Jaspreet Singh, Druva & Isaiah Weiner, AWS | AWS re:Invent 2019
>>long from Las Vegas. It's the Q covering a ws re invent 2019. Brought to you by Amazon Web service is and in along with its ecosystem partners. >>Welcome back here in the Cube, we continue our coverage here Day one, a day Ws re invent 2019 were on the show floor You could probably see behind the city's packed is exciting. Great exhibits, great keynotes this morning, Dan. A lot from Andy Jassy, Justin Warren. John Walls were joined by Jasper Singh, who is the founder and CEO of DRUVA. Good to have you here on the Cube. Thank you very much. And I say a whiner whose principal technologist at a. W s and I say it Good to see you this morning. Thanks very much. Thanks for being here. First off, tell me a little bit about drove up for folks at home. Might not be familiar. And then we're gonna get into your relationship with a W s. And why the two of you are sitting in first. Just a little thumbnail about druva. >>Sure, as we all know, data is growing by leaps and bounds on dhe. Data management prediction has been a big challenge for all enterprises driven the SAS platform very long. AWS, which helps him manage to get up and do it from the center to deal in the cloud toe at the educations, simply console to manage protection governance management on a single pane of glass. All >>right, so the two of you together we were talking before the interview a little bit about maybe some of these common attributes or shared values which make your partnership. I wouldn't say unique, but certainly make it work. So go over that a little bit about maybe we're that synergy exists where you see that overlap in your mission and why you think it's working so well for you to reveal your partnership. Once you're Jeffrey, why don't you jump on that? Isaiah? I >>think we saw a big chain in the enterprise landscape Hunter team and I made personally met Fiona Vogel back then and understood that big change and enterprise buying when it comes to a public cloud, data belongs to public cloud, the weeds growing and eventually manage on rebuild the entire rocket picture around the whole notion off a centralized sort of a data lake to predict it manageable on Arab us. We thought about eight of us in public cloud of completely different operating system. It's not just not about our technology team kicked out of the business changes with people want to buy an S L. A. Across the global consistent price point so delivered already have toe, understand how they built differently, operate differently security point of view cost part of you and also sell differently. You're gonna market partnerships you're setting motion procurement. All changes to be redesigned, reactivated entire drove our experience around Public Cloud And Amazon is in a great partner all throughout to build a story on top of the platform not just to based technology on, but are breeding a printing model on selling motion on and course introduced to customer benefits on. >>So one of the things that customers tell us is that when they come to the cloud, they want less stuff to manage. And it can be difficult sometimes to deal the new set of primitives. You know, the way things worked in your data center understanding locality, these sorts of things. A lot of this stuff gets abstracted in the cloud, and so druva help sort of take away all of that and create a simple solution for customers. They've been doing this for a long time, actually, you know, offering full SAS solution to customers not only who want to protect data in the cloud, but also on Prem to the cloud. And the way that eight of us goes about an Amazon in general goes about creating things for customers is way. Have what we call a working backwards process. And it all ties back to our first of 14 leaders, principles, customer obsession. And so one of the things that's really nice about working with druva is that they also have a working backwards process. And so we get to do a lot of that stuff together there, also a customer. So, you know, it's not just a partnership there. Also a customer, because they operate this SAS platform. And so, for quite a long time, for example, they've been one of the larger dynamodb customers. They've developed tight relationships with our service teams way our field knows them, you know, if you ask the field, you know, name a backup provider, you know chances are pretty good. They're gonna know Drew right, so and because they're all in on eight of us, it gives us an opportunity to launch things together. So when we have new storage classes in the past and new devices, new offerings Drew has been a launch partner on multiple occasions. I >>was gonna ask about that. A lien on AWS, like as a customer if I'm buying some clouds. So it's like I want to buy an S l A a cz you mentioned. Just do it. Do it. Really care which cloud you you picked as a customer >>customer. You really cared about an SL for for data recovery, which you need a guarantee across the group. That's a simplest part. So in that context, they don't care. But it goes beyond that. Data and infrastructure is very connected to shoot for the enterprise they wanted, you know, just to be recovered. But integrated with other service is, for example, Panis is are they have other value. Our service is you want to be part of the whole story from that perspective because there is so integral to their lesson strategy. They do care about where we're building this new every center from my data management, but they are getting more and more fragmented in both centralized way to manage. The more centralized way happens to be on the best known of embroidery, which happens to have all the service is to surround it of it. You do start to care about you know how they're holding me may transform the journey of data for the customer >>Ueno from the Kino this morning that I think it's only about 3% of total spend is on clouds, and there is room for a cloud to grow here. But that also means that there's a lot of data that sitting out there that isn't actually in the cloud. So a cloud based backup service like how the customers who already have existing onsite data, How should they think about this? You mentioned that they need to think about it in a different way and change the way that you experienced backup. So how how the customers start to understand what they should be doing differently and how they should think about their data in a different way. To start looking at something like the river >>Absolutely reversal. Ashley's got people, plus one that typically customers have 3.1 bucket solutions in their in their environment. They don't accept it, but they do have multiple softness. They always are the new one to replace an old one, but it still keep their legacy on what they need to do. What I do when I was to look for meditators before driven were tons and tons of legacy being managing very cars. And then I was always very, very hard. You have to spend a lot of time to manage all throughout, withdrew. Our philosophy is that your next generation of workloads, your next edition of evolution towards loud used to happen in river for a legacy. You could still keep the legacy software's IBM better cars. Let's keep on doing what you do with them. You're next. Attrition off architecture refresh, Refresh should happen in >>a zone old back of admin Who's gone through that process multiple times. Managing tape is a nightmare. Yes, I can. I can absolutely attest that that is the process. That enterprise tends to go through it like you want to pick something that you want to put all the new stuff on. Do you? Do you see anyone actually bringing data from their old system that they migrated across. So they just go, You know what? We'll just wait for it to die. >>I think a lot of people do a mix of both right today. They may have a cold data with a more humanity move toe deep archive a glacier from active data management part if you want to see how do it, how do they change processes to impact date evolution From now on 1st 1st 1st and foremost before they started, Look at old arcade media could be born on a CZ. Well, I think with evolution of deep archive, evolution off other service is much cheaper than tapes. It's about time that people start now, look at older technology that how do you know Maybe encompasses? Well, >>yeah, To me, this stuff is kind of hard. All right, on down might be oversimplifying, but you've got your warm data. You got stuff, it's cold. That might sit there for years. And we're gonna work, you know, we're never gonna worry about it again. But I have to decide what's warmer. What's cold. If I've got legacy and I've got new, I've got to decide what I want to bring over what I don't and then I've got the edge. I've got a i ot I've got all this stuff. No exponential growth data scale. So to me, it's it's It's a confounding problem of I'm in enterprise. It's already got my stuff going, as opposed to. If I'm totally born on the cloud, right, that's a how do you deal with? It's easy to do it from scratch. It's a lot harder to do it when I've got I'm bringing all his baggage with me and why do I want to bring on that headache? >>So I want you to think about it, says that you know, where would you want to innovate and start their first like a zombie? This is said that this morning in Kenya, or that whenever someone tells you you have one tool for it all, they probably wrong about it. Right? You. It's all for the best tool for the best problems. So you look at the way you really wouldn't want it any way you start there first to bring in the cloud first, then it slowly insanity. Start to lower your workload by getting rid of legacy or by re factoring in overtime. >>You've been doing this for a little while, So I assume that this isn't This isn't something that only just a couple of people of dipping their toe in the water and trying out. You told us before they actually had quite a bit of success with this. >>I think whenever there's an interesting problem, this competition. So we do have some new age companies coming to tow. What we do for a living drama is heading scale we announced this morning. We're $100 revenue run rate of business. So you just thought about building it right? But as I mentioned, it's about operating unit scale will be run about six million back after a week, with more than with better than 0.1% efficiency. It successfully the amount of paranoia going into security cost optimization Dev Ops Mount Off Hardware goes into building a good market motion to buy from marketplace by consumption models is very different from from legacy. Technology for side is only the first body, but Amazon has done for industry, which we're leading with cheerleading and we're falling. Example off is how you transform the buying baby of customer was something radically simple than ever before. >>You know, as a that's been been really a topic, and he's talked about it a lot. This transformation versus transition. It's kind of like being a little bit pregnant, you know, you have to transform yourself right and maybe it's not dipping the toe, but it's diving in that deep end. So from the AWS perspective and from what we've been hearing, just free talk about put it in that in that context, if you will, about people who are, I guess, willing to make a full fledged commitment and jump in and go is supposed to dabble in a little bit and maybe being a little bit pregnant, >>I mean something you mentioned earlier about two people. Just let let stuff rot. Yes, there is some of that like, don't get me wrong. I talked with customers all the time and they have three different backup providers. But the fact is, is that when they go to the cloud they look at okay, where can I cut and run, you know, And when they look at their the things that not only matter in order for them to transition their operations into the cloud. But then they look at, like, the new rate of data creation that they've got going on in the cloud. They sort of a lot of customers. They look at the old models of of enterprise, back of sweets and they say, Okay, I know how to operate this, But do I want to? Or they look at it, You know, some of the finer things. Like, you know, am I doing all the right things from a security perspective? In all of the right connection points across all of the right pieces of software, the answer may not be yes. Or maybe the answer is yes. And they look at other things, like, you know, what is my r p o gonna be? What is my rto gonna be? Can I abandon my eight of us account because of about actor scenario and go to another account and do a restore without having to have infrastructure in there? First you can if it's in somebody else's infrastructure in this case druva right. So, like there's there's a hard way to do things in an easy way to do things and drew has done things. Arguably, I would say they've done things the hard way so that customers can do things the easy way. It's probably a good way to characterize it. Early on, Druva decided that they didn't want to be in the infrastructure business, so they built something on top of a platform that would allow them to stop having to worry about that stuff. And if you're trying to on board a lot of customers concurrently than that, something that you want to scale automatically right, you know these kinds of things. When we talk to customers and customers ask us questions like You know what? Our customers using toe back up in eight of us. They often ask qualifying questions like I'm in a certain region or I'm in govcloud or I have too much data on prim for my bandwidth capabilities. And I don't really want to get into a new three year contract because I want to shut down this data center in October and it's, you know, maybe it's September, you know, maybe I don't have a lot of runway on, so they're looking for things like support for Snowball Edge. They're looking for things like not having Thio worry about. Do I have to modify all of my traditional applications to take advantage of other storage tears or my cold data? How do I get it into something like Amazon has three glacier deep archives without having to really know how that works on DSO. When these folks look at the clouds, they think aws because of all of the things that AWS enables them to do without them having to have, ah, a massive learning curve. When it comes to data protection in the cloud, Dhruv is doing the same thing. >>Well, the good news for Justin and me and Isaiah's, Jasper said. You hit 100 million. So dinner's on you tonight. This is great. I look, congratulations. Thank you. That is a big number and congratulate great success. Wish you all the best down the road and thank you both for being with us here on the Q. We appreciate that. Thanks very much. Back with more live here in Las Vegas. You're watching the Cuban eight of us. Raven 2019
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>> live from Anaheim, California. It's the queue covering nutanix dot next twenty nineteen. Brought to you by Nutanix. >> Welcome back, everyone to the cubes. Live coverage of dot Next at NUTANIX. We're here in Anaheim, California. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight were joined by Wendy M. Pfeiffer. She is the chief information officer at Nutanix. Thank you so much for coming on the Cube. Wendy, thank you for having me. And this is not your first time you this year. A Cube alum. >> I am a Cube alum. It's so much fun. It's kind of weird, though. We're inside of this Cuban outside of us is all the action in the Exposition Hall is kind of crazy and cool. >> It is that there's a lot of energy here. I want to start our conversation by taking you back in time to nineteen eighties. You growing up in Silicon Valley, you notice an advertisement in the newspaper that dead tree medium NASA wants ideas on how to organize its dashboard. Better for astronauts. Yeah, >> So they had a program called CD T I cockpit displays of traffic information and they were looking for innovative ideas to make what was really a very small display provide information for the shuttle astronauts as they were re entering the atmosphere. And so, if you can imagine coming back into the atmosphere, it very high speed. And there was concern that there would be a traffic in the area. Regular airplanes flying, you know, relatively much slower. And so how could the same air traffic displays that were used for aviators be sort of modified to give real time information? Teo the astronauts, I will tell you that I never contributed much to that project, but I discovered large scale computer systems. And I just love the idea of these things large networks, large computers on just the through the vast interconnectedness of things. And so that got me interested in technology, whereas before I thought I was interested in science and math. And it turns out, of course, there's some great synergy among those topics. >> So So the internship at NASA is what propelled your interest and really, what launched your career in technology? Yes. Now you are the CEO of Nutanix. This this amazing company thiss startup That's now billion dollars with the market cap in multiple billions of dollars. Yes. So talk a little bit about your experience as CEO and what and what in what you're hearing, particularly at this dot next show. Yeah, I think >> one of the things that's happening is we're all in the midst of a huge transformation in terms of how digital technology affects business and empowers and enables business and as CEOs were right in the middle of that Wei have. Many of us have tons of legacy equipment and things from vendors, but we also have this desire for leading digital transformation in our companies. And so companies like Nutanix and there aren't many companies like Nutanix, but technologies like ours bridge that gap. We can run the legacy workloads in on premise data centers on pick a vendor's hardware. But we can also run the same work loads on our operating system in public clouds. And so it's kind of the best of both worlds, and it bridges thes two worlds that CEOs have been struggling to bridge, and it does so in a way that doesn't require us to re train our people or find, you know, a small team of rocket scientists who are, you know, worth more than the GDP of small countries. So we're able Teo, actually execute. Still keep the lights on. Still do the the old school things that we need to do but also operate with excellence at that more modern end of the technology spectrum. That's huge. And I'm hearing that from so many folks all around the show, whether it's, you know, people who are responsible for infrastructure or Dev Ops kind of crosses all of those bridges. And and as Nutanix, the CEO, I get to represent how any company like ours a billion and a half dollars publicly traded company, can use technology to enable itself, because I use our technology to do all the things we need to do as a company. >> But that's exactly just what you're talking about. That balance that these companies need to strike with thinking about the maintenance, thinking about the storage, thinking about the protection, but then also thinking in a much more visionary in strategic way about how we really transform our business and get our and get the work done that we need to get done. Can you talk a little bit about the fact that these consumer technologies have really leapfrog the thie enterprise vendors and sort of embarrassing it, frankly, should be for these big technology behemoth that they haven't done more to make cooler, sleeker technologies? >> Absolutely. Oh, my gosh, this is my favorite topic. And it's why I have my smart here. So on this smartphone, this is a is an apple phone on this smartphone. I have a ton of applications and a ton of functionality, and you know, so I have Facebook on my smartphone, right? And I love Facebook. >> But when I >> downloaded and I started using Facebook, I didn't say, you know Oh my gosh, fall. Now I have my social media application. So there's no way I could use Twitter or Instagram or anything else because my standard is Facebook. And that's the only thing I'm going to use. No, no, no. I have a multitude of APS and I used them as I choose when I want to, in the way that I want Teo, those abs inherit things from this platform. They have access to my contact data. They understand my location if I allow them tio etcetera. So all of those things are unconsciously in what is actually a phone. Now try to get your desk phone to do that right? It doesn't. And yet in the enterprise space, we have vendors who are selling us for millions of dollars, desk phones, and those were supposed to be as performance delightful, interesting as this device. And then we have laptop computers and we have desktop computers. None of those things is even a third as interesting, engaging, useful and easy to use as this consumer attack, which, by the way, is a lot less expensive. I spend millions of dollars on a V audio visual room systems of conferencing technology, whereas when I go home I can se teoh Amazon or Google. Hey, you know Amazon. Show me my my shows. You know I can I can I can ask for any show I want to watch on TV. When I downloaded Pokey Mongo, I love playing video games and games. When I downloaded Pokemon go on my phone. I >> didn't have to >> watch, you know, five five minute video snippets to teach me how to install the application. Within minutes, I was, you know, catching all the Pokemon I could what in what is really a very complex application that also includes augmented reality. And so I think it's time that first of all the vendors who sell to us, who are so used to that every three years, the enterprise license agreement is renewed. Or, you know, Hey, we're a pick something, you know, a one hardware vendors shop. So we that's what we standardize on that is doing two things. One, they're killing their own industry, and they're also killing. They're they're ruining. It is ability to deliver and to be useful and transformative. Two companies way and it way also have to demand better way. Have to stop buying that Dunc. And we have to start finding ways whether we have to build it ourselves or using machine learning tools to train the machine on how to do these things that that enterprise it cos don't deliver to us. And we also need to look for vendors like Nutanix that build that bridge that allow us to stop worrying about Oh my gosh, You know, we've got to make this legacy thing work with this new thing. We don't have to worry about that so much anymore. And now we can focus on this user experience The interaction design what we might do within an ecosystem That is our own unique companies and our own unique set of systems and also ultimately allowing our people, which is what companies are made up of allowing our people to to have the experience that they want tohave, just like we do with our own devices. I can choose how I want to interact with this thing, and I can turn it off if I don't want to use it. >> So so much of what you're talking about is really about getting companies and then the leaders of these companies to think differently. And that is the biggest managerial challenge. And it's a challenge when you're in sales. And so how do you How do you approach that problem? Because it because you've really laid it out so clearly we are used, Teo, so much intuitiveness and ease and beauty in the technology that we use in our personal lives. And then we come to work way put up with a lot of junk. >> We do, right? I mean, like, I know you're not saying anything out loud, but I know you. You're agree without you here with your laptop on the table there. You know, first of >> all, our work forces are changing. Generally, we keep talking, at least in circles that I sit in about, you know, the millennials are entering the work force. No. You know, the Millennials and Jen Zy are already make up almost half of our workforce today and will be at that somewhere around. I think it's seventy percent by twenty, twenty five of the workforce, so >> they're already here. Those >> folks already have a different relationship with technology than my generation did my generation. And I'm a Magen axe, I think. Yeah. Um so my my hub to Exactly So the big >> hair A my generation. >> I >> watched the birth of some of these consumer technologies, but this next couple of generations grew up with him already in place. And so they don't even think about the fact that this is technology. This is dependent, just is just part of them. And so I think we need Thio, Throw off the old filters and get out of the way. It's a lot more about choice and self service and freedom and flexibility and a mixed portfolio. And there are so many ways to educate ourselves about those things if if we don't naturally have that instinct. But it starts with diverse thinking, diverse tools. I believe that whatever you know, PC Mac laptop tablet mobile device that you're comfortable with your company should enable you to use. And you should use the applications that that makes the most sense to that make you the most productive. And then it's his job or it's leaderships job to create that that really rich ecosystem, where those applications and tools have the nutrients that they need and the capabilities that they need to work together well, understanding how to create and maintain that ecosystem mean what is an ecosystem? It's this sort of happy accident of all sorts of creatures at various levels in the in the pyramid coming together and figuring out a way to cohabit and to survive and then, hopefully to thrive. And so no one can get too important. No one voice no one species. No one layer can be outsized compared to the others because of So what do you have? Well, you have a species collapse. They run out of the fuel that helps them to thrive. And so I think, of course, our planet at a macro level is an example of that. But our company's our families, our neighborhoods. All of those things are micro examples that that matched the macro and are dependant on the same laws of physics and science and so on in order to thrive in to function. >> Well, you're talking you You just highlighted the importance of diversity. And and you made this comment about No one person can get two important or no one part of the species. In fact, if you look at the tech landscape Ueno, who's too important and it's the pros who are who are running the show in a lot of ways. Still, I want to hear from you as a senior leader, a female senior leader in technology you noticed, >> and Theo the manicure. Yeah, >> but how? What? What do you see? What? Tell us what it's like. I mean, is it as bad as we hear? And, um, and and And how have you in your career overcome a lot of these challenges? And then how What do you see as your responsibility to the next generation who's coming up? >> Absolutely. So it is as bad as we hear. It's sometimes worse than we here. And I think that especially there are certain sectors of society and tech society where the bro culture that we've heard about is fully in play. What mitigates that is the human beings who make up the bro culture so often. These guys don't understand the the effect of all of them and mass, and so often they're just being natural. Many, especially start ups. The start of fuel. Silicon Valley, You know, they started with some great ideas and with some dreamers and often those those people with the great ideas and dreamers you know they are males, and what do you do? You get your buddies together. You know, when you get a little extra money, you get the next round of bodies. You invite people, you know, so >> there's a little >> bit of that syndrome that's happening. There are also wonderful incubators and fields where women are also in that start up mode, and I'm a member of the Board of Girls and Tech. We have a number of things like Way have an amplified competition that supports women, tech the entrepreneurs, so there's certainly more than just men. But the history has been that however, a lot of people talk about that For me, that's not the emphasis for me. The emphasis is on how we change our jobs and our definition of work in general. And this is so fascinating to me. >> I think we've been working for years >> and years on, you know, how do we get more women and stem and encourage girls to go through this path in school? You know, it turns out women and men are both equally interested in science and math and all those things. But the starting jobs and tech are are horrendous when it comes to matching women's interests in skills and this isthe stereo, I'm going to start stereotype here. I hate doing this, but in general terms, men tend to be able to work on things serially. They tend to have a singular focus and to appreciate the singular focus and so you can lay out a path first, your socks and your shoes and the guy will follow that, and we'LL master each step along the way. And that's that's a way that you know, it's stereotypically a lot of male brain brains. Progress for women, for female brains were multifaceted way sort of have this ability. I don't know if it's evolutionary or environment or whatever. I'm not like an expert, thank God. >> But we have this >> ability to multi task all the time. I could be, you know, holding my kid and, um, talking on the phone and, you know, making sure dinners cooking, okay. And, you know, maybe it's a business call, and I might be hiring someone or firing someone, and I'm giving equal focused attention to each very important task. And so we sort of have that that ability because we have that ability. That's the kind of job that you know. Okay, you enter college and you're taking a software development computer science, of course. And you take all computer science courses until you get that degree. And now you get your first software developer job and you sit in this little cubicle and all day long you write code. Well, you know, fine. If I've sort of have that single threaded mentality, I'm ready. All right. I guess I'm going to do this. I'm gonna Masters are >> gonna get through the layers >> of writing code as fast as I can and someday I'll rule the world or start my own company over on the female side, we say this is going to kill me. I don't want to do that. What a boring jobs. Because Because also, I'm interested in I'm interested in the Japanese language and I'm interested in design. And, you know, I love to cook. And also, you know, I'm just been working through, you know, theories of space and time and in my physics study, and to just have to focus my mind all by myself all day long in this cubicle on writing, you know, some part of a bigger program. It's not attractive. And so what we find is that women are dropping out of thes focus degree programs and they're dropping out of the early stages of technology careers. Which means that by the time you get to my stage, there is not a very few of us right, >> So you said we needed we need to change the definition of work. Yes, What does that mean? >> Well, the Millennials and Gen Z and countries that are that are very young, like some of the Eastern European countries that air, that air, just reinventing themselves. They've already done that. It's the gig economy. It's the idea that as an individual, I can choose the things I want to work on. We've tried Teo, sort of emulate that in in the agile methodologies right? I get to choose my tasks, but it's this sort of. It was taken the soul out of it. But this is really that independent contractors might be doing. You know a few things that once I might be designing shoes like one of my friends is she's she's created her own shoe company, and at the same time I might be writing code Azaz a gig for some other company. And you know what? I might also be involved in, you know, a charitable work. Or I might be volunteering at my kid's school and doing all of those things together at the same time in parallel is interesting to us. It's engaging to us. We put more. >> So how'd you do that? At your team at NUTANIX? How do you help your employees, uh, do all the things that they want to do in addition to obviously getting their work done? Yeah, well, It's always a >> balance right. One of the really important things is to create an environment of tools and technologies and processes that allow people to choose the things they want to choose. It's not always well understood. Some people say thank you. I get to use the tools I like. Other people say there's too many tools what we d'Oh. And so we try to find something down the middle for those guys. Exactly. Secondly, I hire and mentor leaders who are very diverse and open, and they're thinking so that we can constantly kind of reinvent ourselves as an I T organization. But ultimately it gets down to enabling culturally people to think differently, to raise their hand and say, You know, I am a network engineer, but I would like Tio automate this thing over here or, you know, I Yes, I'm a systems engineer, but I'd like to deploy the network, just allowing them to get out of their comfort zone and to experiment. It's also really important to understand the balance of it. People who choose it love engineering and love technology, but we'LL also love process and interaction, and so we're already this mash up of personality types. And, you know, I would say more multifaceted you are, the more you're able to play multiple sports or or have multiple skills or play offense and defense, then the more able you are to thrive in the new World in the new economy. And sometimes it's just finding those mavericks Or, you know, I like to say I'm a little civil, like, you know, I've >> got a little personalities and you know it. Sometimes you got >> to bring one of those personalities to the table. Sometimes you have to bring many of those personalities to the table, and it's gonna be okay for folks to do that. >> I love it. I love it. Great. Well, Wendy, thank you so much for coming on the Cube. It's always fun talking to you. Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm Rebecca Knight. You are watching the Cube. They'LL be much more to come
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