>>Yeah, yeah. Okay. Welcome back, everyone to the cubes. Coverage of reinvent 20 twenty-one Jon, your host of the Cube. We're here. Live in person for a real event. It's a hybrid event is a live stream of action to cube sets here, wall to wall coverage dot com. And, of course, you don't need to check the coverage out. And Amazon has got their own live event site. Go check out all the action. Stewart, See two of Micro Focus, the company That was part of the big announcement involving the mainframe modernization that Adam announced on stage and his first keynote CEO. And under the covers Micro Focus powering a lot of that functionality. Stuart, thanks for coming on. The break it down with >>Thanks. >>So what does the announcement? I mean that that Adam gave the i b. M. I mean the mainframe announcement that I've known for the main frame, but he had the mainframe modernization program. What's that all about? >>I think I'd like to think of this is the next evolution of the main frame for those customers that have been running on the main thing for 40 years. They had their business on it. Where do they go next? What does the future? What does the future hold? And this is all part of the announcement yesterday is this is the journey that many, many customers are going to decide to go on. >>So it's all about the relationship between A. W S and micro Focus. Obviously, Um, yeah. I was talking about migration for the Oracle, and a lot of our customers have these main friends that are in the classic data centers. And he told me personally when I interviewed him that the main part of that data center mindset that people are chipping away at now they want to move them out and keep some functionality, but for the most part, migrated out eventually. Yeah, This is where you guys are involved. Take us through why that's important. >>I think it's the next level of agility that it is actually delivered for many customers. They need to move a hell of a lot faster than they currently are. Let's face it, the world is changing at pace. The applications support these customers need to also a change of pace. What a W s does give this market and momentum which is, Where do we go next? Where do we take customers where workloads have been running the business? Where? How are they going to run the business in five years time? How they're gonna run their business in 10. >>Well, congratulations on microphone. Big part of the announcement. Specifically explained to me, Micro focuses role in the announcement with a W S. What's the relationship? >>I think they're too old to call it out. Actually, we've been working with A W S for many, many years. This isn't something that radically new. We've been engaging with them for literally 10 years, at least. But the key elements Microphone provides technology That's an enabler to facilitate delivering the service as well as the competency partner to help customers actually accelerate their journey to take advantage of it. >>So we're bundling micro focus into that capability. Is it software that you guys have? What's going on the covers? >>I think it's software. It's capability. It's expertise. It's everything that a customer might need to help and be successful. Our job is to a W S H A W s job to make sure the customer is absolutely satisfied. >>Give me an example of a customer mainframe. I'm a bank. I've been using the main frame and just squeaked Time to get my back up before I turned the light in the morning. It's just working. It's coming. It's pumping it all cylinders, my cobalt program or just quit. What do I do? How do you help me? >>Well, I think there are two reasons why you can give us a call Is number one? Yeah, You need to move your business of pace. So what's going to run your business going forward? So you need to understand your applications. Number two, the cost profile of your existing infrastructure is going to be incredibly expensive. So what you wanna do is essentially make the change accelerate the change delivered at a much lower cost. >>So it looks like the application. So the software Okay, what's the app? And then create a replica of digital twin? I'm just trying to visualized. Now I see what you mean. What happens because, I mean, you know what? That is A big deal with that animal for a long time. What happens next is a container eyes. That application, >>the customer determines how far they want to go if they would like the application to run in the cloud exactly as is so it supports their customers exactly as they expect today. We can do that. On the other hand, if they need to enhance the experience for their customers if they need to take it into a completely different environment. If they do want to contain, arise if they want to take it into new levels of service. If they do want to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning, then again they can determine the journey. Micro focus is that essentially support them. Do that first step, which is get the applications ready to be delivered into cloud as fast as possible. >>Congratulations. Relationship. I guess I've got to ask you a question. Which on my mind is that Okay? It's the death of the mainframe. Long live the mainframe. You know the expression, uh, mainframe dying. I'm gonna hang around for a while. The dinosaurs are out there. >>I think it is. We like to position there is an evolution. We don't think the main friends gonna die. There will be customers who want to stay there, and we respect their choices. But on the other hand, this is a way to truly accelerate the future of mainstream applications. >>You know, student, I talked to a lot of success and C E O. S. And they tell me the same thing when they moved into the cloud. White hardcore is pretty much the main or critical laps to get the edges first moved into the cloud. And then they come and they start chipping away at the main, the main core and then slowly move it out because they don't want to get in there and disrupt so disruptions. A huge concerns. How does this new, um, modernization Tranz, uh, migration program for the mainframe ensure that disruption doesn't happen? What? I'm sure that's on their mind >>as well. I think what you're describing is what's the cut over when you're running on the main street today? You wanna run on the main from tomorrow, You know, if that's the case, or do you want to run the main from today and you want to run the cloud tomorrow? Essentially, the cut over is the same. The process is fairly separate from the mainframe itself. You obviously bringing applications off. We're getting them ready to go tested, you know, regulated. So it's been approved securities all in place, and then essentially, it's literally a switch cut. We literally have customers that turn off the main frame and, you know, they're already running in the cloud, and then we don't even have some that photographs of them shipping mainframe out the door. >>So I've got to ask, Is there a party at that point? You know, some people do >>that. It's certainly true. Remember that people are also going along for this journey, and they're not, You know, it's a big moment for them. >>You know, I hate the sound of today's my birthday. So I have to say this, Um, I remember when I was breaking into the business in my twenties. I never I never program punch cards, But remember pointing at the mainstream guys are seeing those old relics. I guess that's what I would be today. But the young guns coming into the industry, they want containers. They want micro services. They want cloud and see what's going on here. I mean, some really cool stuff happening. >>Uh, they want to take advantage of all the stuff that is there and every single announcement has been made today and yesterday on the days ahead. All of those great capabilities if you can get them into the core of your business. And so the key is to actually take us running your business today, enhance it and improve it and take it forward. I >>think I think the key points great insight on your part about this cut over because people know what that means. It's a project plan. Cut it over, get set up. And I think that's the hard part. How hard is that? On the cloud side, In terms of staging, can you share some timetables with me? Just kind of Give me a feel for order of magnitude Mainframe. Assuming, pumping it snap I'm using. I really can't shut it down, but I want to put it on. How much time to prepare to get into the cloud? Um, roughly just order of magnitude. Most >>customers, they tend to face these things they're not trying to. If you're a really big bank, you are not gonna do that overnight. That isn't gonna come as a surprise. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna take it in chunks and typically 12 to 15 months, which is the biggest step of the journey, which is going from mainframe to cloud. The next generation is going to be modernizing those applications, and it's going to be much short timeframes. Then you're getting into months, weeks, days >>after that. Is there any category that you see that are more susceptible to migration? You mentioned banks. I know some banks that they will never going to touch the mainstream because it's just so critical that the migration longer is there. Other areas of your insurance is a big market mainframe. Is the verticals that kind of like a more converting than others? >>Well, yes. But actually, I take it back. One of the reasons are these applications absolutely critical to these businesses. If they are, that's the reason why they're still running where they are, because they're really truly valuable. They are the business, so you're you're taking the business into new framework. So in that context actually tends to be financial services insurance, as you say, but also government, For example, the federal government, state and local as well as you move into retail. And it's surprising how often as you go into some of the other verticals where some of these mainframe applications are still existing. >>I hate to ask a question, because I don't know. So I want to ask, Um, and you can see it's a dumb question. If you think it is. Just tell me, Are there still cobalt programmers out there? >>There are to be clear. Actually, it's not a problem. You can train a new guy and literally weeks. If the issue is, yeah, actually use the mainstream itself, the mainstream experience about how it works as getting rarer. And so the key element is, how can how can you take the new young guns, give them, give them the application and see what they can do? This is a mechanism to do that. >>Great, Great announcement. Congratulations. I was really impressed at the moment. I'm actually surprised to see Adam kind of focus on that. But again, in the spirit of the traditional, uh, reinvent jazzy before Adam and he did the same thing with Oracle and all the other kind of big the legacy old guard they call them Technologies maintains one. You guys are part of that. So congratulations. Final word. Your take on the event so far. What's been the feedback on the announcement? Share some color commentary on what the feedback for you guys >>were. Actually, since the announcement, we've had some great customer conversations. I mean, there are a lot of businesses that really do want to make this change. We're kind of there to help them. And that's really the next step, which is what needs to happen to make that a reality. >>Amazon may not like me saying it, but I think there's some cases where you keep them in there and you don't touch. It works there. You keep it unless you wanna move. But if you want to move it, people, sometimes we want to move faster. And just there >>even a W s respects customer choice. The purpose is to meet the demand for the customer. And if the customer to sounds great, if they want to move off, we're there to help >>with the mainframe. Long live the main friends. The Cube coverage here in Las Vegas. I'm John. I love the mainframe Thirty-seven terminal. When I worked at the back in the eighties getting myself, um, thanks for coming in. And I appreciate it. Okay. Coverage here in Las Vegas. The Cube. You're watching the leader in global tech event coverage? I'm your host. Thanks for watching. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, mhm, yeah.