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Jeff Abbott & Nayaki Nayyar, Ivanti | CUBE Conversation, July 2020


 

>> Announcer: From theCUBE studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is theCUBE Conversation. >> Welcome to this cube conversation. I'm Lisa Martin, and I'm joined by two guests from Ivanti, today. Please welcome its President, Jeff Abbot and its Chief Product Officer, Nayaki Nayyar. Jeff and Nayaki, it's so great to talk to you today. >> Pleasure to speak to you, Lisa. >> Pleasure to be here, Lisa, look forward to this. >> Me too. So Jeff, let's start with you, transformation, you got some big news that you're going to be sharing and breaking through theCUBE Conversation today which we're going to dig into but there's been a lot of transformation at the top at Ivanti, you're new, tell me about that and what's the shake up that's been going on there to really drive this company forward? >> Yeah. We have got a lot of transformation going on, Lisa. And it's been an exciting ride for the first six months of my tenure at Ivanti. I came in January as president along with our new CEO, who has been Chairman, Jim Schaper. And when Jim and I started talking about Ivanti last fall, the challenges were pretty clear. It's a company that's had outstanding employees, fantastic customers, and a real heritage of innovation. But they had leveled off a little bit. And the idea behind the new executive team was to bring in a team of veterans to take it to the next level, really to grow to a billion dollars and beyond, both organically and through acquisitions. So you're right, we brought in a fantastic team of veterans people that Jim and I have both worked with: Angie Gunter, new Chief Marketing Officer, Mary Trick, new Chief Customer Officer, we recently hired Nayaki Nayyar, who's with us today, our Chief Product Officer, John Flavin, the Head of our Industry Business Unit, and a host of others that have all come in with a single mission to take Ivanti to the next level. >> So Nayaki, let's dig into Ivanti's vision, lot of change, lot of momentum, I imagine with that change, but what's your vision? >> So let's take a step back, Lisa and you look at, what I call Ivanti's position of strength. And when you look at the entire portfolio Ivanti has, one of the key strengths Ivanti has is its ability to discover, secure, manage and service the endpoints. And if you look at the entire marketplace, there is no vendor in the market today, most of them UEM vendors don't have service management, service management don't have UEM, our ability, Ivanti's ability to do this end to end management of endpoints all the way from discovery to security to service management is what our key strength is. That's our competitive advantage, bringing these three pillars together under one umbrella and having a holistic story. Especially in this day and age of COVID and post COVID, where everyone is trying to manage those endpoints, secure those endpoints, and have almost a seamless experience as remote becomes the next normal going forward for every enterprise, Lisa. >> Yeah, the next normal. Well, there's data scatter, there's device scatter and it's now almost like so many people working from home overnight a few months ago that now will have almost a relationship with our devices because they're our lifeline. So for an organization to be able to understand where all those devices are, people are now working from home, but as you shared, Nayaki, with me the other day, there's some gartner data that demonstrates that 3.6% of the workforce before COVID was working from home. It might be 10X that post COVID So the amount of device scatter and data scatter and need to secure, that challenge is even going up. So how does Ivanti help? How do you solve that challenge? >> So Lisa, if you put yourself in any large enterprise and organization that is dealing with this post COVID or addressing the needs of a remote worker, the remote workers are going through, I would say, explosive growth where they used to be single digits 3% 4% before COVID, and now, during COVID, and after COVID, it's probably going to be I would say, 30, 40% of remote workers that every enterprise has to now provide that service, that seamless service experience as they're working from home, they could be on the move. So providing that seamless experience is, I would say, number one priority and a key challenge for every enterprise. So what we are going to be releasing and launching and announcing to the market given our position of strength in managing endpoints is how we help that seamless experience and what I call the ambient experience for an end user independent of where they are working from, they could be working from home, they could be on the move, or office. >> Which is critical these days. But before we dig into the announcement, Jeff, I wanted to ask you, some of the stats that I've been seeing in terms of the C suite and the amount of decisions that the C suite has had to make in the last four months has been more than over the last five or so years. Talk to us a little bit about how Ivanti got together this new C suite to make the decision to announce what you're going to talk about today so quickly. >> Now, that's a great point. And it's one that we had to, quite frankly, Lisa. The market is demanding a hyper-automation, it's demanding more agnostic deployment, it needs more flexibility in terms of the ability to be self driven and sense and service without a whole lot of intervention. So we knew that when we came in as a new leadership team, the first thing we had to do was get the go-to-market strategy in order, which we did. We balanced our direct sales strategy with our partner strategy. We made some changes in the marketing organization to a more contemporary content-focused demand generation style, and we reset the company's focus on customer outcomes. And in so doing, we changed the mentality to success as measured by are we meeting our customers intended business goals? And that led us very quickly to say, "Listen, the unified IT message we've been using for the last few years has been great, and our customers have responded well to it, and we've acquired a lot of new customers with that message, but the game has changed." And as Nayaki was leading up to, the expectation has changed. And the entire IT space is relatively mature but the expectations and the pressure on that space has grown tremendously, as you pointed out, in the last few years. Just think of the number of devices we all now have to manage as a company, and it's growing. And as Nayaki pointed out as she discusses our launch, it's growing almost exponentially. So we knew that we had to have a new product strategy, we had to take the unified IT message and start to think differently about how the IT leaders in the field and our various customers around the world, how their game has changed and lean in to what they need in terms of automation, AI, bot technology, and so on. And that's what we're announcing with this latest release. >> All right, Nayaki, take it away. What are you announcing? >> Yeah, so what we're super-excited about, Lisa, is to Jeff's point, to handle this explosive growth, growth of devices, growth of data that is being generated from those devices, and also this explosive growth of remote workers. Meaning the only way to handle this growth is through what we call automation and we are taking that next, advanced automation, that leap frog strategy of what we call hyper-automation, embedding that into our entire stack, into our UEM endpoint management stack, into our security stack and also service management to help customers, what we call, self-heal, discover all the devices continuously, optimize the performance, optimize any configuration drifts, and proactively predictively remediate any issues, any issues that you see on those devices, and get into a world of what we call self-healing autonomous edge. Where it's continuously detecting every issue and being able to predictively and cognitively self-heal that edge. And this is what we are launching, is what we branded as Ivanti Neurons, is the brand that we are launching for these automation, this hyper-automation bots, that every company can deploy these hyper-automation bots into their network that will constantly discover every device you have across your entire network, discover any performance issues, configuration drift issues, security issues, vulnerabilities, anomalies, and really get into what we call self-healing, self-securing and providing a service experience that we are used to in our day to day life or in our consumer world. So that's what we are announcing, super-excited about the overall launch. The fact that every enterprise, every company, and it's not tied to any single vertical, Lisa, any vertical organization can leverage these neurons and get that closer to self-healing of those devices that they have to now manage every organization that has to now manage. >> I know Ivanti has a lot of strengths and several verticals, one of them being healthcare. And I can imagine right now, the last five months, the hyper status that every hospital and clinic is in, I'm curious, though, about the name. Jeff, talk to me about in this new, the next normal that we're living in, Neurons, what does that mean and what does it mean to your customers? >> Yeah, great question. And I know this will resonate with you, Lisa, as an accomplished biologist. With the idea is with what we're providing and what we're launching with Neurons, there's a sense of hyper-scale, hyper-automation, like the synapses in your brain, handles so much information at once. So we wanted to personalize the launch of these solutions. When you see the announcement next week, you'll see a series of products across the spectrum Ivanti solutions; the ITSM, endpoint management, security and so on. And we address in each of those areas, the self-sensing, self-healing, self-servicing, each of those business processes. But like your synapses or your neurons in your brain, there'll be a lot of super-fast automation, super-fast sensing of challenges and addressing those challenges. And that's why we went with Neurons. It was actually a pretty fun contest in the company and we really believe Neurons will connect with our target market. >> I love it. And the biologist part of me is gone, "That makes sense." So Nayaki, over to you. And in terms of that connectivity perspective, there's so many disparate data sources out there, it's only growing. And Jeff, you mentioned this, how can one of your existing 25,000 customers, use, deploy, this on top of their existing infrastructure to start connecting data sources that they may not even know they can connect or that they may not know does it make even sense to connect them? >> Yeah, so the beauty of the entire Neuron network is it uses MQTT protocol, Lisa, which is the protocol that immediately detects every device, be it endpoint desktops, laptops, mobile devices, or even, I was suggesting IoT devices, that it automatically detects. And senses if there is anything happening on those devices, predicts if there is any issue that may happen, like I said, performance issues, configuration drift issues, security issues and pulls that data in real time. The beauty of this is the speed at which it pulls its data, I've seen customers who can deploy this across their entire network around the world and within seconds, it's able to pull the data into a centri console, and give ourselves a full 360 view of every device you have, every user that's using those devices all the applications that are running on those devices and the services that are being delivered to those devices. So just the power of being able to pull that much data in seconds and provide that 360 view of what we call, a Neuron Workspace, for any IT organization to have that full 360 view, and detect and predict that there's any issue and almost like get into a self-healing remediated before it interrupts your productivity or interrupts your... Any service disruption. I think you were trying to say something, go ahead. >> I was just going to add to that, Nayaki. And you asked this or made this point, Lisa, Nayaki and I are speaking to the healthcare industry almost every day. We are very in tune with the challenges they're experiencing, obviously, with what's happening right now around the world. And as Nayaki is describing, the Neurons we intend to be a very seamless improvement to their existing IT processes and so on. In fact, when I described this to some of the hospitals I've been speaking to, and certainly the IT staff and leaders within, they are fascinated and very excited about what we're describing. Because if you think about it, IT challenges down at the device level in the healthcare industry can be life critical. And they need to solve those IT challenges very fast. They need to know when their new endpoints are online, they need to know when they need servicing, and then they know when their software needs patching. We're not talking about just being at home and being frustrated if you're having an IT challenge, we're talking about life and death. So Neurons is absolutely what the healthcare industry is asking for in terms of self-healing, self-sensing, self-securing and so on, they need those attributes in their business model, now definitely more than ever. >> Absolutely, they do. So Nayaki, talking to customers in healthcare, whatnot, I can see this being a great tool for the IT analyst but also maybe even helping the IT analysts and business users have better relationships that overall help drive a business forward. >> Yeah, so you put yourself in an end user or line of business, they expect, and especially in this day and age of post COVID, Lisa, they expect a consumer grade experience to be delivered to them. They expect their service provider to know exactly where they're working from, what devices they have, how all those devices are not just secure, but understands the preferences I need as an individual and provides that service experience to me. So I mean that, I would say, a close tie in between what the business wants, the end users in those lines of business want and how IT or any service organization can provide that service to employees, customers, and consumers is what really Neurons, I would really... Helps us get closer and closer to consumer grade experience that we all are used to in our day to day life. And to Jeff's point, in addition to healthcare, which is a strong industry vertical for us, some other industries, retail is another big industry that we are very strong in, Lisa, and also supply chain rugged devices in a warehouse. So it really gives us a huge expansion opportunity beyond just managing the IT devices or endpoints to also managing the IoT devices by industry vertical, in those segments, where we already have a very, very strong foothold, because of the technology that we have that powers this whole thing in the backend. >> And we're seeing some of the numbers of 40+ Billion, connected devices in the next few years. So Jeff, let's end this with you. I know there's more coming, but you probably have a great partnership suite that you're working with to enable this, talk to us a little bit about the partners, and then what's next? >> Yeah, no, great point, Lisa. I come from a heritage of companies that have leveraged our partners. And we continue to grow our partner network. We believe strongly in the strength of the extended ecosystem, solution partners, delivery partners, global systems integrators, they all have a role in Neurons. And we're excited to continue to provide the platform for mutual growth between us and those partners. And what's really important is, these are companies that our customers really love as well. So we're going to continue to, in some cases, tie our solutions together, in some cases, extend our services organization through partners, and in some cases, we'll actually service our customers through our channel partner network. We actually went through a little bit of a rationalization to really zero in on our most strategic partners, we've done that, we've finished that in the first six months of coming on board. And now we are hitting the gas pedal and going full speed to market with a great group of partners and again, you'll see that ecosystem more and more as part of our strategy. >> Excellent. So Neurons announced, what's next? >> Well, there's quite a bit behind Neurons. So it will take us probably into at least 2021 getting all the solutions launched, and getting them ingrained with our customers out there. Well, we fully intend to continue to innovate. And if there's one thing I leave you with, Lisa, it's that that's our big announcement more than anything. I mean, Ivanti's had a history of innovation, it's a company that practically invented patching, and keeping all of the devices up to speed on the latest virus protection software and so on, there's a lot of legacy companies within our footprint that are now completely tied together and under the Neuron strategy under Nayaki's leadership we intended to put innovation out in the marketplace, quarter after quarter after quarter, but Neurons for now will keep us quite busy. So we're very excited. >> Well, congratulations on that. Ivanti, innovation, hyper-automation. Jeff, Nayaki, it's been such a pleasure talking to you. Thank you for joining me on theCUBE today. Thank you, Lisa. >> Thank you for having us. >> For my guests, I am Lisa Martin, you're watching theCUBE Conversation. (upbeat music)

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Sumedh Thakar, Qualys & Nayaki Nayyar, Ivanti | CUBE Conversation, July 2020


 

>> From the CUBE studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE conversation. Welcome to this CUBE conversation. I'm Lisa Martin, and today I'm talking with Ivanti again, Nayaki Nayyar, their Chief Product Officer EVP is back with us, as is another Cube alumni, Sumedh Thakar, the President and Chief Product Officer of Qualys. Nayaki, sweet, great to have you guys both back on the program. >> Great to be back here, Lisa. I think it's becoming a habit for me to be here, talking to you almost... >> I like it. >> every week. >> Good to be here, thank you for inviting me. >> So, let's go right into some exciting news here, so Ivanti has had a lot of momentum in the last week or so, Nayaki with launch announcements, talk to us about what you're announcing today in terms of an expansion with the Ivanti-Qualys partnership. >> So Lisa, as you remember, this week we had a great week this week with the launch of our Ivanti neurons platform, that really helps our customers address end-to-end management of their endpoints and security of those endpoints. How we can help them, would be called self fuel, self secure and self service the endpoints. And one of the key strengths Ivanti has, in our portfolio, is our ability to manage all the patches. Today, with our Ivanti patch management solution, we patch approximately 1.2 billion patches on an annual basis. So that's a pretty big volume, and we are extremely excited as a part of this launch announcement, to also share the partnership we have with Qualys and how we are extending and helping Qualys with their overall vision for VMDR. >> So Sumedh, let's go right into that, talk to us about the VMDR, vulnerability management has been around for a while, what is VMDR and Qualys perspective? And what are you looking to do with your partnership with Ivanti? >> I should know about vulnerability management being around for a while, I've been 18 years at Qualys, so we've been doing for a long time, and, what's happened is with the hybrid infrastructure exploding and a lot more devices being added and focus shifting from just servers to endpoint, I think that is just a need to be able to do vulnerability management, in addition, also have the ability to do assessment of your devices in terms of inventory, etcetera, so, discovering your devices, being able to do vulnerability assessment, configuration assessment, but also be able to prioritize those vulnerabilities on which one do you really need to patch because you just have way too many vulnerabilities. And then at the end, all of this vulnerability management is not useful if we can't do something about it, and that's where, you need the ability to patch and fix those issues, and this is where VMDR really brings that workflow in a single platform end-to-end, So instead of just throwing a big report of CVEs, we provide the ability to go from detection of the device, to the patching, and this is where Ivanti partnership has been something that has really helped our customers because they bring in that patching piece, and this is one of the most complicated things you do, and because taking a vulnerability and mapping it to a particular patch is very complex to do and that's where the Ivanti partnership is helping us. >> And so, this is an expansion Sumedh, you guys have been doing this for Windows and Linux, and now this is adding Mac support and others. Tell me a little bit more about the additional capabilities that you're enabling. >> What's interesting is that, when we started working on this, this was before the pandemic hit, and COVID has certainly added a very interesting twist to the patching challenge, and the ability for the system admins to suddenly patch 100,000 to 200,000 devices, which are not in your office with a high speed internet anymore, they are sitting in little apartments all over the world with low bandwidth, WiFi connections, etcetera, how do you patch those endpoints? And so when, while the focus of the beginning was a lot more on Windows and Linux, which are more on the server side, with the pandemic hitting, there is a big need now for people also to be able to do their Macs and other endpoints that are now remote and at people's homes, and so obviously, with the success of the patch management capabilities on Windows that we got with Ivanti, they are a natural partner for us to also expand that into being able to do it for the Macs as well, and so, now we're working together to get this done for the Macs. >> So Nayaki, in terms of the announcements from Ivanti that they've been coming out the last week or so, we talked with Jeff Abbott last week about the partnerships and the GTM, talk to me about from a strategic perspective, how does the expansion of the Qualys partnership dial up Ivanti's vision? >> Lisa, when you take a look at what's really happening across every enterprise, every large company, especially during COVID, and post COVID, is what we call this explosive growth of remote workers, as everyone is trying to manage what the transformation to remote working means, the explosive growth of devices that now have to be managed by every IT organization, not to mention how to secure those devices, which is where this partnership with Qualys becomes extremely strategic for us. Now we can extend that overall vision that we have with our Ivanti neurons to discover every device we have, the customers' have, sense any security vulnerabilities, anomalies that are on those devices, prioritize those based on risk-based priority of it and going through priority as we embed more and more AI Amal into it, and get into what we call this auto remediation, remediating all those vulnerabilities, which nicely fits into Qualys's, or our VMDR vision and strategy. So, this truly helps our customers, go beyond just managing the endpoints to now what we call sub securing those endpoints, being able to automatically detect all security vulnerabilities and issues and get closer and closer to the self remediation of those vulnerabilities, and that's why this partnership makes, a great strategic benefit for all of our customers and large enterprise. >> So Sumedh, talk to us about the VMDR lifecycle, give us a picture of where your customers are and that how does this really going to help them deal with the new normal of even more devices going to be remote for a long period of time? >> what's happening now is that, this is being extended to home devices, customers in the past were only looking at enterprise devices that were owned by the organization, and we continuously now see, we can't get a new laptop to the user, or they're using their home device, home desktop, because it's bigger screen, more powerful, whatever it is, so people are starting to do that, and you can't really stop them from doing that if you want to get work done, and so, essentially VMDR is four things, which is, continuous asset inventory discovery, Second is, detection of all security issues, including vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Third is the prioritization based on the knowledge of the device, and what's running on the device just because you have a severity, five vulnerability or highly exploitable vulnerability does not mean that you need to prioritize that as the first one to patch, and then you need to be able to patch it, and so that's the four elements that make up the VMDR lifecycle, and as customers have no good way to detect what devices are there, what is connecting to the VPN, because now they don't actually, physically see the devices, the traditional network devices that were... office firewalls that are sitting in the office, that were detecting devices are now not useful because everybody's outside the firewall. And so that entire life cycle, is something that customers want to do, because at the end, you want to reduce your risk quickly. And having a single platform that does all of that, is the key benefit that we get from there. >> Talk to me a little about the go-to market, in terms of how are your customers, joint customers buying the solution? >> I think what we've really worked on is typically what happens today is the customers'... different vendors are providing individual pieces, you have to go buy a different inventory solution, a different vulnerability solution, a different prioritization, a different patch solution, so, working with Ivanti, we've really worked on creating a single platform, and this took us a quite a bit of time to really make that engineering integration work, to be able to have Ivanti patch management directly embedded into the Qualys' agent. So that way, customers don't have to deploy another agent, and they don't have to buy different solutions for different consoles, so, from a go-to market perspective, we keep it very simple for our customers, they essentially have a one price for the entire asset and then if they choose to do the patch management, this is something that we sell as a capability that is directly available through Qualys and Ivanti has done a huge amount of work to integrate seamlessly in the back end to help the customer so that they don't have to, buy from one, buy from another and try to integrate it themselves. >> And Lisa if you look at it, it's really a way for customers to handle heterogeneous landscape, patching of heterogeneous landscape that they have, in their environment all the way from the data centers to those endpoints, the Windows devices, Mac devices, Linux devices, and in future, we'll also be supporting multiple other devices and platforms through Qualys VMDR, absolutely. >> Let's talk about the target audience and really understanding, from a security perspective, it's top of mind for the C-suite all the way up to the board, now with COVID and the increase in ransomware, and some of the things, the device spread, that's probably only going to spread even more, Nayaki, starting with you, how are you seeing the customer conversations change? Are you now not just talking to ITs elevated up the stack? Is this a CEO, board level concern that you're helping them to remediate? >> Absolutely, Lisa, this conversation about cyber security challenges, especially as organizations are trying to figure out what this transformation to remote working means, this is really not just limited to an IT organization or a CIO level conversation, this is a C-suite conversation at the CEO level, and in most cases, I'm also seeing this becoming a board conversation and I'm on a couple of boards myself, and this is truly a board conversation where discussing how we help enterprises transform to remote working and cyber security challenges as more and more workers are working from home, securing those devices is top of mind, for pretty much CEOs and the boards, and helping them through the transition is a number one priority. So, this is between the partnership with Qualys and Ivanti, for us to offer this joint solution, and really make it available where they can address the security concerns that they have, in their environment. >> And Sumedh, in terms of target market, we talked with Nayaki and Jeff last week about, from a vertical perspective, they've got a lot of strengths in healthcare and retail, for example, are you looking at any leading edge markets right now, verticals that really are at most risk? Or are you attacking us from a GTM perspective, or in a horizontal way? >> It's not even our choice anymore, because what's happened with remote working in no matter what industry you are in, everybody's workers are working from home essentially, and using laptops and the number of attacks have significantly multiplied because now that this endpoint is outside of your traditional defenses that you have in an office environment, these endpoints are a lot more vulnerable, and they are in a home network, I have devices in my home network for my kids that are running all kinds of fortnight and things like that, that now actually could have access to my work laptop, so that is becoming a big concern and the other realization that you cannot really use enterprise solutions as you have in the past, for patching and securing your endpoint that's not inside the enterprise, because if a single SMB goes vulnerability patches 350 Megs for one device, if you have that patch 1000 devices trying to download that over VPN, it's just not going to work, and it kills the VPN, so that is this big push towards moving into a cloud based method of deploying these patches, So you going to actually get these patches deployed without hitting your VPN environments, and this is really the big thing, and the other day I read something that that asked like, what is accelerating the digital transformation to the cloud for your enterprise? And, there was a CEO and the Sea So and then COVID, so unfortunately, the pandemic has been bad in many ways, but in other ways, it has really helped organizations move more quickly, to get approvals from the board and the management because the other option is just not a choice anymore, which is trying to use on-prem solution so that resistance to cloud based solutions is significantly decreasing because, today, we're all sitting in different locations and meeting every day on video, etcetera and that's really powered by that cloud-based platforms that we have today. >> I call it the COVID catalysts, there are a lot of interesting things that are positive, that are being catalyzed as a result of this massive change. One more question Sumedh for you, in terms of, this enabling VMDR to become a category, a target market for endpoint security, how does this help? >> I think, the more we can provide the customer ability to reduce the number of different steps that they have to go through and the different tools that they have to purchase and multiple agents and multiple consoles that they have to put together, then it just becomes a category in itself because you kind of have that ability to do detection, prioritization and response in a single solution, which is something that nobody else offers today because everybody is focused on just one aspect of it, and so, today the response from our customers has been absolutely tremendous, they are extremely happy to have this ability to very quickly figure out what's wrong, one of the things we didn't talk a lot about, but I would say in patch management process, the biggest challenge and where most time is spent is mapping a CVE to a specific patch that needs to be deployed on a specific machine, because of 64-bit architecture, 32-bit architecture, so, the Ivanti catalog helps us tremendously to help bring the knowledge that we have on the CVEs to that catalog, and then give our customers a way to be able to get those patches deployed in a very, very quick way, and so that essentially is just created this new category, when you have this end-to-end ability on a single platform. So whether it comes from Qualys or somebody else, I think the need is there to say, when I'm looking at patch management, I want the discovery of vulnerability and patching all of that to be done together. >> And that speed is absolutely critical. So in terms of the general availability, Sumedh, is this available now, when do customers get access? >> So with the partnership with Ivanti, VMDR in general has been available now for our customers for a couple of months, but now with the enhanced partnership, it was available for Windows or is currently available for Windows and now we are working with Ivanti for the next few months to get the Mac version out, so, we would think about in the next couple of quarters, we will have that available through Qualys VMDR, the ability to patch the Macs as well. >> Excellent. Nayaki let's go ahead and take this home with you, in terms of give me kind of an overall, round this out, the expansion of the partnership, the importance of helping customers in these disparate environments, and the momentum that this gives Ivanti for the rest of the year and going into 2021? >> This really rounds our entire Ivanti's vision and strategy, reservoir, our ability to discover every asset customers have on their endpoints and point assets as devices, being able to manage those devices holistically and to secure those devices, and also do service management of those devices and I had mentioned this, we are the only vendor in the market, that can do all of this end-to-end all the way from discovery, to security, to service managing the devices which... and the partnership with Qualys really helps as round it off across the board is full lifecycle of endpoint management, device management, and also enables us to extend to the natural adjacencies of IoT with Ivanti neurons, vision and strategy and truly get into a world of what we call self healing and self securing, the autonomous edge that we really strive to in the longer term. >> Congratulations both of you on this expansion of the partnership, we thank you for taking the time to explain to us the value in it, the challenges that this going to solve for your customers, Nayaki it's always great to have you on the program, thank you for joining me. >> Thank you, thank you Lisa and Sumedh, absolutely a great pleasure talking to all of you. >> Thank you for inviting me and good seeing both of you and I look forward to seeing you guys again. Have a good day >> Yeah, Sumedh. Great to meet you as well. For my guests, I'm Lisa Martin, you're watching this CUBE conversation. (upbeat music)

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