 Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to theCUBE's preview of Nutanix.NEXT London 2018. Happy to welcome back to the program, two friends of the program, Julio O'Brien who's the Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Sunil Podi who's the Chief Product and Development Officer both with Nutanix. Thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, it's great to be here again. All right, so we've been there since day one. I was actually just recently down at the Fontainebleau in Miami reliving one of my favorite sets that we did. It was this beautiful kind of Miami colors which match the bright green and blue of Nutanix with the cubes, so I've been to every single one of them. You have the European version, which is the third year. We did Vienna, we did Nice, and now London. So, Julie, start us in as what we can expect this year. Sure, yeah, so we actually just finished our dot next on tour in APJ in the Americas. We were from Beijing to Boston, over 20,000 registrants and 44 cities. So now we're coming off of that, heading into the conference, which is our multi-day event. First time being in London for the multi-day conference. We have a great lineup of speakers. So, from a main stage perspective, Bear Grylls, who you may be familiar with, man versus wild, he's a well-known survivalist. I'm sure he'll have tips to connect what we survive every day in technology with what he survives in the wilderness. We're gonna have Jane Goodall joining us, so renowned anthropologist. She's giving back to conservation, just a phenomenal woman who's gonna be on stage with me in a fireside chat, cannot wait for that. Anna Alex from a startup in Berlin called Outfittery. So we always like to bring in some fun, interesting companies from the region. They're actually using a mashup of AI with their clothing business to figure out how to dress elegant professionals, such as yourselves, with all of the right clothing items. So she should be a lot of fun. And then I did wanna share something really special today. There's breaking news that we haven't shared anywhere else yet on one of our new main stage speakers. So for those of you who are football fans, this gentleman was one of the top performing German national football team members when he played. And his name is Michael Balak. So he'll be joining us and we're really excited about that. So for all the Germans out there, hopefully they'll be thrilled to check him out. We'll do some live juggling on the keynote. Awesome. Well, one of the things I always love about the show is customers always want to kind of expand their horizons, learn new products, get to know what they have, even better, help their job, but also expand your mind some. You've had some great thought leaders on the program. Thank you. I've had the opportunity of interviewing some of them on theCUBE, which is great. Authors I've read, professors that you read and I've done a lot of research, thought leaders in space. It's always fun. But the main reason most people go Sunil is to learn about the solutions that they have, learn about some of the cool new stuff and you're always well-dressed on stage and helping the customers understand kind of where things are today and where they're going. So what can they expect from you? Yeah, and I think this time around, just like prior times, there's going to be a bit of the continuation of the journey, which is what is practical about the company is that the vision continues to be consistently evolving in the sense that we've embarked on this two-part re-architecture of the enterprise cloud and in the first act, it was all about converging various silos of infrastructure. We called it the invisible infrastructure era and then we believe, and you'll see a lot of this on dot next London, is that a little bit more light around the reality that we are on the cusp of this, the world of many clouds. So, from going from the world of many silos of infrastructure to going to the world of many clouds and a lot more depth of products beyond what we've done in the first act around invisible infrastructure, transforming to invisible clouds is what's going to be the underpinning of the team. Yeah, you bring up something we've been watching at a lot of the shows and in our research. Cloud was supposed to be, many people thought, oh, it's going to be simple and it's going to be inexpensive and what we found is it's often neither of those. We live in a multi-cloud world, absolutely. The question I have for many users is, well, how did you get there? Was it by choice? Do you have a good plan? And who's going to help you get your arms around things? Or have we recreated through multiple clouds and applications everywhere, the silos that we were trying to collapse in our data centers before? Yeah, and I think some of this is also going to be, just like we've sort of, in any problem solving, define the problem well, it's 50% of the solution. So in some cases in the world of multi-clouds, one of the things that we've sort of had to kind of give it some time and it's a rite of passage is to really characterize, when we say multi-cloud, most people think it's just public and private, right? So it's to really characterize the problem of the multiple clouds or the multi-cloud error actually is a construct of many public clouds, but the quote unquote private cloud is becoming increasingly more dispersed or distributed, right? All the way into the remote office, branch offices, but also all the way into what we're calling the edge, right? So part of what we're going to be talking about is a pretty reasonable understanding of how we've seen some of our early customers sort of templatize their different kinds of clouds and then overlay the solution to say, look, it's not one size fits all, but you need from an operational perspective, at least, something that can be a single control play. Yeah, you're absolutely right. If you follow the applications and you follow the data, it's become even more dispersed. I remember the early days, when I first spoke to Diraj, it was, oh, are we taking a bunch of boxes and collapsing it? And what it came down to is the premise is that the challenge of our time is software for distributed architectures. And five years ago, we weren't talking about edge computing and IoT and all those things, but that's following along those trends. And I think so one of the core technical themes you're going to see is that the last 10 years of cloud has been about the era of scaling out. And that's proven now and there's more to be done. I think to really fulfill this next 10 years, you're going to see this thematic view of scaling in, especially when you scale small, which is a different art, than scaling out to some extent, right? And especially if you want to solve problems at the edge, you want to do it consistently so that you can actually follow the app, as the app's transformed, some of these newer architectural paradigms have to be understood. So that's going to be sort of like an underlying theme. Yeah, and edge computing, I think we know is a really hot topic amongst our customers. And this year, we're going to have an API accelerator lab. So in New Orleans, we had a hackathon. We're going to do it a little bit differently. So this is going to be really focused on giving people an opportunity to get their hands involved in our IoT product, along with some nooks as well. So it should be a lot of fun for people. This is a great area and it is a great application for that multicloud distributed edge kind of environment. Great, so November 27th through 29th in London, we're going to have two days of theCUBE, of course, go to theCUBE.net to watch the program. NextConf has always been the hashtag. I want to give you both just the final takeaways, what people should turn into, other than, of course, watching your keynotes in theCUBE coverage. Yeah, I think you'll see a lot on social media. Hopefully stay involved with all the innovation that we're going to be announcing. You're going to hear a lot from the breakout sessions. People will be tweeting from those sessions. We have more than 60 breakout sessions across a range of topics for people that are in different phases of their journey with us, whether it's just hyper-converged infrastructure, whether it's blockchain, whether it's IoT, and they're starting to think about the multicloud hybrid environment too. So there's going to be a lot of great information coming out of the event, and see you. Yeah, no, I think you've covered it all, but in general, so there's going to be a lot of cool stuff, both people-wise as well as technology-wise, but I think hopefully the common theme that everybody will participate in is this construct of this whole Nutanix vibe of dreaming big, acting fast, and having fun. Okay, well, Julie and Sunil, thank you so much. And also, breaking news, we're actually going to have a first on the program. We've actually got my first European co-host for a multi-day event, Upe Piscar, who's a CUBE alum been on a couple of times. And what I'm actually looking for, audience, I'd like to do my first non-English interview on theCUBE, so Upe is fluent in Dutch. He's going to be taking the train into London. I would love to be able to do a short segment, preferably a user, but we would welcome a thought leader, a partner, somebody in there to be able to, as we've expanded our coverage, we did our first Chinese event last year. We've done many in Europe. We did our first Middle East show in Bahrain just a couple of weeks ago. So look for that as, you know, but like Nutanix, we're all over the globe with what we've done. So Julie and Sunil, thank you so much for Stu Miniman. Once again, thank you for watching theCUBE.