>>Live from San Diego, California. It's the cube covering to clock in cloud native con brought to you by red hat, the cloud native computing foundation and its ecosystem Marsh. >>Welcome back. This is the cubes coverage of coupon, cloud-native con 2019 here in San Diego. I'm Stu Miniman co-hosting for three days with John Troyer to my left and happy to welcome back to the program. Two of our cube alumni to my right is Robert Christiansen who is the vice president of strategy and office of the CTO with the IP group to see you. And sitting next to him is Kumar Sri Conti, SVP and CTO of that hybrid it group at HPE Kumar. Great to see you. Thank you very much. Thank you John. Good to be back here. Yes, hot off the presses. HP had a big announcement today. Uh, really unveiling it. Full container platform. Uh, Kumar, maybe it help us frame and understand, uh, what that is and why that wants here at at the show. Thank you. Is too good, too good to see John and it's very nice to be back on the cube. >>Yeah, we are very excited. We made an announcement, a HV container platform as we sat in the presser lays and various conversations. This is built on a proven technologies. HP has acquired a few companies in the past which includes my company blue data map. Our blue data has been in the container technology for more than five years. We have containers running specifically for the spa workloads like big data and AML and we brought those technologies together to give the customers the choice of 100% coupon. It has to run both stateful and stateless workloads under the same pane of glass and we are very excited about this opportunity and we have actually talked to a lot of customers and the most important in addition to all of that is the, we also integrated the map, our technology, which is one of the very so robust and sophisticated data store that gives you a persistency for the containers. >>Kumar, John and I were coming out of the keynote and saying, if you're brand new in this environment, Oh my gosh, there's just so many projects and so many pieces. You know, when I think back, you know, who helped me along the way, uh, one of the pieces you picked up with CTP, cloud technology partner and you're talking about specific applications. So you know, really building those bridges to where customers are and helping them give us, if you could some of those key use cases where you're finding that that cloud native philosophy and where customers are, are looking for HPS help. Robert and I spend a lot of time over the last few months internally and talking to the customers. Our thesis is the, all the low hanging fruit applications have mode. It's actually the most difficult applications, both stateful and stateless applications. So customers are asking and say, we want to standardize, we want to have a abstract platform and Gouverneur does is it? And, but we wanted to have a platform that gives us the board hybrid opportunity. I wanted to be able to run the on prem >>when necessary, also on the public cloud. And I wanted to be able to have a same platform to run both stateful answered as application. Yeah. And that's, that's a really interesting point because what Kumar's really, really looking at is that the only way that an enterprise has been using the path that modernization has been been a public cloud, uh, trajectory. Okay. And they really haven't had anything on premises that gave them the set of services necessary to get parody between the two. And what we're finding and you know, been been involved with public cloud since 2010 right? So hundreds and hundreds of engagements, the portion that they thought they were going to move to cloud is substantially dropped the actual number of applications versus now those are going to stay on prem. And we were looking at each other and we're saying, Hey, this is a trifecta of opportunities with the containers coming in and the normalization of Kubernetes as the unified pass platform, the abstraction of bullying all the way down to bare metal, right? >>And giving those clients that true native architectures where they are not having to pay what we consider excessive prices to be putting in that, that world right there and then allowing that monetization practice to happen. So you've got to start with that platform, that, that container platform, and to do it in the way that the motion is going right now in the world today that's consistent with the public cloud. This is really important that you have to have consistency in your development environments, whether they're public or private. And that's where we believe is important. So Robert, you're seeing enterprises develop that. It sounds like you're seeing enterprises develop that operational experience and operational expertise, process development, independent of where their workloads are running. Well, that's the goal. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, right now they're siloed. Right? Okay. You've got a public operating model and you've got a private operating model. >>Right? And there's some people that tried to stitch this stuff together, but it's really difficult. What we're looking to do is given consistent plain across, all right? And when you have a consistent plane, a control point across all, no matter where you put your clusters and a management frame around it, now you have the ability to build an operating model that's consistent to go forward. Okay. So you know, we've been at the show for four years. I interviewed Joe beta, uh, and, and Joe says, he said, look, you know, Kubernetes, it's not a magic layer. It does not all of a sudden say add Coobernetti's in it and everything works every hair there. No, it's a very thin layer. I'm glad he said that. Washing my car from that happened on top. Right. If flip problem just rubbed Coobernetti's on it and get better. So Kumar, help us understand kind of the HPE stack if you work and what you put together and therefore it will be an enabler for customers in your application. Thank you. That's a very, very well said and I joke that Gouverneur does, we'll wash your car and post to read and babysit. And um, so I think he enjoys the ride, a lot of wisdom there. So what we found is, uh, content has an ensemble persistence always problem per se. So if I want, if >>I have a database running and my container goes away, we also notice that you want to make sure your endpoints are well secured and you want to expose only things what you want in the thing. We also found out that customers are more interested in applications and are giving me just the engine and the tires. I need to go from point a to point B. What blue data has done is actually it actually automates all your deployments of applications. We announced that product in September, so what what what this continent platform does is bring all these pieces together so the customers to be able to move to the deploy man and not worry about whether I have tires or I have an engine or not. In addition, I would like to find out that, I think Antonio talked about it the hour Sammo we want to come to the customers and it's the best possible lowest cost workload per application. >>This is why we think better metals are very, very, very important. Running containers on bare metal will Remos techs and and there is an, and we've been running better minerals in on bare metal containers in the blue data for almost five years. One of the things I think I wanted to add to that because I, you, you were guys saying, Hey, deploying Kubernetes and just add a little bit on top of that and it's all fine, right? I thought that was a great comment. Um, a lot of our clients are literally talking about container sprawl, right? It don't take anything to go to cncf.org and pull down could the Kubernetes distro launch it out there? And I've got a bunch of stuff running. They're popping up faster than all the shadow it did when the cloud, the public cloud started coming up, right? So you have this, this, um, motion that's uncontrolled, and if you're an enterprise and you're and governance and you're trying to put your arms around a global infrastructure that you want to be able to put your arms around that, more importantly, you may have one group running 1.15. >>You may have another group 0.1, 1.8. You may have two other groups that have an older version that's into production right now, and you have them all independently running. And then you need to maintain a multitenancy across all of that and then separate those. Okay. You have to have a system that does that. And so the container HP container platform does that. This is a huge differentiating with consistent data layer underneath and that, that abstraction between the two and that governance around it is so much bigger than what we consider just Kubernetes on its own and that world comfort zone. Right, right. >>Well, I, I to play on that, right. Uh, we used to say, talk about paths a lot, right? And then a lot of words were spilled. I, I, what I love about some of the work here is that it comes from actual use, you know, proven in production use cases, years of work, you, the rough edges, the, the, the sharp, the, the cuts on your hands. Um, so that's actually great. All open source also and, and, and contributed back to the community. Also. Interesting. There is a, um, you know, but as so as folks, and there's many ways of getting Kubernetes raw, Kubernetes, Kubernetes with pieces, uh, in this room right here. So, you know, an interesting set of technologies that you've put together that with, for ease of use and for, for governance and you know, at the, from the business, from the ops layer, from the, from the dev layer. >>Um, but there is a difference of speed sometimes of uh, of uh, you know, the, what the enterprise wants to move Kubernetes these releases every quarter. And you know, I and you know, the other projects released at their own pace. So in this open source philosophy, uh, and the HPE as a partner with the, you know, point next and, and you know, support is your middle name kind of, uh, you know, how do you, how do you marry the, the, the speed of the cloud native technologies and all of the open source, uh, collaboration with, with kind of the enterprise on the enterprise side and help them? >>Yeah, very good question. I think Robert Weiner, there's one other focus for us is we didn't want to provide, I think before the injury you are talking about the curator Cuban or that we are supporting a hundred percent covenant is open source. So Robert says, I am a developer. I want 1.19 and Stu says I want do I have a 1.17 because I'm stable on that. You can have both the clusters along with the blue data, Epic controller clusters in the same pane of glass. Now you can run big data applications, you can run your cloud narrative, you can run your cloud narrative because you are on 1.19 so that is our goal. So when the CNCF releases newer versions obviously that we will support it. And then as you pointed out, HP support is the middle lame. We have a point next organization we have a CDP. So we will help the customers and we will obviously support certain versions and make sure when somebody gives a call and help the customers. And so we want to give that flexibility so that the developers can deploy whatever the native new versions that are coming up under the umbrella of HP container. It's this Epic layer that's providing some of the multitenancy and governance and controls. >>Exactly right. So this, you know, if you look at the, the, the CNCF, uh, roadmap, they're their grid, right? And you see where Coobernetti's lands in that one piece. There's all these surrounding pieces like that. There's lots and lots of vendors here that have pieces of it, right? But it takes a system, right? And you know that, and then it takes an operating model around that. Then it takes a deployment and governance model around that, right? And then you have, so there's so much more that the enterprise world acquires to make this a legitimate platform that can be scaled. >>One thing that I would like to add it, I don't want to underplay the, the, the value of a persistent proven data layer that has been there for 10 years with the map, our map around some of the best and largest databases in the world. And we are now bringing those two together. It's a, it's a very, very profound and very, very useful for the, for the enterprises. You know, Robert, you were emphasizing the consistency that needs to happen, uh, explained to how that fits in with your partnerships with all the public clouds. Uh, because you know, you hear a very different Coobernetti's message if you go to the Google show versus the Azure versus AWS. And I see HPE know at all of them. >>That's absolutely true. So, you know, I was the CTO with cloud technology partners, right? So I joined in 2013 and it was, um, our, our whole world was how do we work with the three hyperscalers to bring some consistency across them, right? You know, and you have operating models that are different for all three. I mean, what runs on AWS in a certain way is going to run differently on Azure. What's going to be running differently in GCP, right? So the tooling, all that, all the pieces are different. You go pull that back on prem. Now you have a whole different conversation as well. So what we know is that you have to have a unification of behavioral control systems in place before, wherever you deploy your clusters, wherever those are going to be like that. So what we know is is that the tagging nomenclature, the tagging is key to all of this operational models. >>All your tools are gonna be using tagging. And when you go into existing environments, taggy will be inconsistent between, even with inside AWS will be consistent, inconsistent with an Azure. So you have to have a mapping. So what we have as part of our GreenLake offering that would come in together with this is we have a unification tagging layer that bridges that gap and unifies that into a consistent nomenclature and control plane that gives you a basis to have an operating model. This is a, this only gets exposed until you start having 2050 102 hundred clusters out there. And everybody goes, how do I put my arms around this? So it's very important that that, that's just one piece of it. But operating model, operating model, operating model, I keep going back to this every time. There's a bunch of people here can spin up manage clusters all day long and some of them doing better than others, but unless you surround it and you surround it with the stuff that he's talking about is a consistent data layer, persistent and a consistent management system of all these people's behaviors, you're going to get just an unbelievable out of control platform. >>Yup. Kumar, I'd love your viewpoint as to just the overall maturity of this ecosystem and where does HPE see their role as to, you know, we talked about, you know, data and you know, everything that's changing. I heard a lot in the keynote this morning about, >>uh, some of the progress that's being made, but I'd love your viewpoint there. HP is a legend in the Valley as you know. I mean, they've done every, we, all engineering calculator starts with HV calculator. HP recognize they missed a couple of transitions in the industry. And I think there's a new leadership with, uh, with our, with the Robert and me and other other key leaders recognizes this is a great opportunity for us. We see this window to help the customers. Make the modern digitalization transition the applications, taking the monolithic applications, doing microservices. You can. In fact, Robert and I was talking to a bank and they told us they have 6,000 applications built so far. They have micro service, four of them and, and, and we have actually what, what, what we believe with this application is you can actually run your monolithic applications in a container platform while you are figuring it right. So what we see is helping the customers make the digital transition and making sure that they have, they make, they go down this journey. That's what we see. Kumar, Robert, thank you so much for the updates. Congratulations on the launch. I look forward to seeing your presence. Thanks for having and cube. I allow Q. yeah. Thanks Jeff. Again, look for next time. Okay. All right. Bye. Thanks so much for John Troyer. I'm Stu Miniman. Lots more in our three days wall to wall coverage here at cube colon cloud native con 2019 thanks for watching. Fuck you..