>>from around the globe. It's the queue >>with coverage of the global dot Next digital experience brought to you by Nutanix I'm stew Minuteman. And this is the Cube's coverage of the Nutanix dot next conference This year it is the global dot next digital experience pulling together the events that they had had dispersed across the globe, bringing to you online and happy to welcome to the program. First time guest but a long time Nutanix engineering person, Nanosys Bhattacharya. He's the senior vice president of engineering at Nutanix. Mono is everyone calls him. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. All right. So, you know, you know, we've been doing the Cube since, you know, over 10 years now, I remember the early days of talking to Dheeraj and the team when we first bring him on the Cube. It was about taking some of the things that the hyper scale hours did. And bringing that to the enterprise was actually you know, one of the interesting components there dial back a bunch of flash was new to the enterprise, and we've looked at one of the suppliers that was supplying to some of the very largest companies in the world. Um, and also some of the companies in the enterprise, like fusion io. It was a new flash package. And that was something that in the early days Nutanix used before it kind of went to more, I guess commodity flash. But, you know, develop a lead developer, engineers that I talked to came from, you know, Facebook and Oracle and others. Because understanding that database in that underlying substrate to be able to create what is hyper converged infrastructure that people know, is there. So maybe we could start, Just give the audience a little bit. You know, you've been with Nutanix long time, your background and what it is that you and your team work on into inside the company. >>Yeah. Thank you. So, uh, so I think I come from a distributed systems for a long time. I've been working in Oracle for seven years, building parts of the exit data system, some off the convergence that databases have done with beauty in storage. You could see the same hyper convergence in other platforms like I do where computed storage was brought together. I think the Nutanix story was all about Can we get this hyper convergence work for all types of applications. And that was the vision of the company that whatever black home that these hyper scaler to build this big database companies and built, can this be provided for everybody? For all types of applications? I think that was the main goal. And I think we're inching our way, but surely and safely, I think we will be there pretty much. Every application will run on Nutanix states yet. >>Alright, well, and if you look at kind of the underlying code that enables your capability, one of the challenges always out there is, you know, I build a code base with the technology and the skill sets I have. But things changed. I was talking about flash adoption before a lot of changes that happened in the storage world. Compute has gone through a lot of architect role changes, software and location with clouds and the like. So it's just talk about that code base. You talk about building distributed systems. How does Nutanix make sure that that underlying code doesn't kind of, you know, the window doesn't close on how long it's going to be able to take advantage of new features and functionality. >>Yeah, I think Nutanix from the beginning. One thing that we have made sure is that you know, we could always give continuous innovation the choices that we make get like we actually separated the, you know, the concerns between storage and compute. We always had a controller vm running the storage. We actually made sure we could run all of the storage and user space. And over time, what has happened is, every time we abraded us off where people got, you know, faster performance, they get more secure, They've got more scalable. And that, I think, is the key sauce. It's all software. It's all software defined infrastructure on commodity hardware and in the commodity hardware can be anywhere. I mean, you could pretty much build it on a brand. And now that we see, you know, with the hyper scaler is coming on with bare metal is a service. We see hyper convergence as the platform of the infrastructure on which enterprises are willing to run their applications in the public club. I mean, look at new being vmc Nutanix clusters is getting a lot of traction. Even before I mean, we have just gone out a lot of customer excitement there on that is what I think is the is the true nature of Nutanix being a pure software play and cheating every hardware you know uniform and whether this is available in the public cloud or it's available in your own data center, the black at the storage or the hyper visor or the entire infrastructure software that we have that doesn't cheat. So I think in some ways we're talking about this new eight. See, I call the hybrid Cloud Infrastructure to 88. The hyper converge infrastructure becomes the substrate for the new hybrid cloud infrastructure. >>Yeah, definitely. It was a misconception for a number of years. Is people looked at the Nutanix solution and they thought appliance. So if I got a new generation of hardware, if I needed to choose a different harbor vendor? Nutanix is a software company. As you describe you, got some news announced here at the dot next show. When it comes to some of those underlying storage pieces, bring us through. You know, we always we go around to the events and, you know, companies like Intel and NVIDIA always standing up with next generation. I teased up a little bit that we talked about Flash. What's happening with envy me? Storage class memories. So what is it that's new for the Nutanix platform? >>Yeah, let me start a little bit, you know, on what we have done for the last maybe a year or so before, you know, important details off why we did it. And, you know, what are the advantages that customers might tap? So one thing that was happening, particularly for the last decade or so, is flash was moving on to faster and faster devices. I mean, three d cross point came in memory glass storage was coming in, so one thing that was very apparent Waas You know, this is something that we need to get ready for now. At this point, what has happened is that the price point that you know, these high end devices can be a pain has come where mass consumption can happen. I mean, anybody can actually get a bunch of these obtained drives at a pretty good price point and then put it in their servers and expected performance. I think the important thing is we build some of the architectural pieces that can enable they, uh the, uh enable us to leverage the performance that these devices get. And for that, I think let's start with one of the beginning. Things that we did was make sure that we have things like fine grain metadata so that, you know, you could get things like data locality. So the data that the compute would need but stay in the server that was very important part or one of the key tenets of our platform. And now, as these devices come on, we want to actually access them without going over the next. You know, in the in the very last year, we released a Construct Autonomous Extent store. So which is not only making data local, but also make sure metadata as well, having the ability to actually have hyper convergence where we can actually get data and metadata from the same server. It benefits all of these newer class storage devices because the faster the devices, you wanted to be closer to the compute because the cost of getting to the device actually adds up to the Layton's. He adds up to the application with for the storage in the latest. I would say this the dot Next, What we're announcing is two technologies. One is awful lot store, which is our own user file system. It's a completely user space file system that is available. We're replacing gets before we're all our You know, this drives which will then be in me and beyond on. And we're also announcing SPD K, which is basically a way for accessing these devices from user space. So now, with both of these combine, what we can do is we can actually make an Iot from start to finish all in user space without crossing the Colonel without doing a bunch of memory copies. And that gives us the performance that we need to really get the value out of these. You know, the high end devices and the performance is what our high end applications are looking for. And that is, I think, what the true value that we can add your customs. >>Yes. Oh man, if I If I understand that right, it's really that deconstruction, if you will, of how storage interacts with the application it used to be. It was the scuzzy stack when I used to think about the interface and how far I had to go. And you mentioned that performance and latency is so important here. So I was removing from, you know, what traditionally was disc either externally or internally, moving up to flash, moving up to things like Envy me. I really need to re architect things internally. And therefore, this is this is how you're solving it, creating higher io. Maybe if you could bring us inside. You know, I think high performance Iot and low latency s ap hana was one of the early use cases that that that everyone talked about that we had to re architect. What does this mean for those solutions? Any other kind of key applications that this is especially useful for? >>Yeah, I think all the high end demanding applications talk about smp, Hana allow the healthcare applications. Look at epic meditate. Look at the high end data basis because we already run a bunch of databases, but the highest and databases still are not running on a C. I. I think this technology will enable you know the most demanding oracle or Sequels. Of course, Chris, you know all the analytics applications they will now be running on a CSO. The dream that we had every application, whatever it is, they can run on the C I. A platform that can become a reality. And that is what we're really looking forward to it. So our customers don't have to go to three year for anything. If if if. If it is an application that you want to run a CEO is the best platform for your application that is working what you want. >>Alright, So let me make sure I understand this because while this is a software update, this is leveraging underlying new hardware components that are there. I'm not taking a three year old server on to do this. Can you help understand? You know, what do they need to buy to be able to enable this type of solution? >>So I think the best thing is we already came up with the all envy. Any platform and everything beyond that is software change. Everything that we are is just available on an upgrade. So of course you need a basic platform which actually has the high end devices themselves, which we have hard for a year or so But the good thing about Nutanix is once you upgrade, it's like a Tesla you know you have. But once you get that software upgrade, you get that boosted performance. So you don't need to go and buy new hardware again. As long as you have the required devices, you get the performance just by upgrading it to the new the new version of the air soft. I think that is one of the things that we have done forever. I mean, every time we have upgraded, you will see. Over the years, our performance is increased and very seldom has a pastoral required to change. You know their internal hardware to get the performance. Now, another thing that we have is we support heterogeneous clusters. So on your existing cluster, let's say that you're running on flash and you want to get you all. And maybe you can add nodes, you know, which are all envy me and get the performance on those notes. While these flash can take the non critical pieces which is not requiring you to understand performance but still give you the density off water. VD I are maybe a general server virtualization. While these notes can take into account the highest on databases or highest analytic applications, so the same cluster and slowly expand to actually take this opportunity of applications on >>Yeah, thats this is such an important point We had identified very early on. When you move to HV I. Hopefully, that should be the last time that you need to do a migration any time. Anybody that has dealt with storage moving from one generation to the next or even moving frames can be so challenging. Once you're in that cool, you can upgrade code. You can add new nodes. You can balance things out. So it's such an important point there. UH, you stated earlier. The underlying A OS is now built very much for that hybrid cloud world. You talk about things like clusters that you have now have the announcement with AWS now that they have their bare metal certain service. So do we feel we're getting a balancing out of what's available for customers, whether it's in their own data center in a hosted environment where they have it, or the public cloud to take capabilities like you were talking about with the new storage class? >>Yeah, I think I see most of these public clouds are already providing you, uh, hardware which hasn't being built in which I'm sure in the future we have storage class memory building. So all the enterprise applications that were running on prim with the latency guarantees, you know, with the performance and throughput guarantees can be available in the public cloud, too. And I think that is a very critical thing. Because today, when you lift and shift, one of the biggest problems that all their customers face is when you're in the cloud, you find that enterprise applications are not built for it, so they have to either really protect it or they have to make, you know, using a new cloud native constructs. And in this model, you can use the bare metal service and run the enterprise applications in exactly the same way as you would run in your private data center. And that is a key tell, because now, with this 100 our data mobility framework where we can actually take both storage and applications, you know do lose them a trust public and the private cloud we now have the ability to actually control on application end to end. A customer can choose Now that they want to run it, they don't have to think. Oh, yeah? I have to move to that. Have to be architected. You can choose the cloud and run it in the panel service exactly as you were honoring your private data center. You've been utilizing things like Nutanix clusters. >>Great, well mannered. Last last question I have for you. You know, we really dug down into some of the architectural underpinnings in some of the pieces inside the box. Bring it back up high level, if you would, from a customer standpoint, key things that they should be understanding that Nutanix is giving them with all of these new capabilities. You mentioned the block store and the SPK. >>Yeah, I think for the customer, the biggest advantage is that the platform that they chose for you know, you see, some of virtualization can be used for the most demanding workloads. They're free to use, you know, Nutanix for smp, Hana for high end Oracle databases, Big data validates they can actually use it for all the healthcare apps that I mentioned epic and meditate and at the same time, keep the investment and hardware that they already have. So I think the fact about this Tesla kernel analogy that we always think is so act with Nutanix. I think with the same hardware, uh, investment that they have done with this new architecture. They can actually start leveraging that and utilize it for more and more, you know, demanding workloads. I think that is the key advantages. Without changing your you know, the appliances or your san or your servers, you get the benefit of running the most demanding applications. >>Well, congratulations to you and the team. Thanks so much for sharing all the updates here. Alright. And stay tuned for more coverage from the Nutanix global dot Next digital experience. I'm stew minimum. And as always, Thank you for watching the Cube. >>Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah