from the silicon angle media office in Boston Massachusetts it's the queue now here's your host Stu minimun hi and welcome to a special cube conversation here in our Boston area studio I am Stu minimun and we're digging in with Dell EMC on data protection in the multi cloud where era happy to join welcome to the program first time guest Nelson Nelson Hsu who is the director of solutions marketing with Dell EMC Nelson great to see you great to be here thank you sir all right so you and I were both at Q con plus cloud native con with about 12,000 of our friends in the open-source community down in San Diego California you know when you bring us in first it's probably not the first place that people think of when they think of Delhi MC so explain a little bit what the team was doing the announcements there and what you're seeing at the show sure no I appreciate that it was a first time for for Dell technologies it was kind of our coming-out party if you all went into the cloud native realm we've got a tremendous amount of momentum especially OCR on kubernetes between what we've done in the data protection space with our power protect software for kubernetes we've done in our storage room in the work that we've done around container storage interfaces so a lot of that was coming out in introducing that to the Keuka and cognitive count attendees I think it was a really good timing though yeah Elson we've been watching you know the role the developers the discussion of DevOps of course is central what's happening not only at cube con but many of the cloud shows there I know at VMworld you know you see what's happening on with the VMware code team so explain how a kind of the the Dell technologies cloud partnership with vm or how about all that all pulls together for activities that the your organization's doing with that within the DevOps well you know you you know they were right they're right it's all about DevOps it's about the developers it's about the the new world of bringing cloud native applications and driving them into the production environment I think that you know we heard that at vmworld with pack L singer and we're his his pillars of you know build run protect connect are key aspects so you know if you look at that man component protect falls right into that area right because with the growth of data as we're seeing it today the need to manage that in the cloud native realm becomes even more prevalent and important you know we've seen DevOps mature over the last couple years where you see you know we had 8,000 people in Seattle right now we had 12,500 of your best friends and just gonna go out right I'm sure you saw that yeah absolutely huge growth there and I'm glad you brought up to protect thing because when I think about developers we want to reduce the friction for developers to be able to build their apps you think about DevOps is you know keeping agility going but you know where is the data and how do I make sure that you know we know when we go to a cloud world we still need to things about security we still need to think about data management and data protection there so explain for audience how that protect piece fits into the DevOps world well you know for first we should clarify a little bit right because like over the last two years everything's been about security within containers right and that's great because you're protecting the applications and people are worried about about penetration there and and it's been fantastic and I think that today specifically around the aspect of securing the application and now securing the infrastructure is key you know storage has become a very very relevant topic whether it's like persistent volumes taking center stage right when it comes to claim a vApps movie into production because it's about protecting those mission critical workloads and as you just stated you have your applications but at the end of the day your data right is really at the capital right and that's what you really need to focus on it becomes greater and greater importance when you have that holistic discussion about DevOps right and so now we have the aspect of the kubernetes administrator meets the IT administrator all right and having to be able to protect through this application transformation that's being driven by cloud native complexity and that you know tradition was disaggregated from the infrastructure but now as you mature and you look at those production and mission-critical environments you really have to pay attention to how am I going to protect my data the edge to core to cloud and in that cloud native world yeah definitely is one of those areas we found at the conference for many it's a steep learning curve to try to understand you know kubernetes all these cloud native architectures if you come in there with the traditional infrastructure role I was actually something we were discussed more a couple of years ago was they've some of the basic blocking and tackling of networking and storage inside of a container environment but now a lot of discussion is around that application development and therefore we need to make sure that we're having not only the app dev but the infrastructure team all understanding how everything goes together and you know protection of course a critical piece there oh absolutely and and you know if we look at all the different projects that are underway under C and C F I mean it's fantastic right I mean there's so much momentum everyone's now also looking at that infrastructure right I mean last year was all about the surface mesh right so I think that we're at that inflection point and now it's going to be a lot about the storage and protecting that storage if you look at Project Valero right so project Valero wasn't as an open source project under C and C F right being driven by the work that was done by the the you know the the the active form enormous hefty oh right so I got Joe Bereta right you got Greg Milwaukee and the work that they done in the starter house arc well now WMC in specificity of the data protection team is working and contributing hand in hand with the vmware team on velaro and i think you'll see that resonate through the future of tansu and pacific as we go forward great let's connect the dots now between what we're doing is the CMC F cube con show and now we've got AWS reinvented coming up so Amazon might now let us use the word multi-cloud that that context there but absolutely that was the conversation at many of the other shows this year is you know hybrid cloud multi-cloud how customers get their arms around all these environments so you know help us understand how this story that we were just talking about for cloud native environment fits into the broader kind of public cloud discussion oh absolutely so you I think one of the key aspects to that is around consistency right so being able from a data protection perspective be able to protect all that valuable data that you have whether it's in premises where it's in cloud with its multi cloud or hybrid and you want to be able to protect that holistically using the same capability you have from your premises base into or out of or within cloud all right so I want to be able to within AWS be able to protect my data from region to region right so we've got a great offering for VMware cloud on AWS it allows you to protect into and within the cloud itself so you can protect in and extend out to the cloud yeah definitely probably one of the most interesting partnerships I think the industry's been watching the last two years is you know VMware and AWS now you know the dominant virtualization you know in your data center environment and you know the leader in public clouds so looking forward to hearing some proof points at the conference and he gives a little bit of hint as to what we'll be seeing in hearing about at the show well I think you'll hear a lot about that consistency with regards to you know observability orchestration automation automation becomes so key that you take your workflows for data protection from premises to the cloud and having that consistency I think you'll also see some pretty pretty significant numbers coming forth with regards to how much data is being protected in in AWS ok definitely looking forward to that always love looking forward to the customers all right Nelson I want to give you the last word what else should we be looking for your team kind of end of 2019 it going into 2020 well you know I think it all starts with cloud and multi clock all right that's our core focus that's what we're driven to I think you'll see innovation especially in the cloud native space that we have I think you will see further innovation in in the in the cybersecurity in the cyber recovery space around data protection so I think those are really key elements that that you'll see more from yeah absolutely super important discussions around data around security and everything there Nelson thank you so much for joining us here in the cube sue thank you all right be sure to check out silicon angle for exclusive content leading up to and after AWS reinvent of course and check out the cube net if you're not at the table if you are at the show come to the center of the show floor at the Venetian inside the Sands Convention Center you can find myself Dave Volante John Ferrier and our whole team there for three days water wall coverage for our last big show of the year and I'm Stu minimun thank you for watching the Q