>> Announcer: Live from Orlando, Florida it's the Cube covering Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. >> Welcome back to the Cube's coverage of the Grace Hopper Conference here at the Orange County Convention Center. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight. We are joined by Aysegul Gunduz, she is a professor at the University of Florida-College of Engineering. Thanks so much for joining us. >> No, thank you for having me. >> So, congratulations are in order, because you are a ABIE Award winner, which is awards given out by the Anita Borg Institute, and you have been given the Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award. So, tell us a little about, about your award. >> Well, thank you for asking. We've heard a lot about Grace Hopper and Anita Borg throughout the conference, but Denice Denton, she was actually very close friends with Anita. And she was a leader in her field, her field was development of polymers, and she worked on the first development of RAM. But she was actually the first ever dean of a college of engineering at a major university... >> Rebecca: First ever woman. >> First woman dean, yes, so she became dean at the University of Washington, and then she actually became chancellor at University of California, but just beyond her research she really promoted and lifted the people around her, so she was a big proponent of minority issues. So, she supported females, she supported international students, and she was openly gay, so she really had a big influence on the LGBTQ community, so I just wanted to, you know, just recognize her and say that how honored I am to have my name mentioned alongside hers. This award is given to a junior faculty member that has done significant research and also has had an impact on diversity as well. >> So, let's start talking... >> Denice is a great inspiration. >> Yes! The award given an homage to Denice, so your research is about detecting neurological disorders. So, tell our viewers a little bit more about what you're doing. >> Sure, I'm an electrical engineer by training, who does brain research for a living, so this confuses a lot of people, but I basically tell them that our brains have bioelectric fields that generate biopotential signals that we can record and we're really trying to decipher what these signals are trying to tell us. So, we are really trying to understand and treat neurological disorders as well as psychiatric disorders, so I work with a lot of neurosurgical patient populations that receive electrode implants as part of their therapy, and we are trying to now improve these technologies so that we can record these brain signals and decode them in real time, so that we can adapt things like deep brain stimulation for the current pathology that these patients are having. So, deep brain stimulation, currently, is working like, think of an AC and it's working on fan mode so its current, you know, constantly blowing cold air into the room, even though the room might be just the perfect temperature, so we are basically trying to listen to the brain signals and only deliver electricity when the patient is having a pathology, so this way we are basically turning the AC onto the auto mode, so that once they are actually not having symptoms, unnecessary electrical, it is not delivered into their brains, so pace makers, when they invented were functioning that way, so people realized they could stimulate the heart, and the person would not have a cardiac arrest, but now we know that we can detect the heart pulse very easily, so someone thought about 'OK, so when we don't detect the pulse, heartbeat, let's only stimulate the pace maker then,' so that's what we're trying to adapt to the neuro-technologies. >> And what is the patient response? I mean I imagine that's incredible. So, these are people who suffer from things like Parkinson's disease, Tourette's syndrome, I mean, it's a small patient population that you're working with now, but what are you finding? >> So, first of all, our patients are very gracious to volunteer for our studies, we find that, for instance, in Tourette's syndrome we can actually detect when people are having tics, involuntary tics, that is characteristic of Tourette's syndrome. We find that we can differentiate that from voluntary movements, so we can really deliver the stimulation when they are having these symptoms, so this is a paroxysmal disorder, they really don't need continuous stimulation. So, that's one thing that we're developing. We find that in essential tremor, again, when people aren't having tremor we can detect that and stop the stimulation and only deliver it when necessary. We're working on a symptom called freezing of gaits in Parkinson's disease so people define this as the, having the will to walk, but they feel like their feet are glued to the floor so this can cause a lot of falls, and at that, really, age this can be very, very dangerous. So, we can actually tell from the brain when people are walking and then we turn the stimulation in this particular area only during that time so as to prevent any falls that might happen. >> So, it's really changing their life and how they are coping with this disease. >> Yes, true, and it really makes going to work in the morning (laughs) very, very exciting for us. >> So, another element of the ABIE Award is that you are helping improve diversity in your field and in Denice Denton, in the spirit of Denice Denton, helping young women and minorities rise in engineering. >> Yes, so, I'm going to talk about this in my keynote session tomorrow, but I really just realized that all my confidence throughout engineering school was due to the fact that I actually had a female undergraduate advisor, and once I came to that realization, I joined Association for Academic Women at the University of Florida, which was established in 1974, because these pioneering women fought for equal pay for male and female faculty on campus, and this is still honored today, so I'm very honored to be serving the Association as its president today. All of our membership dues go to dissertation awards for female doctoral students that are, you know, emerging scholars in their fields, and I also approached the National Science Foundation and they supported the funding for me to generate a new emerging STEM award for female students in the STEM fields. So, you know, that is my contribution. >> So, you're passing it on... >> I hope so. >> the help and the mentoring that you received as young faculty member. >> I truly hope so. >> I mean, (stammers) right now we're so focused on the technology companies but on campuses, on the undergraduate and graduate school campuses, how big a problem is this, would you say? >> So, I'm a faculty in biomedical engineering, so, in our field we actually have some of the highest female to male ratios compared to other engineering fields. People attribute this to the fact that females like to contribute to the society, so, they like to work on problems, they like to work on problems that have a societal impact and I think working with, basically, you know, disorders in any branch of medicine, it really fires, fires up female students, but yes, when we go to other departments such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, the ratio is really, really small. And it still is a problem and therefore we are really trying to mobilize, you know, all female faculty, just to be present, just the fact that you're there, that you're a successful female in this field... >> Rebecca: The role models. >> Yeah, really makes an impact, you know, I think, the most repeated quote at this meeting is that 'You can't be what you can't see." So, we're really trying to support female faculty. So, we're tying to retain female faculty, so that, you know, the younger generation of females can see that they can and the will do it as well. >> You can't be what you can see, I love that. Those are words to live by. >> Right. >> Yeah. Well, thank you so much Aysegul, this is a pleasure, pleasure meeting you, pleasure having you on the show. >> Thank you so much, pleasure's mine. >> We'll be back with more from Grace Hopper just after this.

>> Announcer: Live from Las Vegas, Nevada. It's the CUBE, covering AWS re:Invent 2016. Brought to you by AWS and its ecosystem partners. (light techno music) Now, here's your host. >> And we're back, happy to welcome back to the program, regular guest on our program, David Richards, who is the founder and CEO of WANdisco. David, anything interesting happen since last time, you know, we've talked to you? >> David: Well I kind of got, you guys are a bad omen for me. Kind of left the CUBE in New York, got off a plane, got fired, and then four days later got reinstated. Apart from that, virtually nothing's happened actually. >> Hey, you know it's good coverage in The Financial Times, and then lots of press and everything, so lots more people know about WANdisco now, right? >> David: That's right, and I don't have Tourette's, I promise. (laughs) >> Alright, David, AWS re:Invent, I mean, pretty impressive show, you know we see you in a lot of shows, many of them interesting, lots of smart people but I mean, wow this is pretty impressive. They got up on stage lots of things that I'm sure interest you, give us your take of the show so far. >> It's fascinating, I mean, this sort of must have been, I wasn't there when, you know, Steve Jobs was launching the first Mac and so on, but this kind of feels, more than just a small movement. This is a large shift in enterprise, moving from On-premises to Cloud, I think it's unquestionable that's happening. I mean, I'm sure you've covered it this week on The Cube. I've not seen it, but 32,000 people are here. Virtually every single vendor that you could ever think of is exhibiting in this exhibit hall. You can barely move about the people. Our booth traffic has just been phenomenal this week, and it really feels like this is a seismic shift in the marketplace. I know we've been saying that for a while, but it really does feel that way. >> Why do you think now, is it just, we just got here, and it's the overnight success that's been ten years in the making, or was there an event or something that really, kind of, tipped it over to where we are, because clearly, it's very different than last year. >> It, sort of, Cloud V1, and you guys have been covering this for a long time, was really companies that were born in the Cloud, it was the Airbnbs, it was the Tinders, it was the Facebooks and so on. Those companies were actually made, born in the Cloud. What's now happening, clearly, is enterprise is moving to the Cloud, and Cloud 2.0 really is about a different set of requirements, a different set of customers. There are customers with massive petabyte-scale data sets that they really can't take advantage of, they can't really scale out, it's too complex for them to build many of the applications they need to build, they now have to move to Cloud, and, you know, 32,000 people are not here just for the sake of it, they're here because they have to be here, because they're moving, obviously, to Cloud, and AWS have such a massive lead, I think, in the Cloud at the moment and Enterprise Cloud, and that's probably why so many people are here. >> David, one of the interesting things to look at at this show is, Amazon has some opinions about where data lives, how it moves, where you process it, you know, all of those kind of things. You guys are kind of opinionated on those kind of things too so, you know, give us your view on those kind of, those guys. I mean, I made a comment on Twitter, it was like, "Hey, what do we call a data lake when it's in the Cloud now?" >> Jeff: Well look, that's what happens to Clouds, they-- >> One of the big reveals in Andy Jassy's talk this morning was a truck coming across the front of the stage, and I've had so many emails saying, is this real, is this a joke, are we now really moving data in a semi from On-premises into the Cloud? And, it's kind of interesting, I think it's a little bit of a gimmick to be honest with you, I think Amazon do lots of great things, there were lots of wonderful announcements today, like opening up Alexa and allowing, you know, and some of the things they're doing with serverless computers, just phenomenal, but I think a truck to move data from On-premises to Cloud, kind of feels like we're back in the 1970s to me, whereas I was talking to a, the CIO of an automotive company a couple of weeks ago. They have a problem where, you know, to move data causes an outage in their organization today of about 30 hours. Their data growth is going to be so vast, the velocity is going to be so great in the next 12 months, that if they use the existing technology today, that they have today, would take them in the region of a month to move that data. So, trucks are great for cold, archival data, well they might be great for cold, archival data, I'm sure you could figure out a better way, like the internet to move it, but for our active transactional data, data that changes and moves, that's critical to the organization, you simply can't put it on the back of a truck and basically mail it to Amazon with a Snowball, that really doesn't work, and I think the market really needs to be educated a little bit about what's possible. >> Well, and I don't know that Amazon would necessarily disagree with you. I mean, if you look at the Snowball family, they had the Snowball Edge out there, which was realization, hey I might want compute, and even, we're going to give you that new green grass Lambda, serverless type stuff, so that you can do processing where there's no network, or I can't do anything, but, I guess, we know from a physics standpoint, I understand, you know, the internet is great, but, you know, if I want to move, you know, 100 petabytes or more of data, you know, even if I'm a Telco, that's a ton of data that I need to move. So, tell me where there's this connect. >> So, the way that WANdisco's technology works, is we continually replicate data, so where every other form of data replication is time based, it requires the concept of a clock, like, even Google, who've got Google Spanner, which is kind of active/active replication, but relies on a satellite in the sky, on atomic clocks, GPS clocks on every single server. We don't have any of that reliance, we're transactional data replication, which means if something changes, it gets replicated, and that process is continuous, which means that you can basically move data applications without any downtime or interruption to service. And that's absolutely critical for what I called earlier Cloud V2, which is the enterprises moving to Cloud, they have to be able to get there without any interruption to service. Small data, yeah, you can use that kind of technology, or non-strategic data, yeah, you can use this kind of technology. Strategic data and strategic applications, trading systems, you know, you can't be 99.99% correct if somebody's got cancer or not, right? If you're using the Cloud, or machine learning technology to figure that out, you can't be, you know, almost certain, you need to be completely certain, and that requires data to be where it's supposed to be. >> So, Amazon's a partner of yours. What's it like being a partner of Amazon's these days? Give us your point on that. >> Amazon are a phenomenal company. They have to be, right, they've just built, probably the world's most valuable enterprise technology business by a country mile in ten years. I mean, it's just, you know, zero to 10 billion in (snaps fingers) the blink of an eye is just incredible. And part of their secret is, they base everything on data, and I've learned a lot from dealing with Amazon actually, everything is data driven. You know, they have this Five Why's, I'm sure you've read about it in the media, where you have to prove, through facts and figures, not sentiment, that something is so, and that's pretty uncomfortable for a lot of people. For us, it's not, and it's, working with Amazon, their requirements, the bar is so high it's made our products much much much better. They have a well-architectured review that they go through with all their partners. They're actually great to partner with, if you're not a very good company, I would, daresay, don't bother because they'll find you out very quickly. But they're a great set of guys, very very good to partner with, it's very black and white, it's very quantitative, but, yeah, they've obviously got a huge market. >> Yeah. One of the things I love about this show is that the quality of people, you know, is phenomenal, and you get such a, I mean, a huge cross-section, not only location, size, industry, but one of the things I think that is across everybody that comes here, is they're trying new things, they're open to, you know, moving forward, iterating, learning, which has been one of the things that, you know, we kind of say what holds companies back is like, oh I'm doing it the old way. So, what's your experience been with the users? Any stories you can tell from that standpoint? >> So, right down to the bottom of the organization, they're prepared to take any idea. I mean, Amazon Web Services, for goodness' sake was basically a paper that was written and presented to Jeff Bezos, right, who said, yeah that's a good idea to Jassy and said yeah, let's go off and do it. But they, virtually every innovation in their organization is somebody coming up with an idea. They have the mechanics and machinery to listen to that idea. We do it ourselves, so, we're looking at serverless compute and using Lambda so we can have replication literally as a service that you can just call, you can call Paxos, which is our core IP, it's based on Paxos, it's called DConE, so you can call that algorithm and get a replication service. So these concepts, some of the concepts that Amazon are introducing, their ability to move so quickly to introduce new products is because they have this innovative approach where they allow people, right down to the very bottom of the organization, to come up with new ideas and approaches to doing things. And it's perfectly fine for somebody at the bottom of their organization to challenge somebody at the top of the organization. In fact, they expect it. And again, that's not comfortable for a lot of people, but I like the way that they go around their business. >> I'm looking forward to, Alexa, how's my replication doing? (laughs loudly) >> Wouldn't that be great? >> Well, it's interesting you say that, we had Malcolm Gladwell on a month or two ago, and he talked about, the most powerful organizations are the ones that let the fresh ideas bubble up from the bottom because it's the people that have not been tainted by being in part of the company, that had new and creative and innovative, and a different way of looking at it, and oftentimes they get squelched, so the fact that they let those ideas come up, and also driven by data, pretty powerful. >> It's interesting being at the show this week, and I have two types of meetings, I have meetings with companies at the forefront of this Cloud revolution, companies at the forefront of building new, innovative applications that were designed for the Cloud, and then I have other meetings with companies, vendors, who have been caught out by this. They didn't see this coming, they didn't expect, you know, this sea change to happen as quickly as it's happening and they really are fighting and scrambling to know what to do, and this is everything from, you know, the big services companies, the big traditional enterprise storage companies are really struggling to understand what they're going to do with the Cloud, and they don't have those processes and procedures inside their businesses like we do. Like, they can't change and be agile and nimble and take advantage of these new products and markets that are suddenly appearing overnight. >> Yeah, it's funny, the guy from (mumbles) was talking about, they don't want to be a system integrator anymore, right now it's services integration and really changing the way you think about putting this stuff together, it's very different. >> It is very different, and, it used to be the case that you'd get, and I know we've all lived through this, you get the enterprise sales guy that turns up in the $2,000 suit and the Porsche parked outside, and comes in and sells you, you know, a piece of software, and asks you how your wife and kids are doing and all the rest of it. Look at the audience here today. They're not going to put up with, you know, that style of enterprise sales moving forward. People are buying stuff from a marketplace. The expectation is you can choose, select, deploy, and build applications yourself, and that's how many of these companies are operating today. So it's not just the sea change in the technology, the technology's facilitating completely different and new markets. >> Jeff: Behaviors, yeah. >> David, want to give you the final word on, as you leave this show, you know, your takeaways, what you want people to know. >> Clearly we're in an era where, this is going to be an Enterprise Cloud. Cloud 2.0 is all about enterprises that are taking their data from On-premises into the Cloud. It's happening very quickly. 32,000 people are here this week, they're here for a reason, because they have to be. This is a sea change in the marketplace, and I hope, well I know WANdisco's the vanguard of moving many of those enterprises from On-premises into the Cloud very quickly. >> Alright, absolutely, definitely agree with the sea change there. David Richards, founder and still CEO of WANdisco, really appreciate you joining us again. We'll be back to wrap up our coverage of today at AWS re:Invent 2016. You're watching the CUBE. (light techno music)