to them buying VMware for years. You got VMware which is owned by Dell and obviously EMC is part of that. EMC's a competitor. Do you get the same treatment as a VMware partner, as say the insiders at Dell EMC. How do you answer that question when customers ask you? >> Good question. It's one that in the past has been a concern. But more and more, we actually had Sanjay on stage today, had similar level folks on stage at the previous VM ONs. We have a very good relationship with VMware. We actually share where we're headed in particular areas and obviously have access to their API in this case for replication. We are building that relationship. We've actually done some research with VMware to show the value that Veeam brings to VMware in terms of driving more and more virtualization with the environment. Some research we did with IDC for example, showed that while we may not, Veeam may not drive that initial purchase of VMware, we're driving higher adoption on VMware. So VMware sees that, we have that relationship with them and we're very open to driving those joint go to market opportunities. That's why you end up with a Sanjay and such-- >> One quick thing. So the CDP, that snapshotless environment uses the APIs. Does that mean that it's only for VMware environment today or-- >> Yes. >> Is there any discussion of future how CDP goes beyond-- >> Definitely for future opportunities but for today, this really is that we're talking about with v10 is VMware. >> So the key is that you get the SDK. You do the integration and all the testing and that's a heavy lift is it not? >> Yes. >> Okay and so, can you give us the timeline as to when we can actually see this product in the field. >> With v10, all the announcements that we made with Veeam availbility suite version 10, we're targeting by end of year to have version 10 out in the market. >> Excellent, okay. Then the other thing that you guys announced is some integrations. You mentioned three companies. Lenovo, IBM and Infinidat, which is kind of interesting. Emerging array company started by Moshe Yanai. Talk about those integrations and exactly what they are. >> This builds on some of the current integrations that we have in the market. We've done integration with vendors such as HPE, EMC, Dell, Dell EMC, NetApp and Cisco. We've done it in a couple key areas. One is integration with their snapshots for backup, for recovery and some efficiencies that we're doing with Dedupe and other pieces. What we're doing here with Lenovo, IBM, and Infinidat, is that we're doing that same level of integration. Through the API, they're able to develop backup from storage snapshots, recovery from storage snapshots, functionaility that we've developed with the other vendors in supporting those throughout these-- >> So these are space efficient snapshots and the key is you're getting application consistency and that whole lifecycle. >> Yes, in driving the benefit for the end user is they're seeing better RPOs, better RTOs, faster backups as a result. By leveraging that integration. >> So John, we've talked a bunch about VMware and the relationship there. One of the other announcements was the Veeam availability for AWS. How much of that is customers coming to Veeam asking for it? How is the partnership with Amazon themselves? What can you share with about that? >> We made actually a couple announcements relative to integrations with third party vendors to help get more to Amazon. Definitely a need. No doubt, Amazon's the leader in the public cloud space. We have a lot of customers that have workloads in the cloud. That are looking for us to help them deliver that availbility solution for those workloads. In addition to the partnerships which you'll hear more about tomorrow with Asher, AWS is definitely a key focus for us. This availbility for AWS is one of our, while we can do agent backup and recovery with our Windows and Linux agents, this is giving us an agentless solution within AWS to help mitigate that risk of lost data. It's definitely a key focus of us. We also announced through Star Wen's leveraging AWS for virtual tape libraries. We talked about object storage which we're now able to leverage several Amazon properties for that. We're looking to deliver more support for Amazon and other public clouds in terms of that greater availbility. >> Let's talk use cases a little bit. There are four that I wanted to talk about and then maybe even some others. So obviously, on Prim, data protection has been doing that for a while. To get on Prim going up to the cloud and that's something I think you guys support. Cloud coming back on Prim and then cloud to cloud. Are those four viable use cases that your customers are pushing you to? >> Definitely. You summarized it very well. I think those are the four use cases that we are building. Whether that cloud is public, managed or private, we're looking to be able to get workloads to wherever they need to be across those clouds. Whether it's from Prim to cloud, cloud down to Prim, across cloud. So definitely use cases that we're hearing from customers. They want that flexibility to be able to get the workloads to wherever they feel they need them. IT is being asked to deliver or get several of those use cases and how can I, as an IT manager, deliver against whatever's best for that person at the line of business, or that CEO, or whatever we're trying to achieve for the business. Give me that agility, that flexibility to be able to do that. >> Then, beyond those four, is there an affinity... There's obviously an affinity to DevOps. If I can integration my data protection strategy and schema directly into my build and my deploy, that's going to give me more agility. Can you talk about the DevOps use case and put some meat on that bone. >> In terms of what they're looking for from a-- >> Yes. >> We actually look at it from a couple different perspectives. We talked about DevOps, we talked about the IT manager, we also look at it from the line of business perspective. That agility goes to various folks within the organization. We know more and more, particularly in the cloud scenario, that you might have somebody who has very little DevOps background or IT background, they know they've got a problem they need to solve. They think that public cloud or some solution is the best way to go. IT is there, DevOps is there to try to understand what their real needs are and how I can help solve those concerns. We're trying to give them that flexibility to manage the requirements based off what the customers' asking for. >> Excellent. So what's the reaction been to the announcements, what are people asking you, what kind of questions, enthusiasm? >> Yeah, it was interesting. We made the announcements this morning, I think the press release is about to hit the wire here very soon if it hasn't already. We did some pre-briefing of them. We're seeing, I would say Veeam CDP definitely is a lot of interest there. We are physical server support, is one that, while we traditionally have not delivered that, as you know, it's an area that obviously customers have physical servers, they have endpoints. In some of the reaction that we've seen on Twitter and elsewhere is, "finally." Veeam's delivering that. We focused on being best of breed at what we've been doing for eight years, but now in the last couple years, enable to deliver that full coverage of wherever those workloads would be, we recognize that that's an area we need to go. Those are some key interests. Of course the AWS announcement that we talked about is driving a lot of interest as well. Good reaction so far. Thrilled to see the feedback. >> Alright John, well listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, it's great to see you. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate the rundown. You're welcome. Alright, keep it right there buddy, we'll be back with our next guest. He's a CUBE-er live from VeeamOn in New Orleans. We'll be right back.

Published Date : May 17 2017

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