>> from San Francisco. It's the Cube covering the M Wear Radio twenty nineteen. Brought to you by the M >> where >> Hi. Welcome to the Cube. Lisa Martin with John Farrier at the fifteenth annual Veum, Where radio, which is there are anti innovation summit. Pleased to welcome back one of the Cube alumni extraordinaire CEO Being where hot girl singer. Hey, Pat. Good morning. >> Good morning. Great to be with you guys today. Thanks >> so much Right to be here. So this this is the fifteenth radio your internal innovation summit that really has been very influential. NPM wears development over the last fifteen or so years About eighteen hundred engineers here. So each year growing Mohr and Mohr interest, excitement cross collaboration with India More talk to us about how this is really worthy of the CEOs. Time to come here. And with this geek fest, >> well, it is, in many ways, just one of these pieces of the VM wear R and D culture is a research and development innovation off site. And it's something, you know, long preceded me. But when I got here, it's like I'm going to keep doing it. Of course we are. You know this is sort of like the party for the top engineers, right? You know, they get to come geek out, share their best ideas, interact with each other. So it's become one of those unique pieces of our of our development culture and ultimately is, I say, bm where well to do two things right, developed great, breakthrough, innovative, disrupt the products and make our customers successful with those products. So everything that we do sort of centers around those two things. And obviously, if the products are great, we don't have that. We know what to do So to us, keeping that culture of innovation and giving our engineers time to really just geek out, see what each others are doing, challenge each other. It's really pretty special. And yeah, it deserves the CEO's time. >> And you've got You just had your sales president's club without top performers. On the sales side, this is the technical version. It hasn't been that organic piece of the VM were culture, engineering, leadership. But you also have acquisitions, just acquired it. Nami. Yes, you've had a few other you cloud health big time moves relationship with a ws azure. The cloud foundation stuff. How is lending it together? Because you have all this organic innovation. I see cloud management, networking, security outside suffer to find data center is playing out. As you you guys had predicted. How does the acquisitions fit into the culture and the radio? >> Well, you know, part of it is when we talked to many of the engineers about the acquisitions, we say, Hey, we do radio. They're like, huh? All right, this is well, it's this opportunity for us to see what everybody is doing interactive that level and good engineers are almost always part of the decision with respect acquisitions. So they just take to it like, you know, fish and water, right? They just jump in, right, start interacting with their peers. And it is such a, you know, open, diverse pool that all of sudden ideas air being a bounced off each other, homogenize challenged and, you know, people seeing how they can connect with people. So tow us. Many of the acquisitions just find us to be so beneficial to how they come into the company. And they quite appreciate it, you know, just getting back from sales club hate sales leaders >> and he was pretty good. I like this, you >> know, for many of those acquisitions. But the engineers, this is even better for you >> guys aren't just buying stuff up. You guys are very specific in your acquisitions. Cloud Health again is a great example. Scene. No air watch going with further back. Why? Bit, Nami, What was so big and important about it, Nami to acquire them? >> Well, you know, we saw a couple of things. One is that, you know, it's a company. They definitely had this ability, this respect. We're poor with the open source community, you know, and being able to cross between open source and enterprise credibility. That's exactly where I am, where seas and wants to be able to position ourselves so they fit exactly into that space. This idea of being able to bring enterprise packages is the cool open source applications space. And we already had a multiple set of marketplace efforts internally where we saw that we needed that ecosystem play for activities so they just snap so perfectly into the middle of that and very much hybrid will take cloud, uh, aspects to it. And as we do for every one of our acquisitions and I personally meet with every CEO before we do the deal Are they going to fit our culture? And you know, there aren't that many of our acquisitions where I have people saying no, no I'll i'll be the executive sponsor for this one. No, no, no, I will, I will. I will be No, no, no, please. I'll do this one. And you know, of course, the fact that it's in Seville, Spain, right? You know, I think I think if you it was just driven by vacation plans. But it's >> all well, of course, Erica Cube alumni. And we have a whole cube alumni thing going on here. There's no emanate work we're doing here just good people of nice. And so >> you're planing the Cube visit to civilly explain. It's >> like love, Teo. Of course, we have international presents. One of the things I always quote from you is Besides, that hybrid cloud reference years ago was a quote. You said I think twenty, twelve or twenty thirteen feet which year it wass seems like yesterday. You said if you're not out on that next wave your driftwood, so I gotta ask you here at radio you got You got all this organic stuff. It's kind of the wave's coming. Is this what wave is? Are you seeing the end? We're riding right now, because business is great. Um, you're pumping on all cylinders. You've kind of gone through your ten years that through the early days of and you got CEO and you know it. Everything's normal life now and you're on a good run. What waiver? You're going to be surfing on the business side of all this stuff behind you. What's what? When is this all fit in? >> Well, you know, one of the things that I think is so critical for us now and particularly with the, you know, the, um, war cloud on eight of us. Go now with the relationships with Azure and IBM. Alibaba are four thousand BC PP partners. So that's, you know, really starting to take off our BM or Cloud Foundation on premise. We have a big customer saying Okay, I get it right. Don't look down the stack. Look up. Rely on you guys to be the infrastructure. Bring that together for the hybrid infrastructure is a service. And to me You know, part of what I'm looking for for this from the conference is putting all those pieces together because our customers don't want to be doing it. They want us to do it, but we have to make it so consumable, so compelling that just sort of like the sphere. Was it our beginning? They just sort of say, the M where your hybrid cloud, That's what I want, right? And be ableto operationalize at a scale. And if we get that really working well for customers, the management, the automation, the security operations of that boy. Now we do have the opportunity to ride the Cuban eighties wife right into me. It really is. We have to straddle those two over the next several years, >> so make you know, super nice party stand, >> that embracing that next major trend, >> which is up on top of the stack program ability. >> Yeah. You know, when the aside describe Coburn at ease and containers, it's like Java was twenty years ago. You know, what was the last major software abstraction that the industry agreed upon? Jonah, It's almost exactly twenty years ago, and it defined middleware abstraction for the last twenty years. Containers Cooper, Netease the next middleware abstraction. And we see Cooper. Nate is becoming the next native a P I that thie VM where infrastructure, STD see will support and will deliver. And we're going to make containers and cue bernetti so seamless with regard to the core bm infrastructure that a customer never needs to decide. >> What impact will this have? I mean, I see you've been involved many ways talked about the Pentium in the Intel side of your career, I'll see and and what that enabled in terms of inflection, point and growth and creation of value. Where do you see this Cooper Netease Abstraction. If this is going to be one of those inflection points as you as you point out, how do you envision the impact to the industry? What's gonna happen? >> We see that Cuban eighties layer impacting down as well as impacting up, and that's why we see it. It's so critical to get it right. You know, it becomes the consumption a p I infrastructure, and we've talked about, you know, infrastructure is code or, you know, a P. I ittle dismiss a displace open stack. As an AP, I becomes the middle, where a pea eye of choice, but also that defines the middle where abstraction of choice. So all of your Web spheres, Web logics, Java communities, they're going to get displaced as well as they are re factored into this automated containerized, the scale out world. That's exactly where we're sitting. And that's another piece of the bit Nami acquisition that we just announce because you know, being ableto package containerized, open source applications packages exactly fits into that strategy as well. And if we do those two things, I think VM where is going to be extraordinarily well positioned for decades to come way past me? >> So let's talk about customers. Here we are at radio twenty, nineteen, fifteen years I mentioned you guys, This is a really competitive event. Engineers want to be here. You probably had well over a thousand projects. Submissions. How do customers one benefit from the innovations that are discussed here at radio, but also how to customers influence some of the projects of the exciting things that engineers want to put together? >> Well, one of the things that we really enjoy about the whole BM where R D community is you know engineers are leaving with customers all the time. We push him out into those places, you know, we selectively bring customers in and have them in Iraq. Tear a radio. We have other mechanisms, like flings, right? Yeah. These open source lightweight things that customers could be giving us code. We could be giving them code. We you regularly, you know, bring them into our campus for, you know, their participation and different advance programs. So it really is a very constant, ongoing and somewhat end and dialogue that we're having weather. That's from an early product concept that we might be seeing for the first time here at Radio Teo Act The part, this patient and beta activities before we roll them out broadly. So it really is having them participate in the end, the end roll of innovation. And sometimes Hey, it sounds like a good idea. And it sort of sucked right when we tried to do it. Other times they're like, Oh, wow, some of these things, really. I've taken off and gain legs while beyond what we would have dreamed of. >> What have you seen that this year's event? Project Wise featured project. Why's that really kind of caught your attention, Like you. That's a really good idea. >> Well, I must admit, I just landed last night, So today is my first day at radios. So I just got back from our sales club, as John mentioned earlier. So I think I'm gonna have to take a buy on that question here because I got to go do my homework here. >> We'LL ask the questions. I have attracted talent, engineering, talent That's also the best of the best elite forces. This is a challenge in the streets of retain talent on engineers. Love to work on a hard problem. I gotta ask you what, Some of the hard problems at the end where is trying to tackle that would attract the elite engineering forces to the company. Because again, you're talking about something really big is going on with software. What are some of the big problems? >> Yeah, well, a couple of them that, you know, I'm pretty focused on for our team, and one is we said, you know, we said it's a software defined data center. Right? Going forward. It's the self driving data center. How do we bring so much telemetry? and automation that we truly are running the data center on customers behalf. And if I, you know, build on the Del Technologies World announcement of'em were cloud on Delhi emcee. You know, we're now managing their on premise data center from our cloud. You know what? If we can put more machine learning a I into the middle of that, it's not just that I wantto do it instead of them. I want to do it dramatically better than they ever could write. Using the greatest algorithms telemetry, learning, etcetera that the infrastructure becomes more reliable, right, it becomes higher performance. It becomes increasingly predicted right of its behavior and adjusting to those things. So the self driving data center's pretty high on the list for us. You know this idea then of a true multi cloud operational plane. We're customers. Just say, Here's there's my working. Would you figure out where to run it here? My policies. Here's the work will take care of it for me today. I was running it on this cloud the afternoon I brought it back on promise, because you it >> sounds easy, >> Cassidy. Right? Wow, If you could do that, its scale But then you say, boy, You know, if I move it around, where does the day to reside? Right, You know, have I met my policies and compliance requirements? So this a multi cloud operational plane is a >> big problem that you're attracting talent Is that distract complexity away and making it easy? >> Yeah, right, R, that's what we do. It's hard. I know. You know some >> of the cool things, you know, the are blockchain All right, you know, also breaking through reside. Describe blockchain. It's like the public private key encryption breakthroughs of forty years ago. But they're still very raw, right? Their performances crappy. You know, they don't scale very well. You have all sorts of issues associated with audit ability and repute, ability of those mechanisms. So those are some of the new problems and then also attacking entirely new new segments like NFI, right? Hey, we're going to build a five g network. That's not reliant on hard work, right? >> Well, when you're out of the quiet here, we're going to come to your office, will go deeper, dive on the business and some of the cool tech stuff, >> and we're just coming up on the M world in a couple of months. I think this will be the cubes tenth time there and any little teasers that you could give us about the world twenty nineteen. >> Well, we certainly hope that, you know, we're able to bring a lot of these club messages together right and have sort of, you know, connected all the dots. Att VM world This year's >> state When you heard it here on the Q first, some exciting announcements coming from BM, where in just a few months at being World twenty nineteen. Pak Gil Senior Seo Thank you so much for joining Jon and me at Radio twenty nineteen. As a pleasure. Always thank you so much. We want to thank you for watching for John Ferrier. I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching the Cube from Vienna, where Radio twenty nineteen and San Francisco. 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