live from Las Vegas it's the queue covering Dell technologies world 2019 brought to you by Dell technologies and it's ecosystem partners welcome back everyone to the cubes live coverage of Dell technologies world here in Sin City I'm your host Rebecca night along with my co-host Stu minimun we have Chadds a catch he is the SVP PKS and Deltek Alliance at pivotal thank you so much for coming back on the cube Rebekah it is my pleasure Stu as always this is a big anniversary actually this isn't he I'm glad you brought it up this is this is Mark's 10 years of the cube at Dell technologies world and you're a cube MVP I want to hear you break it down for us would listen down this milestone when when when you guys started doing this I'm not sure whether anyone knew whether there was gonna be a season two but you know I think at these events distilling down what's happening bring in people with diverse points of view you guys have always made it real shared the perspective of the ecosystem challenged us to keep it a no-spin zone which i think is a great formula yeah Chad thank you so much first of all you know one of the things we do come in opinionated but one of the things we want is we want guests with opinions and luckily you've always brought it we love having you on the program and boy have things changed a lot in the last 10 years so I want to get your view on the keynote so I mean Chad you and I go back way we we were colleagues back at EMC I remember when you were acquired into the company we worked on like I scuzzy stuff which nobody even talks anymore of my scuzzy storage networking the dark art of that stuff but VMware was something that you know it really was a lifter for both of our careers I think it was really interesting to see how central VMware is to the strategy that we saw how it fits into multi cloud I just got a note from Dave Volante said you know Pat Geller drew up on there talking about multi cloud and you know let's not think that Microsoft obviates the need for AWS Atos is the first the big cloud and absolutely VMware's working with them so I'd love to get your take on you know VMware and the multi cloud and VMware with delve as opposed to VMware with EMC there's a lot to unpack in that yeah we've got like an hour so the first thing that I think is interesting is that history and context gives perspective but ditch context and dick ditch history and if you think of the now and the market the customer no longer wants servers network storage they don't want virtualization they don't even want things like RDS and ec2 and we still want the emotion right you know the the reality is is that with every customer that I see they're looking for things that only the Giants in increasingly vertically integrated stacks can do so think about the whole keynote through that context right basically you saw Dell EMC and VMware more aligned than ever and again you and I have the history in the context of years of EMC VMware I remember the first time I did a vien the first time played with ESX 3.0 and virtual Center 100 and 200 and going is gonna change the universe but fast-forward to now people are like I want an easy button for the whole stack Dell EMC says this is the common building block VX rail my former baby is now grown up and it's the standardized way to deploy the VMware stack on Brentt Project I mention is moved out of a hypothetical into beta management of that lifecycle as a cloud service and you'll notice that Michael started it in the keynote kubernetes is central to that vision our efforts between pivotal and VMware in the kubernetes universe is singular the objective is to make that whole stack simple to deploy consume grow etc etc now Chad I needed a comment on one thing so I seem to remember back another project you worked on that was going to start as a managed server and that turned into Acadia which turned into VCE which turned into a product because the customer gave very clear feedback that most of them didn't want it so why is it is it different now what's different now what changed in a decade the customer wants the outcome in the historical like you know that's a Wayback Machine right so circa 2010 the way you built a private cloud was an assemblage of server network computes virtualization in separate components delivering that as an outcome as a managed service even for VCE CPS D etc etc there we did it amazingly for about 3,000 customers but it was held together with services and human that's not software what's adapted is that the software-defined data center is now much more mature and it's possible for us to literally roll in a rack of VX rails manage it via dimension do full lifecycle updates not via NRC em but via button click in a window that is necessary for that degree of simplification now if we had stopped there in the keynote we'd be missing the mark because basically the customers have said I want a common multi cloud hybrid cloud operating model with consistent control consistent infrastructure can consistent kubernetes consistent developer abstractions and I thought it was a pretty big deal to see Microsoft join what VMware's been doing with AWS and you know we were there at the Google announcement at Google next you know just a couple weeks back so I think that we're moving into a face to be a little opinionated here where customers wanting an outcome are going to look at Deltek Microsoft Amazon sometimes Google and go tell us how we bring ourselves to the digital future it's interesting because that means what things that people don't like which is vertically integrated stacks they don't like industry consolidation they don't like optionality being reduced but if you want an outcome frankly increasingly what's happening is consolidation at this layer and a blossoming ecosystem above it so so where where where will that bring us I mean I think I think you're absolutely right in you you started talking about how we're sort of putting aside history and perspective and now let's bring it back into the conversation yeah what does that mean I think I think that for human beings watching the era of doing cool things assembling things that run VMS even things that run kubernetes and containers is increasingly turning into an a realm where you have to let go so that you can do things that matter increasingly the ecosystems are hyper standardizing those stacks and delivering them as a service in a public cloud and on-premises our objective and I think it's something that only Deltek really is in a position to do is to do that in a way which is open multi-cloud and yet also deeply integrated and what I would say is again to anybody watching is if you're deep passion is in building cool things build cool things but on top of that stuff so chat great set up for the question I have kubernetes I've argued for a number of years is something that the average customer shouldn't need to worry about it's something that should be baked into the platform all the public clouds have it VMware has it your babies PKS today help help us reconcile the statement you were just making and what PKS because I know it's really cool tech and there's lots of pieces and lots of smart people work on it but so you know how does that fit so a stew again you and I go back aways do you remember you remember the state of virtualization circa 2006 sure you'd show up to the VM world and it would be filled with people deeply passionate at the time it was like three four thousand people we're gonna change the world with virtualization all of them were doing weird science projects very few of them could say and I'm running this in production to you know do bla and I'm making the hospital run better right but they'd be like look at how cool this is the technology matured a lot and if you look at the time frame 2010 which was vSphere for if my timing is right it was the first year where it was like kind of for reals right and people started to talk about hey I can do cool stuff kubernetes is currently in the 2006 of virtualization so I've been doing this now for a year we as del tech are now the number two contributor to kubernetes right after Google more than RedHat more than RedHat is that combining all the pieces we have basically drove and so hard towards this point because we think it's essential now you've got the help to your team as part of that that's a big that is a big part of the strategy right how do we make contributions for the native upstream community and lead that charge via be a good citizen of that ecosystem one two we will make PKS Enterprise PKS in a central PKS the best simplest curated way to make this work that said kubernetes has three major release over three months PKS 1.4 using one dot 13.5 came out last week 1.5 with beta support for Windows is just arriving and we did a beta last week three months from now there's gonna be another major release I'm doing a session that basically says and I'm the I'm a cheerleader I'm like a superfan this is currently like juggling flaming chainsaws right yeah it's it's like you were like what and I'm like yeah so the CNC F which is the ecosystem around kubernetes kubernetes on its own is just like a base component you need to have this and this and this and this has 647 things on the landscape landing page that means if you take five minutes per you would spend a week without sleep without eating like the Game of Thrones watching last night's no food no sleeping no bathroom breaks today Chad five minutes each today and you would get a chance to learn all of those but to really deeply understand what they do you can't do with that in five minutes that's six months of work people need that market to consolidate mature industrialize and we're doing it having having been part of the VX rail envy san ramp being part of the NSX ramp the vSphere ramp the converged infrastructure ramp what's happening with kubernetes and with peak s exceeds the ramp curves for all of those so if you're a customer and you're thinking about do I need this kubernetes thing the answer is yes we have 50 of the Fortune 500 customers now using peak s people are doing it for real but it's still early days now some people may go that's scary and I'm gonna take a timeout I wouldn't do that I would say that just like virtualization 2006 those people who were there at vmworld got a ton of value leveraged and learning and now it's like an industry standard we are going to make kubernetes part of the VMware software defined data center and you heard Pat and Michael talk about it so it sounds like it's going in the direction that you that you believe thumbs up thumbs up from Chad sockets you heard it here first thumbs up it's been it's been a really exciting year and this year we are gonna take that momentum and accelerate it to the moon and beyond but we can't wait to have you back at this table this time next year for Season eleven thank you so much for returning to the queue Rebecca thank you I'm Rebecca Knight first amendment we will have much more from the cubes live coverage of Dell technologies world here in Las Vegas coming up in just a little bit [Music]