>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of AWS reinvent 2020 Special coverage sponsored by AWS Worldwide Public sector Welcome back to the cubes coverage. This is the Cube virtual in our coverage of AWS reinvent with special coverage of the worldwide public sector day. I'm your host, John Firrea. We are the Cube, and I'm joined by Trayvon's hyper scaler partner. Leave with Red Hat. Trey, Welcome to the Cube. >>Thank you. Great to be here, John. Very happy to be at my first virtual reinvent, but probably my third in a row reinvented itself. >>You know, it's super exciting and usually were in person, as you mentioned. But the Cube virtual your virtual. We gotta do it virtual this year, but the game is still the same. It's about learning is about getting updates on what's relevant for customers with the pandemic. A lot of things have been highlighted, and this has been the big fun of reinvent because you mentioned three years. This is our eighth year. We've been there every year since the since the except for the first year, but you just look at the growth right, but it's still the same cadence of more news, more announcements, more higher level services, you know, with with open shift We've been following that with kubernetes and containers Service meshes. You're seeing micro services. All this coming together around open source and public sector is the main benefit of that. Right now, if you look at most interviews that I've done, the mandate for change in public sector is multifold in every vertical education to military, right. So So there's a need to get off your butt and get going with cloud if you're in public sector, um, tell us more about Red hat and the partnership around public sector, because I think that's really what we want to dig into. >>Absolutely. And there definitely have been, uh, changes this year that have inspired innovation. Uh, Red hat native us have been on a path for innovation for quite a while. Red hat in working with the open source community and taking an iterative approach to what we call upstream first, which is essentially, uh, to develop, uh, in the open source communities to mature those into enterprise grade products and then thio iterative Lee, take those findings back to the open source community. So Red Hat and eight of us have had a long history of collaboration. Starting all the way back in 2007 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux being available within the AWS console continue on to things like AWS Quick starts, which are reference architectures for how to deploy products that you're managing yourself on then, More recently, recent being the last say, four years, Uh, Thio offer a open shift managed service within a W s. And now continuing that with a joint offering that's gonna be forthcoming. That's the Red had open shift service on AWS, which will be the first native offering and joint offering with a W s by A by a third party such as ourselves. So there's a history of innovation there in a history of collaboration, and I think we'll talk a little bit later on in the interview specifically about how that relates to public sector and their unique needs. >>Yeah, well, let's just get in there. What are the some of the unique needs? Because there's value in your partnership with AWS. You laid out a bunch of those services, so certainly there's customers that are in need. What specific requirements are there. Can you tell us how Red Hat and A W s work together to meet these challenges? >>Sure. So the public sector group is composed of many organizations and agencies both. When I think of public sector, I think of the federal civilian space. I think about the D. O. D uh, the state and local and education. All of those elements of public sector have different needs. But there are some standards that are very pervasive in the public sector, things like Phipps and how you articulate your compliance with particular validated cryptographic modules or with how you express a control statement using something like the uh minus 853 which is critically important for cloud service offerings. And so those are some of the things that Red Hat native us have a heritage of working together on also providing deep explanations for those organizations and their mission so that they can comfortably move into the cloud, do digital transformation by taking applications that maybe on Prem today and having the confidence to move those into the cloud with security and compliance at the forefront. So when I think about the overall mission of government and then the threats to that mission, whether they be state actors, you know, individuals there are serious. They're serious solutions that have been developed both in the open source community to provide greater visibility into security. And there are things that the government has done to kind of create frameworks for compliance. And those are things that we work with, uh, in the open. So we have, ah, process that we call Compliance is code which can be found both inside of repositories like git Hub. But also on our website, where we articulate how our products actually work with those compliance frameworks, uh, the cryptographic a while authorizations and some of the certifications for technology that the government's put forward. >>So if it's compliance, is code like infrastructure is code, which is Dev Ops. What do you call it? Gov. Dev Ops or Gove ops Compliant ops. It's kind of get a little Dev ops vibe there. I mean, this is a really real question. I mean, you're talking about making compliance, automated. This is what Dev ops is all about, right? And this is this is kind of where it's going. How do you how do you expand more on that? Take a minute to explain. >>Sure. So it's a red hat. Over the last 20 plus years has been doing things that are now called Dev Ops or Dev SEC ops any number of combinations of those words. But the reality is that we've worked in in things like small teams. We've worked to make things like micro services, where you have a very well defined and discreet service that could be scaled up and then that's been incorporated into our products. But not only that, we release those things back Thio the open source community to make the broader Linux platform, for example, the broader kubernetes platform to make those things, uh stronger onto also get more visibility to some of those security items. So that there is a level of trust that you can have in the software supply chain is being created not only with ease, but the things that the customers of building based on these solutions. >>Yeah, that's a good point. Trust and all that compliance is, too. But also when you have that trust, now you have a product you wanna actually deploy it or have customers consume it. Um, it hasn't always been easy trade and cover. You got Fed ramp. I mean, I talked to Teresa cross about this all the time at a W s. You know, there's all kinds of, you know, things. You got hoops you gotta jump through. How are you guys making that? Easier, Because again, that's another concern you got. You guys got a great channel. You got the upstream. First, you've got the open source. Um, you know, enterprises certainly do great. And now you're doing great in public sector. How you guys making it easier for partners to on Ram Pinto. All these Fed programs? >>Yeah. So what I think about the application transformation that organizations are going through we have, especially in the open shift environment. We have what we call the operator framework, which allows operational knowledge to be used as code on. That's gonna be a kind of a running theme for us, but to be able to do these things as code, uh, whether it's things like our compliance operator, which allow you to do testing of a production environment, uh, testing of operational elements of your infrastructure to be able to test them for compliance is Phipps enabled our cryptographic libraries being used, and at what levels are they being used by simply the operating system where they're being used in the kubernetes environment? Are they even being used toe access AWS services? So one of the big things that is important for redhead customers that are moving into the cloud is the depth at which we can leverage the cloud provider services such as the AWS services, but also bring new application services that the customer may be familiar with on Prem, bring those into the environment and then be able to test. So you trust. But you verify on you provide that visibility and ultimately that accountability to the customer that is interested in using your solution in the cloud. And that's what one of those success criterias is gonna bay. >>Yeah, and speed to is a big theme. We're hearing speed agility. I mean, Julie has been talked about all time with Dev ops deficit cops, and you know all these ops automation, but speed deployment. This brings up to the point about we kind of teed up a little bit of the top of the interview, but there's been a big year for disruption, pandemic uncertainty, polarized political environment. Geopolitical. You got stuff in space congestion contention. There you got the edge of the network exploding. So we all new paradigm shifting going on everywhere, right? So, you know, and all the all the turmoil pandemic specifically has been driving a lot of change. How has all this disruption accelerated the public sector cloud journey? Because we were talking earlier, You know, the public sector and didn't have a big I T budget that was never super funded. Like enterprises, they're not flush with cash on board. The motivation was to kind of go slow. Not anymore. Sure anymore, >>I think. Ah, lot of organizations have drawn inspiration from those factors, right? So you have these factors that say that you have a limited budget on that necessity brings out the innovation right, And the especially for government organizations, the the the spirit of the innovation is something that runs deep in the culture. And when faced with those kinds of things, they actually rise to the occasion. And so I think about things like the US Navy's compiled to combat 24 program which were part of and that program is leveraging things like automation, dep, SEC ops and the agile methods to create new capabilities and new software on, as the program name says, it's compiled to combat in 24 hours. So the idea is that you can have software that is created a new capability deployed and in theater, uh, within a short period of time. That's very agile, and it's also ah, very innovative thing, and that's all leveraging red hats portfolio of products. But it's also their vision that and their methodology to actually bring that toe life. So we're very fortunate and very glad to be a part of that and continue to iterating that that way. >>It's nice to be on the road map of the product requirements that are needed now. They're never because the speed is super important and the role of data and all the things that you're doing and open source drives that trade Great to have you on sharing your insight. What? Just a personal question. Hyper scale partner leaders, your title. What does that mean? It means you're going to hyper scales. You're hyper scale who your partner is. Just take a minute to explain what you do it. It's fascinating. It >>definitely means that I'm hyper scale 100% thea Other thing It means we view the cloud service providers as hyper scale er's right. They have capacity on demand pay As you go this very elastic nature to what they do, they offer infrastructure a za service that you can then use for the foundations of your solutions. So as a hyper scale partner leader, what I do is I worked very closely with the AWS team. I actually super long story short. I came from a W S after spending about three years there, so understand it pretty well on, uh, in this particular case, I am working with them to bring the whole portfolio of red hat products, uh, not only onto the cloud for customers to consume in a self directed manner, but also as we build out more of these managed services across application services A i m l A Z you mentioned with things like co vid, uh, there are discrete examples of things like business process, management decision making, that air used in hospitals and inside of, uh, places within the government. You know, uh, that are really wrestling with these decisions. So I'm very pleased with, you know, the relationship that we have with a W s. They're great partner. It's a great opportunity to talk. Especially now it reinvent So these are all really good things and really excited Thio be the hyper scale partner leader. >>That's great that you have that they had the DNA from the best. You know how to do the working backwards stuff. You know, the cultures, both technical cultures. So very customer centric. So nice fit. Thank you for sharing that. And thanks for the insight into, uh, reinvent and red hat. Thank you. >>All right, that was great to be here and look forward to learning a lot. This reinvent >>great. We'll see on the interwebs throughout the next couple of weeks. Trayvon's hyper scale partner manager Really putting in the cloud to Red Hat and customers and public sector. This is our special coverage of the public sector day here at reinvent and ongoing coverage Cube virtual throughout the next couple weeks. John, for your host. Thanks for watching. Yeah,