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Mathew Ericson, Commvault and David Ngo, Metallic | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020


 

>> From around the globe, it's theCUBE with coverage of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual brought to you by Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and ecosystem partners. >> Hi, and welcome back to theCUBE. I'm Joep Piscaer, I'm covering KubeCon CloudNativeCon here remotely from the Netherlands. And I'm joined by Commvault, Mathew Pearson, he's a Senior Product Manager, as well as David Ngo, Vice President of Metallic Products and Engineering to talk about the cloud native space and data protection in the Cloud Native space. So both, welcome to the show. And I want to start off with kind of the why question, right? Why are we here obviously, but also why are we talking about data protection? I thought we had that figured out. So David, can you shed some light on how, data protection is totally different in the cloud native container space? >> Sure, absolutely, thank you. I think the thing to keep in mind is that, containers are an evolution and a revolution actually in the virtualization space in the cloud space. What we're seeing is that customers are turning more and more to SaaS based applications and infrastructure in order to modernize their data centers and their data state in their compute environments. And when they do that, they're looking for solutions that match how they deploy their applications. And SaaS for us is an important area of that space. So, Metallic is Commvault portfolio of SaaS delivered and SaaS native data protection capabilities and offerings to allow customers to take the advantage of the best SaaS that is easy to try, easy to buy, easy to deploy, no infrastructure required and combine that with the technology and experience of Commvault. It'll build over last 20 years to deliver an enterprise grade data protection solution delivered as SaaS. And so, with Kubernetes and deploying in the cloud and modernizing applications I think that's very appealing to customers to also be able to modernize their data protection. >> Yeah, so I get the SaaS part. I mean, SaaS is an important way of delivering services. It is especially in the mid-market, something customers prefer, they want to have that simplicity, that easy onboarding as well as the OPEX of paying a subscription fee instead of longer term fees. So, the delivery model makes sense that fits into, the paradigm of making it simple, getting started easily. I get that, but Metallic isn't a traditional backup solution in that sense, right? It's not backing up necessarily just physical machines or just virtual machines. It has a relevance in the cloud native space. And the way I understand it, and please, if you can shed some light on that, Matt, is how is it different? What does it do that kind of makes it stand apart? >> Yeah, look, what we've found is the application developers can be in control now. So it's not like a traditional backup, that's what's changed. At this point, the application developer is free to create the infrastructure that he or she needs. And that freedom has meant that a bunch of stateful applications, the apps that we didn't think were going to live in Kubernetes have made their way to Kubernetes and they're making their way fast. So why is Metallic different? Because it's taking its lead from the developer. So it's using things like namespaces and label selectors. So basically take input from the developer on what information is important and needs to be protected and then protecting it. So it's your easy button to keep that Kubernetes development protected while you keep pace with the innovation within the organization. >> So you raise a valid point, cloud native has many advantages. It also has an extra challenge to account for which is fragmentation, right? In the olden days, let's call it that. We had a virtual machine, maybe a couple dozen that made up an application. And it was fairly easy to pinpoint the kind of the sort of conference of an application. This is my application. But now with cloud native, applications data can basically live anywhere. In a single cloud vendor, in many different cloud accounts, across different services, even across the public clouds themselves, like in a true multi-cloud scenario and figuring out what is part of an application in that enormous fragmentation is a challenge I think is understated and underestimated in a lot of operational environments with customers, with their applications in production. And that's where I think a product needs to figure out how to make sure an application is still backed up, is still protected in the way that is necessary for that given application. So I wonder how that works with Metallic. How do you kind of figure out what part of that enormous fragmentation is part of a single application? >> Yeah, so Metallic effectively integrates and speaks natively with the kube-apiserver. So it's taking its lead from the system of truth which is the orchestrator, which is Kubernetes itself. So for example, if you say everything in your production namespace needs protection, every night or every four hours, whatever that may be, it steps out and asks Kubernetes what applications exist there. It then maps all of the associated API resources associated with that application including the persistent volumes and persistent volume claims, man throws up and grabs the data from them as well. And that allows us to then reapply or reschedule that application either back to that original cluster or to another one for application mobility, where they are. >> So how do you make sure you, it kind of, what's the central point where everything comes together for that given application? Is that something the developer does as part of their release process or as part of their CICD? How do you figure out what components are part of an application? >> That is definitely a big challenge in the industry today? So, today we use label selectors predominantly. We find developers have been educating us on what works for them. And they've said, "Our CICD system is going "to label everything associated with this app, "as namespaced, then non-named space resources. 'So just here, take my label, grab everything under that, "and you will be good." The reality is that doesn't work for every business. Some businesses drop things into a specific namespace. And then you've got the added challenge that all of your data doesn't actually just live in Kubernetes. What about your image registries? What about it HCD? What about your Source Code Control and CICD systems? So we're finding that even VMs as well are playing a part in this ecosystem right now until applications can fully migrate. >> Yeah, and then let's zoom out on that a little bit. I mean, I think it's great that developers now kind of have flipped the paradigm where backup and data protection used to be something squarely in the OPS domain. It's now made its way into the .dev domain where it's become fairly easy to tag resources as application X, application Y, and then it automatically gets pulled into the backup based on policies. I mean, that's great, but let's zoom out a little bit and figure out, why is this happening? Why are developers even being put in a position of backing up their applications? So David, do you want to shed some light on that for me? >> Sure, I think data protection is always going to be a requirement and you'll have persistent data, right? There are other elements of applications that will always need to be protected and data protection is often something that is an afterthought, but it's something that needs to be considered from the beginning. And Metallic in being able to support deployments, not just in the cloud, but on-premises as well. We support any number of certified distributions of Kubernetes, gives you the flexibility to make sure that there was apps and that data is protected no matter where it lives. Being able to do that from a single pane of glass, being able to manage your Kubernetes deployments in different environments is very important there. >> So let's dive into that a little bit. I hear you say, Certified Kubernetes Distributions. So what's kind of the common denominator we need to use Metallic in an environment? Because I hear On-Prem, I hear public cloud. So it seems to me like this is a pretty broad product in terms of what it supports in its scope. But what's the lowest common denominator for instance, in the On-Prem environment? >> Sure, so we support all CNCF certified distributions of Kubernetes today. And in the cloud, we support Azure with AKS and AWS with EKS. So you can really use the one Metallic environment, the one interface to be able to manage all of those environments. >> And so what about that storage underneath? Is that all through CSI? >> Yes. So we support CSI on the backend of the Kubernetes applications, and we can then protect all the data stored there. >> And so how does this, I mean, you acquired Hedvig about a year ago, I want to say. Not sure on the exact date, but you acquired Hedvig a little while ago. So how does that come into play in Metallic offering? >> Sure, the Hedvig distributed storage platform is a fantastic platform on which to provision and scale Kubernates's applications and clusters. And that having full integration with Kubernetes on the storage side, we support that natively and really builds on the value that Commvault can bring as a whole with all of its offerings as a platform to Kubernetes. >> All right. So, zooming out just a little more, I want to get a feel for the cover of the portfolio of Commvault, as we're ushering into this cloud native era, as we're helping customers make that move and make that transition. What's the positioning of Metallic basically in the transformation customers are going through from On-Prem kind of lift and shift cloud into the cloud native space? >> Yeah, so with today's announcements, our hybrid cloud support and our hybrid cloud initiatives really help customers manage data wherever it lives as I've mentioned earlier. Customers can start with workloads On-Prem and start protecting workloads that they either have migrated or starting to build in the cloud natively and really cover the gamut of infrastructure and hypervisors and file systems and storage locations amongst all of these locations. So from our perspective, we think that hybrid is here to stay, right? There are very few customers who are either going to be all on-premises or all in the cloud. Most customers have some requirement that keeps them in a hybrid configuration, and we see that being prevalent for quite some time. So supporting customers in their transformation, right? Where they are moving applications from on-premises to the cloud, either refactoring or lift and shift, or what have you. It's very important to them, it's very important for us to be able to support that motion. And we look forward to helping them along the way. >> Awesome, so one last question for Matt. I mean, Metallic is a set of servers, right? That means you run it, you operate it, you build it. So I wonder, is Metallic itself cloud native? How does it scale? What are kind of the big components that Metallic has made up of? >> So Metallic itself is absolutely cloud native. It is sitting inside Azure today. I won't go into all the details. In fact, David could probably provide far more detail there. But I think Metallic is cloud native with respect to the fact that it's speaking natively to your applications, your cloud instances, your Vms. And then it's giving you the agility and the ability to move them where you need them to be. And that's assisting people in that migration. So in the past, we helped people get from P to V. Now that there are virtualized, applications like Metallic can protect you wherever you are and get you to wherever you need to be, especially into your next cloud of choice. And there's always another cloud. What I'm interested to see and what I'm hoping to see out of KubeCon is how are we doing with KubeVirt and Kubernetes becoming the orchestrator of the data center. And how are we doing with some of these other projects like application CRDs and hierarchical namespaces that are truly going to build a multi-tenanted software defined, distributed application ecosystem, that Metallic I can speak natively to via Kubernetes. >> Awesome. Well, thank you both for being with me here today. I certainly learned a ton about Metallic. I learned a lot about the challenges in cloud native that'll certainly be an area of development in the next couple of years. As you know, that the CNCF will continue to support projects in this space and vendors to work with us in that space as well. So that's it for now. I'm Joep Piscaer, I'm covering for KubeCon here remotely from the Netherlands. I will see you next time, thanks. (bright upbeat music)

Published Date : Nov 19 2020

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Rob Emsley, Dell EMC | CUBE Conversation, March 2020


 

>> We're back with Rob Emsley who's the director of product marketing for Dell EMC's data protection division. Rob, good to see you. >> Hi, Dave, good to be back. >> So we just heard from Beth about some of the momentum that you guys have. From your perspective, from a product angle, what is really driving this? >> Yeah, well, one of the things that we've definitely seen is as we talk to our customers, both existing and new customers, cloud journeys is top of mind for all of the CIOs. It's being driven by either the desire to drive efficiency, take out costs, and data protection is one of the most common use cases. One of the things that we find is there's four use cases for data protection that we see. Long term retention of data, cloud disaster recovery, backup to the cloud, and the emerging desire to stand up new applications in the cloud that need to be protected. So backup in the cloud really completes the four major use cases. >> Well, one of the things I think is really important in this market is that you deliver optionality to your customers. So how are customers enabling these use cases? >> Yeah, so the first two use cases of long terms retention and cloud disaster recovery is really driven by our software and our appliances. Both of those are really predicated based upon the assumption that customers are going to deploy data protection on premises to protect their on premises workloads and then tier to the cloud, or, which is becoming more common, use the cloud as a disaster recovery target. It's delivered by our data protection software and that's either in a software form factor or that software delivered and integrated appliance form factor. >> So let's talk about purpose built backup appliances. I think our friends at IDC I think coined that, they tracked that market for awhile, you guys have been a leader there, the acquisition of Data Domain obviously put you in a really strong position. Give us the update there. Is it still a vibrant market? Is it growing, what's the size? What's it look like? >> Yeah, so as we look at 2020, IDC forecasts the market size to be a little under $5 billion. So it's still a very large market. The overall market is growing at a little over 4%. But the interesting thing is that if you think about how the market is made up, it's made up of two different types of appliances. One is a target appliance, such as Data Domain and the new PowerProtect DD, and the other is integrated appliances where you integrate the target appliance architecture with data protection software. And it's the integrated appliance part of the market that is really growing faster than the other part of the PBBA market. It's actually growing at 8%. In fact, IDC's projection is that by 2022, half of the purpose built backup appliance market will be made up of integrated appliance solutions. >> So it's grown to twice the overall market rate, but you guys have two integrated appliances. Why two, how should people think about those? >> Yeah, so a little under three years ago, we introduced a new integrated appliance called the Integrated Data Protection Appliance. It was really the combination of our backup software with our Data Domain appliance architecture. And the Integrated Data Protection Appliance has been our work course for the last three years, really allowing us to support that fastest growing segment of the market. In fact, last year, the Integrated Data Protection Appliance grew by over 100%. So triple digit growth was great. It's something that allows us to address all market segments, all the way down to SMB all the way to the enterprise. But last year, one of the things you may remember at Dell Technologies World is we introduced our PowerProtect portfolio and that constituted PowerProtect Data Manager our new software defined platform as well as the delivery of PowerProtect Data Manager in an integrated appliance form factor with PowerProtect X400. So that's really our new scale out data protection appliance. We've never had a scale out appliance in the architecture before, in the portfolio before, and that gives us the ability to offer customers choice, scale up, or scale out, integrated and target, and with the X400, it's available as a hybrid configuration or it's also our first all Flash architecture. So really, we're providing customers with the existing software solutions that we've had in the market for a long time, an integrated form factor, with the Integrated Data Protection Appliance as well as the brand new software platform that will really be our innovation engine. That will be where we will be looking at supporting new workloads and certainly leaning into how we support cloud data protection in the hybrid cloud reality of the next decade. >> Okay, so one of the other things I want to explore, is we've heard a lot about your new agile development organization, Beth has talked about that a lot, and the benefit, obviously, is you're able to get products out more quickly, respond to market changes, but ultimately the proof is in translating that development into product. What can you tell us about how that's progressing? >> Yeah, so certainly with PowerProtect Data Manager and the X400, that really is the epicenter of our agile product development activities. We've moved to a three month cadence for software releases, so working to deliver small batch releases into the market much more rapidly than we've ever done before. In fact since we introduced PowerProtect Data Manager where we shipped a first release in July, we're now at the third iteration of PowerProtect Data Manager and therefore the third iteration of the X400 appliance. So there's three things that I'd like to highlight within the X400 appliance specifically. First is really the exciting news that we've introduced support for Kubernetes, so we're really the first large enterprise data protection vendor to lean into providing Kubernetes data protection. So that becomes vitally important especially with the developments over at our partner in VMware with vSphere 7, with the introduction of Tanzu, and the reality is that customers will have both vSphere virtual machines and Kubernetes containers working side by side and both of those environments need to be protected. So PowerProtect Data Manager and the X400 appliance has that support available now for customers to take advantage of. Second, we talk about long term retention of data in the cloud. The X400 appliance has just received the capabilities to also take part in long term retention to AWS. So those are two very important cloud capabilities that are brand new with the X400 appliance. And then finally we introduce the X400 appliance with a maximum configuration of four capacity cubes. Rough and tough that was 400 terabytes of usable capacity. We've just introduced support of 12 capacity cubes. So that gives the customers the ability to scale out the X400 appliance from 64 terabytes all the way to over a petabyte of storage. So now if you look at our two integrated appliances, we now cover the landscape from small numbers of terabytes all the way through to a petabyte of capacity whether or not you pick a scale up architecture or a scale out architecture. >> Yeah, so that really comes back to the point I was making about optionality. Kubernates is key. It's going to be a linchpin, obviously, a portability for multi cloud sets that up. As we've said, it's not the be-all end-all, but it's a really necessary condition to enable multi cloud which is fundamental to your strategy. >> Absolutely. >> All right, Rob, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. It's great to have you. >> Thanks, Dave. >> And thank you for watching, everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We'll see you next time. (bright music)

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Amr Abdelhalem, Fidelity Investments | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019


 

>> Announcer: Live from San Diego, California, it's theCUBE! Covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back. I'm Stu Miniman, my cohost, John Troyer, and this is theCUBE's fourth year of coverage of KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2019. We're in here San Diego and happy to welcome to the program a first-time guest, Amr Abdelhalem, who is the head of Cloud Platforms at Fidelity Investments. Of course, Fidelity, we love talking to an end user. Big financial company. Your boss was up on the main stage in front of 8000 people, just in that room, there's over 12,000 here in person. Fidelity itself, you know, founded in 1946, first computers in 1965. In the last year, you've now got over 500 applications running in the public cloud, and Fidelity also joined the CNCS. So let's start there, Amr, if we would. Just kind of how does Fidelity look at kind of Kubernetes and CNCS? How does that fit into your company's mission? >> Absolutely, I mean thank you so much for inviting me here. Innovation in Fidelity is, a big part of the process. We're very focused at this time in cloud computing and machine learning, NEI technology. We had the first financial robot in 2015, I believe. We have the first augmented reality financial advisor, was actually released this year as a prototype. So a part of that innovation, we're seeing, CNCF and cloud computing and Cloud Native, is keys for strategy for our innovation part. >> All right, maybe if you could, give us a little bit of the breadth and depth of your team, what they cover, cloud platforms. What does that mean inside of Fidelity? >> Sure, so Fidelity had over, like, over 10,000 of IT. Hundreds and hundreds of develop teams, thousands of applications. It's globally distributed. It had all kind of workloads, that you can imagine. And it's in a highly regulated environment as well. And that's where we are seeing that we are all looking for this autonomy between teams, and agility, and improved time to market and customer experience. And the key for that is Cloud Native. We're seeing Kubernetes and CNCF and Cloud Native technology is like a key player for us when we go, multicloud to hypercloud model. >> Can you talk a little bit about more into that portfolio of technologies? You know, there's a lot of talk about public cloud verses on-prem, and, as if one thing is going to, one knife is going to be the only thing you need in your kitchen. >> Amr: Right. >> So you have a portfolio of platforms, you have a portfolio of destinations and a portfolio of applications. Can you talk a little bit, both about what you're using, and maybe how you're organized to access and address all those needs? >> Absolutely. So, I think, 2019, I would say, is the year of multicloud-hypercloud modeling, right? Actually, I would say that 2020 is going to more about distributed cloud, where you can distribute your workload across multicloud providers. We're not there yet. I don't think we're, anyone, is there yet. But at least we should start somewhere. We already has this multicloud providing. Distributing the workload itself between, I mean, it's a journey to move thousands of applications and thousands workloads and data as well, between on-premises data centers to a public cloud. You need to move through this journey of hypercloud models. And be able to move apps slowly and aggressively to other apps. >> All right. Amr, I want to dig into what you talked about there, multiclouds. >> Sure. >> So when you talk about multiple clouds, yes, everybody has that. I've got, walk us through a little bit, you know, where you have workloads and how many public clouds you use in life, but I want to set you up with a premise. You know, we really said, for multicloud to really be a reality-- >> Amr: Right. >> The value that you extract should be greater than the sum of its parts. And most of us lived through the multi vendor years, and that wasn't necessarily happiness and joy, when I had to span between those environments. So how do we make sure that multicloud doesn't become the least common denominator or a detriment to what I need to do with my data, my applications, the value that the company has? >> And that's why we are here. We are actually incorporated at Kubecon for that reason. That where we see this abstract layer that guarantee you the portability for moving your application from one cloud provider to another. That capability of the ability to deploy the same workload into multiclouds, the ability to have the workload itself, managed in different characteristic, next to assess services that you will find in AWS via Azure, via Google Cloud, the others. That's were we need that flexibility, and Kubernetes and Cloud Native itself, the ability to have the same deployable structure for your application, the ability to have the same ecosystem around that construction, around that artifact. The ability to move all of that, as-is, from one cloud provider to another cloud provider is big, big key. And that you can only find with script native. >> All right, Amr, can you share which cloud or clouds you're working on today, and what is your roadmap, do you have a timeline to when that vision becomes reality? >> At this moment, we're with a major cloud provider keys that, you guys can name them, all the colors. >> Stu: You're using all of them, okay. >> All the colors. >> And how are you using Kubernetes today? Where are you in that journey? >> So Kubernetes is mainly, I mean, I would say the majority is still running on premise. We are very intensively moving to public cloud in the Kubernates side. At this moment, actually, we're building an offer, inside my team, which is a cloud platform team. That offer will guarantee that portability between all the cloud provider. So for development team to port our platform, it will be kind of seamless for them, where it's going to land, is it going to be landing in AWS or Azures or on premise. >> Okay, joining the CNCF as a member, bring us inside. I understand the journey. Are there any specific goals you have? How do you measure the investment, and what you're hoping to, both as a company as well as part of the community, get out of it? >> So we have a big hold right now and opensource our project our little project about multiclouding, and our focus is mainly about the high regulation part. We're very focused in compliance and security, and in that way we can, I think, we can contribute back to the open source community around that. >> So Amr, you talked about, you know, we talked about the platforms here, and Kubernetes, but that goes hand-in-hand with the culture, and the up-skilling, and the organization and the processes. What intrigued me is you said, well, we put some things on Kubernetes on-prem, and then, and you know some things in the cloud, but then we're going to move some of those apps over time, we'll move to other appropriate homes. So that implies that you've changed process and you've changed, or maybe to be able to build cloud native apps, and that was actually separate, in some cases, from being in the public cloud. Is that the case, can you talk a little bit about how you've approached from the perspective of people who are listening or watching who are IT admins, and wondering how a company, a major organization, like your org, gets there? >> Right, and this is a main challenge. The challenge is not in the technology side itself, or the tools, that seems a majority there in the ecosystem at this moment. The challenge is mainly building the sculpture inside teams. So we're building many like, star-point or COEs across all of our business unit and all of our teams. And again, to build a sculpture across 10,000 developers plus, that's a major. >> And it's funny, because sometimes people go, well, COE is a dirty word, right, don't do a COE, but you said multiple COEs distributed across. >> So it's like nuclear reaction, our COEs, the first one, that will communicate with few COEs, each one of them would be with other COEs, and that's how that chain will go and expand quite quickly. >> All right. >> And this is happening at this moment. >> So, Amr, I have a few friends that this is the first time that they've come, and they go into the keynote, or they look at the schedule, and they're a bit overwhelmed. >> Amr: Right >> They say, it's not just Kubernetes, there's dozens and dozens of projects. The ecosystem is sprawling. If you could, give us a little walkthrough as to, the projects you're using, any key partners that you're allowed to talk about that are useful in helping you to achieve your mission. >> So, we're very focused at this moment, actually, in the Kubernetes project itself. We start exploring some of the open source project and in the CICD part, additional to that, we are starting using few frameworks like Flux, this is one of the frameworks like GitOps in general, building this culture of GitOps deployment, and moving toward, like, more ops of deployment, that's one of areas that we are very invested in. We're exploring service mesh at this time, and I hope like, we're going to get, like, maybe next year we can talk about service mesh more. >> Yeah, is there something that's holding you back on service mesh, 'cause there's a few options out there at various maturity levels, and who's driving them. What will some of your criteria be? >> I would say it's mainly, I'm waiting little bit more, I feel like 214 for me, when we had that discussion, instead of sitting here, 214, you will be discussing Mesos via Kubernetes via Swarm. So I think we are still moving at this time, service mesh as well. >> Any partners that you can speak to from a technology standpoint that are helping you, that you're allowed to talk about? >> Amr: Well, I mean, first of all CNCF. >> Yeah. >> I greatly appreciate all their help in that. Most of the public cloud providers are helping us in this areas as well, yeah. >> I'll be interested in catching you after the show and seeing how you thought, I mean this is, in some ways, it's a science project a few years ago, and now it's this robust thing. Did you bring, I'm curious, did you bring mostly engineers, mostly managers, a mix of the two? >> Amr: Mostly engineers, yeah, mostly engineers. >> Hands on? >> All hands on, I mean, this is like another change in culture right now, where most of our engineers are in innovation, like, they are full stack engineers. We're using VDI process at this moment, to move forward. All our road maps, in turn, have been published, it's being used like evolving process, to go, like, with continuous deployment, and continues feature enhancement for the teams. So it's fantastic honestly, yeah. >> Okay, Amr, what things does your team hope to achieve this week, anything that is on your roadmap, or on the public open source road map that you're waiting on? We talked a little bit, service mesh? >> We're definitely exploring OPA at this moment. I think that's like, that's big potentials there. So that's one of them, yeah. I think going through that showroom and try to see what option we have as well, that's on the area where we going to be very interested at. >> OPA, the Policy Agent, I mean, you talked about compliance before >> Yeah. >> A few years ago, with folks in the financial industry, you would have some arguments, some discussions, sometimes heated discussions about security in the cloud and et cetera and highly regulated industry, yet, kind of, maybe ironically or somewhat, maybe surprisingly for some, right? Very advanced in many areas, the whole industry. That's well known if you're in it. Do you still have to have discussions about compliance and security in the cloud? Maybe, I guess, maybe when you talk about data locality and international borders more? >> Right, and that's why we already have our own policy management tool, which is built in, we build it ourself, and that's where I see the potential, like, our moving from building it yourself to more of using an open source project and try to reuse it and contribute back to that open source community, like something like OPA, for example. So that's the next generation, where I can see it will help us as well. >> Amr, any advice you'd give your peers out there, if they're new to the community? Things you've learned along the journey so far? >> I would say start small, don't boil the ocean. Start with small COEs, small pilots program. Look for success, look for goals. Technology is great, but don't just move toward technology, because it's a moving target, it will never end. Try to set business goals for you, like targets for your project, and that's how you can achieve success. >> Well, Amr, really appreciate you sharing Fidelity's update. >> Thank you. >> Wish you and your team the best of luck here at the show and beyond, and we definitely hope to catch up soon. >> Thank you, I appreciate it. >> All right, for John Troyer, I'm Stu Miniman, be sure to checkout theCUBE.net for all of the coverage of this, as well as all the cloud, Cloud Native, and more shows that we have. Thank you for watching theCUBE. (upbeat electronic music)

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Brought to you by Red Hat, and Fidelity also joined the CNCS. Innovation in Fidelity is, a big part of the process. All right, maybe if you could, It had all kind of workloads, that you can imagine. you need in your kitchen. So you have a portfolio of platforms, where you can distribute your workload Amr, I want to dig into what you talked about there, So when you talk about multiple clouds, and that wasn't necessarily happiness and joy, And that you can only find with script native. that, you guys can name them, all the colors. in the Kubernates side. How do you measure the investment, and in that way we can, I think, we can contribute back Is that the case, can you talk a little bit about how in the ecosystem at this moment. but you said multiple COEs distributed across. the first one, that will communicate with few COEs, So, Amr, I have a few friends that this is the first time in helping you to achieve your mission. and in the CICD part, additional to that, Yeah, is there something that's holding you back on you will be discussing Mesos via Kubernetes via Swarm. Most of the public cloud providers are helping us and seeing how you thought, I mean this is, and continues feature enhancement for the teams. that's on the area where we going to be very interested at. in the cloud and et cetera and highly regulated industry, So that's the next generation, and that's how you can achieve success. Well, Amr, really appreciate you sharing Wish you and your team the best of luck here at the show and more shows that we have.

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