 We're back here live in New York City. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's the cube of special presentation for covering HP's moonshot announcement, change in the game, a seminal moment and an inflection point for the data center, really, really a market history as we posted earlier on siliconangle.com, Dave Donatelli on earlier, game changer, new technology, this is going to be one of those points in time that we're going to look back and say, hey, the server business was changed and ultimately data center. This is theCUBE, I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, I'm joined by co-host. This is Dave Vellante from wikibon.org. Mark Potter is here, he's the vice president general manager of the ISS Group at HP. Mark, I've been listening to you talk about modular components for a long time, but this is just over the top. Well yeah, this is kind of, I think about the next big instance of converged infrastructure and what we can do when we think about server storage, networking, and what's so exciting about moonshot and hopefully your listeners and everybody out there can kind of see from all the modules, it's like, this is about HP kind of opening up in a whole new ecosystem and bringing that ecosystem to bear at some of the most difficult workloads out there in the server industry. And when we do that, you get incredible results, savings on energy, savings on space, power, and cost. So it's pretty exciting day for us. I mean, the numbers are just ridiculous. If you look at the power savings alone, that's kind of a no brainer. So obviously a lot of people want the product and obviously you have to roll it out. So let's take us through the day in the life of what's going on with you right now. So you had an introduction today. You're on the webcast, you're talking to all the press and all the folks out there. Huge software driven led infrastructure, converged infrastructure with the energy savings. So tell us what was the launch like for you? Any surprises, highlights, and then talk about some of the things that happened as a result of that. No, I would just say for everyone out there, this amount of energy that goes into putting something like this together around the world is phenomenal. We had events all around the world. We actually co-broadcast in London with some folks there and customers. And we obviously spent a lot of time kind of building up to this. And so it seemed like one hour, but a lot of work went behind the scenes. And then after that, we've really been talking to analysts, other press, and just from myself to Dave to all the different customers and partners. We've just been out there sharing with everyone kind of what we're doing here as a team, what we're doing here as part of this ecosystem to really kind of reset the curve. So Dave Donatelli said, ridiculous number, that the servers can be powered by, I'm having light bulbs, a handful of 60 watt light bulbs. But in more seriously, millions of servers that these days requires seriously power plants to power them. A power plant per million, basically. Stats on the numbers. Because I want to get that out because I think that's something that people look at, oh, I've heard low energy before. I mean, just talk about some numbers. Yeah, I mean, just the growth in the next few years, we're talking eight to 10 million more servers. I think the numbers we use, if you looked at that, we'd have to basically build data centers the width if you put them in football-filled size strips that would run the length of Manhattan Island. And quite frankly, when you look at the amount of energy, the amount of space, et cetera, we knew that we really needed to bring in a fundamentally different approach. And that's why this is so important. We're resetting the entire curve of the industry standard server and creating optimization points that just are staggering when you look at the results. And the point of this is bringing that whole other ecosystem into this, the atom solutions you just heard from Intel. But we're not stopping there. It's also bringing alternate technologies like DSPs, FPGAs, other kinds of computing architectures, including ARM. And we'll even support Xeon in here. And so it's really about when you perfectly take a converged infrastructure solution and define it such that the application is really what's creating the server, you get great results. I gotta ask you about the other piece that we love about this, which is something that we pump a lot on SiliconANGLE Wikibon as a software-led infrastructure, which is what we call not software-defined because we feel it's not yet defined, being defined by you guys and others. But there was some people on Twitter giving us a little bit of a back slap saying, hey, that's not really software-defined server. So I gotta ask you, what is the software-defined server component of this? Energy check, ridiculous, amazing, that alone to no brainer should close all deals. But talk about the software-defined piece. What does that really mean? On the chips, does it talk about software development? Talk about LAMP stack earlier? So can you parse that out? Yeah, I think maybe back up a little bit. When I think of a software-defined server, we've kind of led this thrust for a while. And I look at even kind of today's C-class blade system where from a software definition, we can actually create the right number of network connections on a server. We can connect those network connections at any speed to the right network. So we kind of self-configured the server for the application. So if it's running virtualization, maybe we instantiate six physical nicks at a certain speed. If it's running a different application, maybe it's a couple of 10 gig, maybe it's fiber channel, maybe it's all ethernet. But we can kind of create that on the fly. So we have one building block. The big thing about Moonshot is really it's the software application. We start there and then we say, what is the perfect hardware implementation using not only the traditional ecosystem of the server space, but this growing emerging ecosystem that's getting created out of these billions and billions of devices, cell phones, tablets, et cetera. How do we actually build the perfect ecosystem that's married up to that application? So in essence, the application defines the server. And not only does it define that server definition, but it also configures that server with the right fabric connectivity, the right storage, so we can assign the right amount of storage to that node. We can connect that node up to the right fabric in the right way, and then we can connect those fabrics out into the enterprise, the way that an enterprise wants it connected. So the whole construct is really all about starting with the application and then how do we perfectly optimize the board itself, as well as the configuration of the board in this, what I'll call this hive of bees that are working on this workload. So rack density, power consumption check, and then software developers per se on top of it. Yeah, yeah. And that's where the Pathfinder innovation ecosystem is so critical, because me saying that is easy, actually doing what I just said is very, very challenging. And so as big a part of this as the platform itself is that ecosystem, that lab, and we've got software developers as well as hardware developers in there, basically innovating together to perfectly optimize those solutions. And then our reference architectures will allow us to roll out in an open way, a cloud, using our converge cloud. So being able to deploy this with open stack and our converge cloud solution, being able to deploy the network through software defined networking constructs and create a solution that's completely data center compatible, but that gives you those savings. That's really important and that's hard to do, but that's what's so groundbreaking about this announcement. I got to ask the storage question. We really haven't talked today much about storage, John, and we oftentimes in this program talked about the disruption that's coming in storage. So to the extent that the server infrastructure completely changes, it's got to have ripple effects. You just talked about converged infrastructure, obviously storage is a part of it. How do you see that affecting specifically the storage part of the stack? Well, you know, I think we see the same notion of kind of software defined storage and with our virtual store, virtual store set of products, that will actually be part of this as well. And so think about as we add storage capacity into the moonshot system, we can take that storage capacity and assign it to any of the nodes in a very, very flexible way, as well as add the fault tolerant capability. So the notion of being able to add and create the right balance of compute and storage in this architecture is very important. So we can slice that storage up and assign it to the compute capacity here very, very flexibly. And again, that's a, you know, back to this management architecture and the simplicity of bringing this converged infrastructure all together. And flash, if appropriate, or a member store someday. Yeah, so we support flash today. And as you think about moving forward, you know, maybe it is all solid state or maybe it's, you know, phase change or maybe it's memory stir on these solutions. And, you know, the data can be non-volatile right there in memory in the long term, you know, equation with memory stir. Okay, I got to ask you one final question because we're getting ready for the book. Obviously, we're really into this whole modern era of computing, modern enterprise. In your vision within HB, what's your view of this modern enterprise? What does it look like? And what are some of the things that you guys are doing and driving to? You don't have to be pristine on the product, but just from the vision standpoint, we're in a new era, the internet of things, cloud all the things you talk about are awesome. But where it's a modern era, what is the new modern era gonna look like? Yeah, the new modern era, every enterprise is gonna have to understand hybrid applications in the hybrid world, meaning an application can be running on-premise as well as part of that application can be running in the cloud and needs to be managed as one and needs to be able to deal with the scale of these billions and billions of devices coming in, creating masses of data. And so they've got to be able to react, be able to manage their resources, not only on-premise, but across their data centers that may be virtual, that may be hosted in cloud data centers and they need to manage it as one and be able to deal with the onslaught of data and devices coming at them. And that's exactly what this moonshot architecture gives them. That's exactly what HP's Converge Cloud Strategy gives our customers, is the ability to manage this hybrid world that they're gonna be in. With these leading converge infrastructure architectures. There it is, Mark, proud of the senior vice president laying out the vision, but more importantly, simplicity for customers and value moonshot, rack density, power consumption as well as software, lead, server, storage, networking, all happening at HP. Donatelli calls with Converge Infrastructure again in a similar moment. Congratulations, thanks for coming on theCUBE. I know you're super busy. We'll be right back with Jim Gontier next here at HP, closing out the day, breaking it all down. This is Silicon Angle and Wikibon's theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back after this short break.