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>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of CONMEBOL. Future ready 2020. Brought to you by combo. >>Hi and welcome back. I'm Stew Minuteman, and we're at the Cube's coverage of Con Volt Future Ready. You've got the power panel to really dig in on the product announcements that happened at the event today. Joining me? We have three guests. First of all, we have Brenda Rajagopalan. He's the vice president of products. Sitting next to him is Don Foster, vice president of Storage Solutions. And in the far piece of the panel Mersereau, vice president of Global Channels and Alliances. All three of them with Conn Volt. Gentlemen, thanks all three of you for joining us. Exactly. All right, so first of all, great job on the launch. You know, these days with a virtual event doing, you know, the announcements, the engagement with the press and analyst, you know, having demos, customer discussions. It's a challenge to put all those together. And it has been, you know, engaging in interesting watch today. So we're going to start with you. You've been quite busy today explaining all the pieces, so just at a very high level if you put this really looks like the culmination of the update with Conn Volt portfolio new team new products compared to kind of a year, year and 1/2 ago. So just if you could start us off with kind of the high points, >>thank you still, yeah, absolutely exciting day for us today. You did comrade multiple reasons for that excitement and go through that we announced an exciting new portfolio today knows to not the culmination. It's a continuation off our journey, a bunch of new products that we launched today Hyper scaler X as a new integrated data protection appliance. We've also announced new offerings in data protection, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and complete data protection and lots of exciting updates for Hedwig and a couple of weeks like we introduced updates for metallic. So, yes, it's been a really exciting pain. Also, today happens to be the data, and we got to know that we are the leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for the ninth consecutive. I am so a lot of goodness today for us. >>Excellent. Lots of areas that we definitely want to dig deep in to the pieces done. You know, we just heard a little bit about Hedvig was an acquisition a year ago that everybody's kind of looking at and saying Okay, you know, will this make them compete against some of their traditional partners? How we get integrated in So, baby, just give us one level deeper on the Hedvig piece on what that means to the portfolio? Yeah, sure, So I >>guess I mean, one of the key things that the random mentioned was the fact that had hyper scale that's is built off the head Day files. So that's a huge milestone for us. As we teased out maybe 10 months ago. Remember, Tomball, Go on the Cube and talking about, you know, kind of what our vision and strategy was of unifying data and storage management. Those hyper hyper scale X applying is a definite milestone improving out that direction. But beyond just the hyper scale ECs, we've also been driving on some of the more primary or modern workloads such as containers and the really interesting stuff we've come out with your recently is the kubernetes native integration that ties in all of the advanced component of the head to distribute storage architecture on the platform itself across multi cloud and on premise environments, making it really easy and policy driven. Um, for Dev, ops users and infrastructure users, the tie ins applications from a group, Friction >>Great and Mercer. There's some updates to the partner program and help us understand how all of these product updates they're gonna affect the kind of the partnerships and alliances beasts that you want. >>Absolutely. So in the time since our last meeting that go in the fall, which is actually right after I had just doing combo, we spent a good portion of the following six months really talking with partners, understanding the understand the impact of the partner program that we introduced last summer, looking at the data and really looking at barriers to evolve the program, which fell around three difference specific. Once you bet one was simplicity of the simplicity of the program, simplicity of understanding, rewards, levers and so forth. The second was paying for value was really helping, helping our partners to be profitable around things like deal registration on other benefits and then third was around co investment. So making sure that we get the right members in place to support our partners and investing in practices. Another training, another enablement around combo and we launched in over these things last week is a part of an evolution of that program. Today is a great follow on because in addition to all of the program evolutions that we we launched last week now we have an opportunity with our partners to have many more opportunities or kind of a thin into the wedge to open up new discussions with our customers now around all of these different use cases and capabilities. So back to that simplification angle, really driving more and more opportunities for those partners toe specific conversations around use cases. >>Okay, for this next question, I think it makes sense for you to start. Maybe maybe Don, you can get some commentary in two. But when he's firstly the announcements, there are some new products in the piece that you discuss but trying to understand, you know, when you position it, you know, do you call the portfolio? Is it a platform? You know, if I'm an existing Conn Volt customer, you know, how do I approach this? If I use something like metallic, how does that interplay with some of the new pieces that were discussed today. >>Sure, I can take the business. I'm sure Don and mostly will have more data to it. The simplest way to think about it is as a port for you. But contrary to how you would think about portfolio as independent products, what we have is a set off data management services granular. We're very aligned to the use case, which can all inter operate with each other. So maybe launched backup and recovery and disaster recovery. These can be handled separately, purchased separately and deployed standalone or for customers who want a combination of those capabilities. We also have a complete data protection are fine storage optimization, data governance E discovery in complaints are data management services that build on top off any of these capabilities now a very differentiating factor in our platform owners. All the services that you're talking about are delivered off the same software to make it simpler to manage to the same year. So it's very easy to start with one service and then just turn on the license and go to other services so I can understand the confusion is coming from but it's all the same. The customer simplicity and flexibility in mind, and it's all delivered off the same platform. So it is a portfolio built on a single Don. Would you like to add more to it? >>Yeah, I think the interesting thing due to add on top of that is where we're going with Hedvig Infrastructure, the head of distributed storage platform, uh, to to run this point, how everything is integrated and feed and work off of one another. That's the same idea that we have. We talked about unifying data and storage manager. So the intricate storage architecture components the way data might be maneuvered, whether it's for kubernetes for virtual machines, database environments, secondary storage, you name it, um, we are. We're quickly working to continue driving that level of of unification and integration between the portfolio and heads storage, distribute storage platforms and also deliver. So what you're seeing today going back to, I think wrong his first point. It's definitely not the culmination. It's just another step in the direction as we continue to innovate and integrate this >>product, and I think for our partners what this really does, it allows them to sell around customer use cases because it'll ask now if I have a d. Our use case. I can go after just PR. If I have a backup use case, I can just go after backup, and I don't have to try to sell more than that. Could be on what the customer is looking for in parallel that we can steal these things in line with the customer use case. So the customer has a lot of remote offices. They want to scale Hedvig across those they want to use the art of the cloud. They can scale these things independently, and it really gives us a lot of optionality that we didn't have before when we had a few monolithic products. >>Excellent. Really reminds me more of how I look at products if I was gonna go buy it from some of the public cloud providers living in a hybrid cloud. World, of course, is what your customers are doing. Help us understand a little bit, you know, Mercer talked about metallic and the azure partnership, but for the rest of the products, the portfolio that we're talking about, you know, does this >>kind >>of work seamlessly across my own data center hosting providers Public Cloud, you know, how does this fit into the cloud environment for your customer? >>Yes, it does. And I can start with this one goes to, um it's our strategy is cloud first, right? And you see it in every aspect of our product portfolio. In fact, I don't know if you got to see a keynote today, but Ron from Johns Hopkins University was remarking that comment has the best cloud native architectures. And that's primarily because of the innovation that we drive into the multi cloud reality. We have very deep partnerships with pretty much all the cloud vendors, and we use that for delivering joint innovation, a few things that when you think of it from a hybrid customers perspective, the most important need for them is to continue working on pram while still leveraging the cloud. And we have a lot of optimization is built into that, and then the next step of the journey is of course, making sure that you can recover to the cloud would be it work load. Typically your data quality and there's a lot of automation that we provide to our solutions and finally, Of course, if you're already in the cloud, whether you're running a science parents or cloud native, our software protects across all those use cases, either true sass with metallic auto downloadable software, backup and recovery so we can cover the interest victims of actual presence. You. We do definitely help customers in every stage of their hybrid cloud acceleration journey. >>And if you take a look at the Hedvig protect if you take a look at the head back to, um, the ability to work in a cloud native fast, it is essentially a part of the DNA of that storage of the storage, right? So whether you're running on Prem, whether you're running it about adjacent, set up inside the cloud head, that can work with any compute environment and any storage environment that you went to essentially then feed, we build this distributed storage, and the reason that becomes important. It's pretty much highlighted with our announcement around the kubernetes and container support is that it makes it really easy to start maneuvering data from on Prem to the cloud, um, from cloud to cloud region to region, sort of that high availability that you know as customers make cloud first a reality and their organizations starts to become a critical requirement or ensuring the application of and some of the things that we've done now with kubernetes in making all of our integration for how we deliver storage for the kubernetes and container environments and being that they're completely kubernetes native and that they can support a Google in AWS and Azure. And of course, any on premises community set up just showcases the value that we can provide in giving them that level of data portability. And it basically provides a common foundation layer, or how any sort of the Dev ops teams will be operating in the way that those state full container state workloads. Donna Oh, sorry. Go >>ahead, mark area >>because you mentioned the metallic and azure partnership announcement and I just want to get on that. And one thing that run dimension, which is we are really excited about the announcement of partnership with Microsoft and all the different news cases that opens up that are SAS platform with Azure with office 3 65 and all of the great application stack it's on. If you're at the same time, to run this point. We are a multi cloud company. And whether that is other of the hyper scale clouds Mess GC, P. Ali at Oracle and IBM, etcetera, or Oliver, Great service writer burners. We continue to believe in customer choice, and we'll continue to drive unique event innovations across all of those platforms. >>All right, Don, I was wondering if we could just dig in a little bit more on some other kubernetes pieces you were talking about. Let me look at just the maturation of storage in general. You know, how do we had state back into containers in kubernetes environments? Help us see, You know what you're hearing from your customers. And you know how you how you're ready to meet their needs toe not only deliver storage, but as you say, Really? You know, full data protection in that environment? >>Certainly it So I mean, there's been a number of enhancements that happened in the kubernetes environment General over the last two years. One of the big ones was the creation of what the visit environment calls a persistent volume. And what that allows you to do is to really present storage to a a communities application. Do it be typically through what's called a CSR container storage interface that allows for state full data to be written, storage and be handled and reattached applications as you leverage them about that kubernetes. Um, as you can probably imagine that with the addition of the additional state full applications, some of the overall management now of stateless and state collapse become very talent. And that's primarily because many customers have been using some of the more traditional storage solutions to try to map that into these new state. Full scenario. And as you start to think about Dev ops organization, most Dev ops organizations want to work in the environment of their choice. Whether that's Google, whether that's AWS, Microsoft, uh, something that might be on Prem or a mix of different on Prem environments. What you typically find, at least in the kubernetes world, is there's seldom ever one single, very large kubernetes infrastructure cluster that's set to run, Dev asked. The way and production all at once. You usually have this spread out across a fairly global configuration, and so that's where some of these traditional mechanisms from traditional storage vendors really start to fall down because you can apply the same level of automation and controls in every single one of those environments. When you don't control the storage, let's say and that's really where interfacing Hedvig and allowing that sort of extension distribute storage platform brings about all of this automation policy control and really storage execution definition for the state. Full statehood workloads so that now managing the stateless and the state full becomes pretty easy and pretty easy to maintain when it comes to developing another Dev branch or simply trying to do disaster recovery or a J for production, >>any family actively do. That's a very interesting response, and the reality is customers are beginning to experiment with business. Very often they only have a virtual environment, and now they're also trying to expand into continuous. So Hedwig's ability to service primary storage for virtualization as well as containers actually gives their degree of flexibility and freedom for customers to try out containers and to start their contingent. Thank you familiar constructs. Everything is mellow where you just need to great with continuous >>Alright, bring a flexibility is something that I heard when you talk about the portfolio and the pricing as to how you put these pieces together. You actually talked about in the presentation this morning? Aggressive pricing. If you talk about, you know, kind of backup and recovery, help us understand, You know, convo 2020 how you're looking at your customers and you know how you put together your products, that to meet what they need at that. As you said, aggressive pricing? >>Absolutely. And you use this phrase a little bit earlier is to blow like flexibility. That's exactly what we're trying to get to the reason why we are reconstructing our portfolio so that we have these very granular use case aligned data management services to provide the cloud like flexibility. Customers don't have the same data management needs all the time. Great. So they can pick and choose the exact solution that need because there are delivered on the same platform that can enable out the solution investment, you know, And that's the reality. We know that many of our customers are going to start with one and keep adding more and more services, because that's what we see as ongoing conversations that gives us the ability to really praise the entry products very aggressively when compared to competition, especially when we go against single product windows. This uses a lot of slammed where we can start with a really aggressively priced product and enable more capabilities as we move forward to give you an idea, we launched disaster recovery today. I would say that compared to the so the established vendors India, we would probably come in at about 25 to 40% of the Priceline because it depends on the environment and what not. But you're going to see that that's the power of bringing to the table. You start small and then depending on what your needs are, you have the flexibility to run on either. More data management capabilities are more workloads, depending on what your needs will be. I think it's been a drag from a partner perspective, less with muscle. If you want a little bit more than that, >>yes, I mean, that goes back to the idea of being ableto simply scale across government use functionality. For example, things like the fact that our disaster recovery offering the Newman doesn't require backup really allows us to have those Taylor conversations around use cases, applications >>a >>zealous platforms. You think about one of the the big demands that we've had coming in from customers and partners, which is help me have a D R scenario or a VR set up in my environment that doesn't require people to go put their hands on boxes and cables, which was one of those things that a year ago we were having. This conversation would not necessarily have been as important as it is now, but that ability to target those specific, urgent use cases without having to go across on sort of sell things that aren't necessarily associated with the immediate pain points really makes those just makes us ineffective. Offer. >>Yeah, you bring up some changing priorities. I think almost everybody will agree that the number one priority we're hearing from customers is around security. So whether I'm adopting more cloud, I'm looking at different solutions out there. Security has to be front and center. Could we just kind of go down the line and give us the update as to how security fits and all the pieces we've been discussing? >>I guess I'm talking about change, right, so I'll start. The security for us is built into everything that we do the same view you're probably going to get from each of us because security is burden. It's not a board on, and you would see it across a lot of different images. If you take our backup and recovery and disaster recovery, for instance, a lot of ransomware protection capabilities built into the solution. For instance, we have anomaly detection that is built into the platform. If we see any kind of spurious activity happening all of a sudden, we know that that might be a potential and be reported so that the customer can take a quick look at air Gap isolation, encryption by default. So many features building. And when you come to disaster recovery, encryption on the wire, a lot of security aspects we've been to every part of the portfolio don't. >>Consequently, with Hedvig, it's probably no surprise that when that this platform was developed and as we've continued development, security has always been at the core of what we're doing is stored. So what? It's for something as simple as encryption on different volume, ensuring the communication between applications and the storage platform itself, and the way the distributors towards platform indicates those are all incredibly secured. Lock down almost such for our own our own protocols for ensuring that, um, you know, only we're able to talk within our own, our own system. Beyond that, though, I mean it comes down to ensure that data in rest data in transit. It's always it's always secure. It's also encrypted based upon the level of control that using any is there one. And then beyond just the fact of keeping the data secure. You have things like immutable snapshots. You have declared of data sovereignty to ensure that you can put essentially virtual fence barriers for where data can be transported in this highly distributed platform. Ah, and then, from a user perspective, there's always level security for providing all seeking roll on what groups organization and consume storage or leverage. Different resource is the storage platform and then, of course, from a service provider's perspective as well, providing that multi tenanted access s so that users can have access to what they want when they want it. It's all about self service, >>and the idea there is that obviously, we're all familiar with the reports of increased bad actors in the current environment to increased ransomware attacks and so forth. And be a part of that is addressed by what wrong and done said in terms of our core technology. Part of that also, though, is addressed by being able to work across platforms and environments because, you know, as we see the acceleration of state tier one applications or entire data center, evacuations into service provider or cloud environments has happened. You know, this could have taken 5 10 years in a in a normal cycle. But we've seen this happen overnight has cut this. Companies have needed to move those I T environments off science into managed environments and our ability to protect the applications, whether they're on premises, whether they're in the cloud or in the most difficult near where they live. In both cases, in both places at once, is something that it's really important to our customers to be able to ensure that in the end, security posture >>great Well, final thing I have for all three of you is you correctly noted that this is not the end, but along the journey that you're going along with your customers. So you know, with all three of you would like to get a little bit. Give us directionally. What should we be looking at? A convo. Take what was announced today and a little bit of look forward towards future. >>Directionally we should be looking at a place where we're delivering even greater simplicity to our customers. And that's gonna be achieved through multiple aspects. 1st 1 it's more technologies coming together. Integrating. We announced three important integration story. We announced the Microsoft partnership a couple of weeks back. You're gonna see us more longer direction. The second piece is technology innovation. We believe in it. That's what Differentiators has a very different company and we'll continue building it along the dimensions off data awareness, data, automation and agility. And the last one continued obsession with data. What more can we do with it? How can we drive more insights for our customers We're going to see is introducing more capabilities along those dimensions? No. >>And I think Rhonda tying directly into what you're highlighting there. I'm gonna go back to what we teased out 10 months ago at calm Bolt. Go there in Colorado in this very on this very program and talk about how, in the unification of ah ah, data and storage management, that vision, we're going to make more and more reality. I think the, uh, the announcements we've made here today let some of the things that we've done in between the lead up to this point is just proof of our execution. And ah, I can happily and excitedly tell you, we're just getting warmed up. It's going to be, ah, gonna be some fun future ahead. >>And I think studio in the running that out with the partner angle. Obviously, we're going to continue to produce great products and solutions that we're going to make our partners relevant. In those conversations with customers, I think we're also going to continue to invest in alternative business models, services, things like migration services, audit services, other things that build on top of this core technology to provide value for customers and additional opportunities for our partners >>to >>build out their their offerings around combo technologies. >>All right, well, thank you. All three of you for joining us. It was great to be able to dig in, understand those pieces. I know you've got lots of resources online for people to learn more. So thank you so much for joining us. Thank you too. Thank you. Alright, and stay with us. So we've got one more interview left for the Cube's coverage of con vault. Future Ready, students. Mannan. Thanks. As always for watching the Cube. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of CONMEBOL. Future Ready 2020. Brought to you by combo. Hi, I'm Stew Minuteman. And this is the Cube's coverage of Con Volt Future ready event Welcoming back to the program. Fresh off the keynote stage. Sanjay Mirchandani. He's the CEO of Con Volt. Sanjay. Nice job on the keynote. And thanks so much for joining us. >>Thanks to Good to see you again. >>Nice to see you too. So, Sanjay, about a year and 1/2 into your journey with Conn Volt, you took over. And you know what it looks like? You've almost completely refreshed the portfolio there. Start a little bit, you know, future. Ready. Tell us how you're getting Conn Volt and its customers ready to be prepared for what happened today as well as the >>right. So, you know, we've we've given visit The past 18 months, have flown by in the past four or five. Even faster. Um, the change. You know, the change that we've had all deal with us as organizations has been tremendous. We've been hard at work. When I came on board, I should have talked about how we were setting out to simplify, innovate and execute all three of those pillars and, ah, future ready, which I love as a term completely embodies what I think the work we've been up to and what the world needs today, which is really getting it ready for whatever's next. And, you know, and it's coming together of innovation, simplification and and hopefully you'll agree some good execution to bring it all together. Yeah, so we've been busy. >>Sanjay, you talked a bit about just the moment in time that we're in. Wonder if you could bring us inside. You know your customers. So there's certain things that we saw for a couple of months. People put a pause on. Other things absolutely have been accelerated. We talk to customers about their adoption of cloud, you know, digital transformation. It's one of those things. That boy, I hope I'm through some of those or you know, can be as agile as possible. But, you know, what do you hearing specifically from our customer base and how they're dealing with things? >>You know, Cto, I touched a little bit on that during my keynote. And you know this this this this time that we're in has really caused, I think a couple of shifts. The first structural shift was Oh, hey, this thing is here to stay and let's get our employees Working and productive and keep the business is running and keeping them safe and everything else. That first shift happened right on. Honest about What was it that March, April and businesses small and big had to figure out how to take go from their their their operating model into, ah, remote. With the remote model, you re prioritize and you thought through what was important at the time and what it was was really getting laptops into the hands of your employees, getting them safe into their working environment, making sure your business processes leaning in that direction. You could take care of your customers. And so that was sort of the first structural faith, the second structural failures. Okay, how do we really drive productivity? One of the new priorities. What do we need to do, what you want to invest in? What do you want to pull back from? And from our vantage point from A from a technology and data point of view, what we're hearing is the themes that if I had a paraphrase of conversations I have with CIOs, it's NGOs. It's really around a simplification. This is a This is a great time to really simplify and, you know, and make sure that you're working with the tried and tested. This is not the time to experiment. This is not the time for esoteric. This is really about simplifying and working with the tried and tested. The second is really about focusing on skills, you know, this is you need you need to be able to leverage, and you need to be able to bring productivity from the from the people that you have an I t. And really focus around that that's, you know, that sometimes for gotten, you know that I like to call them. The unsung heroes of technology has just been pushed into their homes. They're now doing their jobs, longer hours, tougher scenarios. They have no access to their data centers. So it's over. So let's think about skills and the third, you know, the third thing, really that has been propelled into this conversation is cloud. So if you were on a journey, you're off the journey you need to get there quickly, okay? And you need to really newly leverage a light touch, low touch, remote sort of capability. A So fast is you can't call a digital transformation. Call it whatever you'd like to say. But it is about truly leveraging the cloud in a way that that was no longer, you know, a one year, two year three applying. You just have to bring it right to those kinds of things we're hearing and dealing with. >>Yeah, it's so important, Sanjay. Especially that simplicity piece. You know, I remember a few years ago there were certain customers that were adopting cloud, and it was the reminder. Oh, hey, your data protection in your security, you need to make sure you take care of that when you go to the cloud. And unfortunately, you know, some of the people that are now accelerating things you have to quickly say Oh, wait. I can't work this in a few months. I need to take care of this upfront, so help us understand a little bit. You know, the announcements that you've made. How are you making sure that you're ready for customers? The simplicity that they need to take advantage of the innovation and opportunity that the cloud on solutions provider >>absolutely and and make a mistake for me to. Simplification is not just the technology is easy to use, even though that is a big part of what we're working on and working and delivering through these announcements. 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>>live >>from Denver, Colorado. It's the Q covering com vault Go 2019. Brought to you by combo. >>Hey, welcome to the Cube. Lisa Martin in Colorado for CONMEBOL Go 19. Statement. A man is with me this week, and we are pleased to welcome one of combos, longtime customers from the University of Leicester. We have Mark Penny, the systems specialist in infrastructure. Mark. Welcome to the Cube. >>Hi. It's good to be here. >>So you have been a convo customer at the UNI for nearly 10 years now, just giving folks an idea of about the union got 51 different academic departments about five research institutes. Cool research going on, by the way and between staff and students. About 20,000 folks, I'm sure all bringing multiple devices onto the campus. So talk to us about you came on board in 20 ton. It's hard to believe that was almost 10 years ago and said, All right, guys, we really got to get a strategy around back up, talk to us about way back then what? You guys were doing what you saw as an opportunity. What you're doing with combo today, a >>time and the There's a wide range of backup for us. There was no really assurance that we were getting back up. So we had a bit of convert seven that was backing up the Windows infrastructure. There was tyranny storage manager backing up a lot of Linux. And there was Amanda and open source thing. And then there was a LL sorts of scripts and things. So, for instance, of'em where backups were done by creating an array snapshot with the script, then mounting that script into that snapshot into another server backing up the server with calm bolt on the restore process is an absolute takes here. It was very, very difficult, long winded, required a lot of time on the checks. For this, it really was quite quite difficult to run it. Use a lot of stuff. Time we were, as far as the corporate side was concerned it exclusively on tape resource manager, we're using disc. Amanda was again for tape in a different, completely isolated system. Coupled with this, there had been a lack of investment in the data centers themselves, so the network hadn't really got a lot of throughput. This men that way were using data private backup networks in order to keep back up data off the production networks because there was really challenges over bandwidth contention backups on. So consider it over around and so on. If you got a back up coming into the working day defect student So Way started with a blank sheet of paper in many respects on went out to see what was available on Dhe. There was the usual ones it with the net back up, typically obviously again on convert Arc Serve has. But what was really interesting was deed Implication was starting to come in, But at the time, convo tonight just be released, and it had an absolutely killer feature for us, which was client side duplication. This men that we could now get rid of most of this private backup network that was making a lot of complex ISI. So it also did backup disk on back up to tape. So at that point, way went in with six Media agents. Way had a few 100 terabytes of disk storage. The strategy was to keep 28 days on disk and then the long term retention on tape into a tape library. WeII kept back through it about 2013 then took the decision. Disc was working, so let's just do disco only on save a whole load of effort. In even with a take life, you've got to refresh the tapes and things. So give it all on disk with D Duplication way, basically getting a 1 to 1. So if we had take my current figures about 1.5 petabytes of front side protected data, we've got about 1.5 petabytes in the back up system, which, because of all the synthetic fools and everything, we've got 12 months retention. We've got 28 days retention. It works really, really well in that and that that relationship, almost 1 to 1 with what's in the back up with all the attention with plants like data, has been fairly consistent since we went all disc >>mark. I wonder if you'd actually step back a second and talks about the role in importance of data in your organization because way went through a lot of the bits and bytes in that is there. But as a research organization, you know, I expect that data is, you know, quite a strategic component of the data >>forms your intellectual property. It's what is caught your research. It's the output of your investigations. So where were doing Earth Operational science. So we get data from satellites and that is then brought down roars time, little files. They then get a data set, which will consist of multiple packages of these, these vials and maybe even different measurements from different satellites that then combined and could be used to model scenarios climate change, temperature or pollution. All these types of things coming in. It's how you then take that raw data work with it. In our case, we use a lot of HPC haIf of computing to manipulate that data. And a lot of it is how smart researchers are in getting their code getting the maximum out of that data on. Then the output of that becomes a paper project on dhe finalized final set of of date, which is the results, which all goes with paper. We've also done the a lot of genetics and things like that because the DNA fingerprinting with Alec Jeffrey on what was very interesting with that one is how it was those techniques which then identified the bones that were dug up under the car park in Leicester, which is Richard >>Wright documentary. >>Yeah, on that really was quite exciting. The way that well do you really was quite. It's quite fitting, really, techniques that the university has discovered, which were then instrumental in identifying that. >>What? One of the interesting things I found in this part of the market is used to talk about just protecting my data. Yeah, a lot of times now it's about howto. Why leverage my data even Maur. How do I share my data? How do I extract more value out of the data in the 10 years you've been working with calm Boulder? Are you seeing that journey? Is that yes, the organization's going down. >>There's almost there's actually two conflicting things here because researchers love to share their data. But some of the data sets is so big that can be quite challenging. Some of the data sets. We take other people's Day to bring it in, combining with our own to do our own modeling. Then that goes out to provide some more for somebody else on. There's also issues about where data could exist, so there's a lot of very strict controls about the N. H s data. So health data, which so n hs England that can't then go out to Scotland on Booth. Sometimes the regulatory compliance almost gets sidelines with the excitement about research on way have quite a dichotomy of making sure that where we know about the data, that the appropriate controls are there and we understand it on Hopefully, people just don't go on, put it somewhere. It's not because some of the data sets for medical research, given the data which has got personal, identifiable information in it, that then has to be stripped out. So you've got an anonymous data set which they can then work with it Z assuring that the right data used the right information to remove so that you don't inadvertently go and then expose stuff s. So it's not just pure research on it going in this silo and in this silo it's actually ensuring that you've got the right bits in the right place, and it's being handled correctly >>to talk to us about has you know, as you pointed out, this massive growth and data volumes from a university perspective, health data perspective research perspective, the files are getting bigger and bigger In the time that you've started this foundation with combo in the last 9 10 years. Tremendous changes not just and data, but talking about complaints you've now got GDP are to deal with. Give us a perspective and snapshot of your of your con vault implementation and how you've evolved that as all the data changes, compliance changes and converts, technology has evolved. So if you take >>where we started off, we had a few 100 petabytes of disk. It's just before we migrated. Thio on Premise three Cloud Libraries That point. I think I got 2.1 petabytes of backup. Storage on the volume of data is exponentially growing covers the resolution of the instruments increases, so you can certainly have a four fold growth data that some of those are quite interesting things. They when I first joined the great excitement with a project which has just noticed Betty Colombo, which is the Mercury a year for in space agency to Demeter Mercury and they wanted 50 terabytes and way at that time, that was actually quite a big number way. We're thinking, well, we make the split. What? We need to be careful. Yes. Okay. 50 terrorizes that over the life of project. And now that's probably just to get us going. Not much actually happened with it. And then storage system changed and they still had their 50 terabytes with almost nothing in it way then understood that the spacecraft being launched and that once it had been launched, which was earlier this year, it was going to take a couple of years before the first data came back. Because it has to go to Venus. It has to go around Venus in the wrong direction, against gravity to slow it down. Then it goes to Mercury and the rial bolt data then starts coming back in. You'd have thought going to Mercury was dead easy. You just go boom straight in. But actually, if you did that because of gravity of the sun, it would just go in. You'd never stop. Just go straight into the sun. You lose your spacecraft. >>Nobody wants >>another. Eggs are really interesting. Is artfully Have you heard of the guy? A satellite? >>Yes. >>This is the one which is mapping a 1,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. It's now gone past its primary mission, and it's got most of that data. Huge data sets on DDE That data, there's, ah, it's already being worked on, but they are the university Thio task, packaging it and cleansing it. We're going to get a set of that data we're going to host. We're currently hosting a national HPC facility, which is for space research that's being replaced with an even bigger, more powerful one. Little probably fill one of our data centers completely. It's about 40 racks worth, and that's just to process that data because there's so much information that's come from it. And it's It's the resolution. It's the speed with which it can be computed on holding so much in memory. I mean, if you take across our current HPC systems, we've got 100 terabytes of memory across two systems, and those numbers were just unthinkable even 10 years ago, a terrible of memory. >>So Mark Lease and I would like to keep you here all way to talk about space, Mark todo of our favorite topics. But before we get towards the end, but a lot of changes, that combo, it's the whole new executive team they bought Hedvig. They land lost this metallic dot io. They've got new things. It's a longtime customer. What your viewpoint on com bold today and what what you've been seeing quite interesting to >>see how convoy has evolved on dhe. These change, which should have happened between 10 and 11 when they took the decision on the next generation platform that it would be this by industry. Sand is quite an aggressive pace of service packs, which are then come out onto this schedule. And to be fair, that schedule is being stuck to waken plan ahead. We know what's happening on Dhe. It's interesting that they're both patches and the new features and stuff, and it's really great to have that line to work, too. Now, Andi way with platform now supports natively stone Much stuff. And this was actually one of the decisions which took us around using our own on Prem Estimate Cloud Library. We were using as you to put a tear on data off site on with All is working Great. That can we do s3 on friend on. It's supported by convoy is just a cloud library. Now, When we first started that didn't exist. Way took the decision. It will proof of concept and so on, and it all worked, and we then got high for scale as well. It's interesting to see how convoy has gone down into the appliance 11 to, because people want to have to just have a box unpack it. Implicated. If you haven't got a technical team or strong yo skills in those area, why worry about putting your own system together? Haifa scale give you back up in a vault on the partnerships with were in HP customer So way we're using Apollo's RS in storage. Andi Yeah, the Apollo is actually the platform. If we bought Heifer Scale, it would have gone on an HP Apollo as well, because of the way with agreements, we've got invited. Actually, it's quite interesting how they've gone from software. Hardware is now come in, and it's evolving into this platform with Hedvig. I mean, there was a convoy object store buried in it, but it was very discreet. No one really knew about it. You occasionally could see a term on it would appear, but it it wasn't something which they published their butt object store with the increasing data volumes. Object Store is the only way to store. There's these volumes of data in a resilient and durable way. Eso Hedvig buying that and integrating in providing a really interesting way forward. And yet, for my perspective, I'm using three. So if we had gone down the Hedvig route from my perspective, what I would like to see is I have a story policy. I click on going to point it to s three, and it goes out it provision. The bucket does the whole lot in one a couple of clicks and that's it. Job done. I don't need to go out, create the use of create the bucket, and then get one out of every little written piece in there. 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>> from Boston, Massachusetts. It's the queue covering active eo 2019. Data driven you by activity. >> We're back with the Cuban active FiO Data driven day one day Volante with student a man you're watching The Cube. Steve Duplessis here is the, uh, let's see. Uh, I'm going to say benevolent. Dictator of Enterprise Strategy Group. Chief analyst, Founder Welcome. Welcome back to the Cube. >> Thanks. Nice friend. Nice to be here, you fellows, and we don't Great. Congratulations. Newly newly closed. That's awesome. I want Yeah, thank you very much. >> Great. Looking good. You're here for your honeymoon. >> He said this is it? After a few marriages. This is the honeymoon. >> Yeah. That's good to know that the honeymoon's not over. So let's talk data, Tio. It's happening. >> That is a terrible question, Dave. >> So yeah, Data. Okay, everybody talks. Data you here, bro. My data is the new oil. Fate is a competitive advantage. And >> you like that. >> You do like what Data's in oil. >> So it's funny because we're I think I'm way older than you. You look better. >> God, no. >> But if you go back in time as long as we were doing this, it's been kind of hilarious, really. In retrospect, when you watch way watch these massive industries get created like the AMC just created because all they were about building bigger buckets to put data, zeros and ones. But no context, completely useless, just big buckets. So we valued Wow, you built a big fast bucket. Then IBM and her tachy whoever was gonna leap frog your next built a faster, bigger bucket. And that was with the world considered valuable. And it's now fast forward to the modern day and oh, maybe with the thing that's really valuable with those zeros and he's in contact. Maybe it's not really the bucket. It's, uh so valuable anymore. So >> So, do you think the with the bucket builders still bucket builders air they actually becoming data Insite creators? Or is it just still build a better bucket? That's cheaper. Faster >> till it's a great question. I think >> that we're first of all, you You still have to have the buckets, right? It's a relative who's going to make a smarter bucket builder. I don't know. >> You need someplace to put it, so >> you're gonna have to put it some place and you're gonna have to deliver it in the good news, you know, storage and or infrastructural say is the most brilliant business ever. From a capacity demand perspective, no one ever needs less, right. You always need Mauritz justa matter what you're gonna do with it, how you're going to address that. So it's we've propagated for 50 years and infrastructure business that build a bigger, faster bucket. Build a bigger, faster processor, build a bigger, faster. And every time you you solve one of those particular problems as long as data doesn't abate and it never does, is only is there's more versus Les. It's just every time we fix one problem way, you stick your finger in the dike and another poll springs out. So right now we're at the we've got more processing capabilities that week, ever possible. Use not true, right? We'll figure out a way to use it so that the last five years of and for the >> next five years waiting talk about analytics, wouldn't talk about io ti. We didn't talk about any of those things that are all just precursors to folk crap. We could make a whole bunch more NATO and do stuff with >> so So computers. Kind of a similar dynamic. It's sort of sensational. But is the relatively crappy business compared to storage rights? Storage is 60% plus gross margin. Business servers. I don't know. You're lucky if you get in in a low twenty's. Um, why is that? >> Hello, Number one. It's essentially monogamous. So 20% is wonderful if your intel and you get it. All right. Well, it sells. Got great gross margins, right? Everybody else's does it. You go down the supply chain. That's where you're gonna add value. So that's difficult for anything. Hard to get gross margins out of like spending. She had a box. >> So, Steve Yes, she's now 20 years old. >> I know >> when I think back 20 years ago. You know, short. You know this capacity price per dollar price per gigabyte. You know, all that stuff has changed a lot. The other thing, You know, I think back 20 years talk about automation and intelligent infrastructure. We were using those terms back that sure, one of things that they did. That that's right. Well, that's what I wanted to ask you about is like, right back then when you talked about well, how intelligent wasn't what could it do? And automation was There was a lot of times, you know, I'm just building a little script. I'm doing something like that. At least you know, from what we see, it feels like, you know, today's automation and intelligence is light times away from what we were talking about. 20 years. Sure, and it's true. What do you see in that? Well, >> so remember where we came from When we were talking originally about automation and orchestration, we were talking about how to manage a box, how to expand a box, how to manage infrastructure. Now it's data operations. Right now it's that that's the whole point of activity. Right to be in with is all right, if you are good enough and smart enoughto have the data sort of everything. What kind of matters? There you've gotta have the data and what can you up? What can you automate an orchestra from a data out perspective? Not from a box, not from a Let's scale out or scale up or something like that again, that's just a bigger bucket. It's a better bucket, but to be able to actually take data and say, You know what? I don't even know necessarily what I'm going to want to use this for, but I know that I gotta have. It's gotta be You have to be able to go click, click, click and get it. If if and when I figure out who I want to find out how lowering the price of Sharman and Seattle at a Wal Mart is going to affect my revenue or my supply chain or whatever. >> So one of the things I've talked with you in the past about is the pace of change of the industry. And, you know, I've said, you know, we know things are changing rather fast, but the average company, how much were they? Actually are they good at adopting change? And you've called me on stupid enterprises slow getting any faster, you know? Are they Are they open to change? Mohr. You know, what do you see in 2019? Is is it any different than it was in, You know, two thousand nine? >> That's a great question. So thie answer is yes, they're getting better. We are finally getting better. Problem, though, is a CZ industry insider watcher or a Boyar is ur is you see it and know what should happen 10 years. It takes 10 years in general for the world to actually catch upto the stuff that we're talking about. So it's not really that helpful to the poor schlub that's running on operation that build sneakers in Kansas, right? That's not really that helpful that we're talking about. This is what you could be doing and should be doing. The pace of change is much faster now because and give the em where most of the credit. Because once that went into place, all of the sudden and that you gotta remember there, everyone thinks vm where was an instant home run? It was 10 years of the same cold sitting in the corner in a queue, a environment before. Finally, we ran out of room in the data center, and that's the only reason they were able to come out. But once it was there, and it enabled you to stop associating the physical to the to the logical once, we could just just dis aggregate that stuff that I think opened up a tidal wave of kind of what else can we do? And people have adopted now. Now it's pervasive. So VM where's everywhere? Now? We're moving in the next level of kind of woman. Why can't I just build a containerized app that I can execute anywhere? No matter of fact, I don't even want it in my data center on. No one has to know that necessarily. So as modernization exercises have started to take off, they just they pick up, they actually pick up steam. So what we know empirically is those that are are halfway down. Call it the transformation or the modernization curve are going three times faster than those just starting. And those guys are going three times faster than the ones that are sitting there in idle doing stuff. The same >> city with the inertia going on. What do you make of this Bubblicious Back up market. Let's talk about that a little bit. You got these big install bases? The veritas, Conmebol, Delhi emcee, IBM, Tivoli install base. Everybody wants a piece of that action. Well, I guess cohesive rubric also want a piece of each other. Sure, which is kind of, you know, they get that urinary Olympics going on. I'd like to say And then you got these guys, which is kind of, you know, playing. Uh, I said to Ashleigh kind of East Coast, West Coast, There's no no, it's not East Coast, West Coast, but there's definitely more conservativism on this side of the of the flyover states. What's your take on what's going on in the landscape right now? >> So back up is awesome from the again, still probably the single most consistently line item budget thing for five decades. It's a guaranteed money in and out, and by and large it still sucks. My general rule is still it's crazy that we haven't been able to solve that particular problem. But regardless, the reason that it's so important is, besides the obvious. Yeah, you need to protect stuff, case. Something goes away and something bad happened good. But really, it's That's the inn. Just point for everything you do, you create data today. I'm backing it up on our later so that backup becomes the injust engine and it also is kicking off point. So at tapioca it started as wow, this is a better backup, most trap for lack of a better term. But really what? It was is didn't matter what with was back up or something else. It's I need tohave the data in order to do other stuff with it, and back up is just a natural, easiest way to be able to do that. So I think what's finally happening is we're moving from Christophe Would would say it's really about intelligence intelligence more so than just capturing those bits and being able to assemble and put it back together. It's understanding the context of those bits so that I can say stew in test. Dev has a different use case than Dave in whatever analytics, etcetera, etcetera. But they both need a copy of the exact scene data, the exact same state at the exact same point in time, etcetera. So if lungs backup's going to be kind of a tip of the spear in terms of going from what I will say, production or live data to the first copy, there's almost always back up. It's gonna matter. >> Christoph, Christoph Bertrand want your analyst? And so we saw, uh, c'mon, Danni Allen put a slideshow $15,000,000,000 tam and back up being a big chunk of that, probably half of it um, how does that jibe with your gut feel in terms of the opportunity beyond backup Dev ops? You know, I don't know. Ransomware insights. So you think that's low? High? Makes sense. >> I think I could justify the number. And what history has taught me is that it's probably low because we we're only talking about a handful of use cases that we've all glommed onto. But there will be remembered, like 11 years ago, there was no iPhone. You know what? How bad that changed. Everything that we do over there. And when did you know at some point during that particular journey, the phone became Who gives a shit about the phone? Excuse. But it's a text machine and it's an instagram thing, and it's a video production facility and all these other things, and the phone's almost dead. I only use it when my mom calls me kind of thing. So, you know, really, it's difficult to imagine. I certainly don't have the mental capabilities to imagine what the next 10 things after Dev Ops and this that and the other. But it's still all predicated on the same you got Somebody's gonna have a copy of that data and you're gonna be able to access it. You've got to be able to put it where you need it for whatever the reason again, a disaster is an important thing to recover from. But so is being ableto farm That data for nuggets of gold. >> Well, I guess I asked the question because, you know, it's a logical question is, is the market big enough to support all these companies that are in, You know, that gardener thing that they do? And I hope so because we love competition. >> I think I >> can answer it >> this way. Everything. Even the oldest guard Veritas, for God's sakes, 1000 years old, t sm 1000 years old con vault code base, 1000 years old. You're all big companies, right? And they're not perishing anytime soon. And I don't run. Love the startup Love the active FiOS or the cohesive sees coming in. But what they're really trying to do is not, you know, they might have started, as in a common ground, backup is a common warzone, but because there's money there like this consistent money there go get. But they soon turn in Teo other value propositions. And that's not is true with the incumbent back up guys because of their own legacy, right? It's hard to turn 1,000,000 year 1,000,000 lines of code into something. It wasn't designed, innit? >> Yeah, and it's not trivial to disrupt that base. But I guess if you get, you know, raising I don't know how much the industry is raised, but it's well over $1,000,000,000 now. I mean, activity has raised 200,000,000 and that's like chump change. Compared to some of the other races that you've seen. Cody City was to 60 and their last rubric was even, you know, crazy, crazy, even >> count the private money that beam God is that, you know, that was half 1,000,000,000 >> right? Well, that's a That's an off camera discussion. All right, we gotta go. So, Steve, thanks so much for for coming. Thank you. Great to >> have you. All right. All right, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. You wanted the Cube from active field data driven from Boston, right on the harbor. Right back
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