 Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 Las Vegas. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are live in Las Vegas at HP Discover 2016. This is actually the first Las Vegas version of the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise version of Discover. We're here for the final HP Discover a year ago and a lot has changed and a lot of exciting announcements and we're here to talk about one of the most exciting ones that just came out today. So we're joined here by David Hunter, VP and Chief Technologist, Converged Data Center Infrastructure for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Welcome. Thank you. And theCUBE alumni who you probably recognize, Mariana Tessel, the EVP Strategic Development from Docker. Welcome, good to see you. Nice to see you. So big announcement today. David, tell us what was the big announcement concerning HPE and Docker? Sure. So today we announced a strategic relationship between Docker and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and we announced that we're going to go ahead and ship ready servers, Docker ready servers as well as converged reference architectures and support for those coming right out of our support organization as well as large go to market activities as well. Okay, so you touched on about four or five things. So let's break it down. So there was an announcement, I think from DockerCon last year, but this is a significant uptake in the alliance. We talked about a reference architecture. How's that going to play out? Yeah, so reference architecture, we've actually released two already. One is on a C700 where you can go and actually go ahead and it allows you to, it shows you how to install, how to upgrade it, et cetera, and utilize it. That's one way to do it. The other one is where we're going to go ahead and give examples of workloads on top of it. And the last one is we announced in this relationship that we're going to go ahead and release it also on our brand new HC-380 hyperconverged platform, which Meg talked about on the stage as well. So this is just like when you buy a phone, it's pre-configured with the apps. I buy an HP server, it's going to be pre-configured with Docker. Yeah, it's not just pre-configured, it's also pre-tested, pre-validated with Docker. That's a big part of this effort. No one else is doing that with Docker. We think this is a great way for our customers to get value right out of the door. Awesome, well Docker is certainly hot, hot, hot. We were at DockerCon last year. We look forward to coming up to Seattle in a couple of weeks. So Mariana, what does it mean to partner with somebody like Hewlett Packard Enterprise for scale reach? Obviously it's a big company. Docker's an exciting company, not quite that big. Yes, obviously very significant partnership for both sides, but for us it's the leading infrastructure provider and was important for us to create a partnership there and get our stack on the well-known HP stacks. And then with that, as David mentioned, there's a whole resale agreement and support and everything and from a customer point of view, they're going to get a very strong combined architectures with all the way from how the customer can engage with it, to how they're going to be supported and how we're going to provide services. So it's actually very meaningful for both sides and customers. So David, why? I guess is the reason, was this demand from the customer base, why Docker and why now? Sure, so HPE wants to take a leadership position in the up-and-coming DevOps and container world. No better way to do it with the leading vendor in the container space. So we want to get out ahead of this, go ahead and start building the ecosystem, start driving demand for something that we really see as a key up-and-coming technology for the next wave of computing. And my honor, talk about how this whole container thing has changed the way people think about applications, deploy applications. We know a lot of it, kind of our reference point if you're not in the enterprise space is our phone, right? You don't have to pay attention when you download an app to your phone, you just download it and it works, whether you've got an Android, an old Android, an iOS or whatever. But it's really started to change the way that people perceive applications, how they should work, how they should be installed and how they should be developed on. Absolutely, it's hard to talk about containers without talking about microservices and how applications fundamentally have been changing. Now they're part of many microservices together are used to create an application. And with that, the whole development process has changed as well. You have to deal with different scale, much more automation, much more different tooling around it, et cetera, et cetera. And containers really helped enable that whole transformation that's going on in the industry. All right, let's get down to the nitty gritty, David. Again, kind of timing, when is GA? When can we start to see this in the marketplace? So you're going to probably see this around the end of our Q4, so October timeframe. That's kind of where we're targeting. Okay. And will we see you in Seattle in a couple of weeks? You know, unfortunately I have to be somewhere else. I wish I was going to go. I was at DockerCon Europe where we were caught back up, but the next one I'll definitely be there. Okay, well there's not much more beautiful places in the world than Seattle in July as opposed to Seattle in November, which is good for watching football. All right, well thanks for taking a few minutes, exciting news and we look forward to the rollout in the GA. Sure, thank you. Nice talking to you. Nice talking to you too. All right, Jeff, Rick, Mariana, David, we are HPE Discover Las Vegas 2016. You're watching theCUBE, see you next time.