 Live from New York City, it's The Cube. Here is your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here. We're on the ground at the Big Data NYC event 2014, and right now it's actually the fifth birthday party for The Cube. We're celebrating. I'm here with Amy O'Connor. She was just on our Capital Markets panel. Great panel. Welcome. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here, and happy birthday to you guys. Oh, well thank you. So I thought one of the interesting things that came up in the panel discussion was there a comment about flyover country, and I loved your response. I'm glad you get a fly back and forth, but I actually have to land and really talk to a little bit about people that are starting to really put the stuff into play that are not in California or New York City. Absolutely. Yeah, there was an impression in the room that Big Data was being used in California, maybe a little bit in the New York markets, and then somewhat of the DC type of stuff. So there was a comment made about how people just fly over that whole middle of the country because absolutely nothing's happening there. And I clearly remember spending two weeks in the Midwest in February, because you can't forget the Midwest in February, where our sales team hauled me from customer to customer, and we had some wild conversations. Some really great stuff going on out there. I mean, one customer I can mention is Caterpillar. There's a lot happening in the agricultural space, a ton of the stuff happening in the retail space where people are starting to get going with it. Then I was able to go down south a little bit, oil and gas, a little railroad stuff down in the Texas area. So yeah, you don't fly over the country anymore. You could almost maybe take a bus and just go from customer to customer. Well, it's consistent, because Bill Schmarlser, I don't know if you know Bill, is actually known as the Dean of Big Data from EMC that we have on quite a bit, and he's from Iowa, and so he likes to go into visiting relatives, but he's always, like every week he's out visiting middle of the country places, hardcore manufacturing, kind of helping them on their big data journey. Oh, absolutely, yeah. So a big show for Cloudera. You guys are obviously a headline sponsor at Strata Hadoop World. So how are you feeling about the show? Any big announcements? What's the vibe over there? So, you know, every year it's different. My first year, I was a customer. That was 2011. I was on the Cube that year, and my Cloudera sales rep, because I was a customer, met me at the door with my badge. This year it's like 5,000 people, the place is packed, there's so much going on, and there's actually so much going on, you can't even make your way around the exhibit booth floor and get to sessions at the same time, there's just so much going on, and everybody's there. So I always say, an indicator that something major is happening in the market is when you have that many vendors showing up for a show with big booths. So we have 700 employees, we have 1,200 partners. That's a very odd ratio. Oh wow. Yeah, and we care about them all. Right, right. So let's shift gears a little bit. One of the things we're passionate about is women in tech. You're a woman, you've been in tech, like you said, you were at Nokia before, so you've been on that side of it, now you've flipped over to this side. We were just at the Grace Hopper celebration of women in tech, actually interviewed Maria right after she came off the keynote with Satya, right, it was a good interview, you have to check it out. But I just, since I've got you here, take the minute to give your kind of perspective of being a woman in technology a little bit about your path and journey and advice you might give to either young women or people that have young girls or young women about what they should do if they want to pursue a career down this path. You know, there's a great opportunity for everyone in tech and I think a lot of people get scared away from it at a young age to not do science, for example. This industry needs leadership, there's a lot of great women that provide leadership, there's a lot of really bright brains out there and you know what the huge benefit is? There are no lines in the ladies room when you come to these conferences. Except for the Grace Hopper one. Yeah, the Grace Hopper one would have lines, yeah. All right, well thanks for stopping by and thanks for your participation in the panel, that was great. I'm Jeff Frick, we're on the Cube at our fifth birthday party celebration at Big Data NYC.