 Live from Seattle, Washington. It's theCUBE, covering DockerCon 2016. Brought to you by Docker. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Brian Gracely. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Seattle, Washington for DockerCon 2016. This is SiliconANGLE Media's flagship program theCUBE where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host, Brian Gracely, and our next guest is Scott Hammond, who's the CEO of Joyant and in the news lately, just sold the company to Samsung, congratulations. Thank you. Joyant, a premier cloud provider and also real stewards of the Node.js community as well as just having a great team over there, Brian Cantrell and folks we've interviewed in the past. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. All right, so deal closes when? What's, give us a lay of the land of the news. Just give us the quick highlights. You know, when did the deal get struck? When's this all just gonna happen? Are you going to stay on and lead the team? Give us the data. Yeah, sure, sure. So we signed the deal at about one in the morning on Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago and then we announced it publicly last week and we expect to close sometime this month. And it's, for Samsung, it's all about extending the value of what they're bringing to the marketplace. They're very involved, obviously, in mobile and IoT, cut to cars, smart home, kind of next generation solutions to the market, big markets, high growth, and they want to add a layer of cloud services to these leading devices they have already and make a broader, more complete solution that makes these devices an integral part of the daily life for the consumer. So Samsung's a huge company, so specifically the mobile group was behind this? That's right, this was really driven by the mobile group and they wanted to build out these additional services and very active in the community, big customer bars for a while, so this is a real good launch for next step. Yeah. Did they know they were getting the Node.js bonus? I mean, because a lot of people were asking me on theCUBE off camera, great deal, happy for Joanne, Samsung needs a cloud, Apple's right there in their doorstep, they're competing head to head, so iCloud, Samsung phones, you can see the dots connecting. That's right. The question comes up, it's like, whoa, Node, everyone loves Node.js, they have no community. Status to update, any changes, thoughts? So this node was not a strategic aspect of this acquisition, but they really like Node, because they're obviously investing a lot in mobile and in IoT and that's kind of the wheelhouse for Node. So... They have no plans tampering with the momentum and the community? No, they're happy about it. In fact, we had a lot of conversations last week where they want to know what they can do to help accelerate the project, what investment areas, what community support, how can they help? They've been pretty good citizens in the open source community and they're big fans of Node, so I think this will be very positive for everybody in the Node community as well. Yeah, so we were at IBM Interconnect a few months ago. They made a big deal about trying to do Apple Swift in their cloud. Samsung huge proponents around Android, I mean, really probably the leading, leading commercial Android. Does Joyant become the best place for sort of the back end of Android development? What's the thinking there? I mean, Joyant always had very interesting technology and different enterprise, but do you guys shift to be much more mobile centric or how does this affect you guys? So I think it affects us a lot, but if you look at where most of our new customers and new applications have been developed on the joint cloud on Triton over the last few years, a lot of them have been in web, mobile and IoT. We've seen a lot of that. It's kind of the green field environment for a lot of organizations today. So I think that having said that, the developer community around Android, I think there are some pretty interesting opportunities for us to work with that group and help bring more services to them, a better platform for them that might be tied in with some of the other tools to help make it a better place for the developer community, Android community, the Samsung development community. I think there are a lot of opportunities to work with that group as well. Are you going to stay on in the group and what's the configuration of the team? Any changes? Yeah, good question. So we will be a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Samsung. So think about them as having a very big commercial relationship with us, but investing a lot in our non-Samsung commercial business as well. So this kind of turbocharges our business plan. So we'll be growing a lot faster than the business plan of the BCs was betting on, which is good and exciting. So yeah. We've got a ready-made market with the Android phones for one, two, the pressure for cloud services. And three, they must have had a buy, build decision internally. How hard we've seen HP try to make a cloud and back out of that. We've been saying this a long time, cloud is hard, right? So the good thing is, so they do understand that, so they can appreciate the expertise and how hard it is to build and run a manager's cloud. So it's important. In your relationship with Samsung Mobile, what, and yeah, because they had a customer relationship with them, what did they hone in on, Scott? Were they jazzed on the tech, the scope, size? Did they, they must have a couple of things that were key to them on the deal terms or from a technology perspective? Technology and expertise. Those are the two big things for them. So they spent a lot of time digging deeper on our Triton platform around our Manta object store platform that has containers that are embedded in storage. You can just spin up your compute job right on the data. So those were those two technologies that Manta and then the Triton containers and service platform. That was just paramount for them. So they must have been totally stoked when you said headroom for IoT. Because that really is interesting now, the stuff that you guys had and the tech side that could not go well beyond the consumer for Samsung. Was that interesting to them or was that part of the plan? Yeah, well you think about, in IoT we have all these devices that are periodically waking up, spraying data back to the cloud to be analyzed maybe on an event-driven basis. That's what our Manta object store was built for. It was that in mind. To store tons of data, highly durable, scale out storage, very cheap, but you can turn on computing now what people call serverless compute. We've been advocating that for a while. It's good to see now people endorse it, commercialize it so we're not out there alone talking about it. Serverless compute. That's compute. Perfect, right. How does that work? How does serverless compute work? The name's misleading, it really just means instead of thinking about a full application, you're just executing functions. You've got a small function. You want to do it over and over again. I don't want to think about scaling it. Oh, box, yeah. And it's event-driven, right? So you're not running these massive applications all the time, paying for it. So you're sitting in maybe event-driven waiting for it and then a function gets called or event gets tripped and now you're going to do your analytics or process your video file that's coming in, stuff it back out, whatever. So it's more event-driven on-demand computing. So what's your takeaway from this? As you look back at the joy and journey, it's been interesting. You've seen the cloud early days to today for the folks watching out there, customers as they look to architect their future cloud enterprises to service providers. What would you share with them as kind of what to do, best practices? I mean, you've seen it from the beginning. And today, the consolidation, the rebooting, the pivoting, the growth of scale, the growth of Amazon Azure and others, Google, Docker. What do you would share with us? A couple of things. First, get going, start doing something right now. I think Docker has made it easier to get speed and agility through your development cycle, good delineation of tasks and responsibilities throughout your life cycle. So it's easier to get the speed that most people want. And that's what I hear from every single customer that what they're really after is speed and agility in their cycle. And they're going to get that now with cloud, with container technology that's, I know the tool sets around that that's really in the forefront of today. Are you guys going to offer more services to customers? Are you going to be funneling that through Samsung, mobile? No, so we're an independent, we will be an independent subsidiary of Samsung. So still supporting all of our customers. Still- And Samsung. And Samsung, so think about Samsung as a giant anchor tenant for us. You know, you have Amazon, AWS is Amazon, Google has the search engine, so now we have Samsung as a big anchor. So they're motivated as an owner to make some cash on the deal and make money from you guys, profit objective. So I'm expecting the head count to grow. You must have a mandate operating plan. Can you share any color around the kind of scale that you're going to go up or down? Up. So yeah, so you have a mandate. Yes. Yeah, that's exciting. I think Brian brought a blog called, said this isn't our exit strategy, this is our entrance strategy and it really is. Because we've been the technology disruptor, sometimes a little bit on the far far extreme of that. What we've missed is an injection of scale and credibility and global footprint that really helps us when we're talking to the global 2000s who want trust in them. And you have the bankroll too, behind it. The relevant partner. Big financial strengths, global reach, yeah. So you're going to be busy this year. Even busier, yeah, yeah. If that's possible. Well Scott, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it and good luck and I'm excited for everyone that joined in. You guys know you guys worked really hard. It's been exciting to see the progress and great outcome. Congratulations. Thank you. And the joy is going to stay holy and subsidiary. Samsung mobile certainly Android is getting stronger and stronger every day. And then I'll see mobile, mobile first mobile everywhere cloud. Joy and Samsung, big announcement, Scott Hammond here inside theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Brian Grace Lee. We'll be right back. You're watching theCUBE.