>> from Seattle Washington It's the Q covering AWS Imagine brought to you by Amazon Web service is >> Hey, welcome back there, buddy Geoffrey here with the Cube. We're in downtown Seattle Day Ws Imagine Edie, you event. It's their education event and every education Everything from K through 12. The higher education community College Retraining after service is a really great show. It's a second year. We're happy to be here. We've got somebody has come all the way from Spain to talk about his very special company. It's Ignasi. Nuclear is he is >> the CEO of click dot edu. Yeah, nice. You see? Welcome. >> Thank you are way really pleased to be with you. >> Great. So tell us, kind of what is clicky? Do you What? What is kind of your core value? >> It's ah, platform that makes all the things that the school needs seeing atleast in Spain. So it's a miss system also on elements also the communication with the family that Petra is Ah Wei Tau financial the school and also a lot of things that they are related on >> right? And you've been around for a while. So when did the company started? How was kind of some basic numbers on how many customers do you have? Could you operate in a lot of countries? A lot of schools? >> The as we have schools working with us already in all of Spain, Also in Chile, Colombia, Arneson, UK. On also in a little country in Europe that is called Andorra. So we're really happy because you have more than 1,000,000 off users working with us. >> 1,000,000. Congratulations. And is it mainly do you specialize between, say, K through 12 or higher education? Or we're kind of all over the place? >> Yes, we're focusing K 12 schools. So the one off the important parts are the communication with parents on dhe to follow all the things that the student. That's >> right. So you guys have a very special thing that you're announcing here at the show is really focusing on Alexa for K through 12 which nobody else is doing. That's really something unique that you guys, How did you get in that? What did you see in voice communication and Alexa that you couldn't do in the platform before that? You really saw the opportunity? >> Yes. All the people say is that >> the future or the present Now is the voice on all we will communicate by boys in the future over Internet. You see a lot off young guys doing all the things my boys know, right? Texting, etcetera. So we thought that it could be a nice idea that the communication between parents and also for a students to the school and be on in the other way, could be could be by boys. So we imagine how to do >> it on. We did it. It's really knew. >> When did you start it? When did you start that project? >> This project we began three months ago, >> three months ago. So, >> yeah, it's really, really knew the boy's idea, right? It was in >> a show that I have seen. Ah ah, law. A lot of people were talking about that, but there were, at least in Spain, in the Spanish. Nothing about so with it, we can be the first. So >> we leave. That's >> great. So before we turn the >> cameras on, we're talking about some of the issues that you have in one of the ones is integration to all these systems because, you know, I have kids. I might have multiple kids in a couple different grades. You have kids and a fine looking for access on their homework or their test scores. You know he's got integrate with all those different back ends to keep things private. But you're kind of in a good spot because your system is the one that's on the back end, right? Yeah, so that worked pretty well. And then the other piece, he talked about his two way voice. I don't think a lot of people think in voice communication, yet it's still more of an ask and get a reply asking and get a reply. But you guys are actually pushing notice vacations from the school, out to the families using voice. How's that working out? You know what are some of the use cases? Yeah, >> it's like it's like the parent can ask Toe elixir, for example, What's a home or for tomorrow for one of your son or daughter on DA on The Echo tell you about that. So it's really impressive, because in that moment the system goes to the school system to get that information on our system. Yeah, on Alexa translating voice So it's It's It's funny >> I just think it's funny that I get e mails from all my digital assistants telling me, suggesting things that I should ask them because it's really not native yet as as an interface to work with these machines. But, well, he's mentioned that the young people voices much more natural. So I wonder if there's been some surprises or some things you didn't expect in terms of people comfort level with voice as a way to communicate with me. >> Say, I think it's, ah most natural way also for us that we are not not if but off course. So we communicate better by boys and writing or texting. So, so off course. It's the future because it's another away. So the use off that systems goes up because off that. So I think it's the most the most thing that for for causes more surprising, >> right? And so will you guys supply the Alexa? It's for people's homes. Or is it something they can tap into their existing Alexa Yeah, >> uh, usually, ah, the case for using that is in your home or else on your phone so you can install licks on your phone and you can ask them. I'll see if the UK fun ankle, >> but handle it. But how do I look? How do I hook my existing echo? Yeah, yes, I bought into the school system. >> Yes, because sometimes some universities are They pulled their A coin. I don't know in the university, or but you can use your echo that you are using it for other things. Listen, music me Listen, missing music or whatever >> and you >> can use the >> same. Yeah, you can. You >> only have to, like, download an >> app for >> your phone. There >> is more less is the same us Alexa to >> install, click in the Web or a skill that it's cow. It's called right, and then you >> have it. So what's next? What's on the road? Map on the voice specifically, Where do you see this kind of evolving over the next little while? >> Yes, our our next goal in the parties that they can use the teachers in the school. The boy systems also so for doing what they do every day in ah Maur writing or whatever, we can do it by voice. For example, interview with the parents, a transcript or, for example, to say that somebody hasn't come to the school or toe tell to the Transportacion that something is company. These kind of things is what we are. Imagine it's in our next things that we will do it with voice. >> It'll be Lexa in the classroom, hoping, thinking, Yeah, right. What about privacy? I would imagine knows funny. In the early days of Cloud, security was a was was not good of the show stopper. People were concerned about 10 years later. Now security is a strength of cloud, right? It's probably more secure than most people's data centers or disgruntled employees. I would imagine privacy and security. This is probably pretty top of mind in the school district as well as a lot of personal information. Are they comfortable? Do they kind of get the security of cloud and cloud infrastructure, or is that still sticking point? >> You know that in Europe there are really strict low of our protection off that right, so we are really concerned about that. So we are talking with the school's what kindof systems. They will be comfortable because you want to use it, so we'll have to find >> the clue to do that. But It's really >> important, I think, all over the world, but in the stage or in Europe who are really concerned about that. So we'll see how to find it. But we can create a private skill, right? Yes, because there are birds shown off, Alexa, that is for business. So you can create your provide things on. You don't have to be for that. Somebody's listening. You >> right? All right. So the last last question here at the conference and you come last year? >> No. So what do >> you know? Just your impressions of the conference Has it nice to be with a bunch of like minded, you know, kind of forward thinking educators because because education doesn't always get the best reputation being kind of forward looking. But here you're surrounded. So I just wonder you could share some of your thoughts of the of the event so far. Yeah, >> I think this guy no five ins give you more motivation on you. Increase your you're way t to see that there are a lot of people that is pushing to innovate and do the things different. So really, really interesting to goto some machine learning. Ah, suppose is shown about California. What? They are doing that right? So I'm really interested. >> Good. Get all right. Look Nazi. Thanks for taking a few minutes. And, uh, congratulations on that project. That's really crazy. Thank >> you for your interest in. >> All right, >> Jeff, you're watching the Cube. Where it aws Imagine in downtown Seattle. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.

>> Live from Las Vegas. It's the queue covering del Technologies. World twenty nineteen. Brought to you by Del Technologies and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back to Las Vegas. Lisa Martin with too many man, You're watching The Cube Life from Del Technology. World twenty nineteen were here with about fifteen thousand other people, about four thousand Del Technologies Partners. But how? And now for the first time, we're pleased to welcome the CEO of Virtus Dream. Rory Reid Worry. It's great to have you joining student me on the Cube today. >> It is Lisa. It's a pleasure and riel honor to be on the show today. >> So this morning's Kino we were talking before we went live starts with lots of energy news announcements, partnerships, collaboration, walking, you. You're in industry veteran, which will dig into, I'm sure during the segment. >> Thirty five years. >> Thirty five years. That's >> amazing. Thirty five years is how old tells going tto be tthe when the next week. >> Thirty five years. >> That's a magic number. Congratulations. Thank you Virtus Dream. Talk to us about the integration you lead those efforts. Massive acquisition. What's going on now? What's exciting? You >> Well, I think it's kind of amazing what happened in the integration. This is the largest Tak integration in the world. Sixty seven billion dollars. Shortly after Del goes private, they're going to acquire Delhi, M. C, I, E, M, C and V M, where the huge undertaking thousands of people work on it less than ten months from the time it was announced. October of fifteen. It goes live on September seven sixteen. That's amazing, and our customers reacted and are partners in a just a kn amazing way. It's almost like it didn't happen. You know, I'm biased. I think it went really well. But look at the numbers. Look at the reaction in the marketplace. The growth, the synergy, the revenue, the kinds of impact. And then you see today at Del Adele Technology World. Michael does a keynote. He talked about the impact. Karen comes up and talks about giving back and the work that we're doing around Pathetic and printing three D and artificial intelligence based your limbs. I If you're not fired up about that, you can't get energized. And then you top that off with just a GN amazing discussion about the partnership between VM wear and Del Technologies on the Del Cloud And then the work that we're doing with Microsoft and Satya comes on stage with Michael and >> Pie. I >> mean, this is a power pack woman, and we put this company just three years ago together and look at the kind of impact its house in the industry. Amazing, just amazing. >> So worry. Yeah, I think Jeff Clarke said it well this morning. He said, If you're into technology and can't get excited by what's going on, you know, May maybe you're you know, it's kind of you know, my words. Maybe you're not in the right space. You've got a few of the interesting pieces of the Del Technologies family they talk about. You know, the massive acquisition of DMC with V M. Where Purchase dream Not such a small acquisition itself. Over a billion dollars, one point two billion dollars to billion dollars. And, you know, I remember back Bhumi wasn't out that long ago either, for you know, it was less than a billion dollars, but it was a >> ***. *** is an amazing set of technology. I know you're going tohave Chris McNab on later today. Chris and I have worked on what he called the gloomy acceleration plan the last two years. Way with that team have put in a strategy around taking advantage of just an amazing set of technology. Boo Mi's cloud integration software, I believe, is the absolute best on the planet and the work that we've done. We've doubled that business in the last eighteen months. We've added probably a billion dollars of market valuation they've reached. They add thousands of customers every quarter to that portfolio, the reach and touch and how that's going to drive the way data and applications talk in the cloud era. It's just at the beginning of the impact there. And then you look at a company like Virtus Dream. It's the leader in mission Critical application Work loads on the cloud. This is a company born on the cloud. It's based on the cloud nine years ago. It's the one hand to shake. Customers choose us with their most important applications and data because they need to know that it's gonna work and that we have the experience to Planet Tau migrated, optimize it and bring it to the cloud to cloud of fire and that were the single hand to shake. What's different about us is we have an eye *** way had the infrastructure as a service. We have a software stack with extreme software. Take time. I get fired up about Bloomie's technology Virtus Stream Extreme software. Amazing. And then on top of that, you layer on a white glove said of application and professional services. Very cool. But what was the coolest? Where some of the announcements today and how we're playing with its all of'Em went bare VM were based on, uh, Virtus Dream. And when they announced the partnership with Azure and the idea of V M wear work, clothes on Azure that's actually running will be running and running on. And we've been working with Microsoft and IBM where a virtuous string and it's and then and then you know >> when you say it's running on Virtue Stream, Is it your data centers? Is it part of the soft? Oh no, The >> data, the data centers air all Adger. It's using our software and our technology team have built that said, a technology that we've been in partnership for months with Microsoft and IBM, where to create this offering as one of the Cloud Service partners foundational. It's pretty foundation and you know it. But at the end of a think about del technology is one in the ingredient brand. Sure, that's foundational. This is a company built for the next ten years. Del Technologies. And the impact it's gonna have in the industry is just beginning. Where is it going to go? You saw it this morning in the Kino. Michael has some big, big ideas, >> so worry. A lot of times we look at things in the industry and people is like, Oh, it's binary. It's public cloud or Private Cloud. I've worked with a lot of service providers, and when you look at the world multi cloud, it's really more of an end in putting. That is together. Many of the service providers that air You know where I am seeing her del partners before you know, three or four years ago Oh my gosh, A ws and Microsoft. Well, okay. A partner a little like us off, But Amazons, the enemy. And today it's well, I have our stuff and I'm partnering and I probably have connections between them. Help us. Paint is toe where virtue stream fits into this. You know this spectrum today? >> Your stew. You're on the right point about multi cloud. We just did a press release today at a virtuous stream where we partnered with Forrester. We do, ah, whole industry study on the cloud and the future of the cloud multi cloud ninety seven percent of customers. We spoke to that force or spoke to have a multi cloud strategy for their mission. Critical applications at eighty nine percent of them plan to increase their spend on multi cloud mission critical activities. How we play in that space is that we're the trusted player we've done over eighteen hundred ASAP migration. Where an epic health care leader go talk to Novaya. They asked them how it's gone on Virtus Dreams Cloud amazing set of mission critical capability. But what we're taking is there's this infrastructure is a service in the software stack on the services that software stack is extreme. What we want to do is enable that software stack to manage data and applications in a private environment, a public environment on Prem, and it's all based on the M where so it ties directly into Jeff and Pat's announcement This morning, where they talked about Veum, where being a platform and how they're going to create the Del Cloud on that platform. Virtus Dream is one of the destinations for mission critical workload, but because it's based on VM, where technology it seamlessly begins to integrate across that and allows us to manage data and applications linking our extreme software with the BM, where capabilities that allowed that data and the AP eyes to exchange data and flow freely in a multi cloud world, ninety seven percent of the customers and the forest to research we just released are going to go multi cloud for mission critical, not just based. This's for their most critical applications data >> so future your energy is outstanding in your enthusiasm for this. What are some of the early reactions that customers air having to some of this exciting, groundbreaking news that's coming out today? What do your expectations? >> Well, you know, I spent time with customers, uh, every week and we talk about it, but I've actually talked to customers this day today about it. They found the energy, the passion that the technology that was introduced this morning was sort of game changing because to Stu's point, they are going in a multi cloud era and they know it's going to be multi cloud. And there's going to be on Prem public private. It's gonna link altogether. They need the technology trusted advisors that can work with them, not with a single answer. That only fits one way. Adele Technologies. You want to run on Prem? We have those capabilities you want to run on public count. We have those technologies you want to run in a hybrid kind of solution or a private cloud. We're going to create the ability with these announcements today, tow link it together and create the ability to do it seamlessly, efficiently, productively, cost effectively that allows Our customers too dramatically transformed their business to take them on that digital transformation to disrupt their industries and win. Because when our customers win, we win. That's what we do. Adelle Technologies, we and able our customers to win, and it's all about the customers every single day. You talked about the integration when Michael said every day when we were doing the integration, he said on every decision. When we were building the company, we basically built a new company level by level, he said. The guiding principle that every decision is customer in How does this matter of the customer? How does it make a difference for the customer? And I think we live that everyday. There's fifty fifteen thousand of our closest friends here in Las Vegas there, pretty excited to be here. And why did they take that time? Because we're one of their trusted partners on their digital transformation journey. That's not a bad place to be. If you can't get excited about that, >> Yeah, I'm Rory in the wrong industry. It was amazing to me how fast that immigration work happened. We talked to Howard Elias a bunch along the journey. I'm glad we finally get to you, get you on the record for >> Howard's in the Be's and Guy. What an awesome partner. >> And so you know, one of them's dried. It's ten months is you know, if this thing had taken twenty four months, so much of the industry would have changed by the time from when you went into when you went out. So I guess How do you how do you look at kind of those massive waves versus you know where you need to be with products today in the market and where customers are because you know the danger. You say I want to listen to the customers. Well, you get the old saying if you ask customers they wanted, you know Ah, faster buggy. You know how right you are so right, You make sure you're, you know, hitting that next wave and keeping up with it. I look at you know, all the pieces you have of the puzzle that is the family and in different places along the spectrum. >> Well, I think there's, you know, there's value in the diversity of thought, right, and we talk about on Workforce. But it's a business. The idea that Del technologies is this group of businesses and all these experiences coming together and the interactions with customers from the smallest mom and pop shops farms toe all the way to the most Jake Ganic industry. Transformational companies. You were exposed to a lot of things, and with the kind of forty, one hundred and forty thousand professionals working together and with Michael's vision and the El Tee's vision, there's an ability to see that future, and he is always looking at the future. It's interesting. I worked for a lot of interesting people, but you know, Michael's ability to Teo understand data and of you, he said. It's about having a big year, right? Your ears be twice the size of your mouth. I mean, you gotta listen. And I seriously think he must have a tree of Keebler elves creating data and information. I've never seen so much someone with more data and information. And he he listens. He values the input. He's quick to make a decision, but the team rot rallies around that idea. How can we find that future? And if we make a mistake, let's fix it fast. Let's learn really quick. Make that decision, learn quickly, adjust and capture the opportunity. And it's all about speed and what matters to the customer. I've seen it firsthand. I've been here four years. I spent twenty three years at IBM. I spent five years in Lenovo as their CEO and president. I was CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices. It's amazing environment where you create a place where technological leaders come every day to solve the most difficult solutions with the founder of the company. That's one of the industry icons, and it's just an amazing privilege and honor to be part of it. And I think you feel that from every person you talk to, that's part of Del Technologies. I am being part of that. Integration was one of the most proudest experiences of my life, and you know what we did way never ran it as an integration office. We kept the decisions with the line with the business, and we had a rapid pays to get through it and decided, and we learned quickly and we adjusted as we went. It wasn't perfect, but it wass pretty close. It's pretty close and I'm bias. I got it. I buy just But it was good. It was good. It was really a great thing. And Howard, amazing guy. But it was because people believed in the vision and they all work together. And when people work together, you can grow, do amazing and great thing. >> You're right. It's all about the people >> it is >> or it's been such a pleasure. Having you on the cute this afternoon was to me. I wish we had more time because I know we can keep talking about it. You're gonna have to come back >> anytime. You like me. It was a pleasure. And thank you so much for taking time to speak to me when you talk to boo me this afternoon, make sure you get into that technology's world. Vast cloud integration platform >> you got. All right, guys. Thank you. Thank you. First to Minuteman. I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching the Cube live from Day one of our double sat coverage of Del technology World twenty nineteen. Thanks for watching.

>> Live from San Francisco. It's the cube covering IBM thing twenty nineteen brought to you by IBM. >> Welcome back to the live coverage here in Mosconi North in San Francisco for IBM. Think this. The cubes coverage. I'm Jeffrey David. Launching a too great guest here. Carlos. Gavel, gavel. A chief date. Officer Clara, Columbia and Carlos. See? Good. Engage your manager. IBM data Science elite team a customer of IBM country around data science. Welcome to the Cube. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having us. So we'll hear the street, the street to shut down a i N E. Where's the big theme? Multi cloud. But it's all about the data everywhere. People trying to put end to end solutions together to solve real business problems. Date is at the heart of all this moving date around from cloud to cloud using. Aye, aye. And technology get insights out of that. So take a minute to explain your situation, but you got to try to do. >> Okay. Okay, Perfect. Right now, we're working out a lot about the business thing because we need to use the machine learning models or all the artificial intelligence toe. Take best decisions for the company. Way. We're working with Carlo in a charming mother in order to know how how come with a boy the customers left the company Because for us it's very important to maintain our our customer toe. Now, how they're how are the cables is from them. There are two facility intelligences is next selling way to do it that way. Have a lot of challenge about that because, you know, we have a lot of data, different systems, that they're running the data way need to put all the information together to run them to run the mother's. The team that Carlo is leaving right now is helping to us a lot because we WeII know how to handle that. We know howto clean the data when you have to do the right governess for the data on the IBM iniquity is very compromised with us in there in order to do that safely. That is one of the union that is very close to us right now. She was working a lot with my team in order to run the models. You saying she was doing a lot of four. I mean, over fight on right now we are trained to do it in over the system, running this park on DH that is they? They Good way that we are. We are thinking that is going to get the gold for us way Need to maintain our customers. >> So years the largest telecommunications piece Claro in Mexico for boys and home services. Is that segments you guys are targeting? Yeah, Yeah. Scope. Size of how big is that? >> Clarisa? Largest company in Colombia For telecommunication. We have maybe fifty million customers in Colombia. More than fifty percent of the market marketer also way have many maybe two point five millions off forms in Colombia. That is more than fifty percent of the customers for from services on. Do you know that it's a big challenge for us because the competitors are all the time. Tryinto take our customers on DH the charm or they'll have toe. How's the boy that and how to I hope to do their artificial intelligence to do it much learning. It's a very good way to do that. >> So classic problem and telecommunications is Charon, right? So it's a date. A problem? Yeah, but So how did it all come about? So these guys came to you? >> Yeah. They help The game does. We got together. We talked about the problem and in turn was at the top right. These guys have a ton of data, so what we did is the team got together. We have really the way to data sensibly team works is we really helped clients in three areas. It's all about the right skills, the right people, the right tools and then the right process. So we put together a team. We put together some agile approaches on what we're going to do on DH. Then we'd get started by spinning up in environment. We took some data and we took there. And there's a lot of data is terabytes of data. We took their user data way, took their use users usage data, which is like how many text, cellphone and then bill on day that we pulled all that together and environment. Then the data scientists alongside what Carlos is team really worked on the problem, and they addressed it with, you know, machine learning, obviously target. In turn, they tried a variety of models, But actually, boost ended up being one of the better approaches on DH. They came up with a pretty good accuracy about nineties ninety two. Percent precision on the model. Predicting unpredictable turn. Yeah. >> So what did you do with that? That >> that that is a very good question because the company is preparing to handle that. I have a funny history. I said today to the business people. Okay, these customers are going to leave the company. Andi, I forget about that on DH. Two months later, I was asking Okay, what happened? They say, Okay, your model is very good. All the customers goes, >> Oh, my God, What >> this company with that they weren't working with a with information. That is the reason that we're thinking that the good ways to fame for on the right toe the left because twist them which is therefore, pulls the purposes toe Montana where our customers And in that case, we lose fifty thousand customers because we didn't do nothing Where we are close in the circle, we are taking care about that prescriptive boys could have tto do it on. OK, maybe that is her name. Voice problem. We need to correct them to fix the problem in orderto avoid that. But the fetus first parties toe predict toe. Get any score for the charm on Tau handled that with people obviously working. Also at the root cause analysis because way need to charm, way, need to fix from their road, >> Carla. So walk us through the scope of, like, just the project, because this is a concern we see in the industry a lot of data. How do I attack it? What's the scoop? You just come in and just into a data lake. How do you get to the value? These insights quickly because, honestly, they're starving for insights would take us through that quick process. >> Well, you know, every every problems with different. We helped hundreds of clients in different ways. But this pig a problem. It was a big data problem because we knew we had a lot of data. They had a new environment, but some of the data wasn't there. So what we did was way spun up a separate environment. We pulled some of the big data in there. We also pulled some of the other data together on DH. We started to do analysis on that kind of separately in the cloud, which is a little different, but we're working now to push that down into their Duke Data Lake, because not all the data is there, but some of the data is there, and we want to use some of that >> computer that almost to audit. Almost figure out what you want, what you want to pull in first, absolutely tie into the business on the business side. What would you guys like waiting for the answers? Or was that some of the on your side of process? How did it go down? >> I'm thinking about our business way. We're talking a little bit about about that about their detective tow hundred that I see before data within. That is a very good solution for that because we need infested toe, have us in orderto get the answers because finally we have a question we have question quite by. The customers are leaving us. Andi. What is data on the data handed in the good in a good way with governor? Dance with data cleaning with the rhyme orders toe. Do that on DH Right now, our concern is Business Section a business offer Because because the solution for the companies that way always, the new problems are coming from the data >> started ten years ago, you probably didn't have a new cluster to solve this problem. Data was maybe maybe isn't a data warehouse that maybe it wasn't And you probably weren't chief data officer back then. You know that roll kind of didn't exist, so a lot has changed in the last ten years. My question is, do you first of all be adjusting your comment on that? But do you see a point in which you could now take remedial action or maybe even automate some of that remedial action using machine intelligence and that data cloud or however else you do it to actually take action on behalf of the brand before humans who are without even human involvement foresee a day? >> Yeah. So just a comment on your thought about the times I've been doing technology for twenty something years, and data science is something has been around, but it's kind of evolved in software development. My thought is, uh, you know, we have these rolls of data scientists, but a lot of the feature engineering Data prep does require traditional people that were devious. And now Dave engineers and variety of skills come together, and that's what we try to do in every project. Just add that comment. A ce faras predicted ahead of time. Like, I think you're trying to say what data? Help me understand >> you. You know, you've got a ninety three percent accuracy. Okay, So I presume you take that, You give it to the business businesses, Okay? Let's maybe, you know, reach out to them, maybe do a little incentive or you know what kind of action in the machines take action on behalf of your brand? Do you foresee a day >> so that my thought is for Clara, Columbia and Carlos? But but obviously this is to me. Remain is the predictive models we build will obviously be deployed. And then it would interact with their digital mobile applications. So in real time, it'll react for the customers. And then obviously, you know, you want to make sure that claro and company trust that and it's making accurate predictions. And that's where a lot more, you know, we have to do some model validation and evaluation of that so they can begin to trust those predictions. I think is where >> I want to get your thoughts on this because you're doing a lot of learnings here. So can you guys each taking minutes playing the key Learnings from this As you go through the process? Certainly in the business side, there's a big imperative to do this. You want to have a business outcome that keeps the users there. But what did you learn? What was some of the learnings? You guys gone from the project? >> They the most important learning front from the company that wass teen in the data that that sound funny, but waiting in an alley, garbage in garbage, out on DH that wass very, very important for other was one of the things that we learn that we need to put cleaning date over the system. Also, the government's many people forget about the governments of the governments of the data on DH. Right now, we're working again with IBM in our government's >> so data quality problem? Yeah, they fight it and you report in to your CEO or the CEO. Seo, your spear of the CIA is OK. That >> is it. That's on another funny history, because because the company the company is right now, I am working for planning. This is saying they were working for planning for the company. >> Business planning? >> Yeah, for business planning. I was coming for an engineer engineering on DH. Right now, I'm working for a planning on trying to make money for the company, and you know that it's an engineer thinking how to get more money for the company I was talking about. So on some kind of analysis ticks, that is us Partial Analytics on I want you seeing that in engineer to know how the network handling how the quality of the network on right now using the same software this acknowledge, to know which is the better point to do sales is is a good combination finally and working. Ralph of planning on my boss, the planning the planet is working for the CEO and I heard about different organizations. Somebody's in Financial City owes in financial or the video for it is different. That depends from the company. Right now, I'm working for planning how to handle things, to make more money for the company, how to tow hundred children. And it is interesting because all the knowledge that I have engineering is perfect to do it >> Well, I would argue that's the job of a CDO is to figure out how to make money with data. Are saying money. Yeah. Absolute number one. Anyway, start there. >> Yeah, The thing we always talked about is really proving value. It starts with that use case. Identify where the real value is and then waken. You know, technology could come in the in the development work after that. So I agree with hundred percent. >> Carlos. Thanks for coming in. Largest telecommunication in Colombia. Great. Great customer reference. Carlo thinking men to explain real quick in a plug in for your data science elite team. What do you guys do? How do you engage? What? Some of the projects you work on Grey >> out. So we were a team of about one hundred data scientists worldwide. We work side by side with clients. In our job is to really understand the problem from end and help in all areas from skills, tools and technique. And we won't prototype in a three agile sprints. We use an agile methodology about six to eight weeks and we tied. It developed a really We call it a proof of value. It's it's not a M v P just yet or or poc But at the end of the day we prove out that we could get a model. We can do some prediction. We get a certain accuracy and it's gonna add value to the >> guys. Just >> It's not a freebie. It actually sorry. I'm sorry. It's not for paint service. It's a freebie is no cough you've got. But I don't like to use >> free way. Don't charge, but >> But it's something that clients could take advantage of if they're interesting problem and maybe eventually going to do some business. >> If you the largest telecommunication provider in the country, to get a freebie and then three keys, You guys dig in because its practitioners, real practitioners with the right skills, working on problems that way. Claro, >> Colombia's team. They were amazing. In Colombia. We had a really good time. Six to eight weeks working on it. You know, a problem on those guys. All loved it, too. They were. They were. Before they knew it. They were coding and python. And are they ready? Knew a lot of this stuff, but they're digging in with the team and became well together. >> This is the secret to modernization of digital transformation, Having sales process is getting co creating together. Absolutely. Guys do a great job, and I think this is a trend will see more of. 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>> Live from San Francisco. It's the cube covering IBM thing twenty nineteen brought to you by IBM. >> Welcome back to Moscow and everybody. The new, improved, shiny Mosconi Center. I'm Dave Lamont with Student of Men. This is Day one of IBM thinking you're watching the Cube, the leader and live tech coverage. Ed Walsh is here. He's the general manager of of IBM Storage and Software to find it. Great to see you again. Always. Pleasure. Thanks for coming on. I love the venue, You know, I agree. It's a saddle. Las Vegas. No offense to our friend. Thie shy. It's been a long time coming, Oscar, honey, but it looks really good. I agree. Three thousand people expected. So you must be excited. >> No, I think we have a lot of things that you're going to see announcements. Also, I think you're going to see some refinement of the overall message. I think it's going to exciting week. So it's kind of I'm I'm talking to before all the keynotes. But it's it's an interesting week, for sure. So >> so tease a little bit. What can you tell us is >> Okay, so you know my background, I've been outside IBM, coming to run storage,  I've said a couple of different times. My strategy is to drive the overall storage but also get more aligned with what we're trying to overall at IBM, because that's the strength of IBM, right? Really help the clients move forward And infrastructure matters, and what you're seeing is I think the market's coming our direction at IBM. And I'll give you a couple of things. You're gonna hear a lot about, you know, hybrid multicloud. Say AI at scale, right, and you're going to see that messaging, but that's where the markets come at us. You saw Red Hat talk about it, but all of our competitors are now doing that as well. But when it comes to once, you start a hybrid multicloud and we think it's like we're going to talk about that chapter two right? Chapter one was the first twenty percent of workloads and was all about these application driven events. And you know think about Office 365, etc. But the eighty percent of the workloads were still on premises, and there's a reason they're on premises. But what now is that people that next phase going leaving by the the organizations that have mission, critical data and how to do that? And there's a role for hybrid, which plays perfectly for us. >> And can you help help connect the >> dots for us because we've launched, you know, software to find wave come through through storage, but still many people on the outside, they'd be like, Okay, well, storage is a bunch of boxes sitting in my data center on all my new After being built here. I'm sass ify ing things. They're there, and it feels like death by a thousand cuts, too. The traditional storage markets help explain kind of what the modern storage market is. Data is at the center of everything, so we know that that's a huge thing that elwin for storage but help bring us inside your business. >> So I think in general everyone's trying to data driven, and it's easy to say hard to do and everyone at the platform going do that. It's a hybrid multi cloud and hybrid being the reason we're using the terminology, the industry. But also there is a rule for on premises. And how do you easily connect but getting the same, you know, agility and performance and cost benefit on Prem in an extended the right time for Cloud. So where you see us, we're looking, we focus on. We deal with a lot of clients somewhat advanced and some would say more laggards. And so we share loss stories where people are being successful being dad driven and we see it fall in tow. Kind of three. What I'll say is we try to success. Criteria are areas, right? So one is people just modernizing, going from traditional to go private clouds, making sure they extend use of benefits of public cloud and be more data driven. So some people are spending money to save money, and some people are spending money to make money. But even in traditional environments, you see the CEO having a bigger voice and we need to push him and show him how to do that right way. Also see another section, People really driving a I in general. We see that and definitely not hybrid people to cloud environment where we see a large on premises. But you're always looking for the different data. Sets are going to be in the multi cloud that they need. Bring it together and we see that being a very interesting and affected. How do you start with someone doing? We believe we have the best storage for a I, but we can scale from the smallest to the biggest super computer in the world. Right? Driving, You know, one point five terribly. It's a second, you know, huge monsters, but you can start small. But what we find is people are just getting started with the meets clients where they are so part of it in these different areas, meet them where they are, and there are different parts of the journey on AI is having them get going. But then really, how do you scale? You're gonna hear a lot about this. How do you scale AI? Everyone has these random acts of AI or machine learning, but they can't scale them for the business, let alone across the enterprise, which is where everyone needs to get to. And that's where we're really focused on the offering set. So from a storage that would be where we do the AI. And of course, the third one is just containers in general. Which, by the way, they intersect because a lot of things going to in containers going intersect with a especially when you go multicloud, but there's a whole different Hey, let me modernize my application infrastructure, and it's a different conversation with client. So we see people being very successful, and that's where you're seeing from a storage development. Investments is were going into that direction, helping clients those different. >> Why is a scale so difficult? Is it the silo data silo problem? >> So first of all, there's a coldness about a I everyone. It's a black box is mysterious. It's it's really just computer science. I mean, it's a process between time I'm eating their own deep learning. It is. You're you're doing stats, you're just driving you being in a river or that using custom, I silica do a faster, like abuse. Uh, the other one is it's easy, and it's not so in infrastructure matters. So when you get going, what we see is people just give a developed You give a particular data scientists on environments. You say You bring the data and you need and we'll help you with the governance of strategy, but still getting something to just be valuable to the business. Then what happens is they see another random act of a ay or another area that it becomes data silo, but they're trying their best to stay away from the data scientist. Given the right support, which I think the right thing is, the biggest thing is not having all controlled and centralized. You wantto let the business units drive. But then what happens is you have that almost like data warehousing in the past. You have these islands, and now you don't have any trusted, true source of the truth. And you don't have ability to get you force everyone to do the hard bit. The hard bit is actually having the right data. Do all the eighty percent of cleansing that dead guy having the right governance and security about that? Andi, you're adding to overtime. What if you do a couple applications and it's not on the first one? You do. But once you do the second third, maybe fifth deadly by the eighteenth application, you want to bring that together in a shared platform. And that's where IBM storage plays. And that's where we're truly differentiated. Compare the storage industry so we have no assets that no one else has. Like what we do. A spectrum scale where we can, Luli scale up from just individual server toe half rack and we can take the same environment into largest, eh? I submit computers in the world, but the key thing is, you need. You can have a without a information architecture, and that's on the software side. But it definitely has to be in the infrastructure, and we're doing a cross hybrid multi class. We're doing that on Prem. But trust me, eyes absolutely in the cloud so we can extend those environments and run the same thing in any of the public clouds. And >> what's the storage enabler eyes? It is its software, defined as you mentioned architecture. What is the linchpin there? >> Well, so one it is a softer to find. So in this particular area, where we're helping people is our file system called spectrum scale. But it allows us to do from the very small toe largest environments, right that allows you to scale, and it's also runs all different asset. So it's unstructured, be able to run a dupe Native spark. But you have the file you're able to block, able to bring it together, able, start small, but you're able to scale and keep up the thing about a eyes you go from, I want to collect that information. Get after it. You also need metadata. So we have products like Spectrum Discover to show you the metadata so we can actually track it, you know, So it doesn't become too junk drawer in the sky that we've seen with that a lot of data lease. But then it's interesting. You have to go in tow, actually do the training, and that's for using custom silicon. You know, G pews, and that dramatically changes a performance you require. So thes GP is used to run it sixty gigabytes a second. How they're one hundred fifty gigabytes a second. We no storage store. Traditional stories that you get from, you know, the environment we might get from pure net after emcee. They don't run it, run it sub twenty gigabytes a second. So how do you do this? It's a different architectures, actually, based upon a true scale out what we've seen in the largest super computers in the world. But you're able to bring that environment so we can actually do bring in all the data works, get under one governance and strategy. But then you can actually keep up with the performance of the true influencing and driving GPS that once you have a trusted source, you can scale us out. Lily, the largest, super covers the world so we can We can show you scale on the exact same components started half rack and goto. The biggest thing is in the world, but the key thing is right. You need to actually have a performance. So if you have this data back, plaintiff, you call that Now people still take a lot of the data. They'll bring it into the servers in the crunch it with GPS. They say, Well, okay, your stories doesn't need tohave that performance. But what you find is once you have a common back plane, which, how IBM did it. Now you have different business units almost hub and spoke, grabbing the data. But they have one true source of data they will get after it. They're able to get their other data that other groups are looking for. But now they're able to now scale it into the enterprise that because something is just a I call a pike, also your doing applications and they just want to have a P. I called in the same environment, and those have to be fast, cause now you're influencing, so it's sub seconds. But you need that performance. So what you need is by bring it all together. You can either do data silos, which are easy up front. But by the time you the second third, you do all that same work over and over, and you don't trust its source. You gotta bring it together. But you can't bring it together in any storage, and we don't bring it together on the same storage we do for of'em, where environment to others is different storage. And it's made specifically for this environment. And it's something that, actually IBM is no leaps and bounds above everyone supercomputer. They do these type of analysis, and we're like two x our best competitors benchmarks, by the way, that computer use spectrum scale so But it is a different architecture. But if you don't put together on, and I would also say that when you get started, no one starts with the big, in fact, that that's almost a mistake. What you want to do is let the data scientists have the creative driving get business outcome, but they need to be thinking ahead. How do you bring it together? So you have a shared because again, The way you're really gonna drive across enterprise. All that processes is actually having soon AP I calls come in and which are not going to their own environment altogether. Makes sense. >> Yeah, you've mentioned a couple times infrastructure matters, and I wantto wanna tie that into the eighty percent Sure it was at this very venue in two thousand nine when Paul Marat said is the CEO of the M where we're going to run any workload. Any application? Virtualized and a lot of people were skeptical, and I remember the time thinking about mainframes. I kind of did that. Um, >> and you can say that I can >> How you're talking about the eighty percent and, you know, Veum, where I think largely proved that that you could run that at high performance. Att. Least adequate performance. Now you're seeing a similar discussion around cloud. But it's somewhat different because of some of the things that you were just mentioning it. What does that world look like? Obviously, hybrid fits in. You mentioned the red Hat acquisition. That's key. Part of idea mes go forward. You know, multi cloud strategy. So should we think about what you know what similar and what's different than a sort of V M wear virtual ization, mainframe virtual ization days. >> Okay, that's interesting. And then you're tying into the cloud adoption as well, right? So and we do think about twenty in this idea. See, about twenty percent of workers have gone, but eighty percent are waiting, and that's that I never thought of that way. It's a good analogy. Virtual ization. That easy stuff went first, and then what you have to do is have the databases. Remember, that was a big issue. You couldn't do that for years, but then also, you move. It's like, Why would you do it? But what's happening is what we're seeing. Is this the mission? Critical workloads, And they're either regulated industries, but it's for different reasons. They're running in different places. But it might be a security concern. It might be scaled that he might be regulated industries, but there's reasons. Or maybe after reef, actually applications. Actually one cloud native because lifted shift was it the same economics as you thought. So what we think is the next eighty percent is not going to lead by the application, you know, or things like Office three sixty five we actually think is going to be people putting the real mission critical workloads. And that's a different conversation. That's where we think the market's complaints what we do at I BM and infrastructure, where you need to have the technology, but also the expertise and industry moving on. Then security becomes key concern. >> So way mentioned red hat here and you can't say too much, but we know about kind of the cloud native modern, you know, multi cloud stuff. But Red had also has, you know, quite a bit of a storage portfolio, you know, seven cluster acquisitions, open source. Wondering what you can just, you know, as an IBM or tell us about what you think of that portfolio. >> So you know, we can talk about what's gonna happen afterwards, but also I think we made it very clear we believe redheads and used the inn where I think it's a good analogy. We're going to keep it. They're going to be independent. They serve a world we're not going to change it. And I think that's a very important part of the message. But we can't talk about the assets. And I did my own kickoff to my team. My partners and I used a kid around. That was a storage acquisition, you know? So it was my thirty four billion dollars right? So but I think it has a good play. It's completely complimentary to what we do. They have some great to two technologies, but also we bring things to them. They're interesting, but a conversation when someone strikes, they were my going and for strategy. We believe containers are critical. We believe Lennox is critical. If you look at what people are doing on the cloud, it is theirs. It's already cross. It's mostly Lennox and the enterprises have chosen red hat. Now, if you think of what we could do with that particular environment, tohave the conversation make relevance about what we could do to help you on Prim. But now you can run the same thing on prime. You can put it literally anywhere. Now that's a strength of red hat would bring us on a story side. They have great assets. I'm kind of salivating to help him out with that now what they don't do with some of things that we can add to them. Right? So I don't think we're commenting any road map, I think, but they haven't. What we have is, to be honest, complimentary, if that makes >> sense. Well, and I think you you're familiar with our old troop private cloud nomenclature. It's evolving to true hybrid cloud, and what you just described is true hybrid cloud. Run it wherever you want. You're agnostic to where it runs, but don't want that cloud operating model yet to be the underpinning of the experience. >> You don't want me locked in, so that's where I think if you look a hybrid, you want to make sure. And I think it allows us to that. I think IBM is synergistic to it. I think we can bring a lot of how do you bring the integration capabilities that IBM brings on applications and help these mission critical environments that have need some industry expertise. To do that? Bring them to the cloud itself. And it doesn't matter where in the cloud. >> Yeah, at one of the things we were commenting on the open is, you know, the hybrid multicolored world. It's complicated, and IBM has a, you know, strong history with services to help drive that gives a little bit of your insight is toe what IBM brings tea. Kind of that multi cloud environment. >> It's almost too much. Right? So what we're doing is really working on the overall. How do we simplify? So we're going to meet the client where they are, So everyone's at different. You have to almost find out where they are on the journey and then even a particular client. You'll find different business units on different parts of journey so we can help him anywhere from helping figure out, you know, architect, where they would go. We could have moved to the cloud. We can actually help them manage a cloud, and they're also going to meet them where they are. So we have. If you think about what we could do with a I, we have full Aye aye stacks enterprise capabilities. But some people choose to just use their own open source and we can help them. In fact, are you see, our multi club manager allows you to manage, regardless of what you've young for your build environment. So what we're gonna do is meet clients where they are and help them do the last mile. And then we're servers and support were ableto, You know, if you look at what we do, gts were the largest red hat support organization. You look what we do with GPS. We can help people build up their own platforms and given overall struck shen and how to go drive a ay at scale in their environments. So I think I think it does play to us. And I think the red acquisition just ads. I think one of these three. >> Well, and I think, you know, we were talking about in our open that just even IBM giant application, modernization opportunity, right? I mean, because we tend to think about, you know, a I and leading edge, but there's just so much modernization opportunity and a lot of guys, you know, they don't want to go it alone with open source. The fact that IBM is there, you know, with that big blue blanket I called It's. Okay, we're gonna help you through your modernization initiatives. You know, we think a big deal. You know, we're excited about that chapter. Think about Red >> Hat that does a lot of consulting, but they have been discipline. They help you get rail going once you start Doc and open stack rights to be open shifts. Now, that is a whole different way. Tau. Look at your environment, your applications, and that takes a higher level. So it's like one and one is three. They don't do a lot of that now, right so >> well, and it's it's instant developers to That's the other thing. We said just that, while how many developers ready with a million? We're talking about Sisko before with a half a million, which is great. But you're talking eight million. Andi, you know, despite IBM's efforts around, you know, blue mix. So that was a heavy slog. Now, all of a sudden, you got eight million developers. It is. Look, Red hat. Lennox is running the Internet. You know we know this, so that's exciting. I want My last question is you've made a career early part of your career in and taking startups and getting them to a point where they could be acquired very, very successful career there. Then you joined IBM, spent some time at M. I t. You know, getting even smarter when you sit back and look at the industry, the storage industry in particular somehow that despite the trend toward, you know, cloud and bigger is better. You still see the specialist, you know, popping up all the place. You see guys like pure. You see, guys like Nutanix and you know, we saw that early with the comm Palance and the three powers and the ice Alonso, it's okay. Maybe this is the last way. But somehow, storage innovation and it continues to occur. Do you think we're seeing sort of the end of that sort of storage? Startup crazed can can independent storage companies continue to survive? What do your thoughts as an industry observer? >> So I think, is more difficult. But there's plenty of innovation. So you're seeing it as we just help people get to their journey. You're going to see different technologies that even IBM against your portfolio changed rather dramatically to keep up with the trends. And you need to do. It s Oh, I don't think it's over with, so I never want to quoted that I think there's no innovation left and there's a role for you saw storage, you know, grow last year, right? So it was. There's always been growth areas, but it's been flat also really took off on a lot of that is because we're doing >> on a I, >> which is not your average, is definitely not what pure does as faras for storage, right? But you're going to see, I think I'm going to see innovation. I think you're going to see that continue, but I think it's harder and harder for these independent firms, mostly when they scale. I think it's the innovation piece, and I think you're seeing guys like us and I am seeing others innovate very quickly and you can tell innovation is speeding up with investment cause we have to >> get our clients are demanding it, and the VCs keep pouring money in. I mean, you're seeing that in the data protection space and >> data protection isn't now cool, right? So Waseem all time. I think in general, if you look at data protection becomes now your secret weapon. When you talk about being dad driven in a classical environment, you can get copies your data at the AP Eyes anywhere in environment. So I think it's a really big play, so >> well and it opens up new opportunities beyond just back up right for whether it's Dev ops or maybe disaster recovery ransom, where even analytics? Because the backup Corpus is, you know, has all the data, and it's a lot of possibilities. Thanks so much for coming. I think we're going to see you also on Wednesday, right? And looking forward to that. So thank you. All right. Keep it right to everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. You're watching the Cube from day one. IBM thinking Mosconi right back.

>> From Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, if the queue covering Vita Winter warmer, twenty nineteen brought to you by Silicon Angle media. >> Hi, I'm stew Minutemen. And this is the Cube Worldwide Leader and live tech coverage. >> We're on the ground here at the V Tug winter warmer, and it is twenty nineteen. It's actually, the thirteenth year of this event was one of the original, if not the original Veum, where user groups covers virtual ization, cloud computing and even Mohr, always great to be able to get back to the community, get some good interviews and no better person helped me start with my first interview at a show of the year. But good friend of the program, Keith Towns and he is the CTO advisor. And he's also now a slew front architect with the M. Where Keith. Thanks for joining >> us. Thanks for having me on the cute. >> Yeah. So, Keith, I mean, you were host of our program for a number of years. You're now, you know, back working on the vendor side. But you know, you know this community. You know what I always say in my career, There, certain communities, an ecosystem where there's just love to be a part of it. And the virtual ization group. You know, I've been part of it for a long time. You know, Veum, wear and beyond, though, you know people that you know, they get excited, They geek out on the technology and they love to share. And that's why we come to events like this. >> Yeah, it is amazing. Just, you know, the every every show is getting smaller, but maybe with the session of a Ws re event, but I don't think the intensity has shrunk at all. You get around friends, you know, we're just at a desk and one of the ten days, actually, how did I get a job doing X? And the community was like, Oh, you just talk to the people at this table. So it is. It is a great, great commute. >> Yeah, it's an interesting dynamic you talk about. You know, we've seen the huge growth in Meetups in user groups and regional shows. You know, vm Where does Veum World but the VM world being where forums around the globe. I'm sure you probably have to go for a few of those they've been doing well. I'm right back in my emcee Daisy M. C. Did a number of those. So we see you. Amazon Reinvent is growing, but oh, my God, they're regional shows are ridiculous. I I've said some of those regional shows either different communities or different localities can actually be even better than some of the big shows on. You know, we love Keith. We're happy to welcome you here to the home of the NFC Championship. New England Patriots ur >> First off, Congratulations. The wait went a little better for you to bare sand and say, You know what? Tom Brady won't play forever, so enjoy it. This is amazing backdrop through him. Little finish that you've not involved. Invited me to a veto before now. >> Oh. Oh, I'm sorry, Keith. It's It's a community thing that absolutely got to come. Absolutely. I've had friends. Most of them. It is local. I'm talking to users from Maine and Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut and like so you gave a keynote this morning and you didn't True fashion. You did a block post about reality check leading in, and I thought it was a great way for us to start is, You know, there's so much change in the industry, uh, those of us that are technologies that you know, we're super excited because there's so much new stuff. It's not like Oh, jeez, you know, twenty nineteen is probably going to be just like twenty eighteen. It's like, Oh, my gosh, what did I do in twenty eighteen? What do I have to change? How do I keep up? How do I manage it? I would love to get your viewpoint. You know what's going on with Keith? And you're talking about a lot of users, so you know how help share, You know, what is the reality? Check that everybody's going >> to know. We're talking about a pre recording in the banter. Just, you know, whether it's, you know, Vienna where we're hip Theo and all the stuff that Casey Kelsey Hightower is going out with Cooper Netease. Then as you spent spent out to serve earless, uh, infrastructures Cole scripting it centre. There's much to learn that you're a bit overwhelmed and we're seeing this out. You know, as I'm talking to executive CTO CEOs, VP of infrastructure, they're filling the same kind of excitement at the same time. Overwhelmed this Like what? What's what's really You know, we had the big cloud movements over a few years ago where I think we're at the height cycle where organizations are starting to understand that. You know, Cloud isn't the destination is part of a strategy, and everyone seems to be in the throes of figuring out what that means for us. We're just on the crowd chat, talking about multi Cloud and the drivers around. Multi Cloud. You guys did a great job hosting that cloud shit chat, nothing. We saw the gambit off where people are. You know, uh, there's not really a business rationality people who are really in the throes of trying to figure it out. >> Yeah, actually, I love to comment friend of ours that we've had on the program before, Bobby Allen from Cloud General said when he's working with companies, if they ask for a three year strategy plan, he said, I will not do it unless we guarantee that we will go revisit it every six months because I looked back. You know, Clay Christensen, you no way talks about strategy is strategy is a point in time thing, not something that you write it in stone. I've been saying for a couple of years cloud strategies that companies today is, they wrote it in ink and the ink still drying. And, you know, you're probably going to need toe, you know, go through it and change it because it is changing fast and therefore, you know, huge. Out I started Deploy something. Oh, wait, what about the next thing? Or there's some new practice or something to do it. So it is challenging because I need to run my business. Today. I got to set my budget for the year, usually, um and it's I need to be agile. But, you know, I can't constantly be tearing everything up and you're not going to be throwing it out or re training and skills. I mean, there's so many challenges. >> So still, you might remember when when I was on the other side of the the table. I, uh it was meant at somewhat of a D that Veum where moves at the speed of the aisle, and it was picked up as Maury compliment. But >> it was a >> big I'll be honest that it was a dig. And what I've learned the past few months is that Veum, where has to move at the speed of the CIA, is no longer and It's not just being wherever the community has and the CIA always faced with that we could do a few years ago. A cloud strategy, and that thing can sit on the desk for a year, and it would still be valid. But the bobbies point, if you're going to do a strategy and three year strategy, got to revisit that every six months and this agility that were not accustomed to previously in the industry, we have to now become super agile and figure out how do we keep the lights on and innovate at the pace That business, these witches? Pretty good chance. >> Yeah, it's attorney were beginning the year I made a comment personally said, You know, I'm not a big believer in, you know, setting. You know, Resolutions. Mohr. You know, let's set goals Your runner, I do some biking and it's like, Okay, you know, I've got a big race I want to do this year. I'm gonna work myself, you know, towards that goal and raise the money. You've got a certain target and something that you could do over the year. It's and there's no way that you do that, cos you know they've got goals that they need to accomplish and business. And it's great to say, Oh, well, we need to be more efficient. We need to do some down something different. But, you know, reality is, you know, it's not just digital transformation of modernizing. It was, you know. Oh, okay. Do I need to transform my backup? You know, data protection, you know, huge activity going on in the marketplace right now, you know? So, what >> is sixty million noon investment in one >> week? Exactly. You know, the wave of hyper convergence is one that really changed a lot of architectures and had people change. You know, we've talked cloud computing. They're what are some of the, You know, some of the big, you know, movements that you see, you know, will you? Tracking the industry? It was kind of the the intel refunds for a cycle, and, you know, Oh, well, it's the next version of Microsoft or, you know, Veum, where operating system would be one of those big, you know, kind of ticked. Talks of what? What are some of the big commonalities that you're seeing Al? So they're actually moving people to >> new things without a doubt. There is one conversation that customers cannot get the enough of. And I had Ah, on my little vlog. I had game being from Vienna, where V P off the Storch and Business availability unit and I challenged her on the via Where? Vision around this. But customers cannot get enough of having a conversation around data. What they What do they do with data? And how does a move data? How did they get compute closest to data? How did we get data they're closest to? They're re sources. We talked about it on the multi cloud conversation, but by far conversations are around. Howto they extract value from data had really protect data, and howto they make sure their compliant with the data is something that that's driving a lot of innovation and a lot of conversation. A lot of interest. >> Yeah, Keith, it's a great one. When I look at you know, our research team, that wicked bond data is that the center of everything. In many ways, the failings of big data was talking about, You know, the challenges. I have infrastructure. No, the growth and the variety and blah, blah, blah and everything that's not what important to the business they don't care about, You know, it's like, Oh, well, there's a storage problem in a network problem. It's the business says there's data, you know? Do I protect my bird business to make sure that I'm not a risk? You know, all the things like DDP are coming And can I livered value? Do I Can I get new lines of business? Can I generate revenue out of that? And I've seen early signs that we've learned this whole, You know, a I m l movement. You know, data, Really? At the center. All right, we've seen enough storage. We went from talking about storing data to about, you know, that data ecosystem, Andi, even computing and I ot data where data needs to be, how I work it. Absolutely a center. So, yeah, it's great to hear that. Customers are identifying that. We've been doing like, chief data officer events for many years. You know, where does data live? Is that a CEO Thing? Is that a different part of the business? I don't know if you've got anything you're seeing from, you know, your customers is Tau, >> who owns the Data initiative, So it's really interesting. I had a conversation with a major bank, and it was a one on one with the CDO and what I thought was the most tricky part of the conversation is that here, Not only does he report directly into the CIA, which you know is to be expected, but he meets regularly with the board of directors. So data were seen. I've seen these seedy old rolls being popped up, and it's not just about the technology as you mentioned. It's about the whole approach about this asset that we have. It's so critical that worth creating a sea level position that today might reporting to the CEO but is most definitely accountable to the border director. >> Well, yeah, Keith, it's that the trend we've been watching for a while, as it used to be, it was a cost center. And, you know, it's kind of, you know, that's what it was considered today. If it isn't in, you know, direct relationship, working with the business, the business will go find somebody else to do it. The whole stealthy movement. You know, I can go find an answer for what I'm doing. I think about project I've worked on in my career and been like, I wish it was easy. You know, fifteen years ago, it was today to do those. But we see security's a board level discussion data as a board level discussion is excellent. And all of those things that traditionally you would think that own them. Having awareness and visibility and information communication flow between the board in the C suite is great progress. You >> know, it's interesting. I was a big proponent of this prior to coming on The vendor side is that vendors have to start having conversations outside of it. So traditional infrastructure of injustice, his goal. Hurry, right saw and where the whole the Dale emcee Dale Technologies they have to skill up and have conversations with CIA moles. Seo's CEO Ole's H R directors because the these buying centers now have power to go out and buy solutions. You know, talked about in my no keynote this morning. You know how many people have worked day? How many people have salesforce applications? They had nothing to do when I had no nothing to do with the procurement of off these solutions. The ball is moving outside of just traditional for court technology is starting to get to the point where regular users can consume business users can consume these massive, massive solutions based on technology and just happens to be a label. The technology, whether sales Force worked in >> Sochi, thought on this this whole point there want to ask you, In my career, there's often been groups inside a business that didn't get along. And we, you know, built silos. You know, the storage in the network team don't get along cloud and traditional I t You know what we're fighting? You know who owns it? Turf wars Managing that, You know, have we built silos in multi cloud today? Is everybody holding hands and, you know, pointing the business in the same direction, you could kind of give us the good the bad. So what? We need to work on going forward. >> I think the good is that you know that the umbrella of infrastructure starting to work as a single. Uh, you So you have storage, compu networking, even configuration man groups that were kind of confrontational before and territorial. Those groups are starting. Tio. Come on. Their one senior manager or one senior executive looking at? How do you provide services as a group and providing those services? I think we're we're starting to see Silos is actually the developer versus the infrastructure group is developers just wantto FBI, too. A set of services. They want infrastructure to get away. Developers themselves. Haven't you know, kind of katende enough of the scars from heaven have to do operations, So there's a different view off the world. And, uh, today I think developers haven't yet getting the budget power off operations. But the business wants solutions, and they're going out there competing with traditional Teo get the dollars to run the services in the cloud or or wherever, however they consumed them, whether it's, you know, just saw Chick fil a's deploying two thousand ten points to run six thousand containers at the edge. Is that something that's run by tears? That something wrong? Run by developers? I don't know. Check feeling well enough to know about. This is what we're seeing in >> industry. Yeah. All right. Well, keep towns. And always a pleasure to catch up with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Be sure to check him out see Teo advisor on Twitter, check out his blogged. And of course, thank you so much for watching. We'll be back. Uh, lots more coverage here at V tug. Winter warmer, twenty nineteen. Thanks for watching.

from the silicon angle media office in Boston Massachusetts it's the queue now here's your host David on tape so cube conversations simplifying blockchain for developers remi karpadito is here is the CEO of espresso remy thanks for coming in yeah thanks for having yeah so you guys are in the Seaport we want to hear all the action that's going on there but let's start with espresso CEO founder or co-founder um not a co-founder founder okay good just to clarify with respect to your co-founders voice why did you guys start espresso yeah no it starts back on in a little bit little while ago we originally wanted to and a replace our first company was a company called campus towel and we want to replace student identity with NFC chips and smart phones and it was a really cool concept back in 2010 but at the time there's only one phone that had the technology capable of pulling the south and we built a prototype with that smart phone as a Samsung phone at the time and we brought that around to a dozen plus colleges showing hey you could replace the student ID with the phone you can just tap your phone to it for attendance for events etc and they loved it but everyone had the same question you know when is the iPhone can have the technology and we were three years early the iPhone didn't come up with NFC chips until 2013 and we ended up hitting into a mentoring platform and scaled that company October 70 colleges across the country but ironically enough we came back to the same issue a lot of CIOs and CTOs wants to interface with their single sign-on servers which required us to support this legacy technology you know so AJ and I spun back internally AJ's our co-founder and CTO to identify how can we replace identity again but instead of using hardware and smartphones let's use the blockchain and AJ was an early a Bitcoin adopter back in 2010 mining Bitcoin really I'm passionate about the technology and I started learning a little bit more about it and trying to find a way to incorporate blockchain technology into our student identity solution as a secondary offering for Campus Tau but we quickly realized was that our front-end engineering team who is a little bit underwater in terms of the technical skills that needed to help and participate in the development for the boccie an identity solution so we ended up building up to middleware components to help them with the development and that's where we saw kind of that's where the lightbulb went off and the bigger opportunity came about where a lot of the infrastructure and tooling needed in order to build a production level blockchain application isn't quite there yet ice we ended up hitting and building a new company called espresso to make botching development more accessible so let's talk about that that the challenge that your developers face so you were at the time writing in for aetherium and in solidity right which is explain to our audience why that's so challenging what is solidity yeah and and why is it so complex yes illinit e is a JavaScript based framework for writing smart contracts on in the etherion platform it's not a fully baked or fully developed tools that yet in terms of the language there's some nuances but on top of that you also need to understand how to support things like the infrastructure so the cryptography the network protocols so if you want to sustain your own blockchain there's a lower-level skill set needed so the average JavaScript engineering could be a little bit kind of overwhelmed by what's needed to actually participate in a full-blown botching development yes and they're probably close to 10 million JavaScript engineers worldwide so it sounds like your strategy is to open up blockchain development to that massive you know resource yeah and in JavaScript being a definite core focus out of the gates and will be developing a plethora of SDKs including JavaScript and Python and Ruby etc in the thought process is you know activating these engineers that have coming new code academies or Enterprise engineers that really get a C++ or another language and allowing them to code in the languages they already know and allow them to participate the blockchain development itself okay and so how many developers are on your team so we've it's a small ad product teams three people on a parodic team now but we're actually the process is killing that up yeah so those guys actually had to go on the job training so they kind of taught themselves and then that's where you guys got the idea said okay yeah exactly and we realized that you know if we could build out this infrastructure this tooling layer that just allows you compile the language as you know into the software or the blockchain side it can make it a much more accessible and then also the other thing too that's interesting it's not just kind of writing the languages they already accustomed to but it's also the way you architect these blockchain solutions and one thing we've realized is that a lot of people think that you know every piece of data needs to live on the blockchain where that's really not something I've been teachers for you to do so because it's really expensive to put all the data on the blockchain and it's relatively slow right now with ethereum of 30 transactions per second there's companies like V chain that are looking to remedy some of those solutions with faster write data write times but the thought process is you can also create this data store and with our middleware it's not just an SDK but it's a side chain or a really performant in-memory based data store they'll allow you to store off chain data it's still in a secure fashion through consensus etc that can allow you to write data rich or today's level applications on the blockchain which is really kind of the next step I see coming in the Box chain space so I'm gonna follow up on when coaching there I mean historically distributed database which is what blockchain is it's been you know hard to scale it's like I say low transaction volumes they had to pick the right use cases smart contracts is an obvious one yeah do you feel as though blockchain eventually you mentioned V chain it sounds like they're trying to solve that problem will eventually get there to where it can can compete with the more centralized model head on and some of you know the more mainstream apps yeah and that's and that's kind of where we are because our thought process if we were to move campus topic the kind of private LinkedIn for colleges per se on to the blockchain back when we started it wouldn't be possible so how do you store this non pertinent data this transactional or not even transactional this attribute data within a boxing application and that's really where that second layer solution comes into play and you see things like lightning Network for Bitcoin etc and plasma for aetherium but creating this environment where a developer comes on they create an account they name their application they pick their software language and then they pick their blockchain there's pre-built smart contract we offer them but on top of that they already have this data store that they can leverage these are things that people already accustomed to in the web 2.0 world these are the caching layers that everyone uses things like Redis etcetera that we're bringing into the blockchain space that well I that we believe will allow this kind of large-scale consumer type application well when you think about blockchain you think okay well he thinks it's secure right but at the same time if you're writing in solidity and you're not familiar with it the code could be exposed to inherent security flaws is that so do you see that as one of the problems that you're solving sort of by default yeah I think one thing here is that I kind of as you write a smart contract you need to audit you test it so on and so forth and so we're helping kind of get that core scaffolding put up for the developer so they don't need to start from scratch they don't need to pull a vanilla smart contract off of a open source library they can leverage ones that are kind of battle tested through our through our internal infrastructure so the last part of our kind of offering is this marketplace of pre developed components that developers can leverage to rapidly prototype or build their applications whether it be consumer engineer or enterprise that one and you were developer what's your back my background yeah so I studied entrepreneurship and Information Systems so I do have I was a database analyst at fidelity it was my last job in the corporate world so I do have some experience developing nowhere near that of my co-founder AJ or some of our other but but yeah I understand the core concepts pretty well well speaking blockchain who if she was talking about obviously you you see a lot of mainstream companies obviously the banks are all looking at it you're seeing companies we just you know heard VMware making some noise the other day you're at certainly IBM makes a lot of noise about smart contracts so you're seeing some of these mainstream enterprise tech companies you know commit to it what do you see there in terms of adoption in the mainstream yeah no I think the enterprise space is gonna want to fully embrace this technology first I think the consumer level we're still a little bit ways away there just because this infrastructure and this tooling is needed before developers kind of get there but from the enterprise space what we see I mean obvious things like supply chain being a phenomenal use case the blockchain technology Walmart IBM are already implementing really cool solutions one of them my advisors Rob Dulci is the president of Asia and they've successfully implemented several blockchain projects from car parts manufacturers to track and trace through wine seeds and this from grape seeds and so there's a lot of different use cases in the supply chain side identity is really exciting Estonia is already doing some really cool work with digital identities that's gonna have a big impact voting systems etc but also thinking through some newer concepts like video streaming and decentralization of Network Maps and so there's many different use cases and for us we're not trying to necessary solve like a dis apply chain problem or anything we're trying to give a set of tools that anyone can use for their verticals so we're excited to see kind of what a spreads used for and over the next several months to here I remember you mentioned V chain before so explain what V chain is and now your what you're doing with those guys yes if V chain is another kind of next generation blockchain they're they're v chain Thor is the new platform and actually their main net launch is tomorrow and they're really excited they're introducing heightened security faster block times more transactions per second they have a really interesting governance model that I think is a good balance between pure decentralization in the centralized world which i think is that that intermediate step that a lot of these enterprises are going to need to get to end of the block chain space and we're working with them or lon on their platform so our token sale will be run through V chain which is great in addition we'll be working with them with through strategic partnerships and the goal is have espresso be the entry point for developers coming into V chain so we'll help kind of navigate the waters and kind of have them leverage the pre-built smart contracts and get more developers into the ecosystem okay let's talk about your token sale so you're doing the utility token yep and so that means you've actually got utility in the token so how is that utility token being utilized within your community yeah so the data actually the token is used to meter and mitigate abuse in the platform as well so at every single transaction it'll validate the transaction in addition it will be an abstraction layer since we do speak to multiple block chains that ezpz token will have to abstract up to aetherium to Thor which is the V chain token the future dragon chain etc so that's a really interesting use case and one of the interesting things we're trying to solve right now if you're a developer trying to come in and use it it cryptocurrency for development you need to go to something like a coin base you have to exchange fiat to aetherium you have to push that out to a third party exchange you have to do a trade and then you have to send that digital wallet address where you get easy peasy Oh to our account after that's a ton of friction and that's more friction if you're not a crypto person you're gonna be what is it you're gonna be asking to do it yeah so we're talking to some pretty big potential partners that allow kind of they would be the intermediate intermediary or money service to allow a seamless transition for engineer just to come straight onto espresso put down a credit card bank account verified go through the standard kyc AML process and then be able to get easy peasy in real time and that's something that at a macro level I think is one of the biggest barriers to entry in the botching space today so what do you call you your token easy-peasy okay so you're making that simple transparent done so you're doing a utility token you do in a raise where are you at would that raise give us the details there yeah yes so we just close our friends and family around we're not private sale right now are working closely with the VA in the VA chain foundation helping kick that off right now as well and we're yeah this is gonna be much more strategic capital in this round and then after that we'll be moving into since we are partnered with each a in their community gets a little bit of exclusivity in the next piece of the round so their master note holders will get a bigger discount in the next round and then the last round will be the public round for the general community and that's where we anticipate a lot of developers we already have development shops coming on participating in the first round which is great because the thought process is we want to get as many developers in this platform as possible throughout the summer and I think that's one of the most unique things about the token sales it's not just raising capital it's actually getting people that want to use your product to buy him now and that's that's amazing so okay so you're doing the private sale first right and you open that up to those types of folks that you just mentioned and they get some kind of discount on the on the token because they're there in early and they're backing you guys early and then you guys got a telegram channel I know it was on the recently anything is exploding it looks like a pretty hot you know offering and then then what happens next then you open it up to just a wider audience we start getting the core community members from V chain and then after that the public sale will be really targeted for the unused these are the people that you know need to put in a large substantial amount of capital again and at that point you could put in a couple hundred dollars and actually participate in in the token sale and you'd be getting in the kind of ground Florida sand and the SEC just made a ruling you know recently a week ago or so that Bitcoin and in aetherium were not security so that's a good thing nonetheless you as a CEO and entrepreneur you must have been concerned about you know a utility token and making sure everything's clean that there actually is utility you can't just use the utility token to do a raise and then go build the products you have you had it you have a working product right yeah so there's a lot of functionality already set up and we're going to continue to iterate before we even get close to the actual tokens or the public sale right so we anticipate having full functionality of what we want to get out there to the development world by the end of the sale so it's the thing that we I think one of the biggest things in this space right now in terms of the law and compliance side is a lot of self regulation since in the u.s. in particular it's such a great area you need to one stay up-to-date with every single hearing announcement but also really make sure you're you're taking best practices with kyc AML making sure the people you know good people that are investing into the comm or I've kind of participating in the allocation and and that's something we you know we've spent a lot of time with our legal team I've got pretty intimate with our lawyers and really understanding kind of the nuances of this space over time what about domicile what can you advise people you know based on your experience in terms of domicile yeah I'm not a lawyer but based on our experience I mean there's some great places over in in Europe you know Switzerland Malta Gibraltar we're down on the came in and also Singapore there's a you know these different legislature or jurisdictions are writing new law to support the effort and I think that's gonna continue to happen and I hope it happens in the u.s. too so we remove some of this nuance and gray areas that people can feel more comfortable operating and I think that's gonna happen hopefully soon in the next six months or so we'll see but as long as more guidance continues to come out I think we can operate or people can operate in the US I know a lot of people are moving offshore like we did so just something that's gonna it's a tough area right now well it gives you greater flexibility um and it like you said it's less opaque so you can have more confidence that what you're gonna do is on the up-and-up because as an entrepreneur you don't want you know I'm not gonna worry about compliance you just want to do your job and write great code and execute and build a company and so I mean I feel I don't know if you agree that the u.s. is a little bit behind you know this is kind of really slow to support entrepreneurs like yourselves like like us we'd like more transparency and clarity and you just can't seem to get a decision you're sort of in limbo and you got to move your business ahead so you make a decision you go to the Caymans you go to Switzerland you go to Malta and you move on right so and I think it's interesting too and you know a lot of what the SEC did in the beginning there's a ton of bad actors out there just as well and there's a bunch of good actors too so again if you yourself regulate you play you really understand what you need to do to be compliant you should be fine but again I think the flexibility you get right now is the more kind of defined law and some these other jurisdictions makes a lot of it yeah and I don't mean to be unfair to SEC they are doing a job and they need to protect the little guy and protect the innocent no question I would just like to see them be more proactive and provide more clarity sooner than later so okay last question the Seaport scene in Boston you know we always compare Boston and silicon silicon valley you can't compare the two Silicon Valley's a vortex in and of itself but the Boston scenes coming back there's blockchain there's IOT the Seaport is cranking you guys are in the Seaport you live down there what are you seeing would give us a what's the vibe like ya know watching me just passed about a month ago it may be less and as the great turnouts I spoke at a few events a few hundred people kind of it each one which is great and it's interesting you get a good mix of Enterprise people looking to learn and educate themselves in the space you see the venture capital side moving into the space and participating in a lot of these larger scale events and it's definitely growing rapidly in terms of the blockchain scene in Boston and I spent some time in New York and that's another great spot to and an even think places like Atlanta and I was down in Denver I did a big presentation down in Denver which was awesome and and now the coolest thing about blockchain is it really is global I spent a lot of time in Asia and in Europe and speaking over there the the pure at like the tangible energy in the room is amazing and it's one of the most exciting things about the industry many people that in the space know we're on the cutting edge here we're on the this is a new frontier that we're building along the way being part of that and helping define that is pretty exciting stuff that's cool you know I said last question I lied I forgot to ask you a little bit more about your your team maybe you could you talk a team your team your advisors maybe you could just give us a brief yeah okay there my co-founder and CTO we've been working together since I believe my sophomore year at college so it's been a while and he's their original crypto a blockchain guy and and pushed us in the spaces leading to the product development on that from in the top of that we have Craig Gainsborough our CFO I actually spent a lot of time at PwC he was the North America tax and advisory CFO over there Jalen Lou is the director of product marketing Kevin coos the head of product he worked he was nominated for a Webby and then we have our ops team Kyle who's a former campus - a complete business deaf guy over there that's working on us from some of the other side on the advisory team we have a really good team sunny luke from the CEO and founder of e chain just came on eileen quentin the president of Dragon chain foundation that was the blockchain company spun out of Disney and then David for gamma is the co-founder and had a product at autonomy that's an IOT protocol really really cool stuff happening over there new new new program coming about Rob Dulci as the president of Asia in North America which is the supply chain company and they've already successfully deployed a handful of use cases and mihaela dr. mahele Uluru who is really interesting and in this sense that she was working on decentralized systems before they were called blockchain she worked with the professor in Berkeley that defined decentralized in technology and she speaks in the World Economic Forum frequently and is really just a global presenter so we have we feel like we have a really strong team right now and we're actually getting to the point of scaling so it's gonna be exciting to start bringing in some new people and picking up the momentum it's super exciting well listen congratulations on getting to where you are and best of luck going forward best of luck with the raise and and solving the problem that you're solving it's it's an important one and thanks for coming in the cube of course thank you so much you're welcome all right thanks for watching everybody we'll see you next time this is david onte