 Live from New York City, it's The Cube. Here is your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here. We are at The Cube's fifth birthday party at Big Data NYC 2014. We just came off our capital markets panel the first time ever. Now we're having our party, we're having a good time, so we're just giving you a little flavor of what's going on here in New York City. Joining you about my next guest, Ershad, right hand, I get that right? Perfect. Big Data product marketing from Red Hat, so welcome. Yeah, thanks, Jeff. Appreciate you having me. So what do you think of the show so far? It's crazy, it's over at Javits, they've never had it at Javits, so what's the vibe over there? It's super, lots of energy as you said, lots of folks and just lots of news going on. We love the panel by the way, appreciate you inviting us to the panel. Lots of great insights that we're seeing from customers. Particularly one statement that I think stood out from the keynote this morning was when Mike Olson talked about Hadoop just disappearing and you know... But you wouldn't expect Mike Olson to say Hadoop is disappearing, right? Not what you would really think he would say. Exactly. So what do you think he meant by that or dig it a little bit? I think you know we take it in a very positive way where really Hadoop is now being treated as being governed and secured like any other enterprise ID platform and it's disappearing from the view which is what you wanted to happen and really be something that's under the covers and the focus be on the apps and the analytics on top of it. I think Jeff talked a little bit about that too on the panel in terms of what are some of these really big data applications as opposed to the platform. So what about you guys? Have any big announcements here at the show? Oh absolutely. We have a lot to talk about. Obviously we've got big news with Cloudera. We want to talk about the new alliance that's been forged and really it's about building agile enterprise ready, cloud ready big data platforms together. And you know both companies are obviously committed to open source innovation and to Hadoop and the broader big data ecosystem and being able to really take that enterprise adoption further along as Mike said is really the aim of the alliance. And are you out talking to customers much? What are you kind of hearing from the field? Absolutely. We're seeing a lot of great customer attraction right. What we see customers ask for is you know we want something that's open, modular, that gives us the agility and the choice to be able to build a solution that's best for our workload rather than working with in a thick stack of solutions that really doesn't solve the particular problem that they have at hand. What's one of your favorite stories of people that are really getting? Because a lot of the talk today is about where's the value? The value's going to come from the customer's unlocking value, right? 10x, 100x, whatever their spend is. Do you have any fun stories you can share with the crowd of a customer who's approved to be talked about I guess of some fun examples? Oh absolutely. We have a great alliance with Splunk and around operational analytics and I think you spoke to Greg Kleinman at back in the- That's right, we were at Splunk.com last week. Exactly and we have some great stories there about companies being able to save you know just a ton of money being able to deploy these analytics of workloads to x86 servers and be able to do things in you know much faster time than it was ever possible before. So we're talking you know seconds and minutes as opposed to hours and days. So right there we've got you know huge cost efficiencies, huge efficiencies in being able to reuse some Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills to Red Hat storage. So great stories around big data there. So what do you think about the comment from the panel about who's going to be the next the you know is there going to be a red hack of a duke? Yeah I thought that was that was pretty- So you are a Red Hat right? Absolutely that was pretty interesting and you know of course we were high-fiving because you know certainly around the the new alliance with with Cloudera I think it's it's great news for both both companies and again you know we're committed to doing what's best for the customer giving them as much agility and choice in the solution at the end of the day and really building that's building something that's best of breed. So you know just given our legacy and given our our footprint in the Enterprise data center and now being able to build up from there with you know anything from middleware to Red Hat storage to open shift and open stack I think you know we were just poised for a lot of success going forward. All right excellent. Orsha thanks for taking a minute out of the party. I'm Jeff Frick we're on the ground at Big Data NYC in Manhattan as part of this Big Data Week in New York City.