 It's The Cube. Here is your host, John Furrier. Hello everyone, I'm John Furrier, the co-host of The Cube. We are on the ground in San Francisco for VM, where is one cloud event around the ground called the Ray O'Farrell Corporate Senior Vice President of Software Defined Data Center Group, with Raghu, you guys run all the engineering product. Welcome to this on the ground segment. Big launch today, Software Defined Data Center. Is that the new operating system of the data center? Thank you, John. One of the key things we've announced today is the fact that we're looking at this unified platform where you can take your application, whether it's on-prem, whether it's off-prem, whether it's a big data application, whether it's something which is more of a traditional client server type of application, and basically run them in this very unified fashion. So I think it is becoming this foundational layer. That's exactly what we look at it to be. This layer, which allows you to bring any application to bear and associate policy and automation with that and run in your data center or in your cloud. I love the word foundational because it kind of, it's like a cryptic tech word, which means it's not fully baked out across the, as an operating system, I don't mean baked out as in the product, but it's not fully filled in. So platform's a lot of features. What's working in the foundational platform with you guys on the data center side, and what key areas you're working on? Because you're talking about policy-based everything, right? So that's automation, that's orchestration. What are the key fundamental things that are baked now and areas you got to work on? So the core of this infrastructure is, of course, vSphere, which has been shipping for many, many years. Extremely solid, extremely well-regarded. We've put a ton more innovation into that recently. So even when we speak of these areas, which are foundational and basic, lots of innovation to do in them and we continue to do it. A lot of what you saw here today is innovation deep in vSphere. And then when you branch out into the areas of storage and the areas of networking, both two new areas for us, but also very stable, very basic, very foundational in the layer. You then bring management to bear on the top. We obviously are able to leverage the products we've had in that space for a long time. Again, very, very strong and present in the area. So where are the areas that we got to start looking at some new approaches to this? Broadly speaking, we have a sense that the applications and how you use them need to move from a concept of managing them to automation, from management to automation. And a lot of that is going to be required is bringing to bear this new concept of policy and to those applications. You see some of that in the mix already. So for instance, NSX has some components associated with that. Some of the open source projects we do are related to Congress, which are tied into that management. And equally, if you look at vSan, you begin to see things like policy-based storage provisioning. But the goal is to bring all of this together in a fashion by where from management through the underlying infrastructure, you'll be able to get that automation. So you're seeing the pieces, but some of that is still brought together. What's it like working for Pat Gelsinger? It's good. I've worked for Pat Gelsinger for two years. And I've been at VMR for like 12 years. So I've been all sorts of changes there, multiple CEOs and so on. But Pat is very, very good. He's a technologist. He's very clear at describing what we need to do from a technology point of view, but also stepping back and placing a vision around, we're going to shift this whole industry. We are going to make sure that we move and make things happen in that space. Also, I think Pat is very, very, very, very aware of the VMware culture and of the VMware values. VMR has a very strong value system. We call it Epic. It's how we do things, how we approach people, how we deal with things in a very, basically high integrity fashion. And Pat really emphasizes all of that. I love working for Pat. You know, he's just got a great history with Intel. He's just, I'm a big fan of Pat. You know, and we call him out on his thing when he gets a little bit too crazy on the hybrid cloud. Great vision now that's panning out. So I got to ask you, and I asked Pat this earlier. We saw in the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots were prepared. They made a big play. What is VMware preparing for? Preparation meets opportunity. That big play, as an industry person, what are you guys preparing for that you think will change the game of the industry? So I think the big change that you're seeing is not a secret. It's obvious. There is a movement towards greater use of public cloud, greater use of hybrid cloud, drive towards converged infrastructure, extremely strong presence from everything mobile and application centric, trying to ripple its way back into how those applications and how the data center works. So broadly speaking, those three major things, a move to the cloud, the move to hybrid, the move to mobile, that's happening right now. And so from our point of view, it's prepare and make sure that we can be that broad foundational layer across all of that. And you know, one of the things when people come to VMware, and they'll be there a long time, they'll ask me, you know, what's it take to be successful at VMware? What happens at VMware? And I said, be prepared for change. Manage change, deal with fearless innovation, just keep driving forward with that. And you know, I think we're very well prepared to deal with the changes that are occurring. You got to put up some numbers on the scoreboard. Last question to wrap this up. Are you guys aware of the competition out there? I mean, the heat is on now. Yeah, of course we're aware of the competition. You know, I spoke to one of the comments around VMware values and so on. VMware is very much a company who will keep looking internally and say, okay, what are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? How do we need to react? How do we need to make the changes to be able to deal with competition and so on? You know, in the end, we believe that our company's strength, fearless innovation, how we drive forward with bringing all the various pieces together, you know, whether it's from public clouds or not a public cloud to private cloud will be successful. So of course we're aware of the competition. Of course we need to recognize and understand how we will work with, in some cases, that same competition. And, you know, it's part of the spectrum of the world of today when you're in high tech. It's okay to be competitive. It's also a great place to work at a great campus. Good culture. Oh yes, yeah, exactly, yes, yeah. Okay, thanks for joining us. We're on the ground. We are here in San Francisco for VMware's big announcement. I'm John Furrier, on the ground. Thanks for watching.