 Live from San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Console Connect Live 2015. Sponsored by Console. There's your host, John Furrier. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in San Francisco. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE. It's our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the synth from the noise. Our event this week is Console Connect Live 2015 in San Francisco. We're all the thought leaders and all the hardcore networking guys are changing the game of bandwidth, connectivity, security, all while the big Apple events going on right across the street. I'm here with Jeff Frick, my co-host this week. General Manager of the CUBE operations and I'm John Furrier. So Jeff, we've tapped out of the Apple event. All the top news over there, people jokin' to be the thought leader of it. I know what Apple's iPhone 6 is. They're all chasing press releases when here at Console Connect, this is where the action's happening. This is the engine of innovation that's powering what Apple does. These are the guys powering Apple, Google, Android. So without these guys, there is no Apple. There is no Apple event. And we heard that here. It's the engine room, as you said. So Console Connect to me is a great event from an innovative startup called IIX which has created a subsidiary called Console Inc. Which is a new kind of networking interconnect, software defined interconnection. This is so paramount, so disruptive. It reminds me of the local area networks of the 90s where when PCs were hanging onto coax cables, you're networking together with hubs. The inter-networking trend started. And that was spawned Cisco, 3-Con, a huge, huge wealth creation and innovation boom. And I think we're seeing the same thing now with inter-cloud, cloud connectivity where companies in large enterprises can be their own service provider. This is what Lou Tucker was talking about at OpenStack when we talked about inter-cloud and Lou Tucker, legend in the industry. This is the new normal. This is a new direction. This is a new piece of territory that will be expanded and will be a new, great opportunity. And again, theCUBE goes out. We go where the stories are. This is the real story right here. Yeah, we go early. And what's interesting to me is we had a lot, there's a lot of conversations about SDN over the last VM world. And we were at Open Daylight Summit and some people said SDN still don't know. This feels like, to me, John, is really one of the first kind of SDN applications. And we've heard time and time again that what enables really kind of a click and attach process within Console Connect is really enabled by SDN. It enables people that don't have the really deep network experience. And we keep hearing about how hard that is and what a rare skill it is to be able to establish these direct connections with business partners, with people that are important to my ecosystem, that I want to have that direct connection with all my cloud applications. And the other thing that's interesting is the vast number of cloud applications that are out there. I guess we should remember, we were at Infor a year ago where Chuck Phillips came out and basically said we're going to cloudify all these specialized applications at Infor sells to different marketplaces. We know about the big ones. We know about Salesforce and Zendesk and those types. But there's a lot of cloud-based applications that being able to kind of semi-automatically connect them together and get off that public internet seems like a huge value and really a kind of great timing to leverage what they can now do with the SDN. Yeah, you know, we'd love to talk about the future, how the queue goes out and takes another territory, expands and gets that signal and shares it out there. But this also market, this market talks about something really big and important. And that is the blocking and tackling of today's internet. When companies use the internet to backhaul their traffic, they got to traverse multiple autonomous systems or ASs as they call it in the wide area network world. What that means is it's like driving a car on the freeway and everyone's got tinted windows. You don't know who's inside and who's drunk texting or has machine guns. You don't know, it's evil out there and people are getting hijacked, spoofing. It's very easy to take a packet and spoof the internet and send packets on routes through China, through Europe and really, really screw up all kinds of the data and all kinds of bad things happen. This is how hackers are penetrating these large networks. If you're a corporation, you have two concerns right now that these guys solve. One, security and bandwidth. Those two things cost you money because the traffic is valuable now just because the cost of transit over the internet, AKA driving on the roads, who cares if it's free? If you have quality data that's going to be hijacked, the value of having a secure direct connection to your top partners, if you're sharing any data, this is a must have solution, in my opinion. I think this is as disruptive as Mark Andreessen's comment when he says DevOps and cloud create the 10x engineer. Something that we talk about in the cube all the time. A 10x engineer is someone who is DevOps oriented and full stack developer. One person can have the impact of 10 engineers. What these guys are doing is the 10x network WAN engineer. Wide area network engineer. One guy can use console and be 10x the value. This will expand the market. If they play this right and they have a social component with how they built this out, could see a flywheel effect that looks like Docker. What Docker did with open source is revolutionary. We're going to look back at that point in history. These guys have the potential to do that for networking. And to me, that's really the key thing here. Yeah, I love that you brought it back to the social. It was Jay Adelson that talked on the interview that it was not just a technology problem, it was a human to human problem. Who do I want to connect with? Who's my contact on the other side? And they talked about the social aspects because there just aren't that many great network engineers. So adding that piece, we always talk about on the cube, people process and tech, we talk about tech athletes. And I think it was really insightful for them to see that it wasn't just about connecting boxes, it's about connecting people. And the other thing I'm really happy to see and it comes time and time again, John, you mentioned it briefly is open source, community and ecosystem. And Paul Gamp has joined the team, longtime Red Hat guy knows a lot about open source and the power of open source. And he said, it's not really a leveraged model, it's really a community model where we give back, we support giving back. And so to see those drivers of innovations, those drivers of growth being played really gives you a lot of confidence in the legs. Yeah, and I love to see a startup company, certainly they're funded by NEA, one of the best VCs in the business, they're a tier one, they don't really toot their own horn, but we interviewed Pete Soncini there, they were all over VMworld last year. And again, console is interesting, IIX I always say to the CEO, every time I interview these hot startups that no one's kind of picked that winner as a winner yet, I kind of think what's the trajectory and who would buy them? You know, you think about VMware, you think about Google, you think about Cisco, you think about a lot of these companies jockeying for position in the network function and virtualization area, self-defined networking, these guys have a software-defined interconnection and this could be the next Cisco, it could be a great play for VMware, it could be a great play for Yahoo to get into the small, medium-sized, large enterprise. There's a variety of people who would want to buy this company. Yeah, absolutely. So it's a good investment thesis. And clearly Achilles' heel of everything cloud is the cloud and the internet connections and it really sounds pretty logical that the vast majority of the high-value transactions are going to be conducted directly between the players. And this enables that to happen faster and easier and we talk about it all the time, can you automate, can you bring trust, can you bring control? And that's what they're doing. So it seems like a kind of a simple overlay and I think it was Alice and I'm glad you think it sounds simple. That's what we're trying to do. There's a lot of complexity underneath the covers but we want to make it simple for companies to basically interconnect together and drive down the cost of that engagement to a much broader audience. And the selection of guests we had today, Jeff, really in innovation. Jay Adelson, former founder of Equinex, CEO of that, founder of Dig, which you all, if you're older than 30, you know what Dig is. We've had, obviously, Bill Norton, wrote the book, Doctor Peering blog and then ultimate book on peering. These guys, the credibility is off the charts. The thing that I walked away from, Jay Adelson, was interesting because he's now a venture capitalist but he's been an entrepreneur. He's founder-friendly. He's in the trenches. He's looking for internet of things and the infrastructure to support it. This was another theme that came out of this was internet of things. That was huge. The scale aspect came up. We talked with Albergio and said, hey, you know, scaling's a huge problem too. I brought security and bandwidth but scaling is another one. The people aspect was key. We had some partners on here. We had Samuel Curtis from Rack 59 who really laid it out and said, it's great. We had the CTO, Paul Graham, who said I joined IEX because of the Cube videos. That was my favorite comment. But again, he helped companies get on the internet going to Africa and going to foreign countries. Really, these are guys who pioneered what we know as the internet. This is really a big deal. It's not like these guys put a PowerPoint together, you know, went to Y Combinator and got 50K and said, let's start a startup. No, these guys are seasoned veterans. This is an ecosystem. So we're going to keep an eye on it. We're going to watch it. And again, if you're watching this video, check out all the videos from Console Connect. Great day today. I was super impressed. Any big surprises? Yeah, I was surprised. My biggest surprise from the show is, you know, I love this stuff. So like, I love- You love networking. I love networking. I think networking is really important whether it's social networking, anything network effect or distributed computing on a big fan of, all the way to the edge of the network. But the thing that I love about interconnection is that it provides an end-to-end foundation. And end-to-end architectures always work well. With open source and end-to-end, that to me is the holy grail for creativity and innovation scale. That, that's awesome. That's not a surprise to me. I always love that. The big surprise to me was Console Connect's theme here, which is IAX's core value in my mind, is the social networking component. The fact that there's just not enough really strong network engineers, if there's a DevOps equivalent, I don't know, NetOps, some of the ninja, you know, top tier guys, there's just not enough. And they're not growing fast enough out of school and it's not enough, it's kind of a black car as we heard here. There's just not enough talent. So what they've built into this with this social component, because when you peer, they're building a relationship network effect. That to me is compelling. And I think that is a key success point for these guys that I'm going to be watching. And that could be a game changer. And again, docker success happened because in open source, the people equation and the community equation is super important. And I think that's to me the big surprise from this event. It's super charged. And I just want to close out with some great comments from Tyler Coates, our last interview. You asked him, what's the vibe? And he said, the future is instant gratification. I thought that was very powerful. He also talked about the last mile and running fiber to the cell phone towers. And we often talk about interconnecting data centers and interconnecting enterprise. Enterprises, dark fiber laid out around all these internet hubs. But you know, the last mile always gets kind of pushed out. And it's pretty amazing to think now that they're really taking that fiber to the last mile and what mobile and LTE has really changed about the ability to get the better speed to the last mile. But I think, John, the end of the day, we know there's going to be more consumption of bandwidth, more consumption of bandwidth, more consumption of bandwidth. No one complains with more bandwidth. It's like, you know, they complain when there's no bandwidth. So security, all that stuff is great stuff. This is theCUBE's special presentation. Again, live in San Francisco, covering all the action. Again, go to siliconangle.tv for all the videos or youtube.com slash silicon angle. Go to siliconangle.com and wikibond.com for all of our research. Those are the reference points for tech innovation. Go to those sites, check it out. Of course, go to crowdchat.net slash ccl2015 and find out what's going on. This is innovation. We'll go where the stories are. We will, for me who's going to San Francisco live at console.net, we'll go do that interview. We'll bypass the big party at Apple, stay here and get the innovation. Not the sizzle, because we want the steak and that's what we got here, Jeff. So great to see you guys. Great job from the crew. Good job by the team. Thanks for watching and look for us at our next event. Jeff, give a plug for our next few events. We've got a huge, huge schedule line up coming up. Again, we're coming in. Splunk.conf, big data NYC, oral open world. Go to siliconangle.tv's upcoming events for right in the middle of our fall tour. We had a great couple of three days of you and world. Splunk.conf, big data NYC, Amazon re-invent, Pentaho World, Grace Hopper Celebration, and much more. Much more. I'm looking forward to a great season, Jeff. We've got Amazon re-invent. I would love that show. Obviously in big data NYC, there's a huge event we're putting on, big data NYC, and at the same time, we'll be hosting with Strata Hadoop, so look for Strata Hadoop. We'll be there, and they'll be there as well, working with us to put together the great show that we normally put on every year in New York City. Big data NYC. Big data week, right? Big data NYC is the event. You know, by the way, underneath that is happening Strata Hadoop. Look for that event. We'll be there as well. So keep watching theCUBE for all the action. Thanks for watching. See you next time.