David Richard, NetApp & James Whitemore, NetApp | NetApp Insight 2017
>> Announcer: Live from Las Vegas, it's the Cube, covering NetApp Insight 2017, brought to you by NetApp. >> Welcome back everyone, we're here live in Las Vegas from Mandalay Bay for NetApp Insight 2017. This is exclusive Cube coverage, I'm John Furrier, co-host of the Cube, co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media. My co-host is Keith Townsend, CTO Advisor. Our next two guests is James Whitemore, who's the VP of Brand and Demand for NetApp, and David Richard, VP of Solutions Engineering. Guys, welcome to the Cube. Thanks for coming on, appreciate taking the time. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for havin' us, thanks for bringin' us in. >> So we're kickin' off the day here, a long day, we're going to go up to 7 o'clock I think, of interviews with the folks. A lot of exciting things happening with NetApp. Obviously data is changing the world, we're seeing a lot of those examples in the real world. Don't want to rehash, we just talked about it on the intro. But society changes, from the board room to the dorm room, from play to work, you're seeing every dimension of life changing. We call this digital transformation in the enterprise, but it's affecting truly everyone. This is the consumerization of IT playing out in real time. People are re-imagining how life and work is happening. NetApp, a great leader, entrepreneurial company, back in the 90s, always had that DNA. How does storage become more enabling, in a way that's going to change society? >> How does storage, or how does data? >> Storage company NetApp that's turning into a data company, having the kind of solutions. What's the brand promise? What's the DNA of NetApp right now? >> Well I think, data first. We're really not a storage company anymore, we are a data company. And we will help our customers put data at the center of their business. Not think about storage, but think about data, and where it is, what it does, how they use it, how they bring data from multiple places, multiple partners, and really put it at the center of their business. >> David, I was talking with, eight years ago, with NetApp folks, you guys were kind of progressive, in Amazon, first. Real company, in Amazon, doin' this kind of storage data convergence way back when. So, eight years now, where's the solutions for customers? 'Cause customers want the cloud, they want on premise, they got to take care of business there, hybrid house sees everyone's hype. But on premise activity, whether it's private cloud or DevOps, the data piece is critical. How has that evolved? >> And first of all, like you said, NetApps's been pretty early to the space, so, six, seven years ago, we're already pretty embracive of cloud as a delivery technology, and as an ecosystem, and we were never, as a company, threatened by that. I think a lot of people in our business, especially in the storage industry, were very concerned that, ultimately, they were a competitor of ours. So I think we realized early on that it was a part of an ecosystem that we had to be part of, and we really focused on trying to demonstrate our value, regardless of where the bits and the bytes are stored. Trying to drive that consistency of customer experience whether or not they're doing an on prem, hybrid, or a full public cloud. And trying to leverage the skill sets and the technologies that they already had in a traditional NetApp environment, and use those to manage it across a very complex multi-cloud, multi-hype advisor environment. And that's really most of the stuff we've been talking about today, right? We did a lot of great announcements in the last hour, and it's all around helping enterprises put cloud technology in the center of their business, and do that with the confidence that the data's going to be protected, that there's going to be predictability of customer experience, and if they're going to be able to maintain that asset that data's becoming to the company. >> So, I'm curious, NetApp, SolidFire, rock-solid technology from a storing and retrieving bits perspective. But now we're gettin' into the conversation about data. We knew who NetApp's and SolidFire's customer was in the traditional enterprise or ISP, or service provider. Who's the customer today, who you guys talkin' to? It's no longer the storage call center anymore, who's that message that you're deliverin' it to, and how are they receivin' it? >> In my role as bein' the guy that runs the Solution Engineers, so the guys that are out there interfacin' with customers and trying to collect requirements, it's been an amazing shift. So we were very familiar with going into the infrastructure guy, and having a conversation around how they can build a performance-secure storage environment inside the four walls of a data center, maybe expanding it to, "Hey, how can I replicate that to a couple data centers?" Now, that's not the case. Now, we're really spending a lot of time finding the application owners, or, better yet, finding the people that have inside organizations that have connections to customers, who are looking to engage those customers differently through technology. So it's a lot more searching for people, it's much more of a discussion about business outcomes and customer intimacy than it ever was. >> I'd love to get some of the solutions you mentioned, I've got some announcements, but before we get there, how do you guys solve the problem for a customer? Or, better yet, what is the core problem that you solve for customers today? Obviously, it's not just a storage, as we're pointing out, it's a data problem. What is the problem that you're solving? And what are some of the new solutions you guys have coming out at the show here that you'd like to talk about? >> I'll give you my perspective on that, and I think you guys probably didn't get to see the kilo presentation this morning, I'm sure you guys were selling up here. There's really three ways that we think about it. We think that each and every one of our customers is doing one, some, or all of three things. They are trying to modernize their existing infrastructure, to bring it current, to make that infrastructure more efficient and operationally effective. They're trying to build a next-generation data center, and they're trying to look outside of what they have today, and look at what that next-generation data center should be. And they're trying to harness the power of a cloud. And we tend to group our solutions, and the way that we think, and the way that we talk to our customers in those three areas. And many of them are doing all of those three things at once, right? >> So get up to date, get up to speed, get the next-gen data center, what is the products you guys announced? Can you take a minute to talk about them? >> Sure. A whole bunch of things. Probably the most interesting and exciting one is the Microsoft NFS solution that we just announced. So this is actually a pretty cool capability, this is the ability for a user inside of Microsoft Azure to natively provision NFS. And, like I said, it's natively driven inside of the Azure infrastructure, but it's delivered through the NetApp technology. We think it's important that, as customers start moving to the cloud, that they start to be able to bring their tool sets and their expectations that they have, and so that was a key one. What you're seeing is the maturation of the relationship that we announced with those guys about six months ago. Also, a couple of other things there, about deepening the relationship around some of our backup products, and especially around helping our customers protect Office 365 applications in the cloud, so that was a big one. Most recent release of Data ONTAP 9.3, we did our first pre-announce of that today. Same thing, it's a lot about, obviously, it's leveraging the new technologies around performance. Right, so this is NVMe, this is high-speed interfaces in Flash, which, obviously, is very important today. When you're really tryin' to, when you're building applications, that latency really matters. So that's a big thing. It's also building and expanding upon our ability to provide the highest levels of data availability, as well as data compression and efficiency around that. So that was a pretty big one. We're continuing to evolve the tool set around cloud, so the things that allow our customers to be able to orchestrate, and maximize, and visualize their utilization of the cloud. And some other products around helping customers truly do multi-cloud and multi-hype advisor in an operational way. >> Alright, final question for you guys both to share. This comes up a lot, so I'd like to get your thoughts. What are customers saying? Share some anecdotal sound bites around what customers are saying about some of these challenges, 'cause they're pretty significant. You got to take care of business and modernize infrastructures, blocking and tackling. You got to do next-gen, which means either software paradigm, DevOps, or private cloud ready. And then, obviously, cloud apps, that's a hybrid and/or public, private, whatever you want to call it, that's a lot of work. Now over the top, you got data governance, you got IoT around the corner. I mean, this is really, really challenging for CxO's. What are customers saying to you guys about the relationship that they're having with NetApp? Share some either data or anecdotal sound bites. >> So we had around 50 CIO's, Chief Data Officers, and that type of person here in Executive Summit yesterday, and got some really, really, clear requests. It's, "Help us. "This is complicated. "The way that we look at our world "is very mixed between our legacy infrastructures, "the private clouds we're trying to build, "and the public clouds that we're trying to harness, "and help us do that." And the feedback they give us is, "Yes, you're doing the right things." Everything that we showed them yesterday, everything that we showed them today, of really being able to look at data holistically 'cross all of those type of platforms is exactly what they want, but they need help. >> So they're leaning on you guys more. >> They're looking for leadership. For, "How do we do this?" >> I think you were talking about NetApp DNA, right, and I think that's an important thing right now. Things are very complex, customers can be very confused. I think customers are also very fearful of lock-in. And I think they're very fearful of making decisions today that they can't unmake in the future. So they're asking us a lot of questions about, "If I make this decision today, "does that preclude me from being able to make "bigger decisions or different decisions in the future? "If I go down this road, can I go back?" And so it's more about just demonstrating to them that they have a safe ecosystem, and that we're not going to be providing all the solutions that they're going to use inside the cloud, but we're going to be open and embracive of as many of those as possible to protect their investment. >> You guys got a great customer base too, and it's growing, and the thing that we took away last week at our big Data NYC event we had in Manhattan was, in that world, big data, you've seen the hype come and go. There's no tolerance for hype, customers to your point are super busy, their plates are full, and the rubber's got to hit the road. And so they've played with some stuff, the total cost of ownership becomes a big problem, right? The fruit's not coming on the tree of some of those hyped-up technologies, so they want to have a partner. You guys hear that same thing? In general? >> Yeah, definitely. I would encourage everyone to go check out the recording of the general session this morning. Some really clear demos of how we're helping customers, how we're really helping them drive efficiency in their existing infrastructure, to work across clouds, all of the hyper-scale clouds, to bring a next-generation data center platform together, based on, you have SolidFire, HCI products. And really, really, clear things that we're doing to help them. >> You can't just buy a new digital transformation prod, you got to lean on what you got, and build from there. You can't buy hybrid cloud, there's no SKU for that. >> But there's almost this consumerization of IT where there's expectations that things should be that easy. And especially, I think, at some senior levels, there's an expectation that they're trying to drive change down into organizations, and organizations are being resistant to it, but often it's just that things are still complex. >> Well, that's a good point, we're going to get into some other segments around that. That speaks directly to the automation, that speaks to the non-differentiated labor that's shifting to more labor activities, value activities. We're seeing that certainly in the Wikibon Data on our side, but great point. They want the ease of use, "Wait, it should be magic!" (chuckles) It should be like a Tesla, right, everyone wants the self-driving storage. Thanks for coming on, appreciate it. Kicking off day one, here at NetApp Insight. Check it out, they got great demos. Again, it should be easy, but a lot of work involved. If you're an enterprise, check out NetApp. It's the Cube, more coverage after this short break.
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James Labocki, Red Hat & Ruchir Puri, IBM | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
>>from around the globe. It's the cube with coverage of Kublai >>Khan and Cloud Native Con, Europe 2021 >>virtual brought to you by red hat. The cloud Native >>computing foundation >>and ecosystem partners. >>Welcome back to the cubes coverage everyone of Coop Con 2021 Cloud Native Con 21 virtual europe. I'm john for your host of the cube. We've got two great guests here, James Labaki, senior Director of Product management, Red Hat and Richer Puree. IBM fellow and chief scientist at IBM Gentlemen, thanks for coming on the cube, appreciate it. >>Thank you for having us. >>So, um, got an IBM fellow and Chief scientist, Senior Director Product management. You guys have the keys to the kingdom on cloud Native. All right, it's gonna be fun. So let's just jump into it. So I want to ask you before we get into some of the questions around the projects, what you guys take of cube con this year, in terms of the vibe, I know it's virtual in europe north America, we looked like we might be in person but this year with the pandemic cloud native just seems to have a spring to its step, it's got more traction. I've seen the cloud native piece even more than kubernetes in a way. So scott cooper diseases continues to have traction, but it's always about kubernetes now. It's more cloud native. I what do you guys think about that? >>Yeah, I'm sure you have thoughts and I could add on >>Yes, I I think well I would really think of it as almost sequential in some ways. Community is too cold now there's a layer which comes above it which is where all our, you know, clients and enterprises realize the value, which is when the applications really move. It's about the applications and what they can deliver to their end customers. And the game now is really about moving those applications and making them cloud native. That's when the value of that software infrastructure will get realized and that's why you are seeing that vibe in the, in the clients and enterprises and at two corners. Well, >>yeah, I mean, I think it's exciting. I've been covering this community since the beginning as you guys know the cube. This is the enablement moment where the fruit is coming off the tree is starting to see that first wave of you mentioned that enablement, it's happening and you can see it in the project. So I want to get into the news here, the conveyor community. What is this about? Can you take a minute to explain what is the conveyor community? >>Yeah, yeah. I think uh, you know, uh, what, what we discovered is we were starting to work with a lot of end users and practitioners. Is that what we're finding is that they kind of get tired of hearing about digital transformation and from multiple vendors and and from sales folks and these sorts of things. And when you speak to the practitioners, they just want to know what are the practical implications of moving towards a more collaborative architecture. And so, um, you know, when you start talking to them at levels beyond, uh, just generic kind of, you know, I would say marketing speak and even the business cases, the developers and sys admins need to know what it is they need to do to their application architecture is the ways they're working for to successfully modernize their applications. And so the idea behind the conveyor community was really kind of two fold. One was to help with knowledge sharing. So we started running meetups where people can come and share their knowledge of what they've done around specific topics like strangling monoliths or carving offside containers or things that sidecar containers are things that they've done successfully uh to help uh kind of move things forward. So it's really about knowledge sharing. And then the second piece we discovered was that there's really no place where you can find open source tools to help you re host re platform and re factor your applications to kubernetes. And so that's really where we're trying to fill that void is provide open source options in that space and kind of inviting everybody else to collaborate with us on that. >>Can you give an example of something uh some use cases of people doing this, why the need the drivers? It makes sense. Right. As a growing, you've got, you have to move applications. People want to have um applications moved to communities. I get that. But what are some of the use cases that were forcing this? >>Yeah, absolutely, for sure. I don't know if you have any you want to touch on um specifically I could add on as well. >>Yeah, I think some of the key use cases, I would really say it will be. So let let me just, I think James just talked about re host, re hosting, re platform ng and re factoring, I'm gonna put some numbers on it and then they talk about the use case a little bit as well. I would really say 30 virtual machines movement. That's it. That's the first one to happen. Easy, easier one, relatively speaking. But that's the first one to happen. The re platform in one where you are now really sort of changing the stack as well but not changing the application in any major way yet. And the hardest one happened around re factoring, which is, you are, you know, this is when we start talking about cloud native, you take a monolithic application which you know legacy applications which have been running for a long time and try to re factor them so that you can build microservices out of them. The very first, I would say set of clients that we are seeing at the leading edge around this will be around banking and insurance. Legacy applications, banking is obviously finances a large industry and that's the first movement you start seeing which is where the complexity of the application in terms of some of the legacy code that you are seeing more onto the, into the cloud. That for a cloud native implementation as well as their as well as a diversity of scenarios from a re hosting and re platform ng point of view. And we'll talk about some of the tools that we are putting in the community uh to help the users and uh and the developer community in many of these enterprises uh move into a cloud native implementation lot of their applications. And also from the point of view of helping them in terms of practice, is what I describe as best practices. It is not just about tools, it's about the community coming together. How do I do this? How do I do that? Actually, there are best practices that we as a community have gathered. It's about that sharing as well, James. >>Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. Right. So you re hosting like for example, you might have uh an application that was delivered, you buy an SV that is not available containerized yet. You need to bring that over as a VM. So you can bring that into Q Bert, you know, and actually bring that and just re hosted. You can, you might have some things that you've already containerized but they're sitting on a container orchestration layer that is no longer growing, right? So the innovation has kind of left that platform and kind of kubernetes has become kind of that standard one, the container orchestration layer, if you want become the de facto standard. And so you want to re platform that that takes massaging and transforming metadata to do that to create the right objects and so on and so forth. So there's a bunch of different use cases around that that kind of fall into that re host tree platform all the way up to re factoring >>So just explain for the audience and I know I love I love the three things re hosting re platform in and re factoring what's the difference between re platform NG and re factoring specifically, what's the nuance there? >>Yeah, yeah, so so a lot of times I think people have a lot of people, you know, I think obviously amazon kind of popularized the six hours framework years ago, you know, with, with, with, with that. And so if you look at what they kind of what they popularize it was replied corn is really kind of like a lift tinker and shift. So maybe it's, I, I'm not just taking my VM and putting it on new infrastructure, I'm gonna take my VM, maybe put on new infrastructure, but I'm gonna switch my observer until like a lighter weight observer or something like that at the same time. So that would fall into like a re platform or in the case, you know, one of the things we're seeing pretty heavily right now is the move from cloud foundry to kubernetes for example, where people are looking to take their application and actually transform it and run it on kubernetes, which requires you to really kind of re platform as well. And re factoring >>is what specific I get the >>report re factoring is, I think just following on to what James said re factoring is really about um the complexity of the application, which was mainly a monolithic large application, many of these legacy applications which have so many times, actually hundreds of millions of dollars of assets for these uh these enterprises, it's about taking the code and re factoring it in terms of dividing it into uh huh different pieces of court which can themselves be spun as microservices. So then it becomes true, it takes starting advantage of agility or development in a cloud native environment as well. It's not just about either lift and shift of the VM or or lift tinker and shift from a, from a staff point of view. It's really about not taking applications and dividing them so that we can spin microservices and it has the identity of the development of a cloud. >>I totally got a great clarification, really want to get that out there because re platform ng is really a good thing to go to the cloud. Hey, I got reticent open source, I'll use that, I can do this over here and then if we use that vendor over there, use open source over there. Really good way to look at it. I like the factory, it's like a complete re architecture or re factoring if you will. So thank you for the clarification. Great, great topic. Uh, this is what practitioners think about. So I gotta ask the next question, what projects are involved in in the community that you guys are working? It seems like a really valuable service uh and group. Um can you give an overview and what's going on in the community specifically? >>Yeah, so there's really right now, there's kind of five projects that are in the community and they're all in different, I would say different stages of maturity as well. So, um there's uh when you look at re hosting, there's two kind of primary projects focused on that. One is called forklift, which is about migrating your virtual machines into cuba. So covert is a way that you can run virtual machines orchestrated by kubernetes. We're seeing kind of a growth in demand there where people want to have a common orchestration for both their VMS and containers running on bare metal. And so forklift helps you actually mass migrate VMS into that environment. Um The second one on the re hosting side is called Crane. So Crane is really a tool that helps you migrate applications between kubernetes clusters. So you imagine you have all your you know, you might have persistent data and one kubernetes cluster and you want to migrate a name space from one cluster to another. Um That's where Crane comes in and actually helps you migrate between those um on the re platforms that we have moved to cube, which actually came from the IBM research team. So they actually open source that uh you sure you want to speak about uh moved to >>cube. Yeah, so so moved to cuba is really as we discuss the re platform scenario already, it is about, you know, if you are in a docker environment or hungry environment uh and you know, kubernetes has become a de facto standard now you are containerized already, but you really are actually moving into the communities based environment as the name implies, It's about moved to cuba back to me and this is one of the things we were looking at and as we were looking, talking to a lot of, a lot of users, it became evident to us that they are adapting now the de facto standard. Uh and it's a tool that helps you enable your applications in that new environment and and move to the new stuff. >>Yeah. And then the the the only other to our tackle which is uh probably like the one of the newest projects which is focused on kind of assessment and analysis of applications for container reservation. So actually looking at and understanding what the suitability is of an application for being containerized and start to be like being re factored into containers. Um and that's that's uh, you know, we have kind of engineers across both uh Red hat IBM research as well as uh some folks externally that are starting to become interested in that project as well. Um and the last, the last project is called Polaris, which is a tool to help you measure your software delivery performance. So this might seem a little odd to have in the community. But when you think about re hosting re platform and re factoring, the idea is that you want to measure your software delivery performance on top of kubernetes and that's what this does. It kind of measures the door metrics. If you're familiar with devops realization metrics. Um so things like, you know, uh you know, your change failure rate and other things on top of their to see are you actually improving as you're making these changes? >>Great. Let me ask the question for the folks watching or anyone interested, how do they get involved? Who can contribute, explain how people get involved? Is our site, is there up location slack channel? What's out there? >>Yeah, yeah, all of the above. So we have a, we have, we have a slack channel, we're on slack dot kubernetes dot io on town conveyor, but if you go to www dot conveyor dot io conveyor with a K. Uh, not like the cube with a C. Uh, but like cube with a K. Uh, they can go to a conveyor to Ohio and um, there they can find everything they need. So, um, we have a, you know, a governance model that's getting put in place, contributor ladder, all the things you'd expect. We're kind of talking into the C N C F around the gap delivery groups to kind of understand if we can um, how we can align ourselves so that in the future of these projects take off, they can become kind of sandbox projects. Um and uh yeah, we would welcome any and all kind of contribution and collaboration >>for sure. I don't know if you have >>anything to add on that, I >>think you covered it at the point has already um, just to put a plug in for uh we have already been having meetups, so on the best practices you will find the community, um, not just on convert or die. Oh, but as you start joining the community and those of meet ups and the help you can get whether on the slack channel, very helpful on the day to day problems that you are encountering as you are taking your applications to a cloud native environment. >>So, and I can see this being a big interest enterprises as they have a mix and match environment and with container as you can bring and integrate old legacy. And that's the beautiful thing about hybrid cloud that I find fascinating right now is that with all the goodness of stade Coubertin and cloud native, if you've got a legacy environments, great fit now. So you don't have to kill the old to bring in the news. So this is gonna be everything a real popular project for, you know, the class, what I call the classic enterprise, So what you guys both have your companies participated in. So with that is that the goal is that the gulf of this community is to reach out to the classic enterprise or open source because certainly and users are coming in like, like, like you read about, I mean they're coming in fast into the community. >>What's the goal for the community really is to provide assistant and help and guidance to the users from a community point of view. It's not just from us whether it is red hat or are ideal research, but it's really enterprises start participating and we're already seeing that interest from the enterprises because there was a big gap in this area, a lot of vendor. Exactly when you start on this journey, there will be 100 people who will be telling you all you have to do is this Yeah, that's easy. All you have to do. I know there is a red flag goes up, >>it's easy just go cloud native all the way everything is a service. It's just so easy. Just you know, just now I was going to brian gracefully, you get right on that. I want to just quickly town tangent here, brian grazer whose product strategist at red hat, you're gonna like this because he's like, look at the cloud native pieces expanding because um, the enterprises now are, are in there and they're doing good work before you saw projects like envoy come from the hyper scales like lift and you know, the big companies who are building their own stuff, so you start to see that transition, it's no longer the debate on open source and kubernetes and cloud native. It's the discussion is integration legacy. So this is the big discussion this week. Do you guys agree with that? And what would, what would be your reaction? >>Yeah, no, I, I agree with you. Right. I mean, I think, you know, I think that the stat you always here is that the 1st 20 of kind of cloud happened and now there's all the rest of it. Right? And, and modernization is going to be the big piece right? You have to be able to modernize those applications and those workloads and you know, they're, I think they're gonna fall in three key buckets, right? Re host free platform re factor and dependent on your business justification and you know, your needs, you're going to choose one of those paths and we just want to be able to provide open tools and a community based approach to those folks too to help that certainly will have and just, you know, just like it always does, you know, upstream first and then we'll have enterprise versions of these migration tool kits based on these projects, but you know, we really do want to kind of build them, you know, and make sure we have the best solution to the problem, which we believe community is the way to do that. >>And I think just to add to what James said, typically we are talking about enterprises, these enterprises will have thousands of applications, so we're not talking about 10 40 number. We're talking thousands or 20% is not a small number is still 233 400. But man, the work is remaining and that's why they are getting excited about cloud negative now, okay, now we have seen the benefit but this little bit here, but now, let's get, you know serious about about that transformation and this is about helping them in a cloud native uh in an open source way, which is what red hat. XL Sad. Let's bring the community together. >>I'm actually doing a story on that. You brought that up with thousands of applications because I think it's, it's under underestimate, I think it's going to be 1000s and thousands more because businesses now, software driven everywhere and observe ability has pointed this out. And I was talking to the founder of uh Ravana project and it's like, how many thousands of dashboards you're gonna need? Roads are So so this is again, this is the problems and the opportunities are coming together, the abstraction will get you to move up the stack in terms of automation. So it's kind of fascinating when you start thinking about the impact as this goes the next level. And so I have to ask your roaches since you're an IBM fellow and chief scientist, which by the way, is a huge distinction. Congratulations. Being an IBM fellow is is a big deal. Uh IBM takes that very seriously. Only a few of them. You've seen many waves and cycles of innovation. How would you categorize this one now? Because maybe I'm getting old and and loving this right now. But this seems like everything kind of coming together in one flash 10.1 major inflection point. All the other waves combined seemed to be like in this one movement very fast. What's your what's your take on this wave that we're in? >>Yes, I would really say there is a lot of technology has been developed but that technology needs to have its value unleashed and that's exactly where the intersection of those applications and that technology occurs. Um I'm gonna put in yet another. You talked about everything becoming software. This was Anderson I think uh Jack Lee said the software is eating the world another you know, another wave that has started as a i eating software as well. And I do believe these two will go inside uh to uh like let me just give you a brief example re factoring how you take your application and smart ways of using ai to be able to recommend the right microservices for you is another one that we've been working towards and some of those capabilities will actually come in this community as well. So when we talk about innovations in this area, We are we are bringing together the best of IBM research as well. As we are hoping the community actually uh joints as well and enterprises are already starting to join to bring together the latest of the innovations bringing their applications and the best practices together to unleash that value of the technology in moving the rest of that 80%. And to be able to seamlessly bridge from my legacy environment to the cloud native environment. >>Yeah. And hybrid cloud is gonna be multi cloud really is the backbone and operating system of business and life society. So as these apps start to come on a P i is an integration, all of these things are coming together. So um yeah, this conveyor project and conveyor community looks like a really strong approach. Congratulations. Good >>job bob. >>Yeah, great stuff. Kubernetes, enabling companies is enabling all kinds of value here in the cube. We're bringing it to you with two experts. Uh, James Richard, thanks for coming on the Cuban sharing. Thank you. >>Thank you. >>Okay, cube con and cloud native coverage. I'm john furry with the cube. Thanks for watching. Yeah.
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