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Will Grannis, Google | CUBE Conversation, May 2020


 

from the cube studios in Palo Alto in Boston connecting with thought leaders all around the world this is a cube conversation run welcome to this cube conversation I'm John Fourier with the cube host the cube here in our Palo Alto office for remote interviews during this time of covin 19 we're here with the quarantine crew here in our studio we got a great guest here from Google we'll Grannis managing director head of the office of the CTO with Google cloud thanks for coming on we'll appreciate you you spend some time with me Oh John's great to be with you and as you said in these times more important than ever to stay connected yeah and I'm really glad you came on because a couple things one congratulations to Google cloud for the success you guys had so a lot of big wins under your belt both on the momentum side on the business side but also on the technical side meat is available now for folks anthos is doing very very well partner ecosystem is developing got some nice used cases in vertical marker so I want to get in and unpack with you but really the bigger story here is that the world has seen the future before was ready for it and that is the at scale challenge that the Cova 19 has shown everyone we're seeing you know the future has been pulled forward we're living in a virtualized environment it's funny to say that virtualization has a server virtualization is a tech term but that enabled a lot of things we're living in a virtualized world now because we have to but this is gonna set in motion a series of new realities that you guys have been experiencing and supporting for many many years but now as a provider of Google cloud you guys have to operate at scale you have and now the whole world realizes that scale is a big deal and so you guys have had some successes I want to get your thoughts on the this at scale problem that the world now realizes I mean everyone's at home that's a disruption that was unfortunate whether it's under provisioning VPNs NIT to a surface area for security to just work and play and activities are now confined so people aren't convening anymore and it's a huge issue what's your take on all this well I mean to your point just now the fact that we can have this conversation we can have it blue idli from our respective remote locations just goes to show you the power of information technology that underlies so many of the things that we say and for Google Cloud this is not a new thing and for Google this is not a new thing for Google cloud we add a mission of trying to help companies accelerate their transformation and enable them in these new digital environments and so many companies that we've been working with they've already been on the path to operating an environments that are digital that are fluid and you think about the cloud that's one of the great benefits loud is that scalability income with the business demand and it also helps the scale situation without having to you know do the typical what you need to find the procurement people we need to find server vendors we need to get the storage lined up it really allows a much more fluid response to unexpected and unfortunate situations whether that's customer demand or you know in this case the global endemic yeah one of the things I want to get in with you I want to get you have explained your job is there because I see Google's got a new CEO now for over a year Tom's Korean came from Oracle knows the enterprise up and down you had Diane Greene before that again another enterprise leader Google Cloud has essentially rebuilt itself from the original Google cloud to be very enterprise centric you guys have great momentum and and this is a world where cloud native is going to be required I mean everyone now sees it the the tide has been pulled out there everything's exposed all the gaps in business from a tech standpoint it's kind of exposed and so the smart managers and companies are looking at things and saying double down on that let's kill that we don't want to pay that supplier they're not core to our business this is going to be a very rapid acceleration of what I call a vetting of the new the new set of players that are going to emerge because the folks who don't adapt to this new cloud native reality whether it's app workloads for banking to whatever they're gonna have to have to reinvent themselves now and reset and tweek to come out of this crisis so it's gonna be very cloud native this is a big deal can you share your your reaction to that absolutely and so as you pointed out there are kind of two worlds that exist right now companies that are moving to become more digital and transform and you mentioned the momentum I mean in Google cloud just over the last year greater than 50 percent revenue growth and you know and I greater than 10 billion dollar run rate business and adding customers that are really quick flip you know including you know just yesterday slung and you know along the way Telecom Italia Major League Baseball Vodafone Lowe's Wayfarer Activision Blizzard's so this is not you this transformation and this digitization is not just for you know a few or just for any one industry it's happening across the board and then you add that to the implementations that have been happening across you know Shopify and the Spotify and HSBC which was a early customer of ours in the cloud and it you know already has a little bit of a head start of this transformation so you see these new companies coming in and seeing the value of digital transformation and then these other companies that have kind of lit the path for others to consider and you know Shopify is a really good example of how seeing you know drastic uptick in demand they're able to responding you know roughly half a million shops up and running you know during a period of time where many retailers are trying to figure out how to stay online or you can get online well what is your role at Google I see you're the managing director title is managing director ahead of the office of the CTO we've seen these roles before you know head of this CTO you're off see technical role is it partnering with the CEO on strategy is it you kick tire kicking new things are you overseeing any strategic initiatives what is what is your role so a little bit of all those things combined into one so I I spent the first couple decades of my career on the other side of the in the non-tech you know community no in the enterprise where we were still building technology and we were still you know digitally minded but not the way that people view technology in Silicon Valley and so you know spending a couple decades in that environment really gave me insights into how to take technology and apply them to a specific problem and when I came to Google five years ago yeah selfishly it was because I knew the potential of Google's technology having been on the other side and I was really interested in forming a better bridge between Google's technology and people like me who were CTOs of public companies and really wanted the leverage that technology for problems that I was solving whether it was aerospace public sector manufacturing what-have-you and so it's been great it's the it's the role of a lifetime I've been able to build the team that I wanted as an enterprise technologist for decades and the entire span of technologies at our disposal and we do two things one is we help our most strategic customers accelerate their path loud and 2 we create these signals by working with the top companies moving to the cloud and digitally transforming we learned so much John about what we need to build as an organization so it also helps balance out the Google driven innovation with our customer driven innovation yeah and I could I can attest that we didn't watching you guys from the from day one hired a lot of great enterprise people that I personally know so you getting the enterprise chops and staff and getting you seeing some progress I have to ask you though because I first of all a big fan of Google at the scale from knowing them from when they were just a little search engine to what they are now the there was an expression a few years ago I heard from enterprise customers it was goes along the lines like this I want to be like Google because you guys had a great network you had large-scale you've had all these things that were like awesome and then they realized what we can't be like Google we don't have that sorry we don't have large-scale data centers so there was a little bit of a translation and I want to say a little bit of a overplay of the Google hand and you guys had since realized that you didn't it wasn't just people gonna bang your doorstep and be adopting Google cloud because there was a little bit of a cultural disconnect from wanting to be like Google then leveraging Google in their business as they transform so as you guys have moved from that what's changed they still want to be like Google in the sense you have great security got a great network you got that scale and it prizes a little bit slower to adopt that which you're focused on now what is that the story there because I think that's kind of the theme that I'm hearing okay Google now understands me they know I'm not as fast as Google they got super great people we are training our people we're treating you know retrain them this is the transformation that they're going through so you might be a little bit ahead of them certainly but now they need to level up how do you respond to that well a lot of this is the transformation that Thomas has been enacting you know over the last year plus and it comes in kind of three very operation or technical pillars that I think the first we expanded our customer and we continue to expand our customer facing themes you know three times what they were before because we need to be there we need to be in those situations we need to hear from the customer mean to learn more about the problems they're trying to solve so we don't just take a theoretical principle and try to overlay it onto a problem we actually get very visceral understanding of what trying to solve but you have to be there the game that empathy and that understanding and so one is showing up and that you know has been mobilizing a much larger engine the customer facing out personnel from Google second it's also been really important that we evolve our own you know just as Google brought sre principles and principles of distributed systems and software design out for the world we also had a little bit to learn about transitioning from typical customer support and moving to more customer experience so you've seen you know that evolution under on this as well with cloud changing you know moving from talking about support to talking about customer experience that white glove experience that our customers get our partners get from the beginning of their journey with us all the way through and then finally making sure that our product roadmap has the solutions that are relevant across be priority industries for us and you know that's again that only comes from being present from having a focus in those industry and then developing the solutions that progress those companies so again not this isn't about taking you know a principle and trying to apply it blindly this is about adding that connection that really deep connections to our customers and our partners and letting that connection manifest the things that we have to do as a product company the best support them over a long period some of these deals we've been announcing these are 10-year five-year multi-year strategic partnerships they go across the campus of you know all of you and you know those are the really exciting scaled partnerships but you know to your point you can't just take SR re from Google and apply it to company X but you can take things like error budgets or how we think about the principles of sree and you can apply them over the course of developing technology collaborating innovating together yeah and I think cloud native is gonna be a key thing and yeah I think what it's just my opinion but I think one of those situations where the better mousetrap will win if your cloud native and you have api's and you have the kind of services that people will will know beaded to your doorstep so I have to ask you with Thomas Korean on board obviously we've been following his career as well at Oracle he knows what he's doing comes in to Google it's being built out it's like a rocket ship at this point what bet is he making and what bet are you guys making on behalf of your customers what's the if you have to boil it down to Google clouds big bet what is the bet on the technology side and what's the bet on the business side sure well I've already mentioned you know I've already Internet's you know the big strategy that Thomas is brought in and you know that is the that's again those three pillars making sure that we show up and that we're present by having a scaled customer facing organization and making sure that we transitioned from you know a typical support mindset into more of customer experience mindset and then making sure that those solutions are tailored and available for our priority industries if I was to add you know more color to that I think one of the most important changes that Thomas has personally been driving as he's been converting us to a partner LED is and a partner led organization and this means a lot of investments in large mobile systems integrators like Accenture and Deloitte but this also means that like the Splunk announcement from yesterday that isn't just the cell >> this is a partnership it goes deep across go-to-market product and self do and then we also bring in very specific partners like Temenos in Europe for financial services or a SATA or a rack space for migrations and as a result the already we're seeing really incredible lifts so for example nearly 200 percent year-over-year increase in partner influenced revenue Google cloud and almost like a 13 X year-over-year increase in new customers one-bite partners that's the kind of engine that builds a real hyper scale does it's just saying you mentioned Splunk I want to get that in a second but I also notice there was a deal with Dallas group on ECM subscriptions which kind of leads me into the edge piece there's a real edge component here with Google cloud and I think I'd Akashi edge with Jennifer Lynn a few years ago really digging into the built-in security and the value of the Google Network I mean a lot of the scuttlebutt around the valley and the industry is you know Google's got an amazing network store a software-defined networking is gonna be a hot program programmable area so you got programmable networking and you got edge and edge security these are killer areas that need innovation could you comment on what you guys are doing there and do you agree I'm out see with you have a killer Network and you're leveraging it what's the can you just give some insight into what's going on those those two areas network and then the edge yeah I think what you're seeing is the manifestation of an of the progression of cloud generally what do I mean by that you know started out as like get everything to the data center you know we kind of had this thought that maybe we could take all the workloads and we could get them to these centralized hubs and they could redistribute out the results and you know drive the latency down over time so we span the portfolio of applications and services that would be relevant over time and what we've seen over the last decade really in cloud is an evolution >> more of a layered architecture and that layered architecture includes you know poor data centers that includes CDN capacity points of presence that includes edge and just in that list of customers over the last year I there were at least three or four telcos in there and you've also probably heard and seen quite a bit of telco momentum coming from asks in recent announcements I think that's an indication that a lot of us are thinking about how can we pick big technology like anthos for example and how could we orchestrate workloads create a common control play and you know manage services across those three shells if you will of the architecture and that's a that's a very strategic and important area for us and I think generally for the cloud industry easy it was expanding beyond the data center as the place where everything happens and you can look at you know Google Phi you look at stadia you can look at examples within Google they go well beyond cloud as to how we think about new ways to leverage that kind of creature all right so we saw some earnings come out on Amazon side as Google both groups and Microsoft well all three clouds are crushing it on the cloud side that's a tailwind I get that but as it continues we're expecting post kovat some you know redistribution of development dollars and projects whether it's IT going cloud native or whatever new workloads we are predicting a Cambrian explosion of new things from core to edge and this is gonna create some lift so I want to get your thoughts on you guys strategy with go-to market as well as your customers as they now have the ability to build workloads and apps with ai and data there seems to be a trend towards the vertical ization of whether its sales and go to market and/or specialism because you have horizontal scalability with cloud and you now have data that has distinct value in these verticals so it really seems to be a I won't say ratification but in a way that seems to be the norm whether you come into a market you have specialization but the date is there so apps can be more agile do you are you guys seeing that and is that something that you guys are considering from from an organization standpoint and how do customers think about targeting vertical industries and their customers yeah I I bring this to and where you started going there at the end of the question is exactly the way that we think about it as well which is we've moved from you know here are storage offers for everybody and here's you know basic infrastructure everybody and now we've said how can we make sure that we have solutions that are tailored with very specific problems that customers are trying to solve and we're getting to the point now where your performance and variety of technologies are available to be able to compose very specific solutions and if you think about the substrate that has to be there you know we mentioned you have to have some really great partners and you have to have you know roadmap that is focused on priority solution area so for example at Google cloud you know we're very focused on six priority vertical areas so retail financial services health care manufacturing and industrials health care life sciences public sector and you know as a result of being very focused in those areas we can make more target investments and also align our entire go-to-market system and our entire partner ecosystem ecosystem around those beers specific priority areas so for example we worked with SATA and HDA Healthcare Rob very recently to develop and maintain a national response portal Berko vat19 and that's to help better inform communities and hospitals we can use looker to help with like a Commonwealth Care Alliance on nonprofit and that helps monitor patient system symptoms and risk factors so you know we're using you know a very specific focus in healthcare and a partner ecosystem - you know ferry tailored solutions you know you can also look at I mentioned Shopify earlier that's another great example of how in retail they can use something like Google meat inherent reliability scalability security to connect their employees during these interesting times but then they can also use GCP at Google cloud platform to scale out and as they come up with new apps and experiences for their shoppers for their shops they can rapidly deploy to your point and those you know those solutions and you know how the database performs and how those tiers perform you that's a very tight-knit feedback loop with our engineering teams yeah one of the things I'm seeing obviously with the virtualization of the kovat is that you know when the world gets back to normal it'll be hybrid and it'll be a hybrid between reality not physical and 100% virtual hybrid and that's going to impact events to media to everything every vertical will be impacted and I want to point out the Splunk team bring that back in because I want you to comment on the relevance of the Splunk to you and in context to Splunk has a cloud they got a great slogan data for every everywhere everywhere dated to everywhere I think it is but the cube we have a cloud every company will have a cloud scale at some level will progress to having some sort of cloud because they have data how are you guys powering those clouds because I think the Splunk deal is interesting their partner their stock price was up out on the news of the deal a nice bump their first Blunk shout out to those guys but they're a data company now they're cross-platform but they're not Google but they have a cloud so you know saying so they need to play in all the clouds but they need infrastructure they need support so how do you guys talk to that customer and that says hey the next pandemic that comes the next crisis that's going to cause some either social disruption or workflow disruption or work supply chain disruption I need to be agile I need have full cloud scale and so I need to talk to Google what do you say to them what's the pitch and as does a Splunk deal Samir some of those capabilities or tie that together for us the spunk deal and how it relates to sure for example proof themselves for the future sorry for example with the cloud deal you take a look at what Google is already really good at data processing at scale log analytics you take a look at what Splunk is doing you know with their events and security incident monitoring and the rest it a really great mashup because they see by platforming on Google cloud not only they get highly performant infrastructure but they also get the opportunity to leverage data tools data analytics tools machine learning and AI that can help them provide enhance services so not just about acity going up and down your periods of band but also enhancing services and continuing to offer more value to their customers and we see that you know it's a really big trend and you know this gets it something you know John a little bit bigger which is the two views of the world and we talked about very tailored focused solutions Splunk is an example of making a very methodical approach to a partnership developing a solution specifically you know with partners and you know in this case Splunk on the security event management side but we're always going to provide our data processing platform our infrastructure for companies across many different industries and I think that addresses one part of the topic which is you know how do we make sure that in periods of demand rapidly changing this deals back to the foundational elements of like AI infrastructure as a service and elasticity and we're gonna provide a platform infrastructure that can help companies move through periods of you know it's hard to forecast and/or demand may rise and fall you know in very interesting ways but then there's going to be funds where you know we we because they're not a necessarily a focused use case where it may just be generalized platform versus a focused solution so for example like in the oil and gas industry we don't develop custom AI ml solutions the facility upstream extraction for example but what we do do is work with renewable energy companies to figure out how they might be able to leverage some of our AI machine learning algorithms from our own data centers to make their operations more efficient and to help those renewable energy companies learn from what we've learned building out the but I consider to be a world leading renewable energy strategy and so classic and able mint model where you're enabling your platform for your customers okay so I got to ask the question I asked this to the Microsoft guys as well because Amazon you know has their own sass stuff but but really more of an tend the better products usually on the ecosystem side you guys have some killer sass cheap tree-sweet where customer if we use the g sqweep really deeply we also use some BigTable as well I want to build a cloud we have a cloud cube cloud but you guys have meat so I want to build my product on Google cloud how do I know you're not going to compete with me do you guys have those conversations around the trade-off between you know the pure Google services which provide great value for the areas where the ecosystem needs to develop those new areas that are gonna be great markets potentially huge markets that are out there well this is the power of partnership I mentioned earlier that one of the really big moves that Thomas is made has been developing a sense of partners and it kind of blurs the line between traditional what you would call a customer what you would call a partner and so having a really strong sense of which industries were in which we prioritize Plus having a really strong sense of where we want to add value and where you know our customers and partners want to add that value that's that's the foundational that's the beginning of that conversation that you just mentioned it's important that we have an ability to engage not just in a you know here's the cloud infrastructure piece of the puzzle but one of the things Thomas has also done in the East rata jia is has been to make sure that you know the Google cloud relationship is also a way to access all amazing innovation happening across all of Google and also help bring a strategic conversation in that includes multiple properties from across Google so that an HSBC and Google and have a conversation about how to move forward together that is comprehensive rather than you know having to wonder and have that uncertainty sit behind the projects that we're trying to get out and have high velocity on because they offer so much to retail bank for example well I got a couple more questions and then I'll let you go I know you got some other things going I really appreciate you digging the time sharing this great insight and updates as a builder you've been on the other side of the table now you're at Google heading up the CTO I was working with Thomas understanding them go to market across the board and the product mix as you talk to customers and they're thinking the good customers are thinking hey you know I want to come out of this Cove in on an upward trajectory and I want to use this opportunity to reset and realign for the future what advice do you have for those enterprises there could be small medium sized enterprises to the full large big guys and obviously cloud native we talked some of that already but what advice would you have for them as they start to really prioritize as some things are now exposed the collaboration the tooling the scale all these things are out there what have you seen and what advice would you give a CX o or C so or leader in the industry to think about and how they should come out of this thing how they should plan execute and move forward well I appreciate the question because this is the crux of most of my day job which is interacting with the c-suite and boards of you know companies and partners around the world and they're obviously very interested to learn or you know get a data point from someone at Google and the the advice generally goes in a couple of different directions out one collaboration is part of the secret sauce that makes Google what it is and I think you're seeing this right now across every industry and it you know whether you're a small medium-sized business or you're a large company if the ability to connect people with each other to collaborate in very meaningful ways to share information rapidly to do it securely with high reliability that that's the foundation that enables all of the projects that you might choose to you know applications to build services to enable actually succeed in production and over the long haul is that culture of innovation and collaboration so absolutely number one is you're having a really strong sense of what they want to achieve from a cultural perspective a collaboration perspective and the and the people because that's the thing that fuels everything else second piece of the you know advice especially in these times where there's so much uncertainty is where can you buy down uncertainty with vets that aren't you know that art you can you can learn without a high penalty and this is a this is why cloud I think is really really you know finding you know super scale it was our it was already on the rise but what you're seeing now and you know as you've linked back to me during this conversation we're seeing the same thing which is a high increase in demand of let's get this implemented now how can we do this more this is you know clearly one way to move through uncertainty and so look for those opportunities I'll give you a really good example mainframes one of the classic workloads of the you know on-premise enterprise and you know there's all sorts of there are all sorts of potential magic solves for getting mainframes to the cloud and getting out of mainframes but a practical consideration might be maybe you just front-end it with some Java or maybe you just get closer to other data centers within a certain amount of milliseconds that's required to have performant workload maybe you start chunking at a part and treat the workload a little bit differently rather than you know just one thing but there are a lot of years and investments in a workload that might run on a mainframe and that's a perfect example of out you know biting off too much it might be a little bit dangerous but there is a path to and so for example like we brought in a company called cornerstone to help with those migrations but we also have you know partnerships with you know data center providers and others globally from us our own built infrastructure to allow even you know a smaller stuff per site or more like post proximity location in the workload it's great you know everything had as a technical metaphor connection these days when you have a Internet digitally connected world we're living in you know the notion of a digital business was a research buzzword that's been kicked around for years but I think now kovat 19 you're seeing the virtual or digital it's really digital but you know virtual reality augmented reality is going to come fast to really get people to go WOW virtual virtualization of my business so you know we've been kind of kicking around this term business virtualization just almost as a joke but it's really more about okay this is about a new world a new opportunity to think about when we come out of this we're gonna still go back to our physical world now the hybrid now kicks in this kind of connects all aspects of business in every verticals not leahey I'm targeting like the this industry so there might be unique solutions in those industries but now the world is virtualized it's connected it's a digital environment these are huge concepts that I think has kind of been a fringe lunatic fringe idea but now it's brought mainstream this is gonna be a huge tailwind for you guys as well as developers and entrepreneurs and app application software this is gonna be we think a big thing what's your reaction to that which your based on your experience what do you see happening do you agree with it and you have any thing you might want to add maybe you know one kind of philosophical statement and then one more you know I bruised my shins a lot in this world and maybe share some of the black and blue coloration first from a philosophical standpoint the greater the crisis the more open-minded people become and the more creative people get and so I'm really excited about the creativity that I'm seeing you know with all of the customers that I work with directly plus our partners you know Googlers everybody's rallying together to think about this world differently and so to your point you know a shift in mindset you know there are there are very few moments where you get this pronounced a change and everyone is going through it all at the same time so that creates a you know an opportunity a scenario where the old thinking new strategies creativity you know bringing people in in new ways collaborating a new way and offer a lot of benefits more you know practically speaking and from my experience you know building technology for a couple decades you this is a it has an interesting parallel to you know building like tightly coupled really large maybe monoliths versus micro services and debate around you know do we build small things that can be reconfigured and you know built out by others or built on by others more easily or do we credit Golden Path and a more understood you know development environment and I'm not here to answer the question of which one's better is that's what's still a raging debate and I can tell you that the process of going through and taking a service or an application or a thing that we want to deliver the customer that one of our customers wants to deliver to their cost and thinking about it so comprehensively that you're able to think about it in its what its power its core functions and then thinking methodically about how to enable those core functions that is a you know that's a real opportunity and I think technology to your point is getting to the place where you know if you want to run across multiple clouds yeah this is the anthos conversation where you know recently g8 you know a global scale platform you know multi cloud platform that's a pretty big moment in technology and that opens up the aperture to think differently about architectures and that process of taking you know an application service and making it real well I think you're right on the money I think philosophically it's a flashpoints opportunity I think that's going to prove to be accelerating gonna see people win faster and lose faster you can see that quickly happen but to your point about the monolith versus you know service or decoupled based systems I think we allow a live in a world where it's a systems of you now you can have a monolith combined with decoupled systems that's distributed computing I think this is that the trend it's a system it's not one thing or the other so I think the debate will continue just like you know VI versus Emacs we know you don't know right so you know if people gonna have this debate but it's just if you think about as a system the use case defines the architecture that's the beautiful thing about the cloud so great insight I really appreciate it and how's everything going over there Google Cloud you got meat that's available how's your staff what's it like inside the Googleplex and the Google cloud team tell us what's going on over there people still working working remote how's everyone doing well as you can as you can tell from my scenario here my my backdrop yes still hard at work and we take this as a huge responsibility you know these moments is a huge responsibility because there are you know educators loved ones medical professionals you know critical life services that run on services that Google provides and so I can tell you were humbled by the opportunity to provide you know the backbone and the platform and the people and the curiosity and the sincere desire to help and I mentioned a couple of ways already just in this conversation where we've been able to leverage some of our investment in technology to help or people that really gets at the root of who we are so while we just like any other humans are going through a process of understanding our new reality what really fires us up and what really a chart is because is that this is a moment where what we do really well is very very important for the world in every geo in every vertical in every use case and every solution type so we're just take we're taking that responsibility very seriously and at the same time we're trying to make sure that you know all of our teams as well as all the teams that we work with our customers and partners are making it a human moment not just the technology moment well congratulations and thanks for spending the time great insight will appreciate will Grannis Managing Director head of Technology office of the CTO at Google cloud this certainly brings to the mainstream what we've been in the industry been into for a long time which is DevOps large-scale role of data and technology now we think it's going to be even more acute around societal benefits and thank God we have all those services for the frontline workers so thank you so much for all that way effort and thanks for spending the time here in the cube conversation appreciate it thanks for having John okay I'm John Farah here in Palo Alto Studios for remote cube conversation with Google cloud get in the update really looking at the future as it unfolds we are going to see this moment in time as an opportunity to move to the next level cloud native and change not only the tech industry but society I'm John Fourier thanks for watching

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Amit Walia, Informatica | CUBEConversation, April 2019


 

>> from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley. HOLLOWAY ALTO, California It is a cube conversation. >> Welcome to this. Keep conversation here in Palo Alto, California. Keep studios. I'm John for the host of the Cube were with Cuba Lum nine. Special gas *** while the president of products and marking it in from Attica. I make great to see you has been a while, but a couple months. How's things good to be >> back has always >> welcome back. Okay, so in dramatic, a world's coming up. We have a whole segment on that, but we've been covering you guys for a long, long time. Data is at the center the value proposition. Again and again, it's Maur amplified. Now the fog is lifting. Show in the world is now seeing what we think we were told about four years ago with data. What's new? What's that? What's the big trends going on that you guys air doubling down on what's new? What's changed? Here's the update. Sure, >> I think we've been talking for the last couple of years. I think you're right. It is becoming more and more important. I think three things we see a lot one is. Obviously you saw this whole world of district transformation. I think that definitely has picked up so much steam. Now. I mean, every company's going digital and And that the officer, that creates a whole new paradigm shift for companies to come almost recreate themselves remained. And so that data becomes the new definition. And that's what we call the thing is you side and fanatical even before the data three dollar word. But data is the center of everything, right? And in basically see the volume of data growth, you know, the utilization of data to make decisions, whether it's, you know, a decision on the shop floor decisions basically related to a cyber security or whatever it is on the keel of your signal is different now. Is the hole e. I assisted data management. I mean the scale ofthe complexity, the scale of growth, you know, multi cloud, multi platform, all the stuff that's in front of us. It's very difficult to run the old way of doing things. So that's where we see the one thing that we see a whole lot is is becoming a lot more mainstream still early days. But it's assisting the whole ability for companies to what I call exploit data to really become a lot more transformative. >> You've been on this for a while again. We get what we had to go back to. The Cube archives were almost pullout clips from two years ago be relevant today. You know the data control understanding. You know that. You know, I understand where the date of governance is ours. So is the foundational thing. But you guys nailed the chat box. You've been doing a Iot of previous announcements. This is putting a lot of pressure on you. The president of products you got. Get this out there. What's new? What's happening inside in from Attica? He's pedaling as fast as you can. What are some of the updates? Give >> us the best example. I was just like the duck, right? You know, you're really selling your Felix comma the top and then you're really finally I think it's great for us. I think I look a tw ee eye ee eye. It's like this so much fun around machine learning. We look at it, it's two different ways. One is how we leverage machine learning Vidin our products to help our customers, making it easy for them to. As I said, so many different data types Think of I ot data instructor data streaming data. How do you bring all that stuff together and married with your existing transaction? It'LL make sense. So we're leveraging a lot of machine learning to make the internal products a lot more easier to consume. A lot more smarter, a lot more. Richard, The second thing is that we what we call his are a clear which we are. Really? If you remember a couple years ago and in America World, how guard then helps our customers make smarter decisions in the in the one of data signs and all these new data workbench is, you know, the old statistical models are only as good as they can never be. So we're leveraging, helping our customers take the value proposition of r B. I clear then what? I make things that, you know, find patterns that, you know, statistical models cannot. So, to me, I look att, both of those really leveraging ml to shape our products, which is married to a lot of innovation and then creating our eclair to that help customers make smarter decisions, easier decisions, complex decisions. Which would I kill the humans or the statistical models? >> Really Well, this is the balance between machines and humans working together. And you guys have nailed this before. And I think this was two years ago. I started to hear the words land adopt, expand from you guys. Write, which is you've got to get adoption, right? And so as you're iterating on this product, focus, you've got to get it working your >> butt looks big, maniacal focus of that. Let's talk about >> what? What you've learned there because that's a hard thing. You guys are doing well at it. We've got to get a doctor. Means you gotta listen to customers going do the course correction. What's the learning is coming out of that. That >> is actually such a good point. We made such. We were always a very customer centric company. But as you said like that, as the world shifted towards a new subscription cloud model, be really focused on helping our customers adopt our products. And you know, in this new world, customers are also struggling with new architectures and everything, so we double down on what we call customer success, making sure we can help our customers adopt the products. And whether it's it's, it's too will benefit. Our customers can value very quickly. And of course, we believe in what we call a customer for life. Our ability to then grow without customers and held them deliver value becomes a lot better, so we're really for So we have globally across the board customers, success managers, we really invest in a customer's. The moment we a customer, buys a product from us, we directly engage with them to help them understand forthis use case. How you >> implement its not just self serving. That's one thing which I appreciate because you know, how hard is it? Build products these days, especially with philosophy, have changed, but it's also we have in the large scale data. You need automation. You've gotta have machine learning. You gotta have these disciplines. Sure this both on your own, but also for the customer. Yes, any updates on the Clare and some customer learnings, and you're seeing that air turning into either use cases or best practices, >> many of them. So take a simple example, right? I mean, we think if we take these things for granted, right? I mean, taking over here to talk about I open these designs on all of these sensors. We were streaming data, right? Or even robots in the shop floor. Sort of. That data has no schema, no structure, nor definition. It's coming like Netflix data has to. And for customers, there's a lot of volume on it. None of it could be junk. Right? So how do you first think that volume of data creates some structure to it for you to do analytics? You You can only do analytics if you put some structure to it. Right. So first thing is that we leverage clear help customers create what are called scheme, and you can create some structure to it. Then what we do allow is basically clear through clear. It can naturally bring what we have. The data quality on top of it. Like how much of it is irrelevant? How much of it is noise? How much would it really make sense? So then what was you said? It signal from the noisy were helping customers get signal from the noise of data. That's where it becomes very handy because It's a very man will cumbersome, time consuming and something very difficult to do. So that's an area of every have leveraged, creating structure, adding data quality on top and finding rules that didn't probably naturally didn't exist, that you and he would be able to see machines are able to do it. And to your point, our belief is this is my one hundred percent believe we believe in the eye assisting the humans. We have given the value ofthe Claire, tow our users that it compliments you. And that's where we're trying to help our users get more productive and deliver more value faster. >> Productivity is multifold. It's like also efficiency. You don't want people wasting time on project that can be automated. You focus that valuable resource somewhere else. Yeah, okay, so let's shift gears on. Taking from Attica World coming up. Let's spend some time on that. What's the focus this year? The show. It's coming up right around the corner. What's going to focus on what's going to be the agenda? What's on the plate >> give you a quick sense of how it's the shape of its going to be our biggest in from Attica well, so it's twentieth year again. Back in Vegas, you know we love Vegas. Of course, we have obviously a couple of days line up over there and you guys will be there too Great sort of speakers. So obviously we'LL have mean stage speakers like so we'LL have some CEO of Google Cloud Thomas Korean is going to be there We'LL have on main stage with Neil We'LL have the CEO of dealer Breaks Ali with me We'LL also have the CMO off a ws ariel there. Then we have a couple of customers lined up Simon from Credit Suisse Daniels CD over Nissan. We also have the head of the eye salmon Guggenheimer from Microsoft, as well as the chief product officer of Tableau Francois on means. So we have a great lineup of speakers, customers and some of our very, very strategic partners with us. Remember last year we also had Scott country. That means too eighty plus session's pretty much a ninety percent led by customers. We have seventy to eighty customers. Presentable sessions, technical business. We have all kinds of tracks. We have hands on labs. We have learnings. Customers really want to come. Lana products. Talked to the experts someone to talk to the product manager. Someone talk to the engineers literally, so many hands on lab. So it's going to be a full blown a couple of days. What's >> the pitch for someone watching that has never been in from Attica world? Why should they come for the show? >> I always tell them three things. Number one is that it's a user conference for our customers to known all things about data management. And then, of course, in that context, they learned a lot about so they learned a lot about the industry. So Dave one we kicked around by market perspective giving Assessor the market is going, how everybody should be stepping back from the data and understanding. Where are these district transformation? E I? Where is the world of detail going? We have some great analysts coming, talking, some customers talking. We'LL be talking about futures over there. Then it is all about hands on learning, right, learning about the product hearing from some of these experts, right from the industry experts as well as our customers teaching what to do, what not to do and networking. It's always great to network writes a great place for people to learn from each other. So it's a great forum for for two of those three things. But the team this year is all around here. I talked about clear. In fact, our tagline Dissidents, clarity unleashed. I really want to, basically has been developing for the last couple of years. It's become becoming a lot who means stream for us in our offerings. And this year we really are taking it being stream. So it's kinda like unleashing it where everybody can genuinely use a truly use it from the data data management. Active >> clarity is a great team. I mean plays on Claire, But this is what we're starting to see. Some visibility into some clear economic benefits, business benefits, technical benefits, kind of all starting to come in. How would you categorize those three years? Because, you know, that's generally the consensus these days is that what was once a couple years ago was like foggy. When you see now you're starting to see that lift. You see economic, business and technical benefits. >> To me, it's all about economic and business. Anniversary technology plays a role in driving value for the business, my gramophone believing that right? And if you think about some of the trans today, right, ah, billion users are coming into play. That he be assisted by data is doubling every year. You know, the volume of data and and amount ofthe amount off. And I obviously business users today. I mean, when I run a business I want, I always say, tomorrow's data yesterday to make a decision. Today it's just in time, and that's where it comes into play. So our goal is to help organizations transformed themselves truly, you know, be more productive, produce operational cost by the government and compliance that's becoming such a mainstream topic. It's not just basically making analytical decisions. How do you make sure that your data is safe and secure? You don't want to get basically hit by any of these cyberattacks. They're all coming after data. So governance and compliance of data that's becoming but in the end got stored on the >> data thing. Yeah, I wanna get your reactions. You mention some shots like some stats here. Date explosion fifteen point three's added bytes per year in traffic, five million business data users and growing twenty billion connected devices. One billion workers will be assisted by learning. So no thanks for putting those stats, but I want to get your reactors. Some of these other points here, eighty percent of enterprises air that we're looking at multi cloud. They're really evaluating their where the data sits in that kind of equation short. And then the other thing is that the responsibility and role of the chief data? Yes, these air new dynamic. I think you guys will be addressing that. And because organizational stuff dynamics, skill, gaps are issues. But also you have multi clouds form. >> And that's a big thing. I mean, look thin. The old World John hatred Unite is always too large in the price is right, and it's going to stay here. In fact, I think it's not just cloud. Think of it this way, one promised. Ilya is not going away. It's producing in school. But then you have this multi cloud world sassafras pass halves infrastructure. If I'm a customer, I want to do all of it. But the biggest problem comes, you said, is that my data is everywhere. How do I make sense of it? And then how do I go on it like my customer data sitting somewhat in this *** up in that platform in this on prime application transaction after running hardware Connect three. And how do I make sense? It doesn't get. I can have a governance and control around it. That's where data management becomes more important but more complex. But that's where it comes into making it easier. One of the things we've seen a lot of you touched upon is the rise of the Sirio. In fact, we have Danielle from the Sanchez, a CD off Mr North America on Main Stage, talking about her rule and how they've leveraged data to transform themselves. That is something we're seeing a lot more because you know, the rule of the city or making sure there is, You know, not only a sense of governance and compliance, a sense of how to even understand the value of dude across an enterprise again. I see one of the things we're gonna talk about this. It's old system thinking around data. We call it system, thinking three daughter data is becoming a platform C. There was always that the hard way earlier, whether it is server or computer. We believe that data is becoming a platform in itself. Whether you think about it in terms of scary, in terms ofthe governance, in terms of e i times a privacy, you have to think of data as a platform. That's the that's the other. But >> I think that is very powerful statement, and I'd like to get your thoughts. You know, we've had many countries. Is on camera off camera around product. Silicon Valley Venture Capital. How come started to create value. One of the old adage is used to be build a platform. That's your competitive strategy. There were a platform company, and >> that was a >> strategic competitive advantage that is unique to the company. And they created enablement. Facebook's a great example. Monetize all the data from users. Look where they are short. If you think about platforms today, Charlie, it seems to be table stakes. Not as a competitive is more of a foundational element of all businesses, not just startups enterprises. This seems to be a common thread. Do you agree with that that platforms were becoming table stakes? Because if we have to think like systems people, whether it's an enterprise show supplier ballistically the platform becomes stable. States that could be on primary cloud. Your reactions >> are gonna agree that I'll say it slightly differently. Yes, I think I think platform is a critical competent for any enterprise when they think of their entire technology strategy because you can't do peace feels otherwise. You become a system integrated over your own right. But it's not easy to be a platform clear itself, right? Because it's a platform player. The responsibility of what you have to offer your customer becomes a lot bigger. So we always t have this intelligent in a platform. Uh, but the other thing is that the rule of the platform is different. It has to be very modeling and FBI driven. Nobody wants to buy a monolithic platform. I don't want as an enterprise it on my own. I'm gonna implement five years a platform you want. It's gonna be like a Lego block. Okay? You It builds by itself, not monolithic, very driven my micro services based And that's our belief that in the new World, yes, black form is very critical for youto accelerate your district transformation journeys or data driven district transformation journeys but the platform better be FBI driven micro services based, very nimble that it's not a precursor to value creation but creates value as you want. It's >> all kind of depends on the customer. Get up a thin, foundational data platform from you guys, for instance. And then what you're saying is composed off >> different continents. For example, you have a data integration platform, then you can do the quality on top. You do. You could do master data management on top. You can provide governance. You can provide privacy. You could do cataloging it all builds its not like Oh my gosh, I have to go do all these things over the course of five years. Then I'LL get value. You gotta create value all along. Today's customers want value like in two months. Three months. You don't wait for a year or >> two years. This is exactly why I think the kind of Operation Storm systems mindset that you're referring to. This is kind of enterprises. They're behaving others the way that you see on premise, thinking around data and cloud multi cloud emerging. It's a systems view of distributed computing with the right block Lego blocks >> that that's what I believe is. That's what we heard from customers. He r I spend most of my time traveling, talking to customers on my way to try to understand what customers want today. And you know some of this late and demand that they have it. They can't sometimes articulate my job. I always end up on the road most of the time just to hearing customers, and that's what they want. They want exactly appoint a platform that Bill's not monolithic, but they don't want the platform. They do want to make it easy for them not to do everything piecemeal. Every project is a data project, whether it's a customer experience project, whether it's the government's project, whether it is nothing else but an analytical. It's a data project, but you don't want to repeat it every time. That's what they want, >> but I know you got a hard stuff, but I want your thoughts on this because I've heard the word workload mentioned so many more times these in the past year. It was a tad cloud of all the cute conversation with a word workload was mentioned to be the biggest fund. Yes, work has been around for a while, but nice seeing more and more workloads coming on. Yeah, that's more important for day that we're close to being tied into the data absolutely, and then sharing data cross multiple workloads. That's a big focus. Perhaps you see that same thing. >> We absolutely see that, Onda. The unique thing that we see also that new work towards getting created and the old workloads are not going away, which is where the hybrid becomes very important. See, these serve large enterprises and their goal is to have an hybrid. So, you know, I'm running a old transaction workload over here. I want to have an experimental workload. I want to start a new book. I want all of them to talk to each other. I don't want them to become silos. And that's when they look to us to say connect the dots for me. You can be in the cloud as an example. Our cloud platform, you know, last time and fanatical will remember we talked about like it wasn't five trillion transactions a month, but it's double that it to pen trillion transaction a month growing like crazy. But our traditional workload is also still there. So we connect the dots for customers. >> I mean, thank you for coming on sharing the insights house. You guys doing well? You got three thousand developers, billions in revenue. Thanks for coming. Appreciate the insight. And looking for Adrian from Attica World. Thank you very much. Meanwhile, here inside the Cuban shot furry with cute conversation in Palo Alto. Thanks for watching.

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from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley. I make great to see you has been a while, but a couple months. What's the big trends going on that you guys air doubling down on what's new? I mean the scale ofthe complexity, the scale of growth, you know, multi cloud, So is the foundational thing. I make things that, you know, find patterns that, you know, statistical models cannot. And you guys have nailed this butt looks big, maniacal focus of that. Means you gotta listen to customers going do the course correction. And you know, in this new world, customers are also struggling with new architectures and everything, That's one thing which I appreciate because you know, how hard is it? creates some structure to it for you to do analytics? What's the focus this year? We also have the head of the eye salmon Guggenheimer from Microsoft, But the team this year is Because, you know, that's generally the consensus these days is that what was once a couple years ago was like foggy. So governance and compliance of data that's becoming but in the end got stored on I think you guys will be addressing that. One of the things we've seen a lot of you touched upon is the rise of the Sirio. One of the old adage is used to be build a platform. If you think about platforms today, The responsibility of what you have to offer your customer becomes a lot bigger. all kind of depends on the customer. You could do cataloging it all builds its not like Oh my gosh, I have to go do all these things over the course They're behaving others the way that you see on premise, thinking around data And you know some of this late and demand that they have it. but I know you got a hard stuff, but I want your thoughts on this because I've heard the word workload mentioned so many more times You can be in the cloud as an example. I mean, thank you for coming on sharing the insights house.

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>> fly from San Francisco. It's the Cube covering Google Club next nineteen Tio by Google Cloud and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back to the Cubes live Google next nineteen coverage. I'm General Dave Violante. We're here for three days of wall to wall coverage, breaking down all the content from Google Clouds. Big conference here, Google next twenty nineteen or next gas joke of a vice president. Google Data Centers spans all the data centers that Google and Google Cloud deploy. He's the man in charge of thousands of full time employees, thousands of contractors, tens of thousands of construction worker. He's building out the infrastructure and footprint to make the cloud work for Joe. Welcome to the Cube. >> Thank you both Very much. >> So. Sin DARPA Kai, the CEO of Google, kicked off the Kino, the new CEO of Google Cloud. Thomas Korean came on always ten weeks into the job. Clearly, the investment in Google cloud new building on separate from campus. So Google and Google Cloud or two separate groups, has been reported clearly by us and others. But at the end of the day, you're gonna run all the stuffs on somewhere. So you know, you guys have deep, deep experience. I know personally and following Google and covering Google thie excellence and engineering the excellence in building on data centers. What is the status of just quickly Take a minute to explain how it's organized? Get Google proper, Which is where Ron knows Google, Google Search, etcetera, Gmail and Google Cloud. How's that? How's that operate? What's some of the data points? >> Okay, um so, as you know, the head of the teams that do everything from procuring land and writing energy contracts and buying renewable energy to designing, building and operating all the data centers. Cloud is one of my largest customers. But my other customers air search and ads and Gmail and G sweetened. So, really, our data centers I Google are built for the entire Google enterprise, and cloud happens to be one of our largest internal customers in that enterprise. >> How about some of stats countries, regions, data centers? What's the new one? Because you have regions, you availability zones. Talk about some of the stats inside the numbers >> s o what the starting at the Google level, we have data centers in four continents. So we're in North America South America, Asia and Europe. Of course, we have a probably one of the world's largest global private networks with, you know, thirteen undersea cables that are our own and hundreds of thousands of miles of dark fiber and lit fiber that way operate like I said, probably one of the world's largest networks we have in in Europe were in five countries in Europe, were in two countries in Asia. We're in one country in South America, and that's at the Google and North America. Of course, we have many, many, many sites across all of North America. That's it. The Google level now Cloud has nineteen regions that they operate in and fifty eight zones. So each region, of course, has multiple zones in it. You know, we we cover. Google has presence in over two hundred countries worldwide, so really, it is truly global operations. >> So the two hundred countries is Google wide nineteen cloud regions and fifty eight availability zones. That's Google Cloud. That's great. Okay, so do you not sort of mix infrastructure for cloud and things like Gmail and maps and search is that is that correct? This their separate infrastructures or >> it's It's not so separate infrastructure. So when when my team builds a data center, any one of our internal customers could be in that day this up. In addition to the Google owned and operated data centers, we also have some sites that are least in certain regions, and Cloud may be occupying those. But regardless of whether it's owned or leased, its the same hardware in there, it's the same operation staff that Aeryn they're the same expertise, the same deep knowledge about operating cloud environments. And so, regardless of whether we built it or we leased it >> from a CEO Syrian from a CEO's perspective, it's the same cell A nobody availabilities owners. I mean, that's what really matters, right? Okay, >> talk about the scale because one of the things I liked in the Kino Sundar is awesome. And Chris, Great keynote, You scale multiple times. He also had a clever comin around steal, she's said before publicly, amount of steel that goes into building this. This gives you guys large scale. Your guys are building on massive. It's like smart cities almost cause of your own like country, pretty much on the infrastructure. What are some of the key learning that you guys had because you have to be very efficient. Google likes to solve hard problems. You guys have done some things with sustainability. Specifically, talk about some of the learnings. As you guys have been building out these data centers for years with cloud on a massive expansion, you gotta watch the environment. You got to do some things. What if some of the learnings with some of the notable accomplishments you guys air forging on and what are some of the goals? >> So I googled we've been We've been at this for two decades. For more than twenty years we've been building and innovating on hyper efficiency, hyper scale, basically trying to build infrastructure that was more sustainable than had ever been thought possible. And then as our cloud business started to expand and boom, frankly, we set apart Teo build the world's most sustainable cloud. And really, what that means is that you know, we were the first company to announce that we were buying one hundred percent renewable energy, new renewable P P A's to match one hundred percent of our consumption and in twenty seventeen, we achieve that. That was after being carbon neutral for ten years before that. So going all the way back to two thousand seven were a carbon neutral company by mostly buying, buying high quality carbon offsets. Then we decided that no, we want to advance the transition, Teo renewable and sustainable energy. So we started buying direct power purchase agreements for wind and solar on DH. And then in twenty seventeen, we announced that we had matched one hundred percent. What that means is that we've acquired over three gigawatts of new solar and wind power purchase agreements, Mom. And now we're taking it a step further. We have a very ambitious kind of moonshot. Arguably, too, not only match our consumption, but match it twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three sixty five. So you can imagine the complexity with this because the wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine. And so that's going to take moonshot thinking in order for us to get there. But we feel so strongly about it were so committed to this cause that we've got a dedicated team working on this right now. >> So it's not just squeezing tea. You'ii out of the data center I'm sure you're doing that, but absolutely doing >> that. Since the earliest days I've been at Google for over eleven years. From the very first day I got there, I was completely blown away with the numbers that I was seeing about the Peewee and for maybe your audience. Pee Wee's a measure of efficiency in the data center, and and at the time, like back two thousand eight, Cooper was achieving numbers that the EPA thought wouldn't be achieved until, like, twenty twenty. And so I started to dig in and look how, and it was astounding to me the lengths that the company had gone tio toe optimize every single step of the way from the high voltage transformers in our own dedicated substations. Excuse me that that are much more efficient than typical. You know, utility transformers all the way through, minimizing the number of transformations going from grid level like three hundred forty five thousand bolts down to server voltage level, minimising the number of transformations reinventing the way people think about cooling. When we when I got to Google, I was also amazed. Our data centers are running it like roughly about eighty degrees Fahrenheit most data centers run it like sixty five degrees are data centers consume about half of the energy of a traditional enterprise data center at the same size. And in addition to that, we're producing about seven times the computer capacity for the same amount of Watts that enterprise data >> centers comes from. A from a practice of engineering really purpose engineering from day one into the overall holistic plan of the building. >> It's a relentless focus on efficiency and innovation. Right from Day one, when I got there, it had already been well in motion, but it's optimizing across the entire stack. It's optimizing software to be efficient, optimizing the server architecture er, to be more efficient, optimizing the power supplies in the server's optimizing the racks. You know, designing the racks to be working with the cooling equipment, specifically, are cooling systems are unique to Google. There they're not traditional air conditioning units that you would buy for traditional data centers. Sometimes, you know, we'll sight data centers where we can use natural environment in Finland. Our data centers right on the Gulf of Finland, and we use cold seawater from the Gulf of Finland to cool the data center. >> So to be clear, you're doing quite a bit of vertical integration, whether it's your own transformers of power supplies and other equipment, right? Try >> fiberoptic across the K Atlantica, Sundar pointed out. That's what I was doing your own stuff, absolutely officious as you pass on in savings to the customers and society with the sustainability piece. That's right. You have two angles on that. >> Really, it's you know it's good business, of course, because the bottom line. But more importantly, it's also the right thing for us to do. We feel very strongly that we need to be responsible for our impact on the environment and to minimize that impact and to be accountable for it. And we realized that the only way we can truly be accountable for our impact on the environment and for our energy consumption is to have it matched with renewable energy twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, >> not take a side track you. But you know, we've been covering the tech business for many, many decades, and certainly recently tech kind of got a bad name headlines. But I always look for tech stories that you know there was a text bad for people. There's always a good story. I think this is an example of tech for good. You guys have taken real engineering, building large scale systems and facilities, have software running on it. It's really a tech for good story. Congratulations on that. That's awesome work. Now I want to kind of asked you put you on the spot here because I think one conversation we're hearing a lot and I want him Get your expert opinion on this could be Google and also a CZ a person in the industry. Security in the supply chain has come up a lot in terms of whether chips have been hacked. Wave heard things like that in the story. Some of them have proved to be misinformation. Fake news. But you gotta watch security. Google's really hard core on security because you you lived that. How do you look at the supply chain? Is if you're not just throwing contractors at this, you could thinking of a realistic ground zero engineering approach to a holistic picture. How do you guys manage security challenge in the supply chain? Throughout the facilities from chips Teo, access things of that nature. >> So there's two aspects. There's always the logical and the physical security aspect from the physical security aspect in our warehouses that we manage. Of course, we apply the same rigorous standards for physical security. That way, do it their data centers. And that's multi layer in various different types of security technologies that we apply. And but on the logical side, you know, I think you're probably familiar with our Titan chips that way developed and those tightened ships are put in all of our servers, and from the time that they're built to the time that they're in the facility, you know those those chips that's our are securing the servers and your logical side. Though the you know, my colleagues on our information security team are truly the experts that could address that. >> That's where the software shines. That's right, and this is not just one. It's not a silo. You gotta deal physical build. It's kind of a bigger is It's a holistic, any rated model >> it is, and this is, you know, from from the data center industry perspective for us. Long as there's been it, there's always been the debate between facilities and I t right. When I got to Google, I was also so relieved to see that was all technical infrastructure and the systems. The software that runs on those those data centers are all under the same technical infrastructure group. And so you know it all. The buck stops at *** >> For years, there was a discussion and generalize about those groups coming together, and I think the way they come together is the cloud. Frankly, because you haven't seen a lot of change within organizations of ight and facilities really working together, that's right. >> Well, Joe, thanks for coming on the Q. Thanks for sharing your insight. Final word. What's the thoughts folks watching out there who were trying to understand how to bring technology into facilities? In general, people still have data centers they still have on premise activity, from lightbulbs to whatever any, any learnings in parting wisdom. Folks watching there in the facilities and or physical building space on howto build out these, whether it's smart cities with its construction and experiences, you could share with folks out there looking to build a ballistic long term plan. >> Yeah, there's a there's a few things first of all, we've published all of our energy efficiency, best practices. And so I encourage everyone to take a look at those best practices because the best you know, energy savings is the energy not consumed in the first place. So do all the right things to reduce the overall energy consumption in the first place to we want to help further the transition to renewable energy. And so we've published a lot about our power purchase agreements and a lot of the policy work that enables us to do. Those is also set in place for other large energy consumers that want to do the same thing. So our policy work can help Teo allow others to do the same thing. The third part of our sustainability aspect is really a circular economy. You know, we want Teo. I have zero waste to a landfill. We've currently achieved ninety one percent diversion of all of our data center operations, so ninety one percent is diverted to landfill. But we have a objective of one hundred percent note note no waste to a landfill. And then that means you have to do smart things like better re use better recycling better reselling of products that are still good but maybe out of date for for your use and then just ended off. We've really invested in our machine learning and a intelligence both on the data center operations. We have now ml running our some of our cooling systems in fully autonomous mode and doing a much better job of matching the cooling needs to the workloads at the time. And we took that same learning with our deepmind group, partnered with them, and we've applied that Teo are a wind farm now as well, so that they can better predict what the output of wind farm is going to be thirty six hours in advance. That allows the operators of the grid to better bring on more more energy and get higher value Out of that that win dinner. >> Great engineering story at scale. Congratulations. Love the societal impact tech for good. Congratulations. Love to have you back talk about the impact of a i ot Joe, Thanks for coming on the Yeah, it's all coming together with our arms. Jean. A center is not going away. House in the cloud needs to run on servers and has to be done in a engine engineered fashion. Google's leading the charge there. It's Cube Live coverage day, one of three days of coverage will be right back after this short break.

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It's the Cube covering He's building out the infrastructure and footprint to make the cloud work for Joe. What is the status of just quickly Take a minute to explain how it's organized? are built for the entire Google enterprise, and cloud happens to be one of Talk about some of the stats inside the numbers and that's at the Google and North America. So the two hundred countries is Google wide nineteen cloud the Google owned and operated data centers, we also have some sites that are least from a CEO Syrian from a CEO's perspective, it's the same cell A nobody availabilities owners. What if some of the learnings with some of the notable accomplishments you guys air forging on and what are some of the goals? So going all the way back to two thousand seven were a carbon You'ii out of the data center I'm sure you're doing that, but absolutely that the company had gone tio toe optimize every single step of the way from from day one into the overall holistic plan of the building. You know, designing the racks to be working fiberoptic across the K Atlantica, Sundar pointed out. our impact on the environment and for our energy consumption is to have it matched with renewable Security in the supply and from the time that they're built to the time that they're in the facility, you know those those chips that's It's kind of a bigger is It's a holistic, any rated model infrastructure and the systems. Frankly, because you haven't seen a lot of change within organizations Well, Joe, thanks for coming on the Q. Thanks for sharing your insight. in the first place to we want to help further the transition to renewable energy. House in the cloud needs to run on servers and has to be done in a engine engineered fashion.

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