>> Voiceover: Live from Chicago, Illinois it's The Cube, covering Veeamon 2018. Brought to you by Veeam. >> Welcome back to the Windy City everybody. You are watching The Cube, the leader in live tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante and I'm here with Stu Miniman. Veeamon 2018 #Veeamon The husband of Mrs Philbin is here. (chuckling) The Astros, Warriors, Eagles, and whoever wins the Stanley Cup this year fan, Bill Philbin, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer for Hybrid IT, for Hewlett Packard Enterprises, good friend of The Cube. >> Hello everybody. >> Awesome seeing you again, thanks for coming on. >> Every time you introduce me, it's something new, so I can't wait to share that with Mrs Philbin. >> Well she, like Stu says, that's where you go, for the information. >> That's exactly right, that's exactly right. >> So, another great keynote here, you stole the show last year, you're vying for top spot, top gun this year, so how do you feel? >> It was good, I said I think, the funny thing about Veeamon Hewlett Packard is, we have so much in common. The agenda is the same. It was almost hard to actually to create a unique slide set that was different from what they said, versus what we said. I think after 32 years, Mrs Philbin and I, we're not quite finishing each other's sentences, but I know what she wants me to do, without her telling me at this point. So, Veeam and HP have that kind of relationship. >> Well Veeam has a tendency and a way of inserting itself, into an ecosystem and it's certainly embedded itself into the HPE ecosystem. >> And I think that's, that's a lot of credit to Peter Mackay you know, he's joined now, what is it, 23, 24 months ago, and he's sort of brought that partner-centric viewpoint, grew the team around us. And they're really a, who we sort of pull out for other partners, say hey look, this is what these guys are doing, this is what you need to do to be successful, in a sprawling enterprise like Hewllet Packard, so, he's done a really, really good job I think. >> So give us an update on that sprawling enterprise. We make Hybrid IT simple, is your mantra. How is that going, you know where does your group fit in? >> So our couple of quarters into the new tenure of Antonio Anieri being the CEO, the engineer turned CEO. >> Got to make you happy? >> Absolutely makes me, and the thousands and thousands of engineers happy. Great first quarter, and we'll see what happens, sort of in quarter number, in quarter number two. There's a lot of focus within the company, now that we have divested ourselves of things that were less important. Focus on enterprise infrastructure, customers, around a couple of key concepts. Certainly we're pushing synergy, sort of, the synergy platform. Second pushing and talk about one sphere or hybrid IT, hybrid cloud offering, three, you know, we've had a lot of success in storage. Certainly the Nimble acquisition, which is hard to believe, was almost consummated, (mumbles) it's almost a year ago right? Its a year ago, actually in May. I just got off a holiday with Mrs Philbin, last year on the holiday, I was closing the Nimble transaction in the middle of the Indian Ocean, talking WIFI on the boat, via Google Voice to San Jose. There is nowhere now. >> Always on. >> Always on, exactly right. Talk about hyper availability. And so, I think we're pushing on, pushing on that, and then we've got, we renamed our services offering to Point Next offering, focusing around transformation et cetera so, I think the business is really clicking on all cylinders, and I think, you know, focus is actually quite interesting. We often focus on what we don't have, versus only focusing on what remains. And just like any start up, you focus on the first market segment, second market segment. Hewlett Packard is focused on enterprise infrastructure as a profession, I think that's, I think that's bode well for us. >> Yep, Bill one of the things we were talking about on the intro is, Veeam getting much deeper with their partners. One of the things we highlighted is, there's a couple of partners added in the price book. >> And what does that mean, from a go to market standpoint, that it's a little bit more seamless, you know, not invented by HP, but part of the whole solution. >> Well I said to Peter Mackay on stage, 18 months ago we did this transaction, which at the time was considered pretty revolutionary, given the fact that we had other things in the portfolio at that point that did data protection. And it's what, first and foremost, it's what our customers wanted and asked for. They wanted a more seamless transaction between the two organizations so we went ahead and did that. Second, there's always been a strong engineering relationship between the two companies, but if it's still talking to two partners at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. You know, an integrated offering, on the same price list, on the same PO, supported by both companies together, is really what customers are looking for. And as I said in the keynote, you know, we closed the single biggest transaction that, in Veeam's history, which was a Hewlett Packard and Veeam win for every seven dollars, I think it was, of Hewlett Packard, that we closed, a dollar of that was Veeam. And that's, sort of, the power of the partnership, demonstrated by the two companies coming together. And it's hard to believe, again, it's 18 months, you know, that's a pretty impressive track record. >> You're obviously not sharing, you know, any names on that deal. But can you share with us, any other information that's public, why did you win? Maybe you can share, you know, the type of win that it was. Why HPE and Veeam? >> Yeah, the customer, obviously, is not prepared to have us, sort of, talk about their name, for now anyway. But, essentially, what the customer was looking for was, a complete sort of back up and recovery solution that covered, not only traditional virtualized environments, but also gave them outlet for the cloud. More and more customers, as I said in my keynote, it's more than keeping a copy everyday between your primary and your secondary. You need a third copy, because guess what happens? And I said this last year, if you remember. Boo boos happen quickly right? (laughing) Something changed and deleted here, actually fast replicates here, you need a third copy to be complete, they were looking for that. And third, they were looking for, sort of, they were already an HP customer, they were looking for solution offering that would amortize their existing real estate, that was the three reasons. >> And, but your third copy model is different than having to build a third data center. It's a much more space-efficient, modern approach. >> So together with Veeam and our, (mumbles) our displace back up target, roughly last year, we announced this capability called Cloudbank which allows you to keep a copy in any S3 compliant interface. So it can be in on prem, or on open stack, implementation or it can be on any of the web services providers and it's done in an efficient, data protected deetip capability so, it's an efficient way to keep a copy of, what we call hail Mary data. Right, you hope you never need it right? An efficient way to sort of do that. >> Okay, one of the big topics of discussion these days is ransomware, what are your thoughts on ransomware? >> Well it's funny, you know, I always thought ransomware was something that you wore when you were dropping off the money, right. (laughing) Apparently it means something more than that. >> Dave: Yeah, I think so. (voice drowned out by crosstalk) >> Last year at Discover, we had a customer who was a meat processor, a meat processor. Now you can imagine what kind of customers you're going to ask, a customer that does meat processing. But it actually infected their servers that actually helped them run their meat processing capability. Now that is not a business that you would expect someone will call you up and say, "Hi we have your data, give us $1000 and we'll give you your data back.". It's a meat processing company, or a gourmet food provider is a more typical way they would present it. But if they're, if that's happening to that sort of line of business, imagine what's happening to power plants, you know et cetera et cetera. So the ramsomware stuff is really real. So if you think about HP, we developed the most secure server with our Gen10 platform. We actually guarantee and actually look at changes being made in a firmer environment. We cover them for you automatically. We've got the Veeam sort of capability to recover, and I think we were talking about it in the preview. We used to measure availability in how many nines you had. Now, unavailability is the only thing that customers care about and if you go to a customer and say, "It's okay, you're only .0001 of the rest of our customers" that's not a good story right? It's not about when something happens, or if something happens, it's when something's going to happen and the power of Veeam and HP together, prevents, bad things from happening right? >> Bill, it's interesting, I know in my career, it's been a significant shift. It used to be, let's pardon it as much as possible, tool, redundancy, hardware focused. But cover eventually breaks. >> Bill: It does. >> Today, it's a soft world, it's distributed architecture, look at things like your synergy solution, it's much more modular and componentized. Maybe you can talk a little bit about some of those shifts, as to how we build availability architecturally, like the HPE and Veeam meet the new needs of what we need, as opposed to kind of the old way of doing things. >> It's actually interesting, so a lot of customers are looking at software-fine infrastructures as a way of amortizing their existing infrastructure. And it's actually cost savings. But I equate it to sort of, making a decision to buy Mrs Philbin a chest of drawers at a furniture store or, going to Home Depot, buying the wood, milling the wood and actually creating something myself. Now the good news about software fine infrastructure is, it's just like me making Mrs Philbin a chest of drawers, is at the end, it's mine. Right, I got it to my specifications. The bad news about software fine infrastructure is when there's a problem, Mrs Philbin isn't calling the furniture store, she's calling me right? And so, when you think about software fine infrastructure, is, you have to imagine two things. One is, are you prepared to write an application that is ready to resolve the kinds of data resiliency and data availability, capabilities that the hardware manufacturers have built into systems for 20 years. Now if you've got a unique system, that does one thing, it's probably easy. Imagine hosting 160 different applications, like that was mentioned on the stage today. And creating resiliency for that. So my conversation with customers about software define is, please go in wide open. Number two, please think about resiliency, not at the storage level, but also think about resiliency at the application level. You have got to provide for a time when something is not as available as you think it is. And make those steps consciously. >> Let me ask you, from a technologist's perspective. >> Bill: Yeah. >> If I understand you correctly, so if I'm Oracle, I can do things in the application, >> Bill: Sure. >> To accomplish that outcome, but you're not an application ISD, so you have to do things in your architecture, and assume that any application that's running can recover. >> Bill: Correct. >> Is that right? So can you help us understand that, how you approach that problem architecturally? >> Well I think you know, we haven't talked about big data, or Infosite, but if you think about it. The way to best protect a customer's infrastructure, is to actually monitor their infrastructure, compare their results to what others are receiving, recommend ways that they can actually tune up their infrastructure and eventually, act on their behalf, to make the changes to their infrastructure, so they're always protected. As I said in my keynote, it's getting to a point where you actually can't do all that stuff yourself. So the key, one of the key strategies around Hewlett Packard Enterprises, is to take the infrastructure capability which is basically machine learning, artificial intelligence, sort of capability, and deliver a system which helps customers be always on. That's the first thing that I think you can do. And you're going to be really good about making sure that I get out. >> I am, we got like two minutes, and I want to use every second I have of you, so. Okay, so I want to follow up on the Infosite, you've brought that out beyond just Nimble. >> Bill: That's right. >> I think you've brought it to Three Par and you're pushing it out throughout your entire portfolio right? >> So for customers who are going to see us at Discover, we've got some interesting things we'll talk about there. But effectively we've rolled it out across the portfolio, because, as I said in my keynote, it's not really easy to predict, why availability is an issue. Is it a host issue, is it a software issue, is it a networking issue, is it a storage issue. What Infosite eventually provides is a set of hooks that allow you to meter and measure and manage your entire infrastructure, and get it to a point where it's actually subscribing to the best practice of the organization or application provider. >> One of the things you hear a lot about is, how do you take back up and recovery, which is largely an insurance business, and create value out of it? GDPR is this sort of heinous you know, set of regulations, everybody's got to pay attention to it. Are we finally seeing the day, where the backup data protection, governance approach, can actually bring value to the rest of the organization? Or is it still just insurance, deal with it? >> So I think, I would say two things Dave, one is if you look at what Nimble's just announced with their secondary flasher right? Where we can keep a very cost effective copy of your data on an array, that looks like the array you copied it from. That can be used for dev ops, it can be used in the event of a failure et cetera. I think we're starting to see technologies available now where that, that happens. Second, the ability to make a copy of that in the cloud, and actually bring up your most critical applications in the cloud by using a Synergy, or a Onesphere capability, so you can actually keep a hot stand by, I think we're starting to see that. I think, you know backup is moving from a, cost of doing business, to something that's vital, vital in the enterprise but always remember that, the best time to think about a backup, is before you need it. The worst time to think about a backup, is when you need it. >> Yeah, and I think you'd agree that data protection as a topic, is moving up in the minds of CXO and boards of directors and the like. >> Yeah, and it's unfortunate that some of these bad actors that are out there, right, the CNN's and, this has caught more than just the IT community press, it's actually caught the business press. And I think it's drawing a lot more attention around the reason why people should think about availability. >> Right, you got to go, you got to catch a plane. But just give a little tease for HPE Discover. It's coming up in June, it's a great conference that you guys have every year, twice a year you do this US one, and one in Europe, give us a tease for June. >> I would say, this is going to be the most exciting HPE Discover on record. And this is Antonio's opportunity to sort of, talk to you about what's headed, what's headed forward for Hewlett Packard so, be there or be square. >> Okay. >> Dating myself. >> Okay we're square. Alright thank you Bill, for coming on The Cube and we'll be right back after this short break. We're at Veeamon 2018 in Chicago. Thanks for watching. (electronic music)

>> Announcer: Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering HPE Discover 2017. Brought to you by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. >> Okay, welcome back everyone. We're here live in Las Vegas for HPE, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Discover 2017. I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE with Dave Vellante, and our next guest is Bill Philbin, who's the general manager of storage and big data for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Bill, welcome to theCUBE. Again, good to see you. I think you've been on since 2012, '13, '15. >> Is that right? What, are we carbon dating ourselves now or something? >> We've been tracking our CUBE alumni, but you're heading up the storage business-- >> Do I get a pen? >> We're working on that, Jerry Chen-- >> Seven of them >> Jerry Chen at Greylock wants to have, now, badge values. So, welcome back. >> Thank you, thank you for having me. >> You were just on theCUBE at VeeamON, which is an event Dave was hosting, I missed it in New Orleans. But a lot of stuff going on around stores, certainly. Virtualization has been around for a while, but now with Cloud; whole new ballgame. Programmable infrastructure, hybrid IT, Wikibond's true private Cloud report came out showing that private Cloud on Prim is $250 billion market. So nothing's really changing radically in the enterprise, per se, certainly maybe servers and storage, but people got to store their data. >> Bill: That's right What's the update from your perspective, what's the story here at HPE Discover? >> So I think there's really three things we're talking about amongst a number of announcements. One is sort of the extension of our All Flash environment for customers, who, as I was saying at Veeam, have the always-on. New world order is we expect everything to be available at a moment's notice, so I was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, using Google Voice over satellite IP on the boat, talking to San Jose, and it worked. That's always-on environment, and the best way to get that is, you know, with an All Flash [unknown], so that's number one. Number two, going back to the story about programmable infrastructures, storage also needs to be programmable, and so, if you've had Rick Lewis or Rick Lewis is coming he'll talk about composable infrastructures with Synergy, but the flip side of that is our belief that storage really needs to be invisible. And the acquisition of Nimble gets us a lot closer to sort of doing that in the same way that you have a safe self-driving car is all the rage. All that rich telemetry comes back, it's analyzed, fingerprinted, and sent out to customers to a point where it's, I call it the Rule of 85. 85% of the customers, the cases are raised by InfoSight and closed by InfoSight, and they have an 85 net promoter score. We're getting to a point where storage can be invisible, cause that's the experience you get on Amazon or as you swipe your credit card, say I want ten terabytes of storage, and that's the last time you have to think about it. We need to have the economics of the web, we need to have the programmability of the web, that's number two, and number three of what we talked about, and this is a big issue, a big thing we talked about with VeeamON, was data protection. The rules of data protection are also changing. Conventional backup does not protect data. I was with a customer a couple weeks ago in London. 120 petabytes; this is a financial services customer now. 120 petabytes of storage: not unusual. 40 of it was Hadoop, and they were surprised because it's unprotected, it's on servers, it's sort of the age of the client-server, and the age of Excel spreadsheets all over again. We realized that most businesses were running on Excel, so All Flash, a different way of supporting our customer support experience, and number three, it's all around how do you protect your data differently. >> What's the big trend from your standpoint, because a lot of that self-driving storage concept, or self-driving car analogy, it speaks to simplicity and automation. >> That's right >> The other thing that's going on is data is becoming more irrelevant, certainly in the Cloud. Whether that's a data protection impact or having data availability for Cloud-native apps, or in memory, or all kinds of cool stuff going on. So you got to lot of stuff happening, so to be invisible, and be programmable, customer's architectures are changing. What's the big trend that you're seeing from a customer standpoint? Are there new ways to lay out storage so that they can be invisible? Certainly a lot of people were looking at their simplification in IT operationally, and then have to prepare for the Cloud, whether that's Multicloud or hybrid or true private Cloud. What architects are you seeing changing, what are people doubling down on, what's the big trends in storage, kind of laying out storage as a strategy? >> So I think the thing about storage in the large, one of the trends obviously that we're seeing is sort of storage co-located with the server. When I started at HP now seven years ago, gen six to gen ten, which we've announced here at this show, the amount of locally attached storage in the box itself is massive. And then the applications are now becoming more and more responsible for data placement, and data replication. And so, even while capacities are growing, I think six or seven percent is what I saw from the latest IDC survey, the actual storage landscape, from a shared storage company, they're actually going down. And the reason is, application provisioning, application-aware storage is really the trend, that's sort of number one. Number two, you see customers looking at deploying the right storage for the right applications. hyperconverge with SimpliVity's a really good example of that, which is they're trying to find the right sort of storage to sort of serve up the right application. And that's where, if you're a single-PoINT provider company now in storage, and you don't have a software-only, a hyperconverge, an All Flash in a couple different flavors, including XP at the top, you're going to find it very, very difficult to sort of continue to compete in this market, and frankly, we're driving a lot of that consolidation, we put some bookends around what we're prepared to pay for. But if you're a PoINT providing storage company now? Life is a lot harder for you than it was a couple years ago. When we started with All Flash, I think it was like 94 All Flash companies. There are not 94 All Flash companies today. And so, I think that's sort of what we see. >> Well, to your point about PoINT companies are going to have a hard time remaining independent, and that's why a lot of 'em are in business to basically sell to a company like yours, cause they fill a need. So my question relates to R&D strategy. As the GM, relatively new GM, you know well that a large company like HPE has to participate in multiple markets, and in order to expand your team, you have to have the right product at the right time. One size does not fit all. So the Nimble acquisition brings in a capability at the lower end of the market, lower price spans, but it also has some unique attributes with regard to the way it uses data and analytics. You've got 3PAR Legendary at the high end. What's the strategy in terms of, and is there one, to bring the best of both of those worlds together, or is it sort of let 20 flowers bloom? >> So, I don't know if it's going to be 'let 20 flowers bloom', but I would probably answer a couple different ways. One is that InfoSight, you're right, is unique value proposition, is part of Nimble. I would bet if I come see you in Madrid, if you have me back for the, whatever, 13th time, [Laughing] that we'll be talking about how InfoSight and 3PAR can come together. So that's sort of the answer to number one. The answer to number two is, even though within the Nimble acquisition, one party acquired the other party, what we're really looking at is the best breed of both organizations. Whether that's a process, a person, a technology, we don't feel wedded to, "Just because we do it a certain way at HP, that means the Nimble team must conform." It's really, "Bring us the best and brightest." That's what we got. At the end of the day, we got a company, we got revenue, but we got the people, and in this storage business, these are serial entrepreneurs who have actually developed a product, we want to keep those people, and the way you do that is you bring 'em in and you use the best and greatest of all the technologies. There's probably other optimizations we'll look at, but looking at InfoSight across the entire portfolio, and one day maybe across the server portfolio, is the right thing to do. >> And just to follow up on that, Tom, if I may, so that's a hard core of sort of embedded technology, and then you've got a capability, we talk about the API economy all the time. How are you, and are you able to leverage other HPE activities to create infrastructure as code, specifically within the storage group? >> So if you look at us, at our converged systems appliances like our SAP HANA appliance, databases greater than six terabytes, we have 85% market share at Hewlett-Packard. And the way we do that, and that's all on 3PAR by the way, and the way we do that is we've got a fixed system that is designed solely to deliver HANA. On the flip of that, you have Synergy, which is a composable programmable infrastructure from the start, where it's all template-based and based on application provisioning. You provision storage, you provision the fabric, you provision compute. That programmable infrastructure also is supported by HP storage. And so, you have-- You can roll it the way you want to, and to some degree I think it's all about choice. If you want to go along, and build your own programmable infrastructure and OpenStack or VCloud Director, whatever it is, we have one of those. If you think simplicity is key, and app and server integration is important part of how you want to roll it out, we have one of those, that's called SimpliVity. If you want a traditional shared storage environment, we have one of those in 3PAR and Nimble, and if you want composable we have that. Now, choice means more than one, I don't know what it means in Latin or Italian, but I'm pretty sure choice means more than one. What we don't want to do is introduce, however, the complexity of what owning more than one is. And that's where things like Synergy make sense, or federation between SerVirtual and 3PAR, and soon we'll have federation between Nimble and 3PAR. So to help customers with that operational complexity problem, but we actually believe that choice is the most important thing we can provide our customers. >> I've always been a big fan of that compose thing, going back a couple years when you guys came and brought it out to the market. We're first, by the way, props to HP, also first on converged infrastructure way back in the day. I got to ask you, one of the things I love doing with theCUBE interviews is that we get to kind of get inspiration around some of the things that you're working on in your business unit. Back in 2010, Dave and I really kind of saw storage move from being boring storage, provisioning storage, to really the center of the action, and really since 2010 you've seen storage really at the center of all these converging trends. Virtualization, and hyperconverges, all this great stuff, now Cloud, so storage is kind of like the center point of all the action, so I got to ask you the question on virtualization, certainly changed the game with storage. Containerization is also changing the game, so I was telling some HP Labs guys last night that I've been looking at provisioning containers in microseconds. Where virtualization is extending and continuing to have a nice run, on the heels of that we got containerization, where apps are going to start working with storage. What's your vision and how do you guys look at that trend? How are you riding that next wave? >> It all comes down to an application-driven approach. As we were saying a little earlier, our view is that storage will be silent. You're going to provision an application. That's really the-- see, look at the difference between us and, let's say, Nutanix with SimpliVity. It's all about the application being provisioned into the hyperconverged environment. And if you look at the virtualization business alone, VMware's going to have a tough go because Hyper-V has actually gotten good enough, and it's cheaper, but people are really giving Hyper-V a much better look at than we've seen over the course of the last couple years. But guess what? That tool will commoditize, and the next commoditization point is going to be containers. Our vantage point, and if you look at 3PAR, you look at Nimble, we're already got it, we've already supported containers within the product, we've actually invested companies that are container-rich. I think it's all about, "What's the next--" >> And we at Dacron last year said, "We know you're parting with all the guys." But this is a big wave. You see containers as-- >> I see containers as sort of the place that virtualization sort of didn't ever get to. If you look at-- >> John: Well, the apps. >> On the apps absolutely, positively. And also it's a much simpler way to deploy an application over a conventional VM. I think containers will be important. Is it going to be important as the technology inflection point around All Flash? >> John: Flash is certainly very-- >> That I don't know, but I think as far as limiting costs in your datacenter, making it easier to deploy your applications, et cetera, I think containers is the one. >> What's the big news here, at HPE Discover 2017, for you guys? What's the story that you're telling, what's going on in the booth? Share some insight into what's happening here on the ground in Las Vegas from your standpoint. >> So I would say a couple of things. I think if you look out on the show floor, it seems more intimate and smaller this year. And there's a lot of concern, I think, that HP is chopping itself off into various pieces and parts, but I think the story that maybe we're not telling well enough, or that it gets missed, is out of that is actually a brand new company called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which is uniquely focused on serving enterprise infrastructure customers. And so I think, if I was going to encourage a news story, it's about the phoenix of that, and not the fact that we've taken the yes guys, and the software guys, and the PC guys. It's that company, maybe in Madrid we'll do this, and that company, that's really, really, really exciting. And as you said, storage; sort of in a Ptolemy versus Galileo approach. We believe everything, first of all, revolves around storage. We don't believe in Galileo. So if you look in here at the booth, we've announced the next generation of MSA platforms of 2052, we've got the 9450 3PAR -- three times as fast, more connectivity for All Flash solutions. We've talked about the secondary Flash array for Nimble, most effective place to protect your data is on an array, is on a type where the data came from, and that is the secondary Flash market. We're big into Cloud, we've talked about CloudBank here, which is the ability to keep a copy of your store-once data in any S3-compliant interface, including Scality. I don't know if I'm forgetting, I'm sure I'm forgetting something. >> John: There's a lot there. >> There's a lot there. >> I mean, you guys, I love your angle on the phoenix. We've been seeing that, we've been covering seven years now, and it is a phoenix. And the point that I think the news media is not getting on HP, there's a lot of fud out there, is that this is not a divested strategy. There's some things that went away that were the outsourcing business, but that was just natural. But this is HP-owned, it's not like it's like we're getting out of that, it's just how you're organizing it. >> And with a balance sheet that now is really a competitive weapon, if you will, you're going to see HP both grow organically and inorganically, and I think as the market continues to consolidate, the thing to remember also is there's fewer places to consolidate to. And so if you're a start-up, there's a handful of companies that you can go to now, and probably the best-equipped, right-sized, great balance sheet, great company, is Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. >> Well we had hoped to get Chris Hsu on, but I've always said the day we talk about the debates on management style, but I've always been a big believer as a computer science undergraduate, decouple highly cohesive strategy is a really viable one, I think that's a great one. >> Yeah, and there's still a good partnership with DXC, there'll be a great partnership with Micro Focus, and there's both financially as well as from a business perspective. But it's really an opportunity to focus, and if I was at another company, I would wonder whether or not if their strategy continues to be appropriate. >> Bill Philbin, senior Vice President and general manager of storage and big data at Hewlett-Packard Enterprises, theCUBE more live coverage after the short break. From Las Vegas, HPE Discover 2017, I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante with theCUBE, we'll be right back after this short break.