>> Narrator: From around the globe, It's the CUBE with digital coverage of next level network experience event. (upbeat music) Brought to you by Infoblox. >> Everyone welcome back to the CUBE's coverage and co-hosting of the Infoblox next level networking experience virtual event. With a pop up event, only a few hours, but four great segments. Officer Stu Miniman helped me kick it off this morning, and Stu, I want to bring you in, Stu Miniman who's the... He host for the CUBE, covering networking with me Stu we do all the cloud native shows. We can, we can smell what's relevant, and I want to get your take on this, because, Infoblox putting out some pretty good content with some great guests. But, next level networking, let's just unpack that, next level networking and next level networking experience. The word experience changes the context of that definition, because going the next level with networking is one thing, having an experience is another, just what's your take, you seen, we talk about this all the time, what's your take? >> Yeah, so John, one of the words that we've talked about so much is, how do we simplify this environment? Networking is known for its complexity. Too often, it's, stuck down in protocols and just the arcane arts that I don't want to think about. Networking at its best, is just going to work. And I don't want to think about it, so, if I'm adopting SaaS models, if I'm going cloud native, it should, tie into everything else we're doing. What I was hearing, the themes, John, and the interviews you discussed, they're talking about SaaS, they're talking about cloud native, things like visibility, moving real time, really changes so much of these environments, so, IP addresses used to be a lot more static. We know now, things just change constantly and that's one of the big challenges. How do I monitor that environment? How do I keep them secure? And that's where modern environments need to go to the next level to be able to keep up with all of those changes. >> The word experience means something to me in a sense, I think contemporary, right? I think something new, relevant and cool, and still we're old enough to remember the '80s and '90s, and I was coming out of college late '80s, and I remember I never had a punch, I never did any program with a punch card. I was kind of the young gun, coming into the workforce with a technical degree, and I remember looking at the mainframe guys going, "who are those old relics?" And they, those guys hung onto their job as long as they could, and the smart ones moved and said, "Hey, I'm going to jump on this mini computer bandwagon, Oh, there's inter networking and local area networking that the PC toys are attaching to, that's interesting." And so you had a migration of systems talent move to the new, the new way. Some didn't, and I look at that and I say, hmm, that's similar to what's going on in networking, if you're the old networking guy or gal, and you're hugging onto the router, or you're hugging onto that old way, you could be extinct, because there is a new experience coming. It's programmable, it's automation, it's different. It's not, the big, old way, similar to the mainframe. So, a lot of psychology in this networking industry right now is, and the young people come in. It's like, why we do it that way? This to me is about next level networking, experience. Your reaction to that. >> Yeah, well, John, it's been interesting here in 2020, you talk about the acceleration of things moving, people that were dipping their toe in cloud and have to move in a matter of weeks, if not, hours and days to get things up and running. So, leveraging software, open source is a big component of what a lot of companies are doing, and of course, cloud and that cloud experience means in the public cloud and edge environments, you talked a bit about IOT in some of these cases, the order of magnitude of networking challenges that are out there are such that I have to have automation, it needs to be simpler because I could not do things the manual old way. John, I lived through so many generations, you work with people in the networking, it's manually done. It was done via CLI, because I knew how to do it. Maybe I did some scripting, but in today's day and era, things change too fast and the amount of work that needs to be done is so much so that that's why automation needs to be front and center. And you see Infoblox, as some of their new solutions, especially leveraging SnapRoute take advantage of the modern way that people need to do things. >> Well, we actually did a deep dive on SnapRoute and it was super impressive, again, I thought it was way too early, but they were doing some stuff with Kubernetes thinking, just thinking like Linux kernel, low level thinking. And I think Stu, this is what I want to get your thoughts on, because in the industry we cover Cisco aggressively. We saw them by open DNS, manage services versus low level, we got automation, you got Amazon out there, I mean, hell I can just have a screen that goes in and manages my DNS in the cloud, I can start thinking differently about how I wire my services together, if I think about Amazon, for instance, or hybrid and multicloud, this a whole new level of thinking. And, these are going to be new solutions, and this is the theme that came up and it's come up across every single major vendor, whether we're talking the Google cause they have a pretty damn good network. You got Cisco, you've got, all these people out there, they got to reinvent themselves. And, new expectations require new solutions. This has been something that's clearly coming out of the COVID, that, you know what I like working from home, I'm more productive. We don't need the real estate costs, wait, why do we even need a VPN? Why we over-provisioned? What are we paying for? Let's just build and secure. So again, all these projects are going to come out of the woodwork, I think that they're going to create a new vendor, a new brand or new opportunity because, these new solutions need to come because of the demand has been highlighted by COVID and other cloud scale. What's your thoughts on that, because this may not be your grandfather's networking company that comes out of the woodwork, It might be a cloud app. >> Yeah, well John, first of all, I think you nailed it. You look at a company like Infoblox, founded back in the .com era, back in 1999 and dominant in their space. So, they're not here saying, oh, we're the tried and trusted company that you work with, and you shouldn't try that new Fangled, Kubernetes piece or anything like that. It's not ready for prime time. As you said, they're getting, they're looking to skate where, to where the pack is going, they're aggressively going after these environments to make sure that they maintain their leadership in this environment. And, you're absolutely right, for the longest time, generally in networking, you were talking about, it was Cisco and everybody else out there, but now the cloud is such a big piece of what's going on, we've seen chip acquisitions by the big Hyperscalers, we've seen how they build their environments, and in many ways there's been consolidation, but there's also been dis-aggregation. So, the fundamental layer, but like what Infoblox has with their DDI stack, is something that customers need, I need to make sure my identity and my IP is something that I can manage wherever I am in all of these environment. >> It's funny Stu, we joke about SD-WAN, and now that's the internet and you think about the internet, one constant in all of it is you got to move packets from point a to point B and store a packet in a storage device, and ultimately you need to have to resolve addresses. And DNS, as old as it is, is fundamentally the standard, and a lot of people take it for granted, so to me, DNS has survived. It's a low level building block, but as things evolve, new abstraction layers come up, and I think we'll see more. I mean, I think there'll be a new naming system on how to deal with different scale across multicloud. And I think, Amazon is talking about it. We hear Ava Trix talking about it, we hear, things going on within Google talking about it, so, I think you're going to start to see new levels of innovation because, that's where the packets are moving, that's what the bad guys are, and you can't cover your footprints if you're trying to get in there. So, huge change is coming will be on it, And the CUBE we'll be monitoring it, as always, we can see the waves coming, Stu, what do you see? What's your future ball, tell you, as we come out of COVID, networking world, cloud collision, multicloud, apps, microservices, all this massive wave, what's your take, What's going to happen? >> Well yeah John, we've talked so much, It's those builders out there, how do I make sure that I can build my application, allow my users to access things wherever they are. The shift we hear for post COVID, it goes from work from home to work from anywhere. So, we were not going to see everybody just go back to the pre COVID era, this will have a lasting impact, and especially from a networking standpoint, we were starting to look at how does 5G and IOT change the way we think of networking? This just accelerates what we Needed to look at. Some networking technologies, take a long time to go through their maturation and standards, but being able to manage my entire environment, be able to spin up my new applications, and as you said John, DNS, like identity is something that is a fundamental piece that I need to make sure is rock solid so that I can get my employees access to the information while still keep things secure. >> Well, when you click on a link, that's malware, that's DNS, so this is where the action is, and people got to preserve it. Stu, We're going to be covering it, we're going to be watching all the waves, and again, this the CUBE on top of the big wave of networking and as networking evolves, I just still, I just still think, it's one big IOT world now, and it's an internet of things. They're all connected, there's no perimeter, it's borderless. This is going to change the game. I think in the next 18 months, we're going to see really different connected experiences and whoever can deliver them, will be the winner. Of course, we'll be watching it, go to siliconangle.com. We have a special report on next gen networking, Rob hope from Paul Gillin are constantly reporting, Stu has been getting a ton of great interviews, and again, we're getting the stories out, during COVID-19, with our remote interviews. Thanks for watching the CUBE, for the special next level networking experience event by Infoblox. (upbeat music)