>> Hello everyone, and welcome back to theCUBEs coverage of the Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2020. We're tracking the rise of the data cloud Sunny Bedi is here with me. He's the CIO and Chief Data Officer for Snowflake. Sunny, thanks for making the time today. Good to see you. >> Same here, Dave. Thanks for having me over. >> Yeah, so you're welcome. So before we get into it, I got to ask you, I mean, you recently left Nvidia to join Snowflake. I mean(chuckles) one of the few companies that are almost as hot as Snowflake, how come? >> Well, you know Dave I joined Nvidia 12 years ago. I was there for 12 years, when Nvidia was less than 2000 people company. And Nvidia have an unbelievable growth trajectory, and then from 2000 employees to 16,000, when I left in December of 2019. And Snowflake kind of provided the same opportunity to come in, and help scale the company. I thrive in an environment where I can be creative, I thrive in an environment where I can build things, I can scale things, I can grow things. And its been just a perfect opportunity to come and repeat that success over here. >> Awesome, Well we wish you the best. Talk about your role a little bit. I mean, it's like totally unique. I mean, especially in certain smaller organizations that have the same person, in the role of Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer, but, which are you? Are you more CIO, CDO, how do you balance that out? >> I would say that I'm both, to be an effective CIO, you need immersion with automation, you need immersion with data, you need immersion with security, and you also need immersion with compliance. So if all of these things are together, things are integrated. You have a cohesive way of handling all the pieces that come together. We believe if you keep them separated, you create silos and we definitely don't want silos. We want integration. We want seamless integration to drive and scale the company for future. >> I always felt-- >> So my time is balanced between both areas. >> I mean, I always felt like a lot of the CIOs I talked to, they'd love to get more involved in the data, but they're just too busy trying to keep the lights on. So, maybe what are your thoughts on the priorities of each hats CIO and CDO? >> Yeah, so look, I mean, I think because we're a full cloud company, we don't have anything on-prem. I don't have any workloads on-prem. we don't have a data center. I really don't have to worry about all the operational challenges that you have to deal with being an on-prem company. So the cycles that I can be involved from a transformation prospect, driving transformation for the company, both on the data side, as well as on the IT side. I have that cycles to invest that time and energy into both areas. Typically in a traditional company, which has not yet migrated towards the cloud, a major portion of their bandwidth gets wasted. CIOs bandwidth and IT professionals bandwidth gets wasted, in dealing with the operational challenges that you have in an on-prem environment. So having not to worry about that over here, it gives me all the cycles to be investing my time on both areas. >> Yeah, a lot of wasted IT labor over the decades. Let me ask you, how is running a data company? We were inside of a fast moving Silicon Valley Tech Company. What are the similarities and the differences from some of the customers? I mean, on the one hand, you're moving faster than your customers at least most of them, and you don't have the technical that you just described, CX on Nirvana. On the other hand, you're an example of what's possible. You can sort of set the best practice mark. How do you see that dynamic? >> So, in our firm world-class IT organization, it needs to be data-driven, it needs to be highly automated, it needs to enable world-class user experience, and then to secure and make the environment compliant resilient. The cloud platform that we have, inside Snowflake, allows us to achieve all of that. Now that is, an ideal situation to be in. But you don't have to deal with, all the on-prem type of workloads. So finding that balance is what we're going after. And, however this is a journey, right. For other companies who are not on the cloud, its a journey. They have to prioritize that. They have to start moving things to the cloud, and that's where we are different and similar, right. We're different that we don't have to worry about that. Everything is in the cloud for us. And then, that's kind of how we see it. >> So, you know, used to call it the dogfooding segment, but Oliver Bussmann was the CIO of SAP. So no, no, Dave, we call it drinking your own champagne. (laughs) which is how you guys are referring to it. But, sometimes still in such situations you're (laughs) inside the sausage factory, which is good in a way because you see it before it goes into production. But, so what's your journey with, with Snowflake been like? >> Yeah, so that's a really good question. That's a major portion of what I do at work. And, let's start with the first principles of we believe, that we want to measure everything in the company, that's important for companies performance. If we measure the right things, we believe we can drive the best outcomes. We are driven through those first principles and we leveraged our business applications, our data, our security, our automation, and our compliance to integrate with our product to power, all these use cases and workloads. In our own environment, we call that snow house. Which is nothing but a Snowflake instance. So, for all the new products that we are coming into market with, we work very closely with the engineering team, with the product management team, to make sure that we actually become customer zero, and try to use as much functionality of that, inside our own enterprise and give as much feedback to our engineering and our product management teams, so that they can make the customer one experience to be world-class. So that's kind of in a nutshell how we go to market with those products. >> So you're customer zero. So all the product guys that they suck up to you, or are they afraid of you? (laughs) >> Well, I think it's a very neutral, beneficial relationship. So, they know that my team's feedback, is important to how they are kind of shaping up the product, and it's just not necessarily IT, right. We have folks in finance, folks in sales, marketing, everybody is drinking the champagne, right. And IT and the data team actually enabled that deployment, but the use cases are pretty much in the entire enterprise of the company in every aspect of it. Well you know-- >> Including security. >> Well, that's what we say. We always talk about alignment, but it's like, it's almost alignment by design, as opposed to being this forced thing. I'm interested in this, sort of Snowflake on Snowflake concept that you guys talk about. What were your objectives going in and maybe thinking about the outcomes, what did you expect? Did you work backwards from that? What were you trying to achieve? >> Yeah, I mean, look again back to the first principles. We believe we want to measure everything that's important to our business. That will drive the right outcomes. We then layer the application layer. We then overlay the business process layer. We then overlay the compliance and security layer. And the end result really is operationalizing Snowflake internally to drive our business, making the right choices, right decisions for the company. So we have a ton of use cases that are just ideal, using Snowflake on Snowflake. You know I can give you some examples of that if you like, >> Yes. >> But, >> Go on please. >> Security being one of the biggest use cases. We use the entire monitoring and remediation work that goes in the security compliance world, all through Snowflake. And we are finding real time events through data sharing, with our key suppliers. And we're ensuring that we're protecting our environment as much as possible with that whole infrastructure. >> You talked about layering, governance, security, et cetera. Yeah (laughs) I'm imagining a coat of primer paint in a nice and smooth over, it's not a bolt-on. I want to press you on that, because it can't be an afterthought. And what you're describing is much more of a modern approach. And I want you to totally differentiate between the layers that you talked about and what you've surely seen in your experience over the years as a bolt-on, what's the difference? >> Well, I mean the security wall, there's a lot of data, and a lot of the data that is critical to your environment. You want to make sure it is fully complete, you're getting it in the right hands, in the right platform to understand that, and doing the correlation work that needs to happen real time. Our platform allows all that data to be ingested and real time and anything that is suspicious, that's being out there. We're finding that stuff in real time. The monitoring has to be real time. And if there is an event, somebody needs to take an action real time. So the platform allows it to integrate altogether. And basically, the suppliers that we're using are also doing data sharing with us on this platform. So it makes the whole security remediation to be really really fantastic experience. >> Well I think too, I'd to share often with my audience when I talk to practitioners that are using Snowflake they, surprising to me when I first heard this, they said, "Well we choose Snowflake as the security," and I went, what! But the simplicity and the workflow is simpler, and it just means less human labor involved in setting these things up. So I wonder if you could talk about the team that you put together, the culture that you're building, and what's the makeup look like? >> Sure, so are you specifically asking about the characteristics of how we're building up the culture? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Okay, so I think we're looking for, obviously very much high energy folks, people who have, high accountability, they're data-driven. We want to measure everything that's important to us. We're looking for folks who have situational awareness, and then finally high sense of urgency. I think all of these elements, allows IT organization to be integrated with the business. In large traditional companies, IT organizations kind of disintegrate with the business. We want to integrate with the business, to drive the best outcomes that are needed for the company. >> I Want to ask you about some of your favorite use cases, but you mentioned measurement. How do you measure? What are you measuring? >> Sure, so I would say that, let's just take security. Cause we talked about security. Let's just use security as a use case. So in security, there are many different frameworks, as you may know, right. There is the NIST framework, there is the CIS framework, there is an ISO framework. We have adopted towards a CIS framework inside Snowflake. That framework has 20 controls and that 20 controls has another 20 sub-controls. So we're talking about 400 controls potentially. Not every control is applicable to us, but majority of them are. And so for every control, there is a source of data, that's being ingested in Snowflake. I'll give you an example of that is asset management. So, asset management for end points, asset management for our servers, or asset management for our network gear. All of that data gets ingested inside Snowflake. We measure that. We can tell you exactly how many end points I have. I can tell you exactly when an employee gets onboarded, what laptop we have given them, when the employee leaves the company, I'll be collecting that laptop back on time, I'll be revoking all that access. That's part of CIS Control 1 as an example, and we're measuring all of that. And I can tell you exactly at my real time inside Snowflake. How effective I am for that specific control. That's just an example of that Dave. Now imagine 400 of these items that make up the whole security CIS framework. You want to measure everything on that 400 controls or 400 sub-controls. And you want to make sure that if any of that control is not being managed properly, you're alerted about it and you're remediating it to prevent a security issue that may pop up. >> Awesome, visibility and automation component. Are you a CSO too Sunny? We don't really have that title. We don't really have a CSO title, but I do wear a security hat as well. It's actually a joint responsibility between... I manage the corporate security. The product security is inside the product team, but we use the same common framework. We use the same common telemetry. We use the same common methodology. Incident management response teams are very similar, and it's all powered through a Snowflake. >> Awesome. Sunny Bedi you're great guests, I would imagine the sales guys love dragging you on zooms these days to sales calls, just to (laughs) share best practice, but love to have you back and continue the conversation. Sunny Bedi, really appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Thank you Dave. Thank you very much. >> All right, keep it right there everybody. We'll be right back with our next guest, right after this short break.