thanks Dave I'm Stu minimun and we're here at Cisco live 2018 in Barcelona Spain happy to be joined on the program by Nigel Moulton the AMIA CTO of Dell EMC and Siva Siva Kumar who is the senior director of data center solutions at Cisco gentlemen thanks so much for joining me thank you great so looking at you know a long partnership of Dell and Cisco Siva talk about the partnership first said absolutely I mean if you look back in time when we launched UCS the very first major partnership we brought and the converged infrastructure we brought at the market was we blocked it is it really set the trend for how customers should consume compute network and storage together and we continue to deliver world-class technologies on both sides and the partnership continues to thrive as we see tremendous adoption from our customers so we are here several years down still a very vibrant partnership in trying to get the best product for the customers yeah Nigel would love to get your perspective so I she was right I think I'd adds it defined a market if you think what true conversion infrastructure is it's different and we're going to discuss them all about that as we go through the UCS fabric is unique in the way that it ties a network fabric to a to compute fabric and when you bring those technologies together and converge them and you have a partnership like Cisco you have a partnership with us yeah it's gonna be a fantastic result for the market because the market moves on and I think Vblock the X block actually helped us achieve that all right so so Steve oh we understand there's billions of reasons why Cisco and Dell would want to keep this partnership going but talk about from an innovate innovation standpoint there's the new BX block 1000 what's new talk about what would what's the innovation here absolutely if you look at the VX block perspective the 1,000 perspective first of all it simplifies an extremely fast successful product to the next level it simplifies the the storage options and it provides a seamless way to consume those technologies from a Cisco perspective as you know we are in our fifth generation of UCS platform continues to be a world-class platform leading blade mark blade servers in the Indus but we also bring the innovation of rack mount servers as well as fatigue fabric larger-scale fibre channel technology as well as we bring our compute network as well as a SAN fabric technology together with world-class storage portfolio and then simplify that for a single pane of glass consumption model that's absolutely the highest level of innovation you're gonna fight Nigel I think back in the early days the joke was you can have a V block any way you want as long as it's black yeah it's obviously a lot of diversity product line but what's new and different here how is this impact new customers and existing custom so I think there's a couple of things to pick up on what Trey said what would shiver sets of a simplification piece the way in which we do release certification matrix the way in which you combine a single software image to manage these multiple discrete components that is greatly simplified in BX well in V Xbox one thousands secondly you remove a model number because historically you're right you bought a three series of five series of seven series and that sort of defined the architecture this is now a system-wide architecture so those technologies that you might have thought of as being discrete before or integrated at an RCM level that was perhaps a little complex for some people that's now dramatically simplified so those are the two things I think that we'd amplify one is a simplification and two you're moving a model number and moving to a system-wide architecture I want to give you both the opportunity give us a little bit you know what what's the future when you talk about the 1,000 system future innovations new use cases sure you know I think if you look at the very enterprise are consuming the demand for more powerful systems that will bring together more consolidation and also address the extensive data center migration opportunities we see is very critical that means the customers are really looking at whether it is a you know in-memory database that scales to much larger scale than before or in a large scale cluster databases or even newer workloads for that matter the appetite for a larger system and they need to have it in the market continues to grow we see a huge install base of our customers as well as new customers looking at options in the market truly realize the strength of the portfolio that each one of us bring to the table and bringing the Best of Breed whether it is today or in the future from our innovation standpoint is is absolutely the way that we are approaching building our partnership and building new solutions here Nigel I mean when you're talking to customers out there or they come in saying hey I'm gonna need this for a couple of months I mean if this is investment they're making for a couple years why is this a partnership built to last so an enterprise-class customer certainly is looking for a technology that's synonymous with reliability availability performance and if you look at what we x-block has traditionally done what the 1,000 offers you see that right but shippers write these application architectures are going to change so if you can make an investment in their technology set now that keeps the premise of reliability and available performance to you today but when you look at future application architectures around high-capacity memory adjacent to our high-performance CPU you're almost in a position where you are preparing the ground for what that application architecture will need and the investments that people make in the vx box system with the UCS power underneath it the computer is significant because it lays out a very clear path to how you will integrate future application architectures with existing application object Nigel Moulton Siva Siva Kumar thank you so much for joining talking about the partnership in the future so thank you pleasure sending it back to Dave in the u.s. st. thanks so much for watching the cube from Cisco live Barcelona thank you