>> Announcer: From around the globe, it's theCUBE. Covering Google Cloud Next on Air '20. >> Hi, I'm Stu Miniman. And this is theCUBE's coverage of Google Cloud Next On Air. One of the weeks that they had for the show is to dig deep into infrastructure, of course, one of the foundational pieces when we talk about cloud, so happy to welcome to the program, I've got two of the general managers for both compute and networking. First of all, welcome back one of our cube alumni, June Yang, who's the vice president of compute and also welcoming Shailesh Shukla who's the vice president and general manager of networking both with Google Cloud. Thank you both so much for joining us. >> Great to be here. >> Great to be here, thanks for inviting us Stu. >> So June, if I can start with, you know, one of the themes I heard in the keynote that you gave during the infrastructure week was talking about, we talked about meeting customers where they are, how do I get, you know, all of my applications that I have, obviously some of them are building new applications. Some of them I'm doing SaaS, but many of them, I have to say, how do I get it from where I am to where I want to be and then start taking advantage of cloud and modernization and new capabilities. So if you could, you know, what's new when it comes to migration from a Google Cloud standpoint and, you know, give us a little bit insight as to what you're hearing from your customers. >> Yeah, definitely happy to do so. I think for many of our customers, migration is really the first step, right? A lot of the applications on premise today so the goal is really how do I move from on prem to the cloud? So to that extend, I think we have announced a number of capabilities. And one of the programs that are very exciting that we have just launched is called RAMP program which stands for Google Cloud Rapid Assessment and Migration Program. So it's really kind of bundling a holistic approach of you know, kind of programs tooling and you know, as well as incentives altogether to really help customer with that kind of a journey, right? And then also on the product side, we have introduced a number of new capabilities to really ease that transition for customer to move from on premise to the cloud as well. One of the things we just announced is Google Cloud VMware Engine. And this is really, you know, we built as a native service inside Google as a (indistinct) to allow customer to run their VMware as a service on top of Google infrastructure. So customers can easily take their, you know, what's running on premise, that's running VMware today and move it to cloud was really no change whatsoever and really lift and shift. And your other point is really about a modernization, right? Cause most of our customers coming in today, it's not just about I'm running this as a way it is. It's also, how do I extract value out of this kind of capability? So we build this as a service so that customer can easily start using services like BigQuery to be able to extract data and insights out of this and to be able to give them additional advantages and to create new services and things like that. And for other customers who might want to be able to, you know, leverage our AI, ML capability, that's at their fingertips as well. So it's just really trying to make that process super easy. Another kind of class of workloads we see is really around SAP, right? That's our bread and butter for many enterprises. So customers are moving those out into the clouds and we've seen many examples really kind of really, allow customers to take the data that's sitting in SAP HANA and be able to extract more value out of those. Home Depot is a great example of those and where they're able to leverage the inquiry to take, you know, their stockouts and some of the inventory management and really to the next level, and really giving a customer a much better experience at the end of the day. So those are kind of just a few things that we're doing on that side to really make you a customer easy to lift and shift and then be able to modernize along the way. >> Well yeah, June, if I would like to dig in a little bit on the VMware piece that you talked about. I've been talking of VM-ware a bit lately, talking to some of their customers leveraging the VMware cloud offerings and that modernization is so important because the traditional way you think about virtualization was I stick something in a VM and I leave it there and of course customers, I want to be able to take advantage of the innovation and changes in the cloud. So it seems like things like your analytics and AI would be a natural fit for VMware customers to then get access to those services that you're offering. >> Yeah, absolutely. I think we have lots of customers, that's kind of want to differentiators that customers are looking for, right? I can buy my VMware in a variety of places, but I want to be able to take it to the next level. How do I use data as my differentiator? You know, one of the core missions as part of the Google mission is really how do we help customers to digitally transform and reimagine their business was a data power innovation, and that's kind of one key piece we know we want to focus on, and this is part of the reason why we built this as really a native service inside of Google Cloud so that you're going through the same council using, you know, accessing VMware engine, accessing BigQuery, accessing networking, firewalls, and so forth, all really seamlessly. And so it makes it really easy to be able to extend and modernize. >> All right, well, June one of the other things, anytime we come to the Cloud event is we know that there's going to be updates in some of the primary offerings. So when it comes to compute and storage, know there's a number of announcements there, probably more than we'll be able to cover in this, but give us some of the highlights. >> Yeah, let me give some highlights I mean, at the core of this is a really Google Compute Engine, and we're very excited we've introduced a number of new, what we call VM families, right? Essentially different UBM instances, that's catered towards different use cases and different kinds of workloads. So for example, we launched the N2D VM, so this is a set of VMs on EMD technology and really kind of provide excellent price performance benefit for customers and who can choose to go down that particular path. We're also just really introduced our A2 VM family. This is based on GPU accelerator optimized to VM. So we're the first ones in the market to introduce NVIDIA Ampere A 100. So for lots of customers who were really introduced, we're interesting, you know, use GPU to do their ML and AI type of analysis. This is a big help because it's got a better performance compared to the previous generation so they can run their models faster and turn it around and turn insights. >> Wonderful. Shailesh, of course we want to hear about the networking components to, you know, Google, very well known you know, everybody leverages Google's network and global reach so how about the update from your network side? >> Absolutely. Stu, let me give you a set of updates that we have announced at next conference. So first of all as you know, many customers choose Google Cloud for the scale, the reach, the performance and the elasticity that we provide and ultimately results in better user experience or customer experience. And the backbone of all of this capability is our private global backbone network, right? Which all of our cloud customers benefit from. The networking is extremely important to advance our customers digital journeys, the ones that June talked about, migration and modernization, as well as security, right? So to that end, we made several announcements. Let's talk about some of them. First we announced a new subsea cable called the Grace Hopper which will actually run between the U.S. on one side and UK on the other and Spain on another leg. And it's equipped with about 16 fiber pairs that will get completed in 2022. And it will allow for significant new capacity between the U.S. and Europe, right? Second Google Cloud CDN, it's one of our most popular and fast-growing service offerings. It now offers the capability to serve content from on prem, as well as other clouds especially for hybrid and multicloud deployments. This provides a tremendous amount of flexibility in where the content can be placed and overall content and application delivery. Third we have announced the expansion of our partnership with Cisco and it's we have announced this notion of Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. It's one of the first in the industry to actually create an automated end to end solution that intelligently and securely, you know, connects or bridges enterprise networks to any workload across multiple clouds and to other locations. Four, we announced a new capabilities in the network intelligence center. It's a platform that provides customers with unmatched visibility into their networks, along with proactive kind of network verification, security recommendations, and so on. There were two specific modules there, around firewall insights and performance dashboard that we announced in addition to the three that already existed. And finally, we have a range of really powerful announcements in the security front, as you know, security is one of our top priorities and our infrastructure and products are designed, built and operated with an end to end security framework and end to end security as a core design principle. Let me give you a few highlights. First, as part of making it easy for firewall management for our customers to manage firewall across multiple organizations, we announced hierarchical firewall. Second, in order to enable, you know, better security capability, we announced the notion of packet metering, right? So which is something that we announced earlier in the year, but it's now GA and allows customers to collect and inspect network traffic across multiple machine types without any overhead, right? Third is, in actually in our compute and security teams, we announced the capability to what we call as confidential VMs, which offer the ability to encrypt data while being processed. We have always had the capability to encrypt data at rest and while in motion, now we are the first in the industry to announce the ability to encrypt data even while it is being processed. So we are really, you know, pleased to offer that as part of our confidential computing portfolio. We also announced the ability to do a managed service around our cloud armor security portfolio for DDoS web application and bot detection, that's called Cloud Armor Managed Protection. And finally we also announced the capability called Private Service Connect that allows customers to connect effortlessly to other Google Cloud services or to third party SaaS applications while keeping their traffic secure and private over the, in kind of the broader internet. So we were really pleased to announce in number of, you know, very critical kind of announcements, products and capabilities and partnerships such as Cisco in order to further the modernization and migration for our customers. >> Yeah, one note I will make for our audience, you know, check the details on the website. I know some of the security features are now in data, many of the other things it's now general availability. Shailesh, follow up question I have for you is when I look in 2020, the internet patterns of traffic have changed drastically. You saw a very rapid shift, everyone had needed to work from home, there's been a lot of stresses and strains on the network, when I hear things like your CDN or your SD-WAN partnership with Cisco, I have to think that there's, you know, an impact on that. What are you seeing? What are you hearing from your customers? How are you helping them work through these rapid changes to be able to respond and still give people the, you know, the performance and reliability of traffic where they need it, when they need? >> Right, absolutely. This is a, you know, very important question and a very important topic, right? And when we saw the impact of COVID, you know, as you know Google's mission is to be, continue to be helpful to our customers, we actually invested and continue to invest in building out our CDN capability, our interconnect, the capacity in our network infrastructure, and so on, in order to provide better, for example distance learning, video conferencing, e-commerce, financial services and so on and we are proud to say that we were able to support a very significant expansion in the overall traffic, you know, on a global basis, right? In Google Clouds and Google's network without a hitch. So we are really proud to be able to say that. In addition there are other areas where we have been looking to help our customers. For example, high performance computing is a very interesting capability that many customers are using for things such as COVID research, right? So a good example is Northeastern University in Boston that has been using, you know, a sort of thousands of kind of preemptable virtual machines on Google Cloud to power very large scale and a data driven model and simulations to figure out how the travel restrictions and social distancing will actually impact the spread of the virus. That's an example of the way that we are trying to be helpful as part of the the broader global situation. >> Great. June, I have to imagine generally from infrastructure there've been a number of other impacts that Google Cloud has been helping your customers, any other examples that you'd like to share? >> Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you look at the COVID impact, it impact different industries quite differently. We've seen certain industries that just really, their demand skyrocketed overnight. For example you know, I take one of our internal customer, Google, you know, Google Meet, which is Google's video conferencing service, we just announced that we saw a 30X increase over the last few months since COVID has started. And this is all running on Google infrastructure. And we've seen similar kind of a pattern for a number of our customers on the media entertainment area, and certainly video conferencing and so forth. And we've been able to scale to beat these key customer's demand and to make sure that they have the agility they need to meet the demand from their customers and so we're definitely very proud to be part of the, you know, part of this effort to kind of enable folks to be able to work from home, to be able to study from home and so on and so forth. You know, for some customers, you know, the whole business continuity is really a big deal for them, you know, where's the whole work from home a mandate. So for example, one of our customers Telus International, it's a Canadian telecommunication company, because of COVID they had to, you know, be able to transition tens and thousands of employees to work on the whole model immediately. And they were able to work with Google Cloud and our partner, itopia, who is specializing in virtual desktop and application. So overnight, literally in 24 hours, we're able to deploy a fully configured virtual desktop environments from Google Cloud and allow their employees to come back to service. So that's just one example, there's hundreds and thousands more of those examples, and it's been very heartening to be part of this, you know, Google to be helpful to our customer. >> Great. Well, I want to let both of you just have the final word when you're talking to customers here in 2020, how should they be thinking of Google Cloud? How do you make sure that you're helping them in differentiating from some of the other solutions and the environment? May be June if we could start with you. >> Sure, so at Google Cloud, our goal is to make it easy for anyone you know, whether you're big big enterprises or small startups, to be able to build your applications, to be able to innovate and harness the power of data to extract additional information, insights, and to be able to scale your business. As an infrastructure provider, we want to deliver the best infrastructure to run all customers application and on a global basis, reliably and securely. Definitely getting more and more complicated and you know, as we kind of spread our capacity to different locations, it gets more complicated from a logistics and a perspective as well so we want to help to do the heavy lifting around the infrastructure, so that from a customer, they can simply consume our infrastructure as a service and be able to focus on their businesses and not worry about the infrastructure side. So, you know, that's our goal, we'll do the plumbing work and we'll allow customers innovate on top of that. >> Right. You know, June you said that very well, right? Distributed infrastructure is a key part of our strategy to help our customers. In addition, we also provide the platform capability. So essentially a digital transformation platform that manages data at scale to help, you know, develop and modernize the applications, right? And finally we layer on top of that, a suite of industry specific solutions that deliver kind of these digital capabilities across each of the key verticals, such as financial services or telecommunications or media and entertainment, retail, healthcare, et cetera. So that's how combining together infrastructure platform and solutions we are able to help customers in their modernization journeys. >> All right, June and Shailesh, thank you so much for sharing the updates, congratulations to your teams on the progress, and absolutely look forward to hearing more in the future. >> Great, thank you Stu. >> Thank you Stu. >> All right, and stay tuned for more coverage of Google Cloud Next On Air '20. I'm Stu Miniman, thank you for watching theCUBE. (Upbeat music)

>> live from San Francisco, celebrating 10 years of high tech coverage. It's the Cube covering Veum World 2019 brought to you by IBM Wear and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back, I'm stew minimum like co host for this segment is Justin War, and this is the 10th year of the Cube here at VM World 2019 when the lobby of Mosconi North and happened. Welcome to the program first, a first time guest on the program. June Yang, who is the vice president of product management and engineering at VM. Where. Thank you so much for joining us. >> Thank you for having me. >> And welcoming back to the program is Marin Cabra, who's the vice president. Product marketing of Cloud at Delhi emcee for in Great to See You, thanks to All right, June so many different pieces talking about Cloud Way. Think back 10 years ago, you know, Pomerance was talking about it like it's the software mainframe. What we're talking because, you know, even back then, you know, Cloud isn't really it's not a destination or a place. You know, there is no cloud is just somebody else's computer. It's more of an operating model, so of course, the VM work cloud on various solutions. Of course. Sitting here with Del, I'm sure we'll be talking about the V. MacLeod, a deli emcee. But just give us over a little bit about you know, you're in a lot of customer meetings. You know what's resonating with your customers. What are they coming to you tow? Discuss when it comes to their overall cloud strategy? >> Yeah, I think for a lot of customers, they're really looking for both the hybrid cloud story as well as a multi call story. I mean, this is something that Pat spend quite a bit of time talking to you on the Mondays keynote. We see customers clearly. Many of them have very large existing footprints on premises and edges again as a growing segment off their infrastructure. It's also getting very significant, making very significant investment over there. And of course, the public cloud itself. So we see many customer really trying to straddle the combination off the private cloud, the public cloud and the edge side, and our strategy is really we want to have a consistent infrastructure that's running everywhere, so therefore we have a consistent operational model that enables the customer and their advance to be to do that. >> Yeah, In some ways, it reminds me back. You know, in the early days when I worked with VM where every group had some application they'd built and you know which server they bought, you know, you know, they would run VM. We're underneath that because it would help with the efficiency in there. So in some ways, is multi cloud similar to what we had in multi vendor back in the day, >> I mean, we think of, you know, you think about the first it oration. Of'em were right. We're really thinking about We're taking the hype, the hyper visor, and making all the hardware underneath that to be really invisible right you're using, You're dealing with a high. You're doing the hyper visor and really hide it a head virginity off. What's underneath that? And then we talk about our STD Sierra, which is really focusing software defined data center were virtualized not only compute, but also storage and network as well and really hide in the head Virginity for that. And so the third iteration flies really looking at the cloud as the next level off you know, different instructor comes from money again. We want to go to hide that and offer consistent operational model there. >> So from the customer perspective, back in the day when Vienna, where was new It was new and scary for a lot of customers. And we had we saw that with cloud as well. So 10 years ago, Cloud was evil and wrong, and we should never use it. Customers have moved on in both of those cases Have we have We reached the point now where cloud is just Yes, it's accepted and we're going to be doing it. Are we? Are we going to have another battle about whether hybrid or multi cloud or customers just moved past that and are now looking at? We know what we want to use this for, so we know that we need to choose it. We're not gonna be moving everything to the cloud, but we're not gonna be putting everything in V EMS either. We're going to choose what is the right solution for the for the different views. Guys, >> I think over the last court, a couple of years that has become sort of the defective standard people comfortable with the cloud people comfortable with on premises. They know that it's gonna be hybrid cloud world. It's gonna be a multi cloud world. >> So Varun, we talked about the VM War cloud on Delhi M C. We had a number of conversations back. Adelle Technologies World. You know, earlier this year when you look out in the general market place, they're like, Oh, I look at the family. Well, Della's the hardware Veum. Where's the software? There are a lot of announcements this week that we're the cross pollination of pieces, and a lot of those are software pieces from the Dell family that tie into what's happening on VCF and the like. So bring us the update. >> Mr Was, as June said, both Daddy M. C and V M were incredibly customer driven companies, right? So what we've been hearing from customers is one. They're really excited about being able to try out the Ember cloud and a GMC, so we're very, very happy to be working with the hammer to bring this to market first. So that's something that that our customers have been asking us for. But then, along with that, as customers start understanding the model of the fully manage data. So you know the fully manage infrastructure you can. The next question that customers have is okay. I can now focus on higher value added service is And one of the things that immediately comes up next is okay. What about my data out? We're protected, right? I'm gonna be running applications on this. And we've already spoken on this show many times before. Data is increasingly one off our organization's most valuable assets. It's a competitive differentiator. Bc news, Every day, if it falls in the wrong hands, what happens? Right? So what we've been doing now, in addition to the three amazing amount of work that we've been doing the June's team to bring this to market, they've also been working on the data protection side. So now the deli emcee data protection is now validated to be working on Williams of you, MacLeod and DMC as the data protection solution. So this means that customers can not only take advantage of the the integration that we have on the infrastructure earlier. You can also take advantage of just have the peace of mind that our industry leading data protection solutions Will will be there to help them manage the data and protect their data. >> So it sounds like it's something that you don't have to think about it as an afterthought, which is often the challenge with data protection. If you if you wait to think about it, it never happens. So this pretty much just comes. We know it's gonna work. Turn it on Day one. Just have it. Start with your data being protected and just have that baked into the way that you run your operations so that it no longer becomes spinning up a specific backup project. Because those things that they always expensive, there's no there's no perceived value to the business of doing this, whereas if it's just now part off, this is how you run your infrastructure. So this is how you stand up via MacLeod on Delhi emcee, and this is just how you should do business. >> You know, it's absolutely like that way. What would we find? That's really exciting. What the Hammer Claw Run DMC is. Customers are asking us to deliver the cloud model right to their data centers do their edge locations, so that's how they want to consume software solutions as well. So what's amazing about the solution is you're you're doing everything to the browser. So that's how you're gonna cause you Data protection becomes an ad on service that you want to add on that. And I'm sure over time we're gonna enter the capabilities as well. But it's really that's the key part here. The ease of consumption it Sorry, The ease of use and basically being able to consume things through the browser is a game changer for for infrastructure, on data in the data center on the edge. >> So June 1 of the things that definitely has caught our attention and one of the bigger announcements this week is Tom Zoo in the con to Mission Control. That's what they call it because from going to have multiple locations, we've been looking for my entire career in I t o. You know, we're gonna have some tool that's going to manage across these environments and made a VM wear cloud, you know, on Delhi emcee. But I probably of'em were cloud on some of the public clouds, and I you might also be doing some kubernetes. That's not even with the V a more pieces, so help paint a picture is kind of where we are today and where we're going when it comes to you know that management consumption and maybe even some of the finances in getting to that cloud operating model across all my environments. >> Yeah, tonsil Vincenzo is a kind of follow. Your name for a number of products was in that tons of mission control, of course, is one part of that. The way we view Content Zoo is that this is really a multi called platform. We understand that customers of developers in particular, wanted to use consume, consume carbon eighties cluster and the often they want to choose communities. Cluster based on different cloud for variety reasons, sometimes cause something's resiliency, sometimes just geographical availability. And then there needs the way to be able to see this in the consolidated fashion. And that's what tons of mission control does. And that's when I showcase yesterday the keynote to really show that you can now have a single pane glass to be able to see all of these clusters across multiple clouds and and then be able to, you know, do some troubleshooting and so forth making things much easier that, of course, buildup Holly policies on top of these clusters and then welcome propagated changes and making sure those in force. So those are some really, really, I think, really good operational capabilities that really simplifies the data. The operational cut, you know, kind of the task that operator has to do its part of the >> driver for this, that that enterprises who got this investment in v sphere. So they've spent 10 years of 10 more years investing in envy sphere. And then all of a sudden, you've got these cloud people who want to come and do things in a completely different way. So now, as a business, I either I have to make a choice of what do I invest a lot of money in both of these things? Do I move everything to one model? It sounds like you're actually trying to provide customers with away. That's a look. You've already made these investments and you don't have to throw them all away. You can still operate things here, but you can also have these cloud things without having to move everything off into a completely different operating model. Is that fairly >> accurate. So I think we're very customer driven by We want to deliver what customer wants to. It wants to be able to consume S o. You know, That's why you know, part of the reason we're so excited about a Project Pacific on top of the V sphere side is really customer has made a huge investment on the visa for platform. And we've got 500,000 customers out there and tons of customers does. He becomes their standard in the data center and that you now have a kubernetes coming in and containers coming in and we don't want a customer. Have to do a siloed platform for it. And by embedding communities directly into V's for yourself, we have now made V's fear The platform for containers and for VMC Sport was well, so that investment customer has made on the on the VCR side. Now kind of moves out to people to cover the communities and containers as well. And because our std see and our hybrid cloud story we're taking the same V sphere across to be a mark on the deli Emcee the Mark child on aws mbm were cloud, you know on edge and so forth. That means all this benefits that fracture. Pacific greens is now going everywhere. >> Having spoken to some clients about the experience of even managed community service is it's really, really painful for them. So being about having these of use of these fear, if you could bring that to group in a visa and have that is a manage service, I'm sure you'll make a lot of people very happy. >> That's that's why we're so excited about it. >> Do you want to click one level further on the product Pacific stuff? Because the thing that struck me at first it's like, Wait, you know, containers and communities That's gonna be the cloud and being, you know, feast fear. We want to modernize it. But you know, that's not what I want to put in the public cloud. But Product Pacific. Is this primarily a data center offering? If I'm doing via more cloud in a public cloud to expect to be leveraging the native public cloud and then tan to helps me manage across them? Is that how we think of them? Or am I not getting the full story? >> So I think a little bit about you think about. There's 111 track is you can do is all these fear based clouds, right? These fear based on premise the sphere based on dahlia MSI ve sphere based on top of you know, public cloud right, That's one track if you follow that track than Project Pacific essentially allows you to be able to run both kubernetes and virtual machines on a single platform. Now, if customers also wanted to be able to run a native cloud, then this is what kind of bring tons of mission control in, because that's a multi called story. So that was kind of what paddle trying explain at the keynote in terms of hybrid cloud versus the versus the multi cloud. >> Okay, so you don't actually have to make a choice of one way of saying things, the tyranny of the single glass of pain. I have to make choices and you can't have a lot of things. And if there's one thing enterprises, height is that that's dedicating themselves to just one way of doing things, they like to have choice. >> We want to give them choices. Well, >> s O. B. Having that ability to be able to make those choices and have it be an end decision instead of war. I think that's >> so one of the questions we've gotten from customers this week is you know, your partners he had VM wear have just made a lot of acquisitions. It's a lot of integration work that needs to get it done. Their bills got strong experience in these things. That sit on top of the stack gives a little bit of what we should see going forward on your planet. >> I mean, I think if there's anything that's that's apparent this week, is that being there and L Technologies are just getting started. I mean, even as a having having known a little bit about some of these announcements, it was just so exciting to see all that stuff come Rio. And we're very, very excited to continue to work with the, um, where to bring. You know, Tan Xue. The various components attends a more Cooper container stuff as well, as well as other other capabilities that we saw in you realize orchestrator and automation. We want to bring that to our customers in an integrated fashion so that it's easy for them to deploy just easy for them to use. And so I think what you're seeing here is just the start. >> That sounds fantastic. Yeah. So all of this investment that women there were saying from from the M wear and from Delhi and see like our customers going to see the payoff immediately, like tomorrow. Or we're going to have to wait. Another wait for some of these investments and integration is to pay off. How long are we going away? >> You think a lot of this is coming to fruition already? We announced availability. Of'em were called on Dahlia emcee at B M World. So it's ready for customer to purchase today, right? If a customer wanted Thio, you know much like what I demolition at the keynote. If a customer has a data center, they want to stood up wherever they need to be taken, literally place, order and be able to get that right. So that's the benefit they can have immediately. And of course, a lot of the longer term things have been talking about by layering additional capabilities. When Project Pacific comes into for a shin, this becomes available, you know, across the veer mark Wild and tell'em see products as well. I mean, these things will all kind of continuous snowballing as we go forward. But there's immediate benefit today and they'll be ongoing benefit as we go forward, making additional investment. >> Excellent. I don't have to wait forever. >> Yes, yes, it's about instant gratification. That's the trick. Now >> what? Wonder if you could speak to kind of changing application portfolio. His customers are modernizing, Going cloud native on that, what's the impact on your platforms and what are you seeing and hearing from customers? >> You know, uh, there is obviously a lot of interest in containers, and customers are either already trying it out or having some sort of applications that her back is there or they have or they're looking at it and saying, This seems really interesting. In some ways, it seems very, very similar to what What I saw from customers five years ago when people were saying, I'm gonna move everything to the public club and, you know, sometimes you hear a little bit of I'm gonna move everything to containers. I think what we will likely see over the next few years is a little bit of rationalization, just like we saw with public and private, is that it's both. I think we will continue to see sort of traditional applications and new applications live in more off of'em centric model. And I think there will be as their new applications being built or as I squeeze package of their applications to be more container friendly. We'll see some go that way. I you know, if anything, I've learned it is One thing I've learned in the I T industry in all these years is there really isn't a one size fits all solution. We get very excited about things, >> and we're like, Oh, >> everybody's going to do this But the reality is, things balanced themselves out and into June's point as a vendor. What we want to do is we want to give our customers choice. But we know that there's no one size fits all, and we want them to choose what's right for their business and help them achieved their goals. >> So, June last question I have for you. Congratulations on the keynote yesterday way Heard way. No, a lot of the inside work and, you know, heard like the guy that swim across the English Channel like that got added to the agenda, you know, like days beforehand flew way. Understand? What happened with demos and last minute gives a little bit is to kind of the making of the team that helped put that together. You know anything that you know, you were super excited. That actually made the final stage that you might not have thought would've gotten there, >> you know, we started out was we were very ambitious, right? And we put in 15 or 16 demos into it. And as we started putting things together, time was our biggest enemy, you know? You know our friend Joe, who is, you know, running the day to show he was telling me you are 30 seconds over on this particular done, though you are 45 seconds on the other day. You give yourself credit here. I'm trying to tell the story here. So, unfortunately, we actually had to cut some demos out just because he couldn't fit into the scope of time. We want to make sure the story really comes out and the customer really understood what we're trying to show. I mean, I'm just so excited as part of the, you know, me doing the key day to keynote. I actually learned about a bunch of products I wasn't that familiar with. And so I was like, Wow, I didn't even know were doing that. And so just to see the amount of capabilities that we're bringing to bear, it's pretty astonishing and it's it's exciting. >> June, I'll say It reminds me of other cloud shows where there's so much going on so much new products getting launched that no single person can keep up with that. But thank you, June and Vern for helping our audience learn a little bit more about the areas that you're doing with >> my pleasure. >> Thank you for having us. >> Justin Warren. I'm still Minuteman back with more coverage at VM World 2019. Thank you for watching the Cube

>> Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell Technologies World 2019. Brought to you by Dell Technologies and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of Dell World Technologies here in Las Vegas. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman. We have two guests on this segment. Both CUBE veterans, so. (laughs) We have Varun Chhabra. He is the VP, Product Marketing, Cloud Dell EMC and Muneyb Minhazuddin, VP Solutions Product Marketing at VMware. Thank you so much for coming on the show. >> Thanks for having us. >> Thanks for having us. >> So we just had the keynote address. We heard from Michael Dell, Sachin Adela, Pat Gelsinger. It's a real who's who of this ecosystem. Break it down for us. What did we hear? What is sort of the most exciting thing from your perspective, Varun? >> So, Rebecca, what we hear from customers again and again is it's a multicloud world, right? Everybody has multiple cloud deployments. We saw Pat mention five on average, cloud architectures in customer environments. And what we keep hearing from them is there are operational silos that develop as part of the tool set, the SLAs that are different, the machine formats. All of these things just lead to a lot of operational silos and complexity. And what customers are overwhelmingly asking Dell EMC as well as VMware, is that how do we reduce this complexity? How do we be able to move work loads together? How do we manage all of this in a common framwork and reduce some of that complexity, so that really they can take advantage of the promise of multicloud. >> So Muneyb, theCUBE goes to, you know, all the big industry shows. >> Right. >> I feel like everywhere I go used to be, you know, it's like Intel and NVIDIA up on stage with the next generation. Well, for the last year, it felt like, you know, Pat and Sanjay were, you know, somebody like that, you know, up on stage. We have the Google cloud event a couple of weeks ago. There was Sanjay up on stage. You come here, there's Sachin Adela up on stage. So, let's talk about that public cloud piece. You know, we know the relationship with AWS, VMware cloud on AWS sent ripples through the industry. And, you know, the Google cloud piece. So tell us what's new, anything different about the Microsoft piece when it comes to public cloud. And how does that fit in relation to all the other clouds? >> Sure, no, I'll amplify what Varun said, right. We think about customer's choice first. And really customer choice as you know, you got multiple cloud providers. We've seen customers makes this choice of, I need to make this, you know, a multi-cloud world. Why are they going towards the multi-cloud world is because applications are going there. And really VMware's strategy has been to say how do we empower customers with that choice? Our, you know, AWS partnership is as strong as ever. We continue to innovate there. And that was our first kind of choice of platform. And Pat alluded to this on the stage. We have 4,000 cloud provider partners, right. And the 4,000 cloud provider partners we've built over the years, and that include, you know, not small names. They include IBM. Like you know they've got Rackspace, some of the biggest cloud providers. So our strategy has always been how do we take our stack and land it in as many public clouds as possible? So we took the first step of IBM, then about 4,000 other cloud providers, be it Rackspace, Fujitsu, Hitachi. Then came Amazon, Amazon being the choice of destination for a lot of public clouds. Today, we kind of further extend that with Microsoft, and you know a few weeks ago with Google. So this is really about customer choice and customers when they want the hybrid multi-cloud piece, it's app-driven. Right, you got two worlds. You got an existing application and you're looking to get some scale out of that existing application. And you're building a lot of native cloud, native applications. They want this, you know, in multiple places. >> All right, so if I could just drill down one level deep. So if I'm going to ask your customer today, my understanding is the VMware's DDC Stack, what does that mean, what do I use, how is that look and feel compared, do I use the Microsoft system center, am I using vCenter, you know. >> Sure, this is really, again, an app-driven conversation, right. There were multiple announcements in here, just to unpack them. It was like, hey, we have the Dell Technologies cloud platform. The Dell Technologies cloud platform is powered by DELL EMC infrastructure and VMware Cloud Foundation on top, virtualizing your full compute network storage with vShere, vSAN, NSX, and management, right. And the second part was really we've got VMware Cloud on a Dell EMC. This is to bring cloud to the work loads, which did in public clouds. We're seeing this repatriation of work loads back on the data center or the edge. This is really driven by a lot of customers who have built native IP in the public cloud, be it Amazon, be it Azure, who want to now bring some of those work loads closer to the data center or the edge. Now this comes to, how do I take my Azure work loads and bring it closer to the edge or my data center? Why is that a need? You know we have large customers, large customers, multi-national, they have 500,000 employees 90 locations worldwide who've built IP, or when I say IP applications natively in cloud. Suddenly for 500,000 employees in 90 locations, they're going ingress egress traffic to the cloud, public cloud, it's huge. How do I bring it closer to my data centers, right? And this is where taking Azure work loads, bringing them on prem, closer, solves that big problem for them. Now, how do I take that work loads and bring them closer, is that's where we landed in the VMware on Dell EMC infrastructure because this brings you closer to the data center, gives me either low latency, data governance, and control, as well as flexibility to bring these work loads back on prem, right? So the two tangents that you're driving, both your cloud growth and back to the edge, the second tangent of growth or explosion is cloud native work loads. You're able to bring them closer to your data center is purely the value proposition, right. >> Well, we heard so much about that on main stage this morning, about just how differently the modern workforce works, in terms of the number of devices they use, the different locations they are when they are doing the tasks of their job. Can you talk a little bit about the specifics in terms of customers you're working with, you don't need to name names, but just how you are enabling those people to be more productive, be more collaborative, and to get their jobs done. >> You know, we get feedback from customers in all industries, so Muneyb can share a few as well. We have large banks that are, you know, they're standardized their work loads on VMware today, as have many more organizations and they're looking for the flexibility to be able to move stuff to the cloud or move it back on premises and not have to reformat, not have to change their machine formats and just make it a little bit easy. They want the flexibility to be able to run applications in their bank branches in the cloud. But then they don't necessarily want to adopt a new machine format or a new standardized platform. That's really what the Azure announcement helps them do. Just like with Data Blue S can now move work loads seamlessly to Azure, use vCenter, use your other tools that you're familiar with today already to be able to provision your work loads. >> All right, Varun, wonder if we can drill into the stack a little bit here. I went to the Microsoft show last year and it was like, oh, WSSD is very different than Azure Stack, even if you look at the box, then it's very much the same. Underneath the covers, there was a lot of discussion of VxRail. We know how fast that's been growing. Can you, I believe there was two pieces to this, there's the VCF on VxRail and then, you know, help explain some of the differences. >> Yeah, so for the Dell Technologies cloud platform announcement, which is, as you said, VxRail HCI infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundations tightly integrated. So that that the storage, compute, and networking capabilities off of VMware Cloud Foundation are all incorporated and taken advantage of within the HCI infrastructure. This is all about making things easier to consume, reducing the complexity for customers. When they get VxRail, they overwhelmingly tell us they want to use VMware Cloud Foundations to be able to manage and automate those work loads. So we're packaging the sup out of the box. So when customers get it, they have the cloud experience on premises without the complexity of having to deploy it because it's already integrated tightly. The engineering teams have actually worked together and then you can then, as we mentioned, extend those work loads to public cloud using the same tools, the same VMware Cloud Foundation tools. >> And you know, we built on Cloud Foundation for a while. I'm sure you followed us on the Cloud Foundation. And that has been, when, yes, we talk about consistent infrastructure, consistent operations in this hybrid cloud world. And what we really mean is that VMware Cloud Foundations stack. Right, so when we talk about VMC on AWS, is that Cloud Foundation stack running inside of Amazon. When we talk about, you know, our partnership with Azure is that VMware Cloud Foundation stack running on Azure. When we talk about these 4,000 partners, cloud certified, IBM, it is the Cloud Foundation stack. And the key components being the full stack, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and there's a critical bar in Cloud Foundation call life cycle management. It's missed quite easily, right. The benefit of running a public cloud, they key three attributes you get is you get everything as a service, you get all your infrastructure as software, and the third part is you don't spend any time maintaining the inter-operability between your compute, network, storage. And that is a huge deal for costumers. They spent a lot of time just maintaining this inter-op. And VMware Cloud Foundation has this life cycle manager which solves that problem. That is key. >> Thank you for bringing that up, because, right, one of the big differences you talk about public cloud, go talk to your customer and say, hey, what version of Microsoft Azure are you running? And they'll laugh at you and say, like, well, Microsoft takes care of that for me. Well, when I differentiate and I say, Oh, okay, I want to run the same stack in my environment, how do I keep that up-to-date. We know that VMware customer, it's like, there's lot of incentives to get them there but oftentimes they're N minus one, two, or something like that. So how do we manage and make sure that it is more cloud-like and up-to-date? >> Yeah, absolutely, so there's two ways to do that. One of them is, because the VMware and Dell EMC teams are working on engineering closely together, we're going to have the latest version supported right out of the gate. So you have an update, you know that it's going to work on your hardware, or vice versa. So that's one level. And then with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, we're also providing the ability to basically have hands-off management and have that infrastructure run in your data center or your edge locations, but at the same time not have to manage it. You leave that management to Dell Technologies and to VMware, to be able to manage that solution for you. So really, as Muneyb said, bringing that public cloud experience to your on-premise locations as well. >> And I think that's one of the big differentiators that's going to come, right? People want to get that consumption model, and they're trying to say, hey, how do I build my own data center, maintain it, but at the same time I want to rely on Dell and VMware to come and help us build it together, right. And the second part of the announcement was really, hey, VMware, Dell, on a Dell EMC, is that manage service offer. The demo you saw from June Yang was being able to have a consumption interface where you can kind of click of a button roll it back into a data center as well as an edge. 'Cause you have really literally very little IT skill sets where in the edge environment, and as edge compute needs become more prolific with 5G, IoT devices, you need that same kind of data governance model and data center model there as well. And that really the beauty of coming to VMware and Dell DMC, Dell Technologies' power, is to maintain that everywhere, right? >> I want to ask you about innovation. One of the things that was really striking during the keynote was the Bank of America executive saying I rely on Dell Technologies to be thinking about four steps ahead of me, even though I obviously have my own customers' needs that I need to be thinking of. I need Dell to be four steps ahead. So how are you, how are you getting in the heads of these obvious problems. >> I think it really comes down to listening to customers, right. As Dell Technologies, as VMware, we have the advantage of working with so many customers, like hundreds of thousands of customers around the world. We get to hear and listen and understand what are the cutting-edge things that customers are looking for. And then we can now take that back to customers like Bank of America, who may have thought about certain scenarios that we would learn from, but they might not have thought about other industries where things could be applicable to their industry. So that drives a lot of our innovation. We are very proud about the fact that we are customer-focused. Our innovation is really driven by listening to customers and having smart people just work on those problems. >> And, you know, customer voice is a big deal. Customer choice, that's why we're doing what we're doing with multiple cloud providers, right? And I think this is really a key to, if you just look at VMware's innovation, we're already talking about this multi-cloud world, where it's like, hey, you've got work loads natively, so how do you manage those? We're already ahead in thinking about Kubernetes with acquisition of Heptio. And you think about it, we've done this innovation in the cloud space, established this hybrid credibility, and we've launched it with Dell Technology now. We're already ahead in this multi-cloud operational model, we're already ahead in this Kubernetes evolution. We'll bring it back with the family and listen to the customers for choice because at the end of the day, we're here to solve customer problems, right? >> I think that's another dimension of choice that we offer, which is both traditional applications as well as applications of the future that will increasingly be customer container based. >> Yeah, I'm just wondering if you can expand on a little bit. You know, one of the things I said, VMware is great, it really simplified the environment. I go back 15 years ago. One of the things it did is, let me take my old application that was probably long in the tooth to begin with, my hardware's out of date, my operating system out of date, stick it in a VM and leave it for another five years. And the users of that are like, oh my gosh, I need an update. How do we get beyond that and allow this joint solution to be an accelerant for applications? >> Yeah, and I think that application is probably the crux of the business, right, we're-- >> It's a long pole in the tent for making change, but uh. >> And applications have evolved. This is actually the evolution journey of IT itself, is where there used to be support systems, now they become actually translate to business dollars, 'cause you know the first thing that your customer, often customer touches, is an application. And you can drive business value from it. And customers are thinking about these old applications and new applications, and they have to start thinking about where do I take my applications, where do they need to land, and then make the choice of what infrastructure is the best platform for it. So really you're going to flip the thing on, don't think infrastructure first and then retrospect apps to it, think app first and then make a choice on infrastructure based on your application need. And really, like you said, VMware kind of took the abstraction layer away from infrastructure and made sure that your VMs could from everywhere. We're taking the same for applications to say, doesn't matter if it's a VM-based, it's a cloud native, we'll give you the same consistent infrastructure and operations. >> Okay, Varun, last thing, could you just tell us of the announcements that are made. What's available today? What's coming later this year? >> Absolutely, so the Dell Technologies cloud platform that's based on VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation is available now as an integrated solution. The VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, the fully managed offer, is available in the second half of this year. It's in beta right now and, as you saw, we have really good feedback from our customers. And then I think the Azure VMware Solutions offer will be available soon as well. >> All right, well, Varun and Muneyb, congratulations on the progress. We look forward to talking to the customers as they roll this out, and Rebecca and I will be back with lots more coverage here at Dell Technologies World 2019, wall-to-wall coverage, two sets, three days, tenth year of theCUBE at EMC and Dell World. I'm Stu Miniman and thanks so much for watching theCUBE. (upbeat music)