 Welcome to Cloud Foundry Summit and thank you for having us. Thank you for being a sponsor So you're new to the community, but I thought it would be a good opportunity for everyone here to hear a little bit about what Dell's been working on one of the most fascinating things That I learned last week is the transformation journey that Dell's been going on internally So Cody, maybe you can tell us a little bit about the Agile transformation Initiative and the journey that Dell's been going on and how Cloud Foundry's played a part in that Sure so we've we started an initiative a couple of years ago to focus on our Deployment process to focus on our end-to-end delivery cycle with our applications there are a lot of a lot of Areas that needed needed improvement We started with the process side of that, you know side of the equation where they We started structuring the teams looking at the teams thinking about being more agile We we had some structural changes within the within the teams We look started looking at co-location We started doing all of these these agile like themes that you'll you know, you'll read about or maybe you've already done What we learned is you know as you start doing that especially in an organization as large as ours where we have You know, we have around 2,500 applications. We have thousands of developers Some of these applications or legacy been out there for 20 years some of them are brand new That we learned that there's really not a you know a silver bullet or a single solution That that would work that would apply to all of these different teams So last year I started developing some capabilities targeted at specific parts of the the delivery cycle So we for example, we started looking at making sure we had consistent build Automation in place for each of our applications. We started looking at Automation around provisioning of our of our servers and their infrastructure We looked at a lot of test automation. We built frameworks around the functional regression in the end test automation We also looked at deployment automation and we had a lot of successes there The problem is that these were all individual capabilities and we really didn't have an end-to-end solution So even though we did have improvements for example in one space. We had we reduced their deployment time by 284 percent So, you know, that was a big win for them However, it was limited up to from dev to to our staging environments. It didn't include production So we started looking at you know How how can we how can we complete this picture and the mentality we had was well We're going to build these capabilities and we're going to accommodate whatever Applications need they come to us with their requirements. We will make sure that that we accommodate, you know, they're they're technical Technical needs, you know, whether it's dependent, you know specific infrastructure needs whether it's middleware needs whatever it is and We again, we made some progress there Well now we were to the point to where Realizing that that isn't really scalable, especially when talk about the you know again the size of the organization that we have So we started looking out. We we we met with pivotal. We started looking at cloud foundry Cloud foundry had a lot of capabilities within it that we're missing in our current solution for example Blue-green deployments or zero downtime deployments One of the biggest ones was environment parity, you know So now you have your your dev environment your integration environment your production environments all looking the same So what, you know in the previous earlier presentation, you know, it worked in dev Why not in production? Well, this is this is one of the issues that we had that we were trying to solve So we brought in, you know, so we we started an engagement Started having the discussions around December of last year. We kicked off a formal formal dojo Couple of months ago lasted six weeks During that dojo we were able to deploy three different foundations. We deployed them I'm gonna talk a little bit. Yeah, let's talk a little bit about the implementation I think we have a slide to show To show what you've implemented which I think is let's talk a little bit about the foundations you've deployed and on the different Infrastructures, I think we have a slide Maybe not well over while we're waiting for that I think one of the the key things to point out is while we did work and we are working with pivotal on the Implementation we're not working with the commercial distro So this is an open-source version that we're working with and have opted to to go with interesting. So So what we've done what you see is a it's a high-level view on purpose But we wanted we wanted something that we wanted to prove in this pilot or in this dojo that we could have You know flexibility in in the infrastructure that we worked on Flexibility in the types of applications that that we wanted hosted in this platform and So we you know we started with building we built three foundations two of them on Azure one prod one non-prod I'm sorry on on vSphere one prod one non-prod We built an Azure instance out on on the public public cloud And we've got a variety of different applications that we've deployed to these clouds So we had some net applications some job applications some applications that were new some applications that existed for years So we completed a six-week dojo We had an executive summary of that review of that last week. It was very positive We're now putting together a plan moving forward. We have an inception starting next week. So we're very excited about this the solution and so just a quick question on You chose both on-prem and public cloud was that purposeful? It is again, we just wanted some some flexibility there There there's some instances where obviously we want to keep it on-prem Maybe a number of dependencies that we have calls back and forth There are some applications that are very lightweight very independent, you know, it's not worth the cost of us maintaining it So so we again we wanted the flexibility will be rolling out that plan You know here in the next couple of months to to have a plan for our entire application set that we have that's exciting So as Dell has gone to go undergone this transformation and your deploying cloud foundry and moving workloads to it How has this changed the way your organization thinks about technology and how is this extended to both? hiring recruiting and and really the teams you've built around this so so internally, you know This this platform is a it's an opinionated platform, right? It requires specific things from your application What I had before and what we have now are like 2,500 opinionated applications and We have you know since dev today Development teams are are required to manage their applications, you know, especially when issues come up You know troubleshooting deployment issues troubleshooting configuration then now we have thousands of opinionated people So So so what this this platform bring is you know, it is requiring You know some consistency and some standardization of our applications And it's the way that dev thinks about it is slightly different now now dev can focus on development They're not having to focus on the platform So that's internally that's that's one of the biggest changes as far as you know hiring and retaining talent You know, I'm involved in some some HR recruiting efforts every year and been doing it for for several years now In the spring semester and even in the last fall We're starting to talk to some college You know some some candidates that are starting to ask us about cloud technologies and they're you know, they're have some opinionated You know college students, but but more importantly they're they're looking at You know to jump on the latest technology to jump on you know Some of these things that are exciting and forward-thinking like cloud foundry like cloud foundry So, you know just just you know just by the definition of what it is just from how we're how we're implementing it How we're selling it to internally to our customers how we're how we're advertising it with with our recruits It's definitely changing the talent in the dynamics of the organization that we have I would also say that while it helps us to recruit You've also got the existing people who are there and so you're always gonna have your Chromudgeans who are not gonna get into it But then you've got this this stack of people who are chomping at the bit to do something Really exciting and really new and those are the people who whose passion gets ignited by something like this They see okay, we're going to something more modern We're going to something that that I've always wanted to try out and I say I think it really helps to motivate and retain those people as well Absolutely, and I think this is probably something everyone here is thinking about today as well On that point, and I think this is really kind of a great theme that's been Throughout the week around transformation is how is this changed the way you think about your customers and the challenges that your customers are undergoing? I think one thing is it's given us both experience and empathy for what they're going through so we can understand Theoretically about when we come to preach digital transformation But if we ourselves have gone through it We have a much more realistic understanding of what it's about and I think the way to look at it is digital Transformation is not waterfall I think what Cody was talking about is we've had a bunch of different efforts, and that's not just because we're disorganized or maybe we are But that's a different subject By having these different Initiatives that you're doing that allows you to move more quickly. So same thing with as we work with our cloud foundry Implementation, it's not a let's let's clear the decks. Let's go whole hog on this It's let's complete a six month. Sorry six week dojo and also rather than looking at well Let's refactor everything we have and start from from scratch It's a replatforming to begin with now, of course, we would love to get to where we're naturally Writing in microservices and deploying that way, but it's very much a Step-by-step process and that's one thing that it helps us to understand when we go to our customers That it isn't a binary switch over to to the new digital world It's it's coming in it's helping to to address these cultural issues and getting people started and getting people iterating Which is such an exciting time and as I think we're all aware 2016 is going to be an amazing year for Dell From your perspective Given all the caveats with what is public and what's not What is the vision for Dell technologies? Taken into all these considerations the transformation journey cloud foundry your vision for the future What does that look like and and what do you see where do you see Dell going for the future? Well, I think and you alluded to Dell technologies or your name Dell technologies Which will be the name of the the organization when when the The acquisition slash merger closes, but I think what it does is it provides us a continuum of services and Companies that we can use to better serve our customers So whereas Dell ourselves as Cody's talking about we may be back here a little bit further more More like our traditional customer base. We're now acquiring capabilities say through VMware through Pivotal that helped to put us out on the on the much more the leading edge And so by taking that information we can then stream it back and provide it to some people who are who are closer to Where we are and and maybe this sort of customer base that EMC also serves as well So it gives us just a better Breath of understanding and a viewpoints and then allowing that to to come back and help folks Maybe a little bit further back in the chain Well, your portfolio is certainly going to be amazing following the acquisition and with the journey that you're on I'm excited to see where Dell is going to go in 2016 me too So with that and with time left because I know we're the last one of the evening Nick I think we will turn this back over to you and let everyone get on to happy hours