>>from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo ALTO, California It is a cute conversation. >>Hi, and welcome to the Cube studios for another cube conversation where we go in depth with thought leaders driving innovation across the tech industry. I'm your host, Peter Burroughs. The difference between business and digital business is simple. It's the role that data plays in a digital business. It's an asset that drives business innovation that drives customer experience and drives profitability in an otherwise business. It's not. It's something that's just associate with applications, But that's why traditional businesses are transforming to make better use of data. As businesses start to invest in date as an asset, they need to invest in the capabilities that take care of data's an asset. And that's one of the major challenges at all enterprises face today. It's an extremely hot domain, but not all options take full advantage of the cloud. And what does that mean? What does it mean to have a set of data protection data management capabilities be fully embedded with Cloud and Native Cloud Service's To have that conversation, we've got John Kumar, who is the CEO and co founder of clue meal with us today. John. Welcome to the show. >>Thank you. Very nice to be here. >>So give us the update. Include me. Oh, >>so come you. Ah, two year old company, right? We dress recently launched out of stealth. So so far, you know, we we came out with the innovative offering which is a sass solution to go and protect on premises in November and vmc environments. That's what we launch out of style two months ago. We want our best of show. When we came out off Stilton in November 20 >>19. >>But ultimately we started with a vision about protecting data respective off, buried, recites. So it was all about you know, you know, on premises on Cloud and other SAS service is so one single service that protects data introspective about recites So far we executed on on premises VM wear and Vmc Today What we're announcing for the first time is our protection to go and protect applications natively built on aws. So these are application that ineptitude natively built on aws that clue me in as a service will protect respective off. You know them running, you know, in one region or cross region cross accounts and a single service little our customers to protect native AWS applications. The other big announcement we're making is a new round of financing, and that is testament to the interest in the space and the innovative nature off the platform that we have built. So when we came out of still, we announced we had raised two rounds of financing, $51 million in series and Series B round of financing. Today, what we're announcing is a serious see around the financing off $135 million the largest. I would say Siri, see financing for a sass and the price company, especially a company that's a little over two years >>old. Look, graduations that's gonna buy a lot of new technology and a lot of customer engagement. >>But what customers is a set up from where customers are really looking for is they're looking for >>tooling and methods and capabilities that allow them to treat their data differently. Talk a bit about the central importance of data and how it's driving decisions. ACLU Mia. >>Yes, so fundamentally. You know, when we built out the data platform, it was about going after the data protection as the first use case in the platform. Longer term, the journey really is to go from a data protection company to a data management company. And this is possible for the first time because you have the public cloud on your side. If you're truly built a platform for the cloud on the public cloud, you have this distinct and want a JJ off. Now, taking the data that you're protecting and really leveraging it for other service is that you can enable the enterprise for and this is exactly what and the prices are asking for, especially as they, you know, you make a transition from on premises. So the public cloud where they're powering on more and more applications in the public cloud and they really, you know, sometimes have no idea in terms of where the data is sitting and how they can take advantage off all these data sources that ultimately clueless protecting >>well, no idea where the data sitting take advantage of these data. Sources presumably facilitate new classes of integration. That's how you generate value out of data that suggests that we're not just looking at protection as >>crucially important as it is, we're looking at new classes of service. Is that >>gonna make it possible to alter the way you think about data management? If I got that right and >>what are those in service is? >>Yes, it's a journey, as I said, very starting with an organ data protection. It's also about doing there the protection across multiple clouds, right? So ultimately, were a platform. Even though we're announcing, you know, aws, you know, applications support today. We've already done the Emperor and BMC As we go along. You'll see us kind of doing this across multiple clouds. So an application that's built on the cloud running across multiple clouds AWS, azure and DCP whatever it might be, you'll see it's kind of doing there, the protection across in applications in multiple clouds. And then it's about going and saying, you know, can we take advantage of the data that we're protecting and really power on adjacent use cases? They could be security use cases because we know exactly what's changing when it's changing. There could be infrastructure and let excuse cases because people are running tens of thousands off instances and containers and envy EMS in the public cloud on. If a problem happens, nobody really knows what caused it. And we have all the data and we can kind off, you know, index it in the back end and lies in the back end without the customer needing to lift a finger and really show them what happened in their environment that they didn't know about right. So there's a lot of interesting use cases that get powered on because you have the ability to index all the data year. You have the ability to essentially look at all the changes that are happening and really give that visibility. Tow the end customer and all of this one click and automating it without the customer needing to do much. >>I will tell you this that we've talked to a number of customers of Romeo and the fundamental choice. The clue. Meo choice was simplicity. How are you going to sustain that even as you have these new classes of service is >>that is the key right? And that is about the foundation we have built at the end of the day, right? So if you look at all of our customers that have on border today. It's really the experience where in less than 15 minutes they can essentially start enjoying the power of the platform and the back in that we have built. And the focus on design that we have is ultimately why we're able to do this with simplicity. So so when when we when we think about you know all the things we do in the back, and there's obviously a lot of complexity in the back end because it is a complex platform. But every time we ask ourselves the question that okay from a customer perspective, how do we make sure that it is one click and easy for them? So that focus and that attention to detail that we have behind the scenes to make sure that the customer ultimately should just consumed the service and should not need to do anything more than what they absolutely need to do so that they can essentially focus on work, adds value to the business, >>takes a lot of technology, a lot of dedication to make complex things really simple? Absolutely. John Kumar, CEO and co founder of Coolio. Thanks very much for being on the Cube. Thank you. Bigger and thanks for joining us for another cube conversation on Peter Burress. See you next time