>> Narrator: From Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering DockerCon 2017. Brought to you by Docker and support from it's ecosystem partners. >> Hi, I'm Stu Miniman joining with my co-host Jim Kobielus. We're here with theCUBE at DockerCon 2017. When I talked to John Furrier, he said Stu, at DockerCon, we're going to get Solomon Hykes, the founder. We're going to get Ben Golub, the CEO. And we're also, of course, going to get Marianna Tessle, who is the EVP of Strategic Development. Marianna, thank you for having us back again, we've been having a great event. How is everything with you? >> Thank you first of all, it's great. This is the second day of DockerCon. I think we had a great set of announcement yesterday, and an amazing set of announcement today as well. It's really going great. You know I have been roaming the exhibit hall, and actually a couple of people said this is one of the best shows they have been part of, and this very engaged audience is great to hear. >> From the keynote yesterday, the word that stuck out to me is really scaling. We talk about scaling employment, scaling the ecosystem, and the show itself. I was at that first DockerCon when we were wedged into that hotel room, as Ben joked. We had 100 more people than we told the Fire Marshall. Because it was tight. TheCUBE is usually a little bit smaller footprint than we have at some other shows. But, Austin, first of all, you pick great locations. I mean, San Francisco, Seattle, here. I'm looking forward to... Have we announced yet where next year's is? >> I don't think we've announced it yet. Usually it happens in the afternoon. >> Here in Austin. Talk to us a little about some of those announcements and stuff that you're excited about with growing the ecosystem. >> You know, I'm going to continue the theme you started with scale, and obviously like you said, a lot of things are changing, and scaling. One of the things we have noticed more and more are companies and enterprises have really started to use us more in scale and more in production, more apps, more of that going on. One of the trends we've noticed that actually Ben covered on stage today is that there's not just the leading edge of development and all new apps, web apps, but actually, we are starting to see more of traditional apps coming on board as well. More traditions Ops saying, I want those benefits as well. I do not want to go all the way to the extreme of re-writing my code, and going to microservices. But I can reap a lot of the benefits from Docker rising and putting our tools on top. So we're actually seeing more and more of that. And more and more companies. >> The discussion with Solomon, we talked this morning. He said, Oh, I don't know what Lego set we are. And I said, You know that green, flat piece that you can build everything on top of, so you can have your spaceset, your castle, and all the pieces there. You want to be a platform that can build. One of the announcements you guys had today, it's the modernized traditional applications. Maybe you can walk us through a little bit what that means, you know that mix of microservices verses traditional apps. How you guys see yourself participating in a customer's journey. >> Right. So, when we call this program, by the way it has a nickname, MTA. It's like you said, what we've seen is customers and users that want to have benefit across the board was if they write new code as they have more traditional apps with traditional stacks. What we came up with is a way for you to move from a more traditional to the new and Dockerizing really quickly. One of the things we also announced today, is a go-to market and a program helping customers to do that. We have great partners we announced today and I'm sure we're going to have even more, whether it's Microsoft, Avalon, HPE, and Cisco. What we're going to basically provide is a way for you to very quickly start seeing the benefits. Taking the traditional app, and within days, like five days, you should be able to get it in a modern state and start seeing the benefits from that. It's something that we're going to encourage customers to do very quickly and see the benefits. In fact, we had a customer today, Noran Trust, who's already been doing that, talking about the benefits they've been seeing from this program. >> Marianna, in terms of developer enablement, that's everything to getting Dockerizing, a universal phenomenon for wrapping legacy systems, for refactoring existing code, for building greenfield applications. What will Docker do to continue to improve the experience of Project Moby as an enabler of your ISV ecosystem? Going forward, how do you see the experience of front-end in front of Moby evolving to enable very simplicity and speed of development? >> First of all, I have to say that one of the magic, or secret sauces of Docker is our user experience, and the way we made technologies sometimes that were already available super accessible and super useful for developers and ops and users. So I would say that's definitely something that we have the DNA to do. And a project in Moby, we see ISV's and companies, and it doesn't have to be a company, it could be like users, a company that can come in and collaborate and really create a new component, or a new project from what we're going to put there, and hopefully others as well is a whole set of these Lego building blocks they can assemble. >> Are there any plans of Dockers to provide task-oriented skins or experiences on Moby for different roles, different developer roles associated with particular projects, you know, task, or wrapping a legacy system is a different task, obviously, from developing a greenfield containerized application. So to an extend, will you evolve the tool to enable more task oriented role specific interfaces? >> I would say as far as Moby, and across the company, we do have this realization that it could be that developers started to use Docker first, but actually Ops, and even like we talked about, traditional IT, it's pretty prevalent. So our thought is really to cater to all of these audiences, kind of understand, have a conversation with them and understand what exactly they need and what would make them more productive. An example of what I mentioned with the MTA program, the Modernized Traditional Apps, that one is targeted more towards an Ops audience. Different things we do, we try to understand our audience and engage with them, and see what's going to make them most productive. Both in terms of tool sets and in terms of how we bring it to them. >> Right, right. >> Marianna, we had the opportunity to have some of the partner keynote speakers on theCUBE, John Gossman on from Microsoft yesterday, we had Mark Cavage on from Oracle, here. There's a lot going on. Maybe give our audience a little flavor as to some of the other partner activity going on that we might have missed if we weren't watching close. >> I think we had the same conversation last year, just explaining how important it is for us that we work well with our ecosystem. It's a big part of our plan and strategy, and again confirmation that customers want to use choice, different things, that we're not alone in the world, and we really want to engage with a vast ecosystem. So you saw from Cloud providers to a more on-prem infrastructure to ISV's to networking providers, storage providers. Like a whole understanding and way to be a full platform, we really need to understand how to integrate and how to engage with that ecosystem, and how to help customers have benefits of the entire thing combined. So we've been really looking at who are the different leaders; Sometimes customers take us there, they're like, hey please partner with this company or that company. Understanding mapping of what is needed, and starting from Cloud, infrastructure, network, storage, management, monitoring, security, all the way to ISV's. I would, since you brought up that fact that Mark was here, Mark from Oracle. I do want to talk about that because I think that is maybe even a bit new and unique. Another thing that we announced today, the fact that we have Oracle, Dockerizing their apps and putting them in Docker store and that is big, and again, to us that is obviously big, but again, big for user. It's a very easy way to get software you really need. And not only that, we announced several weeks ago, a certification program. The nice thing about that, if something is certified in store, you can really use that with a lot of trust. You know it's been tested, it's secure. That we made sure that it followed best practices. We made sure that our support engagement with the publisher. Again, geared toward enterprises that really want to have that confidence of downloading something from the store and just using it. Again, Oracle is kind of groundbreaking in putting their software there, and we're very excited about that and we think there is going to be more to come. We really are looking forward to this being an amazing service for our users who want to really start from components that exist and the components that they can trust and be productive very quickly. >> I'm curious, how do you think of the Docker store in relation to things like the Amazon Marketplace, or you know, many of your other partners have their own piece. There really is no kind of enterprise app store today so what do you guys want to own? How do you integrate with partners as you look at that develop over time? >> For us, Docker Store started as an enabler as we saw more and more need from users to to basically, Hey, I want.. Let's say since I talked about Oracle I want to use a database. I don't want to go and Dockerize it again. If somebody already did it and they're already prepared, they already went through it, why wouldn't I just re-use it? So the fact that you can put things in this building block and then move them around, it actually enables the idea that you can re-use the same component between different users. So basically you have here something you can do once, and many people can benefit. So that's the benefit we see. It started with official images long ago. We saw unbelievable traction for it. Users really love it, it makes them productive very quickly. We wanted to expand it to a wider set of ISV's, a wider set of components, a wider set of apps, and make them available. We, right now, see it as more of an enabler and again it's one of those things, listening to our users, listening to our customers, we saw that that's one of the things that will make them productive really quickly. >> One of the things we saw in abundance at DockerCon this year is customers of Visa, MetLife, and so forth, up on stage, talking about how they are using Docker in their business for actual live applications. In terms of partners, are you focusing on particular vertical industries in terms of partnership with ISV's and VAR's, particular geographies? Give us a sense for where you're going in terms of diversification of geographies and industries, and in terms of your focus on partnerships. >> Yeah, and again different parts of the stack require different kinds of partnerships. Like on the South end of the stack on the infrastructure, we're looking for partners that either provide on-prem or Cloud infrastructure, or they can provide a set of plug-ins that integrate with us and a set of tools that can be used with Docker to complete and enhance the overall experience of users using Docker. So that's kind of one set of partnerships that started from hardware vendors, to different plug-ins. On the North side of it as we look at it, we just talked about the fact that we have... >> Jim: Top of the application, the application services end of the staff is the North, right? >> Exactly, and all the way to the content. What you actually put inside and what you run. >> Data, so forth and so on. >> Exactly. We'll form a set of partnerships there and making sure that those components are available in store, those components are Dockerized, that companies can really use that, and obviously Microsoft is a huge partner for us in the OS and as your others as well. >> The storage vendors, like Veritask and so forth, there is a fair amount of data inside the ecosystem that really you're going to continue to develop a partnership. >> Absolutely, Adera, Quadera, you've seen a lot, and we continue partner and seeing what's needed there. Understanding we are trying to predict where customers are today, where they're going to maybe, what they will need a year or two from now, and be ready for that. >> Marianna, that leads me to my final question. We know where you're going to be in Europe, you won't tell us yet the location of the North American show for next year, but as you look at the ecosystem, how do you see that developing? When we sit down with you a year from now, what do you hope to have as the progress? >> As I look at the exhibit hall, I am hoping that we're going to see a bigger exhibit hall with every single DockerCon. And, not just for fun, but really, it kind of indicates the collaboration we have with the ecosystem. I would like us to be known as a trusted and productive partner for our ecosystem. And a trusted and productive partner for our customer. That kind of knows to work together with all these contingencies to have amazing results. Like you said, we seen customers on stage, we seen the press releases of people say it took me months to get VM going, it takes me seconds to get this now going. So you see the kind of productivity and we would like to enhance it even more and get there faster. >> Absolutely, Marianna, always a pleasure to catch up with you. We've got a few more interviews left, two days of live coverage, for Jim Kobielus, and I'm Stu Miniman. Thanks for watching theCUBE. 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