 Come on in, we apologize, yesterday. You actually were scheduled yesterday. You've been hanging around the Cube. Of course, we're in the main area for the folks who can't see here. We are in the ballroom, the Grand Central Ballroom with Sheridan, New York City. There is lunch going on. We're on kind of a break right now, a little bit of background noise. Great vibe here, really dynamic environment. It's exciting. This is kind of day two of the two-day event. People are pumped up. I'm Bob Gorley, Crucial Point. Welcome to the Cube. Well, thanks. You're here, all right. You're here yesterday, so I apologize about the pumpkin calendar. Appreciate it, but great. Thanks for coming on. Well, thanks for this, and thanks for the service. You know, lots of folks watch you. I hear about it all the time. We'd see you on Twitter. It's a good being here in person. Yeah, we love doing it. It's a great, we should share the knowledge. Share with us what your perspective is this year, what's going on. Describe to the folks out there the scene here. I mean, it's packed house, we're at a hotel, not a big hall, and what the conversations are in the hallway, what's the mood, what's the vibe, what's the kind of movement going on? Well, one thing it may be hard for folks to understand is how full it is here. The way Mike Olson put it was, it is fire-martial-full. It really is, so it's packed. And it's packed with people who are passionate about this idea of making sense over information. We know that you can make sense, make more sense of the data, and that is what I think everybody here shares that spirit. So you have a place that is packed with people who share this common vision and spirit, and the conversation is all around that. People asking now, what are you doing in data? What are your mission needs in data? And then the folks I interact with that I like to hear from are those who are bringing new technologies to the mission, and many of the people are asking me questions about what are the mission needs of the enterprise, so it's an interesting dialogue. So you guys are a consulting firm. We focus on the security space. I understand you gave an award yesterday. Is that right? Talk about that a little bit. Well, so we also, we run a couple blogs and a couple research sites, and what we do is we try to track emerging trends. And in government, of course, we've been working cyber security, cloud computing kind of platforms too, and then the big data, we've been working these issues for several years and watching pockets of excellence pop up in the federal government that are really addressing key missions. So our thought was, we would like to be able to accelerate the innovation around big data. And one way of doing that is helping the community share lessons learned. And so we decided to create this award, the Government Big Data Solutions Award. We created a panel of judges, which I'll tell you about in just a second, and then we broadly advertised this inside the federal government by connecting directly with individuals who are working on big data projects. We asked every CIO of every agency if they have folks they would like to nominate. And then, of course, we reach out other ways, our blogs, our Twitter feeds or other things. And we solicited nominations for this award. We asked the nominees to write about their mission impact as the number one criteria the judges would be interested in. We got almost 50 nominees. We got that to our judges. We narrowed them down to the top five, which we briefed the top five yesterday and then centered in on one key award winner that all the judges thought were just using best practices in this big data world to serve citizens the best way possible. Let me slow down and talk about the judges. Doug Cutting was one of our judges, and then he's esteemed in this community. Everybody knows him. We just called him a superhero. That's right. They are, they are. He's awesome. He absolutely is. So he was taking a look at these things from the architecture standpoint. How well are they applying these tools to the mission? Then others are folks who reach the same level of superstar performance in the federal space. One is Alan Wade, who's a highly regarded chief information officer in the federal government. He was at CIA and also for the entire intelligence community. So he was a judge looking at this. And then Ed Grandstedt from Kinetic, who's a forward thinking individual who steers their research and development into new solutions. Ryan Lasall from Accenture, another guy steering research and development for a broad swath of organization. Great, you're getting all the name drops in there. Good shout-outs. Well, I tell you, these are, we want these judges to come back next year. Chris Dorebeck is another. He runs the Dorebeck Insider. So these judges are the ones who are looking through all of the information to come up with the five key award nominees. And the winner is... Send us an email on this because we'd like to do, I'd like to do a post on this on my blog just to kind of promote that because that's important. You mentioned earlier, the community involved here is kind of intoxicating at the moment because everyone's kind of looking at each other, saying, wow, this is actually really happening. It's growing like crazy. There's real demand in the marketplace. There's a real market. Our channels are developing. Real solutions are being built. So it's super exciting. And it reminds me of the PC revolution, the client's server where it's like so obviously happening. And it's just a great marketplace. So with that said, what are you seeing as the most emerging, hottest elements of this trend? That's kind of kind of come next. So what we also know about Hadoop, kind of know the strategy. We were talking to a lot of people in the cube here, as you know, people are watching, but we're trying to get at what's next. Obviously applications going to start coming out. What are you seeing that's going around the corner that is going to be worked on? We had a good perspective from Todd P from Battery Ventures. We talked about the applications and the tools, the platforms emerging, white spaces. Can you share your opinion? Yeah, so I have an opinion about the tools. Of course, the applications that ride over this, that's important, but I think there's something even more important at this stage. And that is making this ecosystem of Hadoop more enterprise ready. Being able to apply lifecycle management tools against clusters and entire big data solutions. So enterprise management tools that help you do things like user authorization, user management, auditing, making sure that all the processes are running right and making it easy to lifecycle manage the Hadoop clusters. So things like the Cloudera Enterprise Manager, I was, I loved the session today. It just blew me away. Yeah, we had ads on. We didn't have a chance. Can you just give us a quick review of the Enterprise Manager? Yeah, why were you so impressed? I was impressed for several reasons. One, the comprehensive thought about lifecycle management of Hadoop clusters. They all have a beginning, a middle, an end. And what do you do while it's there? And how do you keep it running and performing it at top speed? And then as you see the graphic user interface, if you know a little bit about these clusters, it's just a tremendous way to present all the information going on. You see every process running, every server running. You want to stand up a new cluster. You tell it what hardware you've got. It helps guide you through the decisions about what is going to run on what piece of hardware. You're still in charge, but it's giving you great advice. And then you start up your cluster, keep it running. When it's time to spool down, it helps you do that too. And all throughout, it logs what's happening. It helps you authorize users so the wrong guys are not getting in there. And it does it in a fantastic interface. I liked it. And I think that's important because applications are where it's at, but you don't run those applications unless you have the cluster running right. Yeah, and you want to make that as turnkey and easy as possible. Simple, elegant and really good to use because all the effort is on the tools, it is on the apps. So you don't want to have to tinker around and chase logs and look things up. I think that's a real differentiator. I'm impressed with Cloudera's strategy there. And they're cool about that. They're saying, hey, we don't mind charging for it, but we're going to continue to be open. And so they've really been clear this Hadoop world on that strategy. You know, something else I wanted to mention about this award, you know, the number one awardee is someone that I think most people listening to this broadcast will have used this capability without them knowing it. That is, if you have ever searched any government webpage, you're using this award winner, the USA Search. Over 500 government web pages, including the whitehouse.gov website is using the USA Search. White House Patent Office, right? So yes, absolutely, the Park Service, the Department of Treasury, 500 different major web properties. And so if they're giving you suggested search, just like you would expect on Google or somewhere else, they're giving analytics to the people who run those web properties. And it's all with this CDH3 big data type framework. Okay, we're going to run a tough time frame here, but I want to ask one final question then. I know Dave has a question. What are you expecting for next year? I mean, and try to shoot the arrow forward a little bit on the product side, the platform side, and then marketplace, customer activity. Can you share your vision for what might happen? What's logical for next year? Well, one thing that a lot of folks have been talking about is the application space. Okay, making it easy for the business users to use this, as if you're logging on to your LinkedIn profile or logging on to some other online property. The users want that super easy point and click. So applications built on top of the Hadoop stack I think will be big next year. Well, let's continue to keep in touch on Twitter. Dave, you have a final question? I just want to thank you for coming on. I appreciate your flexibility with the scheduling, Bob Gorley, and Crucial Point. Good luck with the operation and congratulations on the awards. Contact us on Twitter. I want to do that post on the awards and get that amplified a little bit and put that out there. It's good to share. Great stuff. And so we'll see you on Twitter. Great, we'll see you later. Thanks again for what you guys are doing. Congratulations, thanks for the great interview.