 Okay, we're back everyone. We're here live at the Splunk conference.conference where they're spinning data exhaust into gold, as the customers have been saying. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract a signal from them, and there are two special guests. You know, everyone loves the Splunk products. We've heard from customers, they love it. And these are the guys who are building the products. We have the SVP, Guido Schroder. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. And Director of Engineering from BugSense, John Weston, and I'm John Weston. Yeah, did they get it right? Yeah. Okay, welcome to theCUBE. Nice to be here. Nice to be here. So my first question, Guido, is to you is, you know, you guys are a very product-centric company and a lot of success, a lot of happy customers. So that must make the product guys feel really good to know that the products are really well-resonated with the customer base. You know, I remember when I was here last year. That was my first year at Splunk. I had a lot of fun talking to Jeff and Jeff. And they said, hey, it's so great to see you, so enthused. And I have to tell you, this year, I'm feeling even more pumped up than last year. So customers continue to be very happy with the product. You know, we built a great team. I mentioned this before somewhere else. You know, almost doubled since I'm on board. And it's just a lot of good momentum. And I, you know, I mean, I said also in the keynote, you know what, if we don't package some fun into the product in the factory, it won't come out on the other side. That's how I try to run the show. You know, we need to have some fun and I hope the customers, and you got some of, you know, that feeling that we have back in the factory in San Francisco across. Well, it definitely shows here that people are excited. You have a great ecosystem of partners, big names, you know, Ariston Networks, the Palo Alto Nerds on the network side, a lot of applications, folks out there as well, as well as great customer base. So congratulations on the success. Thank you. John, I wanted to ask you a quick question. You're new to the family. Yeah. BugSense was an acquisition that was tucked in quickly into the team. What attracted you to these guys and talk about how that deal came together? Yeah. So first of all, we're super excited being part of the Splank family. It's actually a natural fit, not only from the product wise, because we're really excited about the product wise, because we're actually big data for mobile. These guys are big data for the end of things, for everything, for every single data source out there. It was more of a mentality issue and a cultural issue. We always try to provide value to the customers, and that's exactly what we saw here with Splank. These guys are super fun, are product wise, and we definitely see like a bigger bug sense. We never imagined that a public company could be so innovative, so product- I don't know if I'm getting through. Product centric. Yeah. It's really amazing. And it feels like home. I would never imagine that I could feel like home in a public company. Well, you're lucky to be early in on this company, because obviously it's a rocket ship, and looking at the 10-year history, you look about five years ago, they kind of had that inflection point where great product market fit as a tool, as a great utility, and then hit the mega trend of big data, which is essentially a complete platform rewrite, huge opportunity, and you got converged infrastructure, you got cloud, all kind of exploding. So, you know, you're seeing the company... John, do you mind just one quick interrupt? I would really love to add a few words or color to just what John said in terms of, you know, the match between the two companies. Yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. So, they actually called themselves Splank for Mobile. And that's certainly flattering. I think, you know, it also expresses a little bit the match. I think it's a young team, you know, they also like fun, similar energy. I mean, you saw John today on stage, the speed, velocity, he came up there, and I think that matches very well how we are. And then you remember where our name comes from, right? Splunking, searching through the caves. And, you know, I think this bug-sensing with the Armadillo is a very similar metaphor, right? Yeah, and I guess, you know, if you were Splunking, you need also some bug-sense. It makes perfect sense now. So, when was the moment you said, hey, you know, we got to get these guys on board? When did you guys come to that conclusion? I mean, we took a close look at the product. We took a close look at the team and, you know, just thought this would be the right fit. I mean, they have a very solid product. It's a great team. You know, we compared it with other options out in the market. I think they have, you know, also a very good momentum in the marketplace with customers. And, you know, it just went all very fast then. I mean, they like to join us. Also thought, this is the right thing to do. And I believe we have a huge opportunity to get out of us. It's a great cultural fit. It sounds like, well, first of all, John's excited. You're excited. On the integration side, what's the challenge there? Is there a challenge? Is it a hit in the ground running? Is it integrating into the product? Give us a quick update on the product space now. I guess one thing we need to disclose, and this was maybe, you know, if there was a concern, the only concern, and maybe biggest concern is that John's team is today entirely in essence. So the product part of the team is based in essence. And they are joining us in San Francisco. There's a little bit of, you know, transfer of people required, but they are all excited about the opportunity and ready to it, a little bit of formalities. We have to work through, but it's going to happen. And I guess, you know, within the next, I don't know, couple of months, they will be up there in San Francisco. Well, you don't want to take that away completely. You talk about having fun. You can always make sure you get to the Greek islands and have some fun over there. But, you know, so integration and John needs to take over there to explain a little bit more how this is going to work. But I think, first of all, you have to understand what Buxense really brings to the table for us. They have really three components. I mean, one is the SDKs that they have for the different mobile operating systems. They do this on Windows. They do this on Android. They do this on iOS. They do this also in a pure HTML based version, you know, that we can run on the different clients. And the purpose of that component is really to capture data on the device level. That's number one. The second piece is, you know, call it a gateway or a connector that we have sitting between the analytics and the devices. And that's another problem. They have solved extremely well at Buxense and at a very large scale. And then the third piece, you know, is really the analytics you do on the back-end side to provide visibility. What are customers doing with the applications? How do the devices behave? Where do we have crashes and things like that? And maybe John can dive in to tell you a little bit more about how we are, you know, moving some of that now on Splunk technology and how we are moving forward with the pieces that Buxense brings to the table. John, go ahead. Give us more detail on that. So, as Guido said, there are three components. The SDKs are going to remain as they are. All the fun begins on the second part and the third part. So, what we're going to do is trying to integrate some of our parts inside Splunk and, of course, going to use Splunk queries because the main issue we have right now is that we have a system that can accept data and collect data from hundreds of millions of devices that are hitting a database imagine like 200 million devices sending data all the time. And we analyze them on the fly in real time and giving them some insights, some results. The thing is that these results, these aggregator results are static. So, we have decided that developers need to know how many unique users their application has. What we want to do is we want to use the magic of Splunk and we're going to give the freedom to developers in order to search the logs. So, they could say, okay, I'm going to run a new query that is going to correlate how many unique users I have on this specific course version in this specific country and then using Splunk 6 I'm going to have some nice infographics, analytics, everything just like that. So, it's a huge, a huge step and I think we're going to take mobile device analytics to a whole different level. Imagine having the velocity that Baxence has and the speed that we aggregate data and of course all the knowledge that we accumulated all these years with the big data technology that Splunk has to offer. So, you're going to keep the developer community pretty stable where it's at from your perspective Splunk underneath it to enable more functionalities, is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, you're going to run whatever, you're actually going to Splunk your way through log data. Splunk your sense. Splunk your sense, yeah. We certainly bring a lot more sets and history in the analytical piece to the table and they clearly focus more on the mobile part and I think it's just a great match. I mean, one other thing I wanted to say, one reason why I was so excited about this acquisition is that mobile is really one of the, you know, big mega trends in the industry that are pretty much shaping and changing everything and clearly we need to be fully present there and we are doing actually more on mobile. I mean, there are also activities going on on the consumption side. How do you get Splunk content on mobile devices? This is a little bit more focused on analytics of mobile applications but at the same time, we clearly see also a need and demand that our customers for getting the content, getting search onto devices like an iPad or a phone. So it sounds like a roadmap issue for you there but really today, you get the cloud announcement, you have mobile with bug sense because the application market is still early, right, in mobile performance and application management. Is it still, how early is it there? You mentioned to the end game there. How early is it in mobile for your app performance there? Oh, wow. You know, it depends on how you look at it. I mean, you know, these application ecosystems are certainly not small anymore. I mean, look at, you know, the app store, look at the Android, you know, ecosystem. There are 100,000, I don't know those counts of applications that are also, from that perspective, you know, I would assume we have seen already quite a bit of the growth but the other perspective to look at it I think is a little bit more from a maybe maturity perspective and that's what I mentioned in the keynote. So, you know, the enterprise is also going mobile now. They try to, you know, do a lot of things on mobile and then, you know, you run into a lot of problems. Applications don't perform. Applications are not secure. We had actually a security keynote today and I mean, there is a lot of stuff being sent to phones today that you probably want to be worried about as a, you know, chief security officer at a company and this is really, you know, these are some of the problems that we try to tackle and I think from that perspective the industry is by far not mature and that opportunity is really just opening up to help all companies, you know, kind of develop solid mobile services for their employees, for their customers. I mean, it's table stakes now. It's pretty much the done deal. We know mobile's here. One of your customers in the, it was a trade me, said 40% in New Zealand, 40% of all the traffic now is mobile. 40% and growing like a weed. So that brings up the question of performance. And you know, I mean, I think you also need to look at it where is the growth? And I've heard from Gartner, I don't have the statistics myself, but I attended a Gartner event and they said, hey, you know what, there are actually a lot more mobile application developments kicked off now at your customers than there are, you know, actually there's a standard rich desktop or a web client based projects. And I think that is really telling the story that we're at some momentum moving, it's clearly moving into mobile, and it makes a lot of sense for companies to enable their employees with mobile. I want to get you guys take on two trends. One, obviously as you mentioned, the consumerization of IT and that's mobile. And two, the internet of things, which is trending here at the conference. A lot of conversations around IoT internet of things, which is a mobile kind of application, which has analytics. How do you guys see those trends attacking with the bug sense and the cloud product you have there? You see that part of the key part of the conversation now? Or is that more on the roadmap for you guys in terms of a market opportunity with the products? You want to take it? Yeah, definitely the market is exploding. Every single device out there is sending us data, traffic lights, mobile phones, systems. So even though we are talking about internet of things, it's more like mobile, because everything is on the move, it's sending us data. Even our homes are starting sending us data. So what we were trying to do with bug sense and we couldn't do because we didn't have the expertise or the knowledge or the technology, is try to aggregate all this data in one single dashboard. So we could connect industries. We could connect guys that were developers, guys that were business analysts, the HR, all these guys all together. And that's what we're trying to do now with Splunk. We're going to offer our mobile part and we're going to Splunk and with these guys' expertise, we're going to have the pie as a whole for the first time. And I think that's pretty exciting and that's a very, very difficult thing that nobody else has managed to do that yet. I think it's an interesting question you ask. How does this relate to internet of things? If you think about it, mobile devices are just one particular type of thing that is out there in the internet and actually the problem I believe that bug sense has solved might be really a precursor to move on to other stuff. I mean if you go to appliances or you go to sensors, maybe they're on a different operating system on it that is less sophisticated but the problem is very similar. You have some piece of device or hardware out there that is sending some data to a service that actually wants to make some sense out of it and I believe that we are very well equipped with some of the things that we have learned already to tackle these other problems as well. I think it's really exciting. I think the internet of things to me is an edge device, watch, sensor, network. They're all thrown off data and it's diverse data, unstructured data, really nice, really nice. And the boundaries are constantly moving. I mean talk about flyer builds and variable builds and maybe implant builds. We heard this today in several places, maybe in the future our dental implants or whatever have also something built in that you can do predictive maintenance. I mean machinery too, airplanes, cars. It sounds a little bit scary but there are also a lot of good uses to it. I know we're getting close on time and you guys got to go but I want to ask you one final question for both of you guys, same question. What's the most exciting thing about this new relationship between bug sense and Splunk? What's deep down getting you most excited? Could it be a business issue? Could it be a societal change? Could it be a product feature? John, we'll start with you. So, for me personally the most exciting thing is that I'm going to work with people that are shaping the big data industry and I'm really, really excited being next to people that have great knowledge of what's going to be the next thing and not only knowledge, they know how to deliver. So for us it's super important because as a startup as you can imagine we're trying to innovate again and again and again and again. These guys know that no, we're going to do this and this is going to be the next thing. So for me it's super exciting having someone else on the wheel and being right there helping them with everything we can. It's super exciting. You know, my answer is really not much far away from what John is saying. So, you know, we have a very diverse culture at Splunk and I always and everyone at Splunk welcomes new people that bring a different perspective and a different background with them. You know, I think the bug sense team is in a different environment and I think, you know, I'm just pumped up and super excited about the people that are joining us. They know mobile inside out. That's what they have been breezing and you know, I think it would be fun to work with that team and I just see, you know, a lot of interesting new product coming out of this relationship and that's exciting to me. Having fun, working hard, playing hard. Splunk is a great company. You guys have great product success, you know and that's always hard to do and you got great people working for you and you know what, work should be fun and passion, you guys have it. Great story here at Splunk. Again, this is theCUBE with the founder of Bug Sense and the SVP of Prost with a company growing up fast on a rocket ship live in Las Vegas. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE. I'm John Furrier. We'll be back with our next guest after this short break. Thanks John. Thank you.