 Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante of Wikibon, and this is SiliconANGLE's CUBE Conversations. We're here with Jerry Melnick, who's the COO of SCIOS, a company that many of you may not have heard of, but first of all, Jerry, welcome to the CUBE. Thanks, Dave. So who is SCIOS? Tell us. SCIOS actually has a long history, much longer than a lot of people understand, known earlier days as a SteelEye technology. Back in those days, we were primarily around high availability clustering, and we were sort of the first guys who did Linux clustering and acquired after a startup phase by a company in Japan called SCIOS Technology Incorporated, who is a publicly held Tokyo-based company, and we're now US-based subsidiary of SCIOS Technology. Based in Silicon Valley. That's right, San Mateos, our home office. And so what is it that you guys are known for? What are you really good at? Well, again, we're all about helping customers maintain availability, deliver SLAs on their most critical applications. That's what we've always been about, high availability Linux, Windows systems, and that's where we started, that's where we began. So the past decade, virtualization and cloud, first virtualization and cloud have exploded onto the scene. How did that change your business? Good question. I mean, obviously, people started off using these on physical servers, well-defined, well-constrained environments. The lure and the cost efficiencies of cloud computing and of virtualization really has attracted those customers as well. They've been the slowest to move, but now they're really going. We see it in our business today, and we've seen a lot of changes as a result. So how would you describe sort of the culture of the company, the DNA, the IP? Systems guys, we're talking about that, but so give us some color there. Right, I mean, we are systems guys, and that's what we've done. We really understand what it takes to maintain these critical database applications, Oracle applications, SQL applications. We know how important it is to our customers. So as they move off of these environments, we had clearly seen our mission was to help them improve their environments as they moved into virtualization environments. And that's one of the great things about our technology today is that it moves around, our current product line moves around in cloud and virtualization and across too. So flexibility ease of use is a major capability, but what we saw quite frankly was an opportunity as these people were moving their systems into cloud environments, into virtualization environments to help them in ways that they didn't need before. And that is really to try to understand what's going on and how to really make them work in very complex environments. Well, and certainly you've seen it with virtualization, where pretty much any app is now virtualized. Of course you saw that with the mainframe, now you're seeing it with VMware and others. The cloud seems to be a little slower. Can you help there? And we are helping there today, and we help that with our existing products and our new products that we're going to be talking about as well, it's all part of our mission, which really is to support these critical applications and manage their SLAs. So I've been in the business for a while, and high availability has always been very difficult, challenging, complicated. First of all, why is it so hard, and can you help simplify it? Well, the simplicity comes with taking and putting simple interfaces, simple interactions as a user, and then putting the complexity into the product that you need to deliver, making a very complex problem easy. And so that's where we have been, had great success in our high availability range, and we were going with our Sci-O-SciQ product, which provides analytics in this space. We've taken the same approach as well, and that's really the glue behind us is providing that. Talk about your strategy as a company overall. Give us the high level direction of the organization. Well, at the very highest level, we're there for the customers who need to maintain SLAs for those applications. And we are providing either clustering products or analytics products to help them understand and control and improve the environment so that they can deliver on time, responsive applications that are available and meet the needs of the kinds of applications that must be on all the time. And how about the scale? We talk about virtualization, and then cloud, of course, gives you a new level of scale. A lot of customers are concerned about how they can replicate what's going on in the cloud in their on-premises environments. Are you seeing that? You're being sort of dragged into that discussion? That's exactly what's happening. I mean, they're taking what they've built on-premise, on physical servers. They're first moving it into virtual environments. They're late, again, they're late to the party because they're very conservative in how they're going to do it. They want to make sure it's going to work when they go. And then from virtualization environments, they're going into cloud environments. So we really see, we're not losing the physical environment, but we are moving some of that out into virtual and cloud environments. And that's a big and important move because they want to take advantage of the flexibility of those environments. All right, Jerry, well, thanks for the update. And we'll be watching Sios looking for new announcements. So you really appreciate you coming on theCUBE. Thanks to you, Dave. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll see you next time. This is Dave Vellante from Wikibon Headquarters. This is CUBE Conversations.