>> From Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, if the queue covering Vita Winter warmer, twenty nineteen brought to you by Silicon Angle media. >> I'm stupid. And this is the cubes coverage of the V tug Winter warmer twenty nineteen here at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, and is my distinct pleasure to welcome to the program. Two time Super Bowl champion number fifty Patriots alumnae Rob Ninkovich. Rob may think you are doing great. Thanks for having awesome. You know, the team's a little bit of flutter. We brought, you know, one of the people here that help support the Patriots. The last two rings the Patriots had and you were on those teams, So yeah, >> it was, uh, you know, privileged and blessed to be on a couple Super Bowl winning teams. So >> did I hear right? Was the last one actually on your birthday to know that was the first >> one? That was really, really, really, really nice. >> Capable ring on your palm. My birthday. So your birthday's coming up here on February first, so >> I'll be the Big thirty five. Yeah, we'll have to sell me. I can't believe it. I'm almost seventy after seventy. >> Congratulations. Looking good and thank you. Feel good. Probably look out >> running climbing mountains. I'm gonna climb Mount Kilimanjaro with Chris Long here pretty soon in a month off. So I'll be in Africa raising money for water boys. So we'll be drilling for clean water, so it'll be cool. >> That's great. Yeah. I mean, let's hit on that. You know, you were you were drafted by the same. Believe you met your wife. Yeah. They're Southern Southern girls. Both of you are, you know, giving back to the community. Do a lot of charitable work. Would love to hear a little bit about that. >> Yeah. I mean, I think that the platform that athletes have is is tremendous. So if you can give back to your community, you know, that's that's one of the best things that I think an athlete can give back. And that's, you know, people that are in need and people that aren't as fortunate. So you know, for me, I work with Matt Light and the Light Foundation. So him on his board of directors and that basically brings kids in from troubled areas and backgrounds and they go into a camp and it's a four year program. So they start. And then they graduate, so to speak. When they get through high school and they're going into their college years, but it's a great program for trying to develop your skills. And you know, a lot of kids that don't have, you know, maybe a great family background that you know is a healthy background to where it's trying to bring kids together and show them some different things that could help them moving forward. And, you know, life skills that everyone needs. >> Yeah, this conference actually talk a lot about skills in career because and the technology field things were changing a lot. Now I've watched football. Most of my career were actually my season tickets. I can see across the field here and, you know, in your career, your eleven year career in the NFL changed a lot. I think you came into the NFL as an outside linebacker. And when you're here in the Patriots who switched the defensive end? No, you know what kind of things do you learn? And you know, how do you kind of have the mindset to say, like, Okay, well, this is the job and the skills and the things I'm looking to do. And now, like a weight, I need toe, you know, have a hand down and be facing off against some really big guys. >> Yes. So, I mean, I think the Toby the chameleon, so to speak and be able to change and adapt to your environment. I mean, that's what makes not just an athlete, but, you know, every every business person that can change with time and in with the trends of technology and how things were adapting over overtime, that's what's gonna continue your success. So if you stay, if you just one thing and you never want to change and you never adapt, you're goingto be overtaken by somebody else. So you have to have that mindset. When I arrived here with the Patriots, I knew that you had to be multiple. He had to continue toe, do different things with your career in position or else, you know, really, you don't stick around as long. So you know, for me, I was a defensive lineman, linebacker, special teams. You do it all, and it helps Not only your team, but it helps your career and, you know, have a long career that, >> yeah, not only do your job, but when you're called to do multiple jobs, you you're going to step in and do that. It kind of seems to be the Patriot. >> You have to. You have to. If you can't do the multiple job thing, it's This might not be the place. >> Yeah, So, you know, we just had, you know, one of the most amazing games and Patriot history that I think I've seen. I'm curious us now, an observer rather than player. You know what your thought looking at a game like that? You know, I know heart rates were a little bit high for those of us in New England, but, you know, it's really amazing win like that. >> Yeah. I mean, it goes to show you that the mental toughness and the that just never quit mentality is one of the main characteristics of this team this year in their story, you can't look at previous years or just you can't look att history. When it comes to football, it comes down. Who's going to play the best football in that particular day? And, you know, you look at what the defense has done so far. It's been tremendous going against the Chargers, who are a great team and you know, everyone was making the excuse of, you know, they travelled a lot in the time change was tough, but then them going on >> the road, >> which hadn't been a strong point form this year and getting a win and shutting out a team in the first half. The Chiefs that were really powerful and really explosive in one of the best in the NFL. It just goes to show you that, you know, in the playoffs, it's a completely different season. It's a new season. You've gotto just forget about what happened in the regular season. You know, moving on to this next game. I think that they just need to continue that high momentum and playing the way that they are playing, which is running the football, being tough and playing physical for four quarters. Being physical. That's that's what's going to win in this next one >> sixty minutes. And if it goes in over time, a little bit longer, >> you got it. Whatever it takes. >> Rob Ninkovich really appreciate you spending some time with that. Well, best of luck on Kilimanjaro this year. Exciting. Yeah, I know you do some social media. They're so sure people can follow along >> Yeah, I'll be on there. I got Instagram Nick five o. So And then I'm Niko. Five o for Twitter. So I'm out there. All right, all right. >> Thank you so much. And we, of course, are out there all the time. Go to the cube dot net to catch all the videos. Find me on Twitter. I'm just stew s to you and, uh, super pleasure to be able to have Rob Ninkovich. And thanks so much for the veto >> booth.

>> Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE covering AWS Reinvent 2018. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services, Intel and their ecosystem partners. >> And welcome to Las Vegas, we're in the Sands now for AWS re:Invent day one, here for all three days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, exclusive CUBE coverage here. I'm John Walls with Justin Warner and John Ferrier. Gentlemen, good to see you, it's been a while since we had the band together so it's good to be back. >> Well we can reinvent, everyone is going to run the marathon, it's a hard hitting show, it's the wall-to-wall coverage. Started with what they call Midnight Madness kind of played off March Madness. Sunday at midnight kicks off the show, they have a party that goes well into the evening, to get the launches out there. >> I don't want to ask where you were at that time. >> I was actually coming home from Phoenix, from a family trip but I'll be coming this year but this even, wall-to-wall coverage, here at The Cube, three days of live broadcast. It really kicked off yesterday, there's evening events, 52 000 people, it is packed, it feels like you're walking through Disneyland on the busiest day, really is crazy. A ton of networking, a lot of customers. This is Amazon's biggest show, it's really awesome and it's a great way to see the formation of the industry. So it really is the industry Super Bowl event as Dave (mumbles) says and watching how people form, how their posture is, what their messaging is and our job, we're going to split through that this week, we're going to extract from the messaging and the conversations, get the story, get to the truth, shortcut to the data and should be fun. >> Well, let's talk about the head coach here in AWS. You've had a chance to sit down with him recently. We'll hear the key note tomorrow morning but just give you a little sneak peak of what you think is coming from Mr Jassy and what do you think the message is that he wants to deliver? >> Well, we've been covering Amazon since its founding, or our founding eight years ago and seven years they started reInvent, eight years ago, we are seven years, this is our seventh year at reInvent. So we get to know Jassy So he invites me every year for a one-on-one. This year, I did it at his house. He's got a sport bar in his basement. Tricked out sports bar, great football game was on, Chiefs against the Chargers, we watched that, two and a half hours I spent with him really kind of getting a feel for what's on his mind. How he's thinking about the business because a lot of, he's having a lot of pinch-me moments where certainly they're winning, they're blowing away field in my opinion in cloud computing. I think there's really not even a close second place although Microsoft's got the chops, they're doing their gaming, Google's got the tech and they're repositioning, you know, how does he feel? He's humble as they come and he's got the management discipline, but he was really kind of saying to me, hey, great leaders are listening to customers and he was walking back his position on hybrid cloud because clearly they're going to make some big announcements here around hybrid cloud but I got insight into his mind and he's not done and these guys are not celebrating in the end zone, they're not high fiving each other, they've got a lot of work to do and still, people are not using the cloud like they really are in their mind. I think things like Lambda and the announcements we'll be expecting to see here today is going to set the stage for a new set of apps and I think there's going to be a renaissance of software development, they recognize it, they recognize that the competition's hotter, they recognize that they got to get better and raise the bar and that's what they're doing. They have a cadens to their management style that I think is historic in this era of leadership and the likes of all the Uber scandals, Facebook, the scandals of the management team of Facebook. No one trusts corporate America. Amazon's got this execution style that kind of reminds me back in the old days, Intel had or an HP back in the day. They actually kick ass as a management team. They're focused, they're not celebrating and they're clearly guns glaring. SO they're doing the work. I still think that they see the world as still competitive, there are things out there that I think scares them, although he didn't say CNCF directly but there's things out there forming that could dis-intermediate the greatness of AWS and that's just natural competition and his philosophy, Justin is, bring it on. >> Well, I was just in China funnily enough for CNCF Cube, CNCF club native con, Cube con. The first one that they held in China and it was amazing to see what the Chinese are actually doing. So we ear a lot over here in Europe and over here in the Western world. There's a lot of conversation about Amazon and Google and Microsoft, but you never hear the words Tencent or Alibaba, they don't come up a lot and yet what Alibaba and Tencent are doing over there is amazing so I think if we're thinking about the competition in a global sense, then certainly Amazon needs to be right onto of their game because yeah, we might have some stumbles from Google as we've seen and Microsoft, still a little bit behind the plan but if you look at globally and see what's happening over there in China, there's a lot that they should be worried about. >> Well, give me a such as. When you talk about Alibaba doing things that maybe aren't happening here, for example. >> There was some amazing stuff around our AI machine learning that they were doing around grid management of renewable energy and distribution around the entire country of China. So there are things that are possible in China that are not quite as easy to do over here in the West. It's a lot easier when you have one person in charge of all of the things and they can say, we're going to go and do that. It's a little bit more, there's a lot more negotiation required over this side. >> And you think too about China as the mobile penetration is higher there and they're very data centered. You look at the United States, even in the IT world. Dell, HP's, the Oracle's of the world, the old IT guard essentially had that data but now you got data on phones, with this proximity, you've got edge of the network. The data is going to live in a lot of places and in our legacy infrastructure and IT in North America, Dell doesn't have anything to do with my phone or HP, that's just service so the old way of storing data and where data lives and how data's being used is radically changing. >> Yeah, there's a lot of stuff happening at the edge. We have some presentations on wind farms. So you have compute lives in wind farms and they're actually sampling the air and finding out what the weather patterns are like, feeding that back into central systems and they're having to design systems that are able to be deployed, the same thing, cookie cutter all over the country, distributed around the place where you've got latency and communication issues, where you've got power distribution issues. So you have to think about the way you're deploying these infrastructure, completely differently than if you centralize in one cloud or even in a data center or you're running it yourself. So they're actually thinking about things in a layered sense. So it's not just one size fits all, it's actually we need sides, multiple different sizes to fit lots of different things. >> And what, I mean John you got off the phone with 5G on the horizon. I can only imagine the exponential explosion we're going to see in data coming in from sensors and IoT, you talk about edge and faster, more, where's all that going? >> So I got a little reporter's notebook here from my meeting with Jassy and also connecting the dots what's going to be announced. There's going to be an announcement today around 11 o'clock this morning around maybe Jassy announcing new connectivity option and what you're seeing is that Amazon recognizing that IoT at the edge, Internet of Things is sensors as wind farms so this IoT is about power and connectivity. Without power and connectivity, IoT doesn't really exist. SO these new kinds of internet infrastructure data devices that need computer, you got to have power, you got to have connectivity and they might not have the worst power on a safe phone, although this is a, plenty of power on there. You want to take advantage of bigger data sets. You've got to go back to the cloud. So the cloud is becoming the brain and that's what Andy Jassy said to me, he said the cloud is going to be the brains and the edge can be, use some processing, we're going to send compute there if we need it. We don't want to move data around because latency will kill. So we're expecting Amazon to announce new services around connectivity where you can stand up things like satellites as a service and that's what's going to be announced at 11 o'clock. I just got that out there so we'll see if that's confirmed or not. (John Walls laughs) Two hours early if you watch this, don't tweet this, I'll get in trouble. >> Is that cat out of the bag. I think yeah, go ahead. >> Well you know, it's a brief guess, I heard some rumbles in the hallway but we'll see what the details are but this is a new kind of progressive thinking, this is what I love about AWS and Jassy, they're not afraid to use their scale and power to push new capabilities, not just extract ranch from customers and by standing up connectivity, this is a weak link in the equation of IoT. There's a lot of things that need power and connectivity and if you have good processing power and compute at the edge, that's going to happen. So Andy's philosophy and Amazon's philosophy is consistent with Wikibon research and most analysts have discussed in this strand that you want to move compute to the edge, not move data back to the cloud. This is fundamentally the shift that's going on with services like Lambda, you can power up things in hundreds of milliseconds versus an instance of ten seconds. This is changing the software development paradigm. This is a tailwind, this is going to power new work loads so you see Amazon recognizing this, increasing power compute to the edge, offering connectivity ops where there isn't any. Making things faster with compute and then moving up the stack. This is going to be a big part of this show. We're expecting to see if Amazon is going to move up the stack. Aurora, Sagemaker and levels of services that they're going to allow developers, new kind of software development where truly the dream of (mumbles) of not knowing anything about the infrastructure could be realized. >> That is a pretty big shift for Amazon 'cause they've always been talking about themselves as undifferentiated heavy lifting as one of their analysts told me it some years ago. That was their idea, was that we're just going to be the utility service that is the one true way that you should use it and it will be ubiquitous in the same way that you have power as a utility, you rent it and you just use it and you build other things on top of that. So it's interesting that we're now starting to see that Amazon themselves are building things on top of what they've already created in the same way that S3 was build on top of EC2, so now we're seeing this layering effect of we built the underlying technologies and now we're going to start putting extra value technologies on top of that and that's where to start to see things like as a services, serverless Lambda being built on top of all this underlying stuff. We're going to start seeing some really interesting stuff coming form Amazon. >> I'd like to hear from you guys, you've talked about what you think AWS is going to talk about. What do you want them to talk about. What do you want to hear form them this week, whether it's a challenge they have to take on or whether it's about the competitive landscape what is it between the two of you that's you'd like to hear them address. >> I would like to hear their position on the software development paradigm around moving between clouds. I know they don't like the word multi-cloud, hybrid cloud's the word that they choose. They don't actually use the word multi-cloud, hybrid cloud is their word. They see the world in a very specific way which I don't disagree with. On premises with clouds, operations and seamless consistency around both, how that works and what is means for the customer is what I want to know. WHat's the switching cost involved, what's the benefit to customers, it's going to be a lock inspect. I want to hear about some of the migration stories, I want to hear them talk about migrations. I don't think migration to the cloud has been successful for Amazon as they had hoped. I think when you look at what's going on in the enterprise, legacy workloads that run payroll around mainframes, they're going to stay there and no-one's moving that to the cloud 'cause why would I want to rewrite that. So this is the interesting thing. So I want to hear them talk about how they're going to handle a workload that's on premises, that's legacy, that's part of a production mission critical application and how that's going to work with new services via APIs. Stable data, things of that nature. I want to hear how they're going to handle containers and Kubernetes, 'cause this is going to be the key linchpin between moving data and services via APIs and web services, this is the holy grail. They can address that in a clear way, I would be happy and I expect them to see them do things like put a VM container around containers. A lot of competitive strategy going on, so I'm trying to look for the chess moves on the board. Kubernetes and containers is a big one. >> The customer, in terms of helping customers, I would actually like to see, I think similarly, see Amazon relax we are the one true way message that they've been hammering pretty hard for a long, long time. If you do cloud, it has to be us and we're really the only the cloud that exist. That's caused a lot of issues inside particularly enterprise customers who have, as you say, they've got legacy applications, or we'd like to call them heritage applications. They work, they've been debugged, they're sold applications. Rewriting those adds a lot of risk and a lot of IT projects found, more than 50% of them fail. SO if you're going to say, oh you have to completely rewrite everything and take it all to serverless, if you're going to do anything cloud, that adds a huge amount of risk onto the IT portfolio. So for an enterprise, or anyone who's actually been a successful company already, not the new startups, I'd say yes, brand new, you can start green, field's awesome, but if you have any kind of successful company already, you need to have a migration part. You need to understand it's appropriate to put these things, net news should start in cloud, great. What about the stuff that we've already got that's debugged, how do I get that to talk to cloud and how do I not end up with a bifurcated organization where I've got this legacy stuff that sits in the cupboard which no-one want to touch and play with and I have everyone doing all the new shiny stuff over here and then I end up killing my business because I have no migration part. >> And one final thing and then we got to go wrap up and get started for the day. I want to see more on the net new work loads because I think that is going to be a key part. The application developers are going to be where the power source is. New breeded developer, classic IT experts emerging, changing to devops and kind of a new community, open source community kind of personas them all evolving. So development, of our environment changing with developer persona, IT experts are changing to devops and the role of open source communities, I want to see more of that. At the end of the day, I want to see how Amazon thinks and how their customers are working with their data. Because if they have that Heritage app or legacy or an edge or wherever, the data is going to be a critical design component for the next generation. So that's what I'm looking for, what's going on with the data and trying to survive the slew of announcements. >> Big data, big topics and we have 40 000 of our best friends here to share their knowledge with you. Well, we're not going to have all of them, but we're going to have a lot. Wall-to-wall coverage here, AWS re:Invent kicks off in just a few moments, you are watching The Cube live from Las Vegas. 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