live from Copenhagen Denmark it's the cube covering Nutanix next 2019 bought to you by Nutanix gut morgen cube inators we are here in Copenhagen Nutanix dot next I'm your host Rebecca night along with my co-hosts to minimun what what I what a what a beautiful day in Copenhagen it's such a pleasure to be co-hosting dot next with you this is a company that you have really what been watching for a long time we're here celebrating ten years of this company I'd love to just get your first uh flick off the cuff thoughts what do you think about this company how has it changed since its inception ten years ago Chuck Rebecca unfortunately is the only Danish that I know so so hopefully you'll bring that but super excited it's the ninth dot NEX that we've had the qubit which is all of them that's the eighth one I've had the pleasure attending and Rebecca as you said uh you know I've watched this company since early early days first time I went to Newt annexes office that the paint was drying on the wall there and D arrives actually the CEO founder of the company showed me here's actually from a real estate standpoint we're going to expand here and move here and if things go well like we think we will move across the street and we can really build out a corporate headquarters and actually all of that has happened so ten years of celebration here over 5,000 employees there are some things that have not changed at all from the very first interview that John Ferrara and I had with dirige it was talking about the complexity of building distributed architectures and software what what Nutanix has learned from the hyper scale players absolutely impacts what they're doing but this landscape has changed so greatly you know you know this was originally everybody thought about it was you know that that term hyper-converged infrastructure came out it was about appliances and how many boxes you have but at the core it always was software and today we're hear them talking about how you live in that hybrid and multi cloud world all of these software pieces many of which you know seem to have it they're loosely coupled with the the core a OS software which itself has gone through complete revision to be ready for cloud native the latest databases all the new things so we know there is so much change going on in our industry um but but I saw what was built here is a culture and a company not just a product and so it is a celebration I love do they started with some of their early customers and partners especially here in Europe so very international flavor of course over 50 companies countries represented at this show we can see the the energy behind us with the expo hall here and yeah you know Nutanix have been public now for about three years going through a lot of transitions and lots of stuff for us to dig into over the next absolutely we're gonna we're gonna get into all that one at one of your tweets from this morning words where you were watching the mainstage and you said Nutanix is finally starting to answer that question what is the value of Nutanix in the data center you have a devoted Twitter followings do so we're all dying to hear what it was how do you see them answering that question it isn't enough well it's actually how they fit into the hyper scale data center because we know where Nutanix fits in the on-premises data center that's where they've lived but as customers are figuring out and you know the you know the thing that gets talked about a bunch here is you know the technologies that you know most of the customers use here is virtualization in VMware of courses that still has a dominant position in this environment while almost half of all new tannic snows that shipped in the last year use ahv the Acropolis hypervisor which is free it's by Nutanix it's based off of the KVM open source the rest of them are using pregnant predominantly VMware it's a little bit of hyper-v in there but when you go to that cloud environment I want some of the same software stack I want to be able to be able to put there so right there's one of the Nuggets that they showed towards the end of the keynote today and they've teased it out a little bit over the last year it's what they calls AI clusters so that is their stack or what they call X in some of those clouds the first one interestingly enough is is AWS and I say interesting because Google has been a solution that Nutanix has been working on but AWS is actually opening up bare-metal instances so it doesn't mean you know we take our stack and we put it on the side and we have specialized hardware it's the ec2 bare-metal instances that we're going to be able to run the new Tannis software and we've seen a number of companies out there pure storages one-day Volante and Lisa Martin were at that show not that long ago talking about you know if I am truly software and I'm independent of location how can i integrate into some of these environments so that's where we see Nutanix looking to go it's in tech preview with AWS GCP something they can do for demo environments but it's not yet open to be able to put in production environments you know the hope from Nutanix and others is that Google will open that up Google is position themselves in the open cloud and then azure will be there too so other clouds so when customers choose their environments and their own data centers they're hosted environment the public clouds we know there's going to be a lot of moves and changes and it's not going to be a one-way or a one-time thing so I want to get this as solutions that give flexibility and allow me to place where I want to and then move things as my strategy needs to adjust so the really interesting stuff definitely something what will geek out with talking about the competitive landscape this is a company that is that is a solid number two of you you've talked about this a lot in your analysts reports and at these various shows too VMware if this is a this is a two horse race there's a lot of money to be made in this market where do you see this is a company somewhat under pressure but where do you see Nutanix strengths and where do you see its biggest obstacles to overcome especially as it as it goes head-to-head with VMware yes so from the early discussion about hyper-converged infrastructure it is down to two companies and it doesn't get talked as as much as it might have a couple of years ago um there were some of my peers in the industry you know three four years ago there were like 30 companies out there there were a few acquisitions Cisco made an acquisition HPE made an acquisition you know VMware has their offerings out there but really it is to you know lead horses out there if you talk from a revenue and a dollar standpoint it is VMware and their partner ships their Dell of course has did the leading offering from VMware and then Nutanix is strong and Nutanix is growing customers they've got over 14,000 customers they added over 3,500 in the last 12 months so growing strong good growth the transition from being both you know soft soft rose at the core but really kind of ridding themselves of the hard we're going to full subscription and software model has been increasing their gross margin they're up to about 80 points of gross margin up if I remember right about three three and a half from from a year ago it has moderated their revenue because if you look traditionally and say okay what's their bookings and what's their Billings it is flat even down a little bit but that is because you're shifting from well I'm pulling along a whole bunch of stuff that I'm really not taking margin on to pure software so they believe they're past the toughest piece of that transition and I'm sure Dee Ridge will be talking about that they've done the faster transition of any company that's done this he sits on the board of Adobe Adobe went to that subscription model from this software subscription so they're doing that on but the big change is really if you talk about okay you know Nutanix is number two well that's the hyper-converged market that's what we were talking about a couple years ago when we're talking the multi cloud market you're talking about companies like Microsoft in Google and Cisco and of course VMware competing there and Nutanix would not be one of the first ones that I would mention but they do have their well positioned to help their customers and what we need in cloud is the simplicity that hyper-converged solutions like Nutanix brought to the data center so Nutanix has that opportunity to reach a much broader audience and a much broader market to go from the 14,000 customers they have to literally hundreds of thousands of companies out there that need these types of solutions and if they are to be 10 years from now at they're 20 years looking back and saying where do they fit in cloud where are they as you know a true you know technology software company for businesses that is the mark that they will need to make you're what you're saying about the simplicity that is what that is the message that we are given here today is that this is all about simplicity choice and delight make computing invisible and do you think I mean that that's so that's their message that's that's the that's the marketing gambit here altogether now do you think that is it is it going to work I mean this it is it is clearly what you say that the market needs but is does Nutanix have the staying power so Rebecca I I think you'll agree what's nice is when you hear the customers out on stage you know they actually give you the reality and it is you know in the early days of these shows it was I loved Nutanix it gave me my weekends back the quote that I had from a customer that I spoke to getting ready for this show is what I loved about this they actually had a customer that the main IT staff was not really in favor of going Nutanix they were certified and knew how to use the existing hardware and software and it spent years working on that um and they followed the rules and he said I don't want IT to follow the rules I want them to try things I want them to break things um you know I want them to be able to get ahead of the business and not just meet the requirements so he said we're spending we're ramping up our spending on training and education than sending them to events like this and Nutanix is an enabler because it doesn't just work it exceeds their expectations it is better performance they have Headroom to be able to try things and throw things at it and that is exciting so it's not just as I said oh this interesting box that I stick in a corner and I don't worry about it it is changing that that culture something I've been looking at you know can some of these technologies actually drive some of that cultural changes because traditionally it's you know executive mandate you put something new in and everybody fights against it so some of this can actually be from the ground level up is I get into these tools and solutions and it changes my workflow it changes how I work between groups how do I get the developers involved there was a lot of talk about the applications the messaging that they unveiled here all together now that that resonates with I can't just have my database my apps and my data itself in siloed as to who can access it and who can use it and have to worry about oh I need nine months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to do anything I want to be able to you know IT needs to be not no or slow but go I shout out you know Cuba Lum Alan Cohen who actually interviewed at the first dot next so he was you know early supporter of Nutanix and you know that that's what the kind of the developer driven mantra is you know IT very much working with the business and if it can drive innovation I mean Rebecca we've been talking important female leader at the moment but exactly talking about how technology can drive cultural change within a large organization because Nutanix is a large organization now it's it's only ten years old but it is it is not a start-up it is it as large complex exceedingly complicated organization and so how do you drive innovation creativity change collaboration communication between different silos these are all these are all topics that we were going to delve into today another word we keep hearing a sort of a cultural buzzword at this conference is resilience and we're going to on the main stage we're going to hear from Caroline Wozniacki who is a very famous tennis player we're gonna hear from the CEO of Noma who was of course Copenhagen's famous kuelen Airy delight and of course Kit Harington yeah so anybody that watch Game of Thrones um you know Jon Snow was definitely resilient to be able to last the eight seasons and everything that happened across it so Andy rich you know one thing we really respect you know we've watched him since the early days he is very thoughtful as to how he goes and when he actually said to me yesterday's it's do you know we are you're going to hear some of the same words that some of the other vendors but the you know the why and the how underneath that for us is different and that's very important and especially in the technology space that that nuance and the you know really how's that work in how does that put together and not just that we can do it but is this the right way it doesn't make sense so they are thoughtful about how they do it and and they're moving forward so you know they definitely believe they're positioned well for the next phase of their journey and always it's been a pleasure to you know watch this and you know to talk to all the the builders the dreamers and yeah dreamers believers and builders is what they came out this morning so well we're gonna be we have a lot of great guests on the show today I'm so excited to be hosting here with you in Copenhagen at this next dot dot next so we have dirige Pandey coming 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>> I'm Stew Minutemen, and this is a special on the ground at the 16th annual end final, The Tugs Summer Slam. We're here in Maine and happy to welcome back to the program. A Cube alumni punishment. Who is a senior cloud advocate with Microsoft but very active member in the communities here. One of the keynote speakers of Viet Formula. So great to see you. >> Thank you for having me. >> And you are representing. We've got the lobster fest tonight, one of your lobster dresses on. I hear even there might be a costume change before this evening. >> There will be a costume change with lobsters and clams. Yeah, I'm a big lobster fans. >> Well, you were definitely on point with Coach her there, and you were right in the mix. You know, love the keynote themes this morning. I think Josh Astral did it well, he said, you know, hey, how many people here? You know, I t operations and like most, the audit And how many years have you been doing it? And it was like one year to year and the over 10 was most of this audience. And of course, we know there's a lot of change going on this industry. But you know, cos and individual careers don't necessarily keep up. So, you know, >> you're a >> little bit about you know, what you've been working on. You know what you see in the communities out there? >> I mean, you're you're definitely right. Cos are struggling to keep up their staff. It's it's tough. There's so much technology out there, you don't know where to begin. So what I've been doing this past year is just helping the community get up to speed, helping them figure out what they want to dio because there's the cloud. What do you want to do in the cloud? Here's some options. I mean, they're just I speak to so many people. They're like, we hear about this as your thing, But what can I do in azure? You know, where can I go learn? And it's it's all good stuff. So that's pretty much my past years. Here's you could dio How can I help you get to your ultimate goal? Just knowing Maur and leveling up? >> Yeah, so you know, I think back to you know, when I was learning it in college, it was getting together with a group of people is one of the best ways to learn who had been through the class or who could you help work through? This virtual ization community was one that worked well together. Groups were ones where people would get together. They'd all right. Blog's about it on. You know, Cloud has been a bit of a transition, so you know what's the same? What's different about Cloud? Then say what we've seen in the virtualization communities. >> So Cloud is fearful. People fear their jobs because they feel like, OK, the cloud is gonna take away my job because now I don't got the manager's infrastructure. And you know what? That's not entirely true. You're still gonna need people the manage, these systems. You're still gonna need people to manage the applications, so one has to govern it. Someone's gotta click the buttons. Yes, it's not on your premises data center, but there's still machine out there running because survivalist doesn't mean there's no servers. So we have to dispel that. Believe for that myth that you won't have a job >> if you go to the cloud. >> Yes, there's some organizations that have reduced some workforce, but it's me. They're still jobs out there. And there's actually more jobs. Cloud related jobs, security focus, a compliance focus that deal with the cloud because, you know, if you look at the headlines now, each day, I'm gonna swear there's always somebody having a data breach there, being fined for doing something not correct with their data. And so there's their jobs out there. So are, you know, the I t staff. The IittIe operation space are so sad mints it's taking up here out. And here's what you could do with it. >> Yeah, yeah, you bring up some great points there. We understand. Look, there are changes happen in John. If you think you can go with the same skill set that you were doing years ago, you probably need to update That being said, there's nobody that I talked to that said, Hey, if I could give you an extra hour or an extra day in the week, do you have other things that you, after working? Absolutely. You brought up security. Is that something that needs more of our attention? And it's not all going to be robots and automation taking care of it. People plus machines need to work together, and therefore there's a lot of ramp. It is early days for all of us in this. So what can I learn? How can I make sure that I'm value for my organization and ultimately, you know, have a longevity in my career? >> Another thing that I've been finding in, what speaking with people is that they just don't have the time. They're like, I'm just so busy at work Where were, you know, with downsized and we're expected to do more with less. I totally get that. I've been in their shoes, but ultimately your career, you own that the company you work for does not own your career. So it's up to you to make that effort to just learn a little bit more. It goes a long way, and I'm seeing a trend now with some I t professionals. They're getting it. They're like, You know what? Yeah, we need to step up. We need to figure out what to do next, because technology is moving so fast, and if we don't keep up, we won't. We won't have jobs. You know you're going to be outdated. It's got it's got to keep moving. Um, you know, Josh is key Note. Perfect. Matzke Newt. >> Perfect >> Technology is constantly evolving. So you, as the IittIe professional we must evolve to. We must evolve with our technologies. You know, it's it's a circle. >> Yeah, You could bring us a great points, You understand? There are only so many hours in the day. And yes, there needs to be some work life balance. But you know what? We need to take control of where we're going and what we're learning. If I just get kind of stuck in my same old way, you're building that rut for yourself as opposed to breaking yourself way. I want to give you a final word. You know, what tips >> do you give people? >> How do they make sure they kind of break out of their existing, you know, environments? And you know, some areas that they might be able to easily in a start understanding what options are available for them in the future. >> The Internet? That's that's easy way M s learned. We've got learning portals for, you know, professionals that go out test things. We've got different labs. There's plenty of blog's out. There's user groups out there, you know, go out to your local user. Groups meet up with people, go the conferences. And I know they cost money, but there's free ones out there. Network linked in find. Find a good network, and it just it just expands from there. And social media, you know, there's a lot through social media between lengthen and whether you could do so much and learn so much from other >> people. Yeah, you bring up some great points. We've talked to you with some of the big shows, like a V M World or a Microsoft ignite. And not everybody can afford the time or the money to do those. But there's meet ups in your local environment. There are user groups usually that can do that. So, you know, reach out and find your committed or online. There is just so many environment. Lots >> of four lots of forms are so much out there and, you know, reach out to me on Twitter. I've exchanged Goddess. I'll point you to the right. >> Absolutely. In Pamela, Thank you so much. You could help introduce our community thio lots of different people. So exchange goddess Twitter. Of course, I'm at Stew on Twitter and we're here from the V tug Summer Slam 2019. Be sure to check out the cute done that for all of the events were gonna be a CZ. Well, as if you do the search, you can actually find some of the historical interviews that we've done with guests like Camilla and many more. I'm still minimum as always. Thanks for >> watching the cue.

from Boston Massachusetts it's the cube covering wtg transform 2018 brought to you by Winslow technology group welcome back I'm Stu minimun and this is the cube coverage of wdg transform 2018 I'm happy to welcome back to the program probably an interesting who's come all the way from Boston University he said three blocks away about three blocks why yes all right Brian's the director of College of Arts and Sciences information technology great to see you again thank you all right back so good news is we spoke it was just about a year ago it was August last year it's June this year I'm sure nothing's changed in your environment you know students never change technology never changes there's a little bit of change on your end a little bit a little bit last year we'd spoke of quite a bit about hyperconvergence and what's that's gonna mean in terms of Education and how we deliver that and what the experience could be like for these students and I think at this point we're satisfied with everything that Nutanix has brought to us we've deployed VDI and a couple of large deployments for whole bunch of classes so we decided to reassess and reevaluate work what we're doing this year and now we move on to application development that's great so we get many ways they say you need to modernize your platform and then once you do that we can look at what the long haul 210 which is really at the application side right exactly once we knew what we had what we could possibly do with it we decided to move forward and figure out what else can we change and we had a lot of legacy applications for the business and so this past year we hired a developer who's focusing solely on docker izing our applications so we're deploying docker and a whole bunch of applications within the college and then we're going to be doing kubernetes deployment later this year ok and let's be clear where does this live you know is this on the Nutanix platform is it in you know service riders public clouds where does this span because kubernetes can live in all of those environments in the containerized stuff at Casa and currently it's all contained within a handful of VMs within our Nutanix server environment ok we're planning on looking at calm and use using natural blueprints to deploy kubernetes and docker down the road ok so I've got the Nutanix platform what hypervisor am i using HP ok so using the HP using which of courses Newt annexes comes on on the platform and then you know in the VMS you're using containers we are um have you looked at bare metal um you know because that's one of the discussions is like well if I'm doing containers you know do I just do that on Linux on bare metal or do I do it virtual is a virtualized and there's there's pluses and minuses for each of those we did a few of the pluses that my sis had means really enjoy is when our developer is going to go crazy and do new things we can make snapshot so if he happens to do something to the environment we can restore it in ten minutes and I think as far as my developer is concerned he doesn't want to have to rebuild the environment every time he makes a mistake he's had a few close calls so far and having HP and the ability to snapshot restore it's been awesome for him okay what insight can you give us about what you know what sort of applications are they building and you said Dockers in two minute Kruger burn Eddie's you know are they building their own stack are they leveraging you know how are they getting to that state well we're taking some business apps that were focusing on both student and faculty applications dealing with various components of each and he's pulling them apart to figure out what components go into the docker containers what do we have to still reside in VMs for security and long-term use and try to figure out how to reimagine the application stack to move forward we're starting to look at reusing components that he's developing and I'm hoping that we have a lot of pieces that we can do that with so we have a lot of applications to rewrite okay and just to drill in a little bit because I've got we've got a team of the cube that's gonna be at docker con next week I've been go to the kubernetes show for a while so when you say docker are you using just the free containers which is now called mobi or using the dr. CEO as part of that I actually can't tell you that because that's miss all my developers work I did so they're using docker as you said it's like the Kleenex and do you know from kubernetes standpoint have they just built their own do you have a distribution or a platform that you just do Tanic we just downloaded the distro from kubernetes instead of a small cluster himself we're going to be looking at using calm to do a deployment on their channels natively okay really interesting stuff what what is you know you talked a bit about you know you can give a little bit of stability and recovery and things like that for your developers to be able to play in that sandbox is what gives us a little bit of the roadmap as to you know how long do they play with this and then you know how does this roll out for the university so we're looking at probably a three to six month development cycle on a lot of new applications right now part of my developers job is to try to figure out how this environments going to work my sis admins are deeply engaged with him but since most of doctrine kubernetes is developed with faced he has to do most of the legwork and figure out how it's all gonna work and so we're hoping to leverage Nutanix to have multiple environments all with the same back-end so we have dev tests and production all in the same hardware but different pieces of actually physical clusters that'll be separated so he doesn't mess around the production all too much but set up a baseline that we can use to short that development cycle even further yeah one of the things we always look at is right you've got your developers doing their thing how does that fit with the operation side is it DevOps even I interviewed Solomon hikes last year that was the founder of docker and he said actually it was an operation mindset that I had when I created this container format how are you seeing it's actually great you're all working together you're you're in discussion there do you have a DevOps rollout and what you're doing or you do you keep it separate I still keep them somewhat separate but my administrators are writing a little bit more code and scripting than they used to and I think in general that's going to be the in the entire industry where you can't just look at and have your developer do everything in docker and not understand how it works Brian talk to us about your partners for doing this how involved are the likes of Nutanix and Winslet technology and you know in Dell in this discussion of the containers agent and your developers Nutanix we've been utilizing a lot of documentation and we're gonna be leveraging them a lot when we start to look at com Winslow's we haven't really talked to them about it to be honest we probably should because they might have some ideas and other partners we can talk to Dell in it there's really just a hardware to run everything on that's stable we don't have to worry about it I'm so happy with that yeah that's not in any you know oh I don't need to worry about them there's certain pieces we always look at and I'd love your feedback on this if you know when we virtualized first and now even when we containerize how much don't I need to worry about the infrastructure I mean remember back you know 15 years ago it's like oh I'll virtualized that well have you checked the BIOS because the BIOS might not work and the server could break things the OS could cause problem you know virtualization relatively stable these days how are you finding the container stuff it's really interesting and very very unique to virtualize a virtualized environment even further it's it's kind of mind-blowing just I've been doing this for twenty years and this is much further than I've ever expected the industry to go oh yeah just wait and it's you go even further than kubernetes it's like wait is it on top of underneath or side by side with the technologies you're doing from a Cooper nettie standpoint you said today it's all in the note annex what's the value of kubernetes for you is it just kind of the cluster orchestration of containers or you know are you is its portability a piece even part of the concern that you look at there oh it's it's mostly from portability part of the applications that we're looking at down the road are going to be vertical applications especially some student facing ones and certain times of the year we're gonna have to go from maybe a hundred people logged in to several thousand at the same time so we're hoping to stand up something that we can easily move to a cloud provider and still work the same way that we're expecting it to and so I think kubernetes along with the orchestration internally on-prem it's gonna be a huge benefit for us to know the environment it's gonna be exactly the same when we move it to Amazon or Google or adder all right so so Brian you're still kind of in the thick of it here but from what you've learned so far any any learnings or things that you'd recommend to your peers that oh wait if I could turn back the clock three months I might have adjusted or pointed things in a different direction yes yeah well when our developer started he focused more on getting an application up and running before starting to learn docker I would encourage anybody that's just starting down the road get your developer learning doctor and kubernetes first because they might want to rewrite what they're doing in the application okay well Brian this has been fascinating want to give you the final word is that you look out through the rest of the year so it's a lot you know so far since last time we talked but by the time we come around next year you'll be all serverless and you know deploying things off side the globe I'm assuming but I have no idea if you told me your ago that we're gonna be doing what we're doing now I wouldn't believe you it's it's a fantastic journey it's it's amazing what we learn every day all right well Brian appreciate you sharing some of the learnings as we go it's one of the reasons we come to events like this I know yourself to talk to your peers here what's going out thank you for moving forward with thank you all right plus more coverage here at wtg transform 2018 I'm Stu minimun and thanks for watching the Q

whether you're just getting started in terms of transforming your data center modernizing looking at hyperconvergence infrastructure or whether you're building out your cloud strategy thinking about private public distributed clouds Nutanix and the partners that you met here are committed to helping you on that journey I am very excited and proud to share that together we have made quite an impact on the four organizations that were here at dot next is part of our dot heart initiative girls intact the women's Sports Foundation move the foundation for hospital art and workforce opportunity services we have thanks to your generosity donated more than 7,500 dollars now we have a couple more hours to go to get to ten thousand and I know that we can do it so thank you so much for your generosity and be sure to take advantage of the last couple of hours I'm a solutions Expo to grab some tokens and get us to ten thousand dollars it is also my pleasure in the spirit of giving to award this tricked-out Nutanix colored Trek bicycle to one lucky winner from our social contest trek has been a customer of newt annexes since 2014 and like Nutanix they share a number of business values around giving back into the community creating positive change building things that last memories relationships products and so I'd like to take a moment to please welcome back out to stage Nutanix CMO Ben Gibson to help me do the honors [Music] [Applause] welcome back hey Julie that's a gorgeous bike yeah lights it's very like carbon fiber frame look at this thing Wow sleek can you tell me a little bit about it you know Julie this bike I mentioned before I'm a cyclist this is not only in beautiful Nutanix brand color it's got top-of-the-line component REE Shimano El Tigre this thing all comes together I'd like to think of this as hyperconvergence for the cyclist just as beautiful the same impute value it does have a Nutanix monkey on the front all right so we ready to unveil our winner let's do it all right so the winner of the trek social contest is Rob chlorine are you here yeah now Rob yeah come on up you got to come you know check this out we're not gonna ask you to clip in well actually maybe you should clip in I'm not sure we can ship it home for you so maybe you just ride it all the way home where you from New York from New York it's just a short ride back up there congratulations Rob we'll get this ship to you awesome thank you I think we have someone help you out done okay been in the spirit of giving I think I'm just gonna continue let the good times roll yeah in the beginning yesterday you also put out a challenge to our next audience trying to find the Easter eggs that were in the brand video yeah so we got some good responses people were hunting watching the video if you look carefully you could see some of these Easter eggs that were popping up on this video you look carefully you see some Nutanix logo you see prism up on the screen for someone who's showing freedom to get a lot of work done the one my favorite actually is number three there that's artistic the Nutanix acts in the sky so Julie we had a lot of people that tweet it in to try to identify and we have a winner don't worry yeah it was a little bit harder than I think people thought but there was one lucky winner who was one of the first people to find the Nutanix Easter eggs and that is Chad door are you here dad or are you here so you'll recall Chad gets to join us at dot next 2019 all expenses paid airfare hotel and pass very good we also intrude on X fashion like to reward the person who's been the most active on our mobile app so this is someone who's been giving us feedback being part of the community very prolific with the dot next app so congratulations to Faizal Joe waves if you are here you also will be joining us at Sonic's 2019 on us and then how many people are interested in the Nook anyone understand if we were given away all right congratulations to Mike Gellar nice job Mike so we have given away two prizes all expenses paid to dot next 2019 however we haven't mentioned where that's going to be Julie where is dot next 2019 well I think maybe in the spirit of the the culinary theme that we've been on we had Anthony Bourdain on stage we could make us a challenge we will throw out three culinary hints to you Nutanix employers you may not play and I think I have oh I do I have one more science cookbook for whoever gets it right all right so everything you get it right shout it out we've got people in the audience you're gonna be listening and then why don't you do the honors of the first clue all right first hint we're going to a place that's going undergoing a culinary revolution there's a famous chef named Jimmy Martinez just opened up a new restaurant renowned for handcrafted tacos I'm not sure with mr. Modine would say about that but handcrafted they sound delicious to me no I'm here too a few coming out let me give you a second I don't I'm not hearing it this city is also renowned the city is also renowned for celebrating the medieval era so you can enjoy a four-course meal while you're watching nice just for their honor I haven't yet say it again Anaheim yes so you will be joining us dot next 2019 in the sunny Southern California area of Anaheim so please mark your calendars May 7 through 9 and then of course if you really enjoyed the learning and the fun that we had this week and maybe some of your teammates weren't able to join you we will be out on dot next on tour coming to a city near you and if you enjoy the conference experience and would like to participate six months from now across the pond please feel free to join us at Dominic's conference in London from November 27th through 29 and I think maybe one of the the high notes to end on then might be to circle back on freedom yeah you know like I said when I opened our show this week this is a community we talked about enterprise cloud we explored a lot around what invisibility means and what we're achieving together on that front and we talked about why why are we together on it's about realizing new freedoms freedoms to build the data so do you want to build all the way through to freedom to play and I was at the party last night and I saw a good deal play last night too you know we were thrilled to have you join us here this week as a continuation of this growing community I want to thank you for your time and your energy and your engagement to make this what it is and I thought also I wanted to mention a couple things first of all thank you to all the wonderful Nutanix engineers and employees that worked so hard to bring this all together and there's two people in particular I want to acknowledge as part of our Newt annex family and broader community here that really put their heart and soul into making this experience what it is the first is Aaron Alonso and her wonderful team who create this entire event thank you very much Aaron amazing there's another gentleman named Rohit Goyal and he's not the only one but Rohit more than anyone else and his colleagues spend immeasurable amounts of time creating the wonderful content that showed up in all of our breakout sessions Rohit thank you so much and as a reminder those breakout sessions actually continue our last said right after this session here we'll go to our last set of breakout sessions and then we're going to depart for home so again Julie and I both thank you so much for being a part of this week hope to see you in London and if not London I heard a yes and if not London certainly we'll see you in Southern California beautiful Anaheim next year thank you so much baby thank you Jordao free [Applause] ladies and gentlemen this concludes our afternoon keynote breakout sessions will begin in 20 minutes

it's the cue now here's your host stool minimun hi this is Stu miniman with Wikibon with a special presentation of the cube here at the ribbon cutting at infinite at new briefing center in Waltham Massachusetts excited to have with me Brian Carmody who is the CTO of infinite at Brian thanks for joining me hey Stuart how you doing I'm doing great so we've talked to some of your team here got on the inside so here we're outside but we're going to be digging into some of the innards of what's going on in the industry so yeah Brian you know not much has been going on in the storage industry let me see in the last month we had the you know finalization of the largest kind of acquisition / merger in the industry of technology with Dell buying EMC and Newt annex just IP ode so you know when we've got the CTO we always want to kind of dig in you know what what's in your head what what are the big kind of mega trends that you're seeing and how's that impact what you're doing yeah so this was obviously it's been a crazy era of innovation for us I would even just looking back at the past two years you know 2016 or let's say 2015 was kind of the year that storage got fast it was the year that NAND flash at the knee of the adoption curve and every marketing person everywhere was hashtag AFA and then 2016 was kind of the year we think that storage got commoditized this was when software-defined in hyper converged technologies kind of hit the knee of the adoption curve it was capped just like 2015 was capped by the pure IPO 2016 was capped by the mechanics IPO telling is a really interesting question of what comes next like what's the next mountain that we're going to climb as an industry and we're hearing really interesting things from customers about what their priorities and what their challenges are so first off going into 2017 one of the really interesting phenomenon is that the requirements from traditional enterprise let's say a CTO of a bank that's building a next-generation data center versus a mega cloud provider those requirements are starting to converge so this idea that the cloud is one thing an enterprise is something else I think we're starting to kind of move past that obviously there's a huge trend still going on for compute heavy workloads to move off premise into into public clouds and kind of a net flow of storage heavy workloads tend to move on premise but I think we're at the point now where we're kind of reaching an equilibrium point between those two so that is certainly one trend another thing that we're hearing very much about is the the rise of new KPIs for measuring IT systems acquisition cost is still a big piece of the equation but new technologies are new new new metrics like power space and cooling are becoming very critically important because with the transition to the cloud even CIOs of very large fortune 500 companies their computations are often happening for the first time now in spaces where they are a tenant in someone else's get they are renting space or renting capacity so all this is putting a lot of pressure on systems designers to really focus on density of storage and density of computation and you know we see that this is contributing to the rise of a new class of storage technologies called hyper storage systems which are designed to to meet those goals all right so so Brian I'm I've tried to create different market categories before when I join Wikibon it was hyperscale invades the enterprise when people before were they were talking about hyper converged asthma much we talked about we called it server San actually because it was you know the benefits of ass and brought to the server but you know so you've got that term hyper in there is that hyper scales and hyper converge is it some other you know hyperness you know what what's what's the general idea you're trying to get food this new category it so let's take a look at kind of the existing commercially available technologies and it's kind of interesting to look at it and think about it on a two-dimensional axis of looking at the density and then the latency so you have the for example the traditional monoliths these are latency that's low enough for primary storage they do not tend to be very dense you know they're under a petabyte of storage per rack and that's where the industry began that's what a lot of us kind of cut our teeth on there being superseded by all-flash arrays these are higher density because they have data reduction technologies built-in natively into their data paths they have better latency so they're kind of moving up and to the right with respect to the monoliths but they come at a price they tend to be exceedingly expensive and relatively small systems then you have the SDS and the server storage and the scale out stuff they tend to be very close to the density of the monoliths again a half about half a petabyte to a petabyte per rack a regression on latency but they're being widely adopted because the costs are just so much better than the monoliths and the AFA is and that's the entire enterprise storage industry right in this area here now all the way down if you move to higher density you have systems like the Facebook open vault so this is you know an awesome open source storage system that I'm that Facebook developed it's the basis of haystack and f4 two of the largest storage systems in the world right now these are incredibly dense storage systems multiple petabytes per rack but they're very high latency they're used for cold data only and other things like Amazon glacier and whatnot are kind of all clustered down in that high latency but super dense so hyper storage is if you move around that two-dimensional chart is the upper right-hand quadrant it is storage technology that has the reliability of monoliths it has the cost structure the programmability and the the ability to run on any type of hardware that the SDS systems have but it has the density and the data center profile of the hyper scalar storage so this is completely uncharted territory this is where all of the R&D spend companies in like Google and Amazon everybody's racing to try to go figure this out and this is the kind of wild west where we operate we have a three year head start I'm a on-prem part of this but it's not going to last because this is you know it's the remaining uncharted territory in the industry really interesting so you've heard it first hyper storage definitely something I've been hearing for number of years is especially the big financial guys have been they've had hyperscale Envy is really what it was there like you know we spent huge amounts of budgets on IT you know we know our stuff how dare you know a bunch of retail guys basically you know come in here and think that they understand this space so it sounds like you're bringing some of that back to them um you know is infinite out the only ones you know you mentioned some of the you know kind of Google and Facebook are there anybody else that's kind of packaging this for the enterprise other than infinite at not yet so the sum of the of our competitors that are building their systems out of all flash technologies are moving in the right direction but their their media itself has to become a lot more dense and the cost has to drop significantly until they can be realistic plays and until then it's going to be differentiated by scale when you want to do petabyte scale stuff you do it with art with hyper storage architectures and one you want to be small and tight and fast you do it with a FAS but I think those lines will be blurred over time great so it sounds like you've got a clear differentiation compared to kind of just the the software-defined pieces don't deliver on you know some of the density that you're talking about or some of the high level performance when we start getting things like nvme i hear is going to be a game changer for the the hyperscale pieces do we start to see the blurring of lines between some of these architectures or is this something that you know two years from now you're going to say ok here's the last wave and here's the next wave yeah so I mean if you take a longer view instead of two years I mean if we if we look at a five and a ten year view this is all there is going forward there's hyperscale architectures or disaggregated architectures which are for compute heavy storage light workloads and then you have hyper storage which is for storage heavy compute neutral workloads and going forward if you take a 10-year window that's all there is out there well Brian I'm hoping we can do a whiteboard with you sometime in the future or maybe there'll be some kind of you know thesis on you know the kind of the hyperscale the hyper storage category but appreciate you here sharing it with our audience here I want to give you the final word as to kind of you know that the hard work that still needs to be done in the storage industry over the next few years go Patriots alright well we'll drop the mic there thank you brian says is so much for joining us and thank you for watching the cube

>> live from the Congress Centre in London, England. It's the queue at M i t. And the digital economy The second machine age Brought to you by headlines sponsor M i t. >> I already We're back Dave along with Student of American Nelson and Macca Fear are back here after the day Each of them gave a detailed presentation today related to the book Gentlemen, welcome back to to see you >> Good to see you again I want to start with you >> on a question. That last question That and he got from a woman when you're >> starting with him on a question that was asked of him Yes. And you'LL see why when you find something you like. You dodged the question by the way. Fair for record Hanging out with you guys makes us smarter. Thank you. Hear it? So the question was >> around education She expressed real concern, particularly around education for younger people. I guess by the time they get to secondary education it's too late. You talked about in the book about the three r's we need to read. Obviously we need to write Teo be able to do arithmetic in our head. Sure. What's your take on that on that question. You >> know those basics, our table stakes. I mean, you have to be able to do that kind of stuff. But the real payoff comes from creativity doing something really new and original. The good news is that most people love being creative and original. You look at a kid playing, you know, whether it there two or three years old, that's all that you put some blocks in front of them. They start building, creating things, and our school system is, Andy was saying in his his talkers, questions was, is that many of the schools are almost explicitly designed to tamp that down to get people to conform, get them to all be consistent. Which is exactly what Henry Ford needed for his factories, you know, to work on the assembly line. But now that machines could do that repetitive, consistent kind of work, it's time to let creativity flourish again. And that's when you got to do on top of those basic skills. >> So I have one, and it's pretty clear that that that are Kramer education model. It's really hard for some kids to accept. They just want they want to run around. They want to go express themselves. They wantto poke a world. That's not what that grid full of desks is designed to do. >> We call that a d d. Now I follow. Yeah, I have one >> Montessori kid out of my foot. Really? He's by far the most creative most ano didactic. You're a Montessori Travel Marie, not the story. Have it right? Is that >> Look, I'm not educational research. I am Amon a story kid. I think she got it right. And she was able to demonstrate that she could take kids out of the slums of Bologna who were, at the time considered mentally defective. There's this notion that the reason the poor are poor because they were they were just mentally insufficient. And she could show their learning and their progress. So I completely agree with Eric. We need all of our students need to be able to Teo, accomplish the basics, to read, to write, to do basic math. What Montessori taught me is you can get there via this completely kind of hippie freeform route. And I'm really happy for that education talk. Talk about you and your students. >> Your brainstorm on things that people could do with computers. Can't. >> Yeah, a lot of money >> this and exercise that you do pretty regularly. What's that? How is >> that evolved? A little >> something. We do it more systematically, I almost always doing in at talking over where With Forum. It's a kind of dinner conversation out we can't get away from. So we're hearing a lot. And you know, there's a recurring patterns that emerged, and you heard some of them today around interpersonal skills around creativity. Still, coordination is still physical coordination. What some of these have in common is that their skills that we've evolved over literally, you know, hundreds of thousands or millions of years. And there are billions of neurons devoted to some of these skills. Coordination, vision, interpersonal skills and other skills like arithmetic is something that's really very recent, and we don't have a lot of neurons devoted to that. So it's not surprising the machines can pick up those more recent skills more than the Maurin eight ones. Now overtime, will machines be able to do more of those other skills? I suspect they probably will exactly how long it will take. That's the question for neuroscientists. The AI researchers >> made me make that country think about not just diagnosing a patient but getting them to comply with the treatment regimen. Take your medicine. Eat better. Stop smoking. We know the compliance rates for terrible for demonstrably good ideas. How do we improve them? Is in a technology solution a little bit. Is it an interpersonal solution? Absolutely. I think we need deeply empathetic, deeply capable people to help each other become healthier, become better people. Right Program might come from an algorithm, but that algorithm on the computer that spits it out is going to be lousy at getting most people to comply. Way need human beings for that. So when >> we talking technology space, we've been evangelizing that people need to get rid of what we call the undifferentiated having lifting. And I wonder if there's an opportunity in our personal life, you think about how much time we spend Well, you know, what are we doing for dinner when we're running the kids around? You know, how do I get dressed in the different things that have here their studies sometimes like waste so much brain power, trying to get rid of these things and there's opportunities. Welcome, Jetsons. Actually, no, they >> didn't have these problems that can help us with some of that. I think people should actually help us with over of it. You know, I actually I have a personal trainer and he's one of the last people that I would ever have exclude from my life because he's the guy who could actually help me lead a healthier life. And I play so much value on that. >> I like your metaphor of this is undifferentiated stuff, that really it's not the stuff that makes you great. It's just stuff you have to do. And I remember having a conversation with folks that s AP, and they said, you know, sure would like to brag about this, but we take away a lot of stuff that isn't what differentiates companies in the back office stuff. Getting your basic bookkeeping, accounting, supply chain stuff done and it's interesting. I think we could use the same thing for for personal lives. Let's get rid of that sort of underbrush of necessity stuff so we can focus on the things that are uniquely good at >> alright so way have to run out when I need garbage bags with toilet paper. Honestly, a drone should show up and drop that on my friends. >> So I wonder when I look at the self driving car that you've talked about, will we reach a point that not only do we trust computers in the car, it's cars to drive herself? But we've reached a point where we're just got nothing. Trust humans anymore because self driving cars there just so much safer and better than what we've got is that coming >> in the next twenty years? I personally think so, and the first time is deeply weird and unsettling. I think both of us were a little bit terrified the first time we drove in the Google Autonomous Car and the Google or driving it hit the button and took his hands off the controls. That was a weird moment. I liken it to when I was learning to scuba dive. Very first breath you take underwater is deeply unsettling because you're not supposed to be doing this. After a few breaths, it becomes background. >> But you know, I was I was driving to the airport to come here, and I look in the lanes left to me. There's a woman, you know, texting, and I'd be much you're terrifying if she wasn't driving. If the computer is doing because then we could be more, that's the right way to think about it. I think the time will come and it may not be that far away. We're the norm's shift exactly the other way around and be considered risky to have a human at the wheel and the safety. That thing that the insurance company will want is to have a machine there. You know, I think this is a temporary phase with Newt technology. We become frightened of them. When microwave ovens first came out, they were weird and wonderful. Not most of us think of them is really kind of boring and routine. Same thing is gonna happen with self driving to accidents. Well, that's the story is, that is, But none of them were. Of course, according to the story >> driving, what's clear is that they're safer than the human driver. As of today, they are only going to get safer. We're not evolving that quick, >> but you got the question. Is that self driving, car driven story? Dr. We laughed because we're live in Boston. But your answer was, Will drive started driving, driving, >> you know, eventually, you know, I think it's fair to say that there's a big difference. You know, the first nineteen, ninety five, ninety nine percent of driving is something that's a lot easier. That last one percent or one hundredth of one percent becomes much, much harder. And right now we've had There's a card just last week that drove across the United States, but there were half a dozen times when he had to have a human interviews and particularly unusual situations. And I think because of our norms and expectations, that won't be enough for a self driving car to be safer than humans will need it to be te next paper or something like maybe >> like the just example may be the ultimate combination is a combination of human and self driving car, >> Maybe situation after situation. I think that's going to be the case and I'LL go back to medical diagnosis. I would at least for the short to medium term, I would like to have a pair of human eyes over the treatment plan that the that being completely digital diagnostician spits out. Maybe over time it will be clear that there are no flaws in that. We could go totally digital, but we can combine the two. >> I think in most cases what anything is right, what you brought up. But you know the case of self driving cars in particular, and other situations where humans have to take over for a machine that's failing for someway like aircraft. When the autopilot is doing things right, it turns out that that transition could be very, very rocky and expecting a human to be on call to be able to quickly grasp what's going on in the middle of a crisis of a freak out that's not reasonable isn't necessarily the best time to be swishing over. So there's a there's a fuel. Human factors issued their of how you design it, not just to the human could take over, but you could make a kind of a seamless transition. And that's not easy. >> Okay, so maybe self driving cars, that doesn't happen. But back to the medical example. Maybe Watson will replace Dr Welby, but have not Dr Oz >> interaction or any nurse or somebody who actually gets me to comply again. But also, I do think that Dr Watson can and should take over for people in the developing world who only have access instead of First World medical care. They've got a smartphone. OK, we're going to be able to deliver absolute top shelf world class medical diagnostics to those people fairly quickly. Of course, we should >> do that and then combine it with a coach who gets people to take the prescription when they're supposed to do it, change their eating habits or communities or whatever else you hear your peers are all losing weight. >> Why aren't you? >> I wantto askyou something coming on. Time here has been gracious with your time and your talk. We're very out spoken about. A couple of things I would summarize. It is you lot must Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking. You're paranoid tens. There's no privacy in the Internet, so get over. >> I didn't say there's no privacy. I know working. I think it's important to be clear on this. I think privacy is really important. I do think it's right that we have, and we should have. What I don't want to do is have a bureaucrat defined my privacy rights for me and start telling >> companies what they can and can't do is a result. What >> I'd much prefer instead is to say, Look, if there are things that we know >> Cos we're doing that we do not approve >> of let's deal with that situation as opposed to trying to put the guard rails in place and fence off the different kinds of innovative, strict growth, right? >> I mean, there's two kinds of mistakes you could make. One is, you can let companies do things and you should have regulated them. The other is. You could regulate them preemptively when you really should have let them do things and both kinds of errors or possible. Our sense of looking at what's happening in Jinan is that we've thrived where we allow more permission, listen innovation. We allowed companies to do things and then go back and fix things rather than when we try and locked down the past in the existing processes, so are leaning. In most cases, not every case is to be a little more free, a little more open recognized that there will be mistakes. It's not gonna be that we're perfectly guaranteed is that there is a risk when you walk across the street but go back and fix things at that point rather than preemptively define exactly how things are gonna play. Let >> me give you an example. If Google were to say to me, Hey, Andy, unless you pay us x dollars per month, we're gonna show the world your last fifty Google searches. I would completely pay for that kind of blackmail, right? Certain your search history is incredibly personal reveals a lot about you. Google is not going to do that. It would just it would crater their own business. So trying to trying to fence that kind of stuff often advance makes a lot of sense to me. Then then then relying on this. This sounds a little bit weird, but a combination of for profit companies and people with three choice that that's a really good guarantor of our freedoms and our rights. So you >> guys have a pretty good thing going. It doesn't look like strangle each other anytime soon. But >> how do you How do you decide who >> does one treat by how you operate with reading the book? It's like, Okay, like I think that was Andy because he's talking about Erica. I think that was Erica's. He's talking, >> but I couldn't tell you. I think it's hard for you to reverse engineer because it gets so co mingled over time. And, you know, I gave the example the end of the talk about humans and machines working together synergistically. I think the same thing is true with Indian me out. You may disagree, but I find that we are smarter when we work together so much smarter. Then when we work individually, we go and bring some things on the blackboard. And I had these aha moments that I don't think I would've had just sitting by myself and do I should be that ah ha moment to Andy. To me, it's actually to this Borg of us working together >> and fundamentally, these air bumper sticker things to say. If after working with someone, you become convinced that they respect you and that you could trust them and like Erik says that you're better off together, that you would be individually, it's a complete no brainer to >> keep doing the work together. Well, we're really humbled to be here. You guys are great contact. Everything is free and available. We really believe in that sort of economics. And so thank you very much for having us here. >> Well, it's just a real pleasure. >> All right, Right there, buddy. We'LL be back to wrap up right after this is Q relied from London. My tea.