 From around the globe, it's theCUBE, covering Google Cloud Next on Air 20. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and this is theCUBE's coverage of Google Cloud Next on Air. One of the weeks that they had for the show was to dig deep into infrastructure. Of course, one of the foundational pieces when we talk about cloud. So happy to welcome to the program. I've got two of the general managers for both compute and networking. First of all, welcome back. One of our CUBE alumnus, Jun Yang, who's the vice president of compute and also welcoming Shailesh Chukla, who's the vice president and general manager of networking, both with Google Cloud. Thank you both so much for joining us. Great to be here. Great to be here. Thanks for inviting us too. So Jun, if I can start with you, one of the themes I heard in the keynote that you gave during the infrastructure week was talking about, we talk about meeting customers where they are, how do I get all of my applications that I have, obviously some of them, I'm building new application, some of them I'm doing SaaS, but many of them I have to say, how do I get it from where I am to where I want to be and then start taking advantage of cloud and modernization and new capabilities. So if you could, what's new when it comes to migration from a Google Cloud standpoint and give us a little bit insight as to what you're hearing from your customers. Yeah, definitely, happy to do so. I think for many of our customers, migration is really the first step, right? And a lot of that application on premise today. So the goal is really, how do I move from on-prem to the cloud? So to that extent, I think we have announced a number of capabilities and one of the programs that are very exciting that we have just launched is called Ramp Program, which stands for Google Cloud Rapid Assessment and Migration Program. So it's really kind of bundling a holistic approach of kind of programs, tooling, and as well as incentives altogether to really help customer with that kind of a journey, right? And then also on the product side, we have introduced a number of new capabilities to really ease that transition for customer to move from on-premise to the cloud as well. One of the things we just announced is Google Cloud VMware Engine. And this is really, we built as a native service inside Google, right? As a Google, to allow customer to run their VMware as a service on top of Google infrastructure. So customer can easily take their, what's running on premise, that's running on VMware today and move it to the cloud with really no change, whatsoever, and really lift and shift. And your other point is really about modernization, right? As most of our customers coming in today, it's not just about, hey, I'm running this as the way it is, it's also how do I extract more value out of this kind of capability? So we built this as a service so that customer can easily start using services like BigQuery to be able to extract data and insights out of this and to be able to give them additional advantages and to create new services and things like that. And for other customers who might want to be able to leverage their AI and mel capability, that's there at their fingertips as well. So it's just really trying to make that process super easy. Another kind of class of workloads we see is really around SAP, right? That's in bread and butter for many enterprises. So customer are moving those onto the clouds and we've seen many examples, really kind of really allow customers to take the data that's sitting in SAP HANA and be able to extract more value out of those. Home Depot is a great example of those and where they're able to leverage BigQuery to take their stock outs and some of the inventory management and really to the next level and really giving a customer a much better experience at the end of the day. So those are kind of just a few things that we're doing on that side to really make a customer easy to lift and shift and then be able to modernize along the way. Well, yeah, June, if I would like to dig it a little bit on the VMware piece that you talked about, I've been talking to VMware a bit lately, talking to some of their customers leveraging the VMware cloud offerings and that modernization is so important because the traditional way you think about virtualization was I stick something in a VM and I leave it there. And of course, customers, I want to be able to take advantage of the innovation and changes in the cloud. So it seems like things like your analytics and AI would be a natural fit for VMware customers to then get access to those services that you're offering. Yeah, absolutely. I think we have lots of customer, that's kind of one of the differentiators that customers are looking for, right? I kind of bought my VMware in a variety of places but I want to be able to take it to the next level. How do I use data as my differentiator? One of the core missions as part of the Google mission is really how do we help customers to digitally transform and reimagine their business with a data power innovation and that's kind of one key piece we want to focus on. And this is part of the reason why we built this as a really a native service inside Google cloud so that you're going through the same console using, accessing your VMware engine, accessing BigQuery, accessing networking firewalls and so forth, all really seamlessly. And so it makes it really easy to be able to extend and modernize. All right, well, June, one of the other things anytime we come to the cloud event is we know that there's going to be updates in some of the primary offerings. So when it comes to compute and storage, know there's a number of announcements there, probably more than we'll be able to cover in this but give us some of the highlights. Yeah, let me give some highlights. I mean, at the core of this is a really Google compute engine and we're very excited. We've introduced a number of new, what we call VM families, right? Essentially different VM instances that cater towards different use cases and different kind of workloads. So for example, we launched the N2D VM. So this is a set of VM that's based on AMD technology and really kind of provide excellent price performance benefit for customers and who can choose to go down that particular path. We're also just really introduced our A2 VM family this is based on GPU accelerator optimized the VM. So we're the first one to the market to introduce NVIDIA Ampere A100. So for lots of customers who are really introduced we're interesting, you know, use GPU to do their ML and AI type of analysis. This is a big help because it's got a better performance compared to the previous generation. So they can run their models faster and turning around and turn insights. Wonderful. Shailesh, of course we want to hear about the networking components too. You know, Google very well known. You know, everybody leverages Google's network and global reach. So how about the update from your network side? Absolutely Stu, let me give you a set of updates that we have announced at next conference. So first of all, as you know many customers choose Google Cloud for the scale, the reach, the performance and the elasticity that we provide. And ultimately the results in better user experience or customer experience. And the backbone of all of this capability is our private global backbone network, right? Which all of our cloud customers benefit from. The networking is extremely important to advance our customers digital journeys the ones that June talked about migration and modernization as well as security, right? So to that end, we made several announcements. Let's talk about some of them. First, we announced a new subsea cable called the Grace Hopper which will actually run between the US on one side and UK on the other and Spain on another leg. So and it's equipped with about 16 fiber pairs that will get completed in 2022. And it'll allow for significant new capacity between the US and Europe, right? Second, Google Cloud CDN. It's one of our most popular and fast growing service offerings. It now offers the capability to serve content from on-prem as well as other clouds. Especially for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments this provides a tremendous amount of flexibility in where the content can be placed and in overall content and application delivery. Third, we have announced the expansion for partnership with Cisco. And we have announced this notion of Cisco SDVAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. It's one of the first in the industry to actually create an automated end-to-end solution that intelligently and securely, connects or bridges enterprise networks to any workload across multiple clouds and to other locations. Fourth, we announced new capabilities in the network intelligence center. It's a platform that provides customers with unmatched visibility into their networks along with proactive kind of network verification, security recommendations and so on. There were two specific modules there around firewall insights and performance dashboard that we announced in addition to the three that already existed. And finally, we have a range of really powerful announcements in the security front. As you know, security is one of our top priorities and our infrastructure and products are designed, built and operated with an end-to-end security framework and end-to-end security as a core design principle. Let me give you a few highlights. First, as part of making it easy for firewall management for our customers to manage firewall across multiple organizations, we announced hierarchical firewall. Second, in order to enable better security capability, we announced the notion of packet mirroring, right? So which is something that we announced earlier in the year, but it's now GA and allows customers to collect and inspect network traffic across multiple machine types without any overhead, right? Third is in actually in our compute and security teams, we announced the capability to what we call us to confidential VMs, which offer the ability to encrypt data while being processed. We have always had the capability to encrypt data at rest and while in motion. Now, we are the first in the industry to announce the ability to encrypt data even while it is being processed. So we are really pleased to offer that as part of our confidential computing portfolio. We also announced the ability to do a managed service around our Cloud Armor security portfolio for DDoS, web application and bot detection. That's called Cloud Armor managed protection. And finally, we also announced the capability called private service connect that allows customers to connect effortlessly to other Google Cloud services or to third party SaaS applications while keeping their traffic secure and private over the kind of the broader internet. So we are really pleased to announce a number of, you know, very critical kind of announcements, products and capabilities and partnerships such as Cisco in order to further the modernization and migration for our customers. You know, one note I will make for our audience, you know, check the details on the website. I know some of the security features are now in beta. Many of the other things, it's now general availability, which I reached the follow-up question I have for you is when I look in 2020, the internet patterns of traffic have changed drastically. You saw a very rapid shift. Everyone needed to work home. There's been a lot of stresses and strains on the network. When I hear things like your CDN or your SD-WAN partnership with Cisco, I have to think that there's, you know, an impact on that. What are you seeing? What are you hearing from your customers? How are you helping them work through these rapid changes to be able to respond and still give people, you know, the performance and reliability of traffic, where they need it, when they need it? Right, absolutely. This is a very important question and a very important topic, right? And when we saw the impact of COVID, you know, as you know, Google's mission is to continue to be helpful to our customers. We actually invested and continued to invest in building out our CDN capability, our interconnect, the capacity in our network infrastructure and so on, in order to provide better, for example, distance learning, video conferencing, e-commerce, financial services and so on. And we are proud to say that we were able to support a very significant expansion in the overall traffic, you know, on a global basis, right? In Google Clouds and Google's network without a hitch. So we are really, you know, proud to be able to say that. In addition, there are other areas where we have been looking to help our customers. For example, high performance computing is a very interesting capability that many customers are using for things such as COVID research, right? So a good example is Northeastern University in Boston that has been using, you know, a sort of thousands of kind of preemptible virtual machines on Google Cloud to power very large scale kind of data-driven model and simulations to figure out how the travel restrictions and social distancing will actually impact the spread of the virus. That's an example of the way that we are trying to be helpful as part of the broader global situation. Great, June, I have to imagine generally from infrastructure, there have been a number of other impacts that Google Cloud has been helping your customers. Any other examples that you'd like to share? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you look at the COVID impact to impact different industries quite differently, we've seen certain industries that just really their demands skyrocketed overnight. For example, I take one of our internal customer, Google, Google Meet, which is the Google's video conferencing service. We just announced that we saw a 30X increase over the last few months since COVID has started. And this is all running in Google infrastructure. And we've seen similar kind of patterns for a number of our customers on the media entertainment area, certainly video conferencing and so forth. And we have been able to scale to meet these key customers' demand to make sure that they have the agility they need to meet the demand from their customers and so on. So we're definitely very proud to be part of this effort to kind of enable folks to be able to work from home, to be able to study from home, and so on and so forth. For some customers, the whole business continuity is really a big deal for them. Where's the whole work from home mandate? So for example, one of our customers Tell Us International, it's a Canadian telecommunication company. Because of COVID, they had to be able to transition tens and thousands of employees to work from home model immediately. And they were able to work with Google Cloud and our partner, Itopia, who specialized in virtual desktop and application. So overnight, literally in 24 hours, we're able to deploy a fully configured virtual desktop environment from Google Cloud and allow them to their employees to come back to service. So that's just one example. There's hundreds and thousands more of those examples. And it's been very heartening to be part of this Google to be helpful to our customer. Great. Well, I want to let both of you just have the final word. When you're talking to customers here in 2020, how should they be thinking of Google Cloud? How do you make sure that you're helping them and differentiating from some of the other solutions in the environment? Maybe June, if we could start with you. Sure. So at Google Cloud, our goal is to make it easy for anyone. Whether you're big enterprises or small startups to be able to build your applications, to be able to innovate and harness the power of data, to extract additional information, insights, and to be able to scale your business. As an infrastructure provider, we want to deliver the best infrastructure to run all customers application and on a global basis, reliably and securely. Definitely getting more more complicated. And as we kind of spread our capacity to different locations, it gets more complicated from logistics and perspective as well. So we want to help to do the heavy lifting around infrastructure so that from a customer, they can simply consume our infrastructure as a service and be able to focus on their businesses and not worry about the infrastructure side. So that's our goal. We'll do the plumbing work and we'll allow customers to innovate on top of that. Right. June, you said that very well. Distributed infrastructure is a key part of our strategy to help our customers. In addition, we also provide the platform capability, so essentially a digital transformation platform that manages data at scale to help develop and modernize the applications. And finally, we layer on top of that a suite of industry-specific solutions that deliver these digital capabilities across each of the key verticals, such as financial services or telecommunications or media and entertainment, retail, health care, et cetera. So that's how combining together infrastructure, platform, and solutions, we are able to help customers in their modernization journeys. All right, June and Shailesh, thank you so much for sharing the updates. Congratulations to your teams on the progress and absolutely look forward to hearing more in the future. Great. Thank you, Stu. Thank you, Stu. All right, and stay tuned for more coverage of Google Cloud next on Air 20. I'm Stu Miniman. Thank you for watching theCUBE.