>>live from Atlanta, Georgia. It's the Q covering Answerable Fest 2019. Brought to you by Red Hat. >>Welcome back. This is the Cubes Live coverage of anti professed 2019 here in Atlanta. Georgia Instrument in my co host is John Ferrier and happy to welcome to the program the first time guest pile sing. Who's a principal solutions engineer with F five? Of course. Five's a partner of Anti Bowl In the keynote this morning when they were laying out You know how to use all of these pieces? Oh, I need a load balancer. Great. Here. Here's five to the rescue. So tell us a little bit about you know your role inside F five and kind of fights activities here at the show. >>Sure. Sure. Uh, so thank you for the introduction. Yeah, My name is our piloting principal solution. Ngo S O. I work a lot with different alliance partners and answerable being one of them. Of course, s O. I develop technical integrated joint solutions with answerable. You know, we've had a great, great working relationship with the answerable. They've been absolutely wonderful to work with on at this summit. We have various activities We had a workshop at the contributor summit. We had a session yesterday. We have another workshop on Thursday. So we're really busy, you know, the boots being flowing. And so far, it's been an awesome experience. >>The other people of the show here, they really dig into what they're doing. Ah, you know, even on the bus ride to the party last night, people are talking about their configurations at lunchtime. Everybody is talking about it. Bring us inside a little bit, you know? So is the new collections what people are asking you about? Are there other deployment ways? You know, what are some of the things that are bringing people to talk to >>people That kind of talking, you know, on a broad spectrum, you know, there's some people are just starting out with answerable. They just want to know, you know, how do I write a play book with their 500? Get it running? Others are a little more advanced, you know, Let's get into rules, you know? What are we doing with rules? And then now collections is coming on top of mine. You know how you guys doing with collections, So of course we are in lockstep. You know, we have the first collections out. We're gonna bundle playbooks and a lot of work flows and rules that gonna be someone. It's gonna be easy for customers to just download used these work clothes out of the box and get started with that five. But we've had, you know, different use cases, different questions around Day zero deployment was his data management. Bliss is monitoring was back of resource. All sorts of questions >>in one of the things that's come up is, you know, hit the low hanging fruit and then go to the ant, worked close in tow and is more of a kind of the bigger opportunities. But, you know, we've been talking about Dev Ops two for 10 years, and this to me has always been like the area that's been ripe for Dev ops, configuration management, a lot of the plumbing. But now that it's 10 years later starting to see this glue layer, this integration layer come out and the ecosystem of partners is growing very rapidly for answerable. And so there's been a very nice evolution. This is kind of a nice add on to great community great customers for these guys. What's the integration like as you work with answerable? Because as more people come on and share and connect in, what's it take? What are some of the challenges? What some of the things that you guys need to do our partners need to do with danceable, >>Right? So contributing is, you know, it's been a little slow, I would say, because firstly, they got a kind of lawn answerable and they gotta learn. You know what sensible galaxy. How can I walk around it? And then there's the networking piece, right? How do I now make it work with F five? You know, is this role good enough? Should I be contributing or not? So we're working closely with, you know, Ned, ops engineers as well as the world changes to kind of say, you know, whatever you think is a good work, so is good enough to go there. So, you know, get your role uploaded on galaxy and, you know, show us what you're doing. It doesn't have to be the best, but just get it out there so way have a lot of workshops. You know, we also have this training on F. I called Super Netapp, which is kind of targeting that walked in that office. Engineers. So we're trying to educate people so that everybody is on board with with us. >>One of the conversation we've been having a lot this week has been about the collaboration between teams and historically that's been a challenge for networking. It's alright. Networking going to sit in the corner, tell me what you need. Oh, wait, You need those things changes. Nope, I'm not gonna do it for you are, you know. Okay, wait, get me a budget in 12 months and we'll get back to you. So, uh, how are things changing? Are they changing enough in your customers environments? >>That's a good question. So it is changing, but it's changing slowly. There's still a lot of silos like nettles. Guys are doing their stuff there. Watch guys are doing their self. But with automation is it's kind of hang in together because, you know, the network's engineers have their domain expertise, develops have tails. But, you know, we were able to get them in the same room because we don't get five and then we don't automation and and then they connect. They're like, Oh, you guys are doing what we've already done So it's happening, But it's so, but it's definitely drops that develops. You don't think this is >>the chairman? We've been covered. A lot of we've had a lot of events. We've talked about programmable infrastructure. Infrastructures code is kind of in the butt when you start getting into the networking side, because very interesting when you can program things, this is a nice future. Head room for Enterprises As their app start to think about micro service is what you're taking on the program ability of networking. How do you guys see that? What's your view? >>So program ability In the networking space, it's it's catching up like just five. As a company, we started with just rest a P. I called. Now we're going to moving to answerable to F eyes. Also coming out with this AP I call declared a baby I we have this F ai automation tow chain where we're kind of abstracting more and more off how much user needs to know about the device but be able to configure it really easily. So we're definitely moving towards that and I see other other networking when there's also kind off moving towards that program ability for sure. >>Did you have any specific customer stories you might be able to share? Understand. You might not be able to give the name of the company, but it's always helps to illustrate. >>Yeah, sure, definitely. So we had one customer who, you know, they had an older or not told a different load balancer. And they want to know my great order, the Air five. So they had a lot of firewall rules and, you know, a lot of policies that they wanted to move over. So they used to have these maintenance windows and move on application at a time, eh? So they started, came across sensible, started using answerable, and they were able to migrate like 5 to 10 applications for maintenance window. And they will, you know, they loved it. They've been using answerable. They've been great providence. Or what goes into our modules, you know, really helping us guiding us as well as to what they need. So they were a great, you know, customer story. Another customer we had was you know, we get a lot of use cases for if I that we want to be able to change an application or the network without incurring any downtime, you know, fail overs, it could be as simple as as broader Sze between data centers or, you know, something simple. But what this company did want to shift between fellow between data centers, they got into answerable, they were able to do it in minutes was his hours and, you know they loved it. >>I got to ask you about a Zen engineer. You think about the data center cloud we get that that's been around that workings been great, getting better as five G and I o. T Edge kind of comes into the picture how routing and networking works with compute and edge devices start to be an opportunity for these kinds of automation. How do you guys view that's future state of EJ and and as the surface area of the network gets larger and the edges really part of the equation now his need for automation great need for seeing observe abilities. Super hot area with micro service is now you got automation kind of Ah, nice area. Expand on. What's your thoughts on beyond the data center >>so beyond the data center. So f five is indifferent clouds right to donate ws as your g c p It's out there. We also have like you know, we've recently collaborated with not collaborated. You know, engine ex has become a part of their five. So, you know, we're out there on definitely with I od and you know, no one date us and the specific that there is a boom off applications and you know, we wantto not be a hindrance to anyone who's trying to automate applications anywhere. So ah, goal is also at five is everywhere and anywhere and securing abs, making them available >>and securities 200 big driver of automation. >>I'm glad you brought up in genetic. So you know, we've been very familiar seeing Engine X at a lot of the cloud shows how Zenger next kind of changing the conversation you're having with customers. >>So having a lot of conversations with develops engineers about an genetics, you know, some of them are already using it in the day to day activity, and, you know, they don't want to see how a five and engine excite gonna gonna come together And you know what kind of solutions we can offer. So if I were working on that strategy, But you know, definitely that there is a link between us and engine aches, and customers are happy to know that. You know, we're kind of now on the same pot, So if they're in the cloud on from, you know, they can choose which one they want, but they're going to get the same support and backing off. Five. >>Great. We're getting towards the end of answerable fests. Give us what you want. Kind of some of the key takeaways. People tohave about five here at the show. >>Sure. You know, if you haven't started automating at five Invincible. My key takeaways, you know, get started. It's really simple. We have sessions now. We have a workshop on those. They look that up a great resource for us. It's just answerable dot com slash five. We have great resources. Um, are answerable. Models are supported, were certified by that had answerable. So, you know, just dive in and start automating >>pale, saying Thank you so much for the update. Really appreciate it. And congratulations on the progress. >>Thank you so much. >>for John, for your arms to minimum, getting towards the end of two days water wall coverage here. Thanks, as always for watching the Cube.