 Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE at HP Discover 2014, brought to you by HP. Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante and we are live. This is HP Discover 2014 and this is theCUBE. theCUBE is a live mobile studio. We go out to the events. We extract the signal from the noise. We have CEOs, executives, practitioners, CIOs and you know we like to get bloggers We have a very special segment. Gloves and boots are here. These guys are video bloggers, Fafa and Mario. Welcome to theCUBE, guys. Great to see you. Thanks for having us. So wait, which one is Fafa and which one is Mario? I'm Fafa. This is Mario. How are you doing? Look, I can go in your shop. Awesome. This is pretty cool. Can we go, Matt, can we cut to Fafa's shop? Hey, look, that's the best. theCUBE is the best. We love theCUBE. We love theCUBE too. Thank you very much. It's the first time in theCUBE, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Do you want to come into our shop? No, I'm good. Where I am. Thank you. So we're here on the HP Discover. You guys have been talking all week about storage. So, storage, why is storage so hot? I'm sorry. Okay. Well, storage. Storage is hot because like here in Las Vegas, when you need to store your stuff, you have too much. You go to those universal storage. But is that what you're talking about? No, he's talking about the HP storage. Like the HP three plus store service storage, right? Is that? He's talking about three-par all week. What do you think of three-par? We met him. He's a nice guy. You know, he likes to talk a lot, right? Well, I'd have to say, to be perfectly honest with you, Dave, we had to do a commercial. I think it was just rolling before this, for the three-par server, and we don't really understand what it does. We hear it's great, but that's not really our cup of tea. Okay, but so you guys have been talking about flash all week. Oh, yeah. Flash. What about flash? I can take this one. Where does that fit? Well, first of all, you're going to have to narrow it down, Dave. Are we talking flash Gordon? Or are we talking flash from Justice League? And if we're talking flash from Justice League, is this Silver Age flash, Barry Allen, or is it Wally West, more modern? I'm actually talking about a different kind of flash. You know, like flash drives, like flash drives you might find in your personal computer. Oh, yeah. Like all, like all flash array. Yeah, the all-flash array. What do you guys think about the all-flash array? Like you got three-par, you got EMC, you got pure storage. Which is the best out there? Okay. All-flash array. If that's the one with the 1.21 gigawatts, that is definitely the best one. Yeah. And it's definitely better than EMC. That's definitely what we learned. No, why? Why is it better than EMC? Because that's what we were told. Who told you that? Three-par? Yeah. Yeah. He's a nice guy. Yeah, he's a nice guy. He's a nice guy. I've never met three-par. What's he like? He's very tall. He's skinny. He's very rectangular. And he's got a yellow stripe on the side of his back. To totally, to totally fess up to you, Dave. He's kind of a killer robot-looking fellow. We destroyed him in our commercial, which I regret. As it turns out, he was just jovial. But yeah, pretty much the three-par that we were given to do the commercial with, we broke. So you guys bit the hand that fed you, so to speak? Well, Luis did. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, Luis is the big monster that we have. Hey, Dave, can I ask you a question? Can we mix it up? Yeah, sure, go ahead. Are you Italian? I am Italian. My mother was Italian. My father was Italian. What part of Italy are you from? All over. So, Naples and the town called Torinogella near Naples. Oh, beautiful. I'm not from Italy. I speak one language, American. Yeah, me too. I'm with you. You know, I'm also Italian. And my parents are from Bari and Galabria, you know. I was just in Italy last year with my wife. It was very nice. I'd love to go to Italy. Oh, I've never been. I'd love to go there. You should go. What in the language? Definitely. They have storage in Italy, too. That's what I was going to ask. Do they have the, you know, the storage in Italy? Do they have the storage problems? They've got storage everywhere. It's unbelievable. They do, too, right? They have data, right? Is it a different kind of data than the data we have here? No, it's just in a different language, right? They've got three pars, and they've got EMCs, and they've got pures, and everything else, too. Hey, hey, Fafa. What? Fafa, is data the same as storage? No, the data goes in the storage. Where's the flash go? The flash is the storage. So... I see. I understand more than he does. I know flash is like the hard drive. Yeah. Flash is the non-hard drive. The other... The spinning disk, right? Yeah. The spinning rust. Right. Okay? It's slow. Even though it looks really fast, it's slow. And the flash makes it really fast. Right. That's the stuff you guys have been blogging about, right? Yeah. Well, you know, we've been primarily talking about three-par, which I believe can be an all-flash array. Right. I said that in the video. Yeah. So, yeah, go ahead. Three-par could be a little bit of both, right? So it could be a little all-flash array. It could be some-flash array. It could be a no-flash array. Ah, so it's very flexible. It's very flexible. Oh, that's why we say it's flexible in the commercial. Remember? So what I find very interesting is you started asking us these questions, Dave, and now you are giving the answers to us. This is amazing. I know because you guys don't really know much about this, but you're good-looking and funny, so we keep going down this path. What about CIOs? Do you know, you're talking about CIOs this week? Wait, is that like... Old MacDonald had a farm. CIO! CIO! And on this farm he had a three-par. The CIOs are the guys walking around here in suits, not me, but other guys walking around in suits. Oh, CIOs. They're like in charge. I thought that's a CEO. Right. CEO is the real boss. CIO thinks he's the boss. Oh, okay. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. So what else is happening? What do you see at HP Discover that's exciting? Well, you know, they got a lot of... Oh, they had a dragon over here somewhere. Yeah, there's this display, like how they train your dragon. That was really good. Oh, and they had this table, Dave, where they're giving away bouncy balls, and if you hit them around the floor really hard, they light up. They're amazing. Now, did you guys go to the storage party last night? We did. We did. How was that? It was awesome. We got the owner of HP Storage to throw a spoon in the pool. You don't know if he's the owner. He was a VP, though. It was impressive. Oh, yeah. And we saw this big fat guy swinging around on one of those stripper bowls. It was really great. It was amazing. That guy, you're talking about the big guy, right? Yeah. He's done some cool stuff in his life. He sold his company for $2.5 billion to HP. That's definitely a lot more money than we have ever seen. Can you believe that? No. Yeah, $2.5 billion. If you sold your company for $2.5 billion, what would you do? Wait, $2.5 billion? Oh, my God. That is a lot of moolah. That's a lot of simoleons, Dave. It was a lot of moolah. What would you do? What would I do with it? He did a good job with it. What did you ask? I forgot. What would you do if you sold your company for $2.5 billion? Well... Would you be doing video blogs? No, I'd buy the bathmobile. I'd keep doing video blogs. Well, we get the general lead. Yeah, we get the general lead and the bathmobile. And we'd raise some. Yeah. And that would be the blog. Oh, the blog would be so much more interesting. Yeah. Can we wait? Can we lend us some money? That's for $2.5 billion. Gorilla? No, he's not for sale. So let me ask you a question. You guys do a lot of product reviews, right? Yeah. So what kind of products do you review? You've reviewed the 3-par all-flash array, which you don't seem to know much about, but that's okay. How does it compare to things like the Chamois or other things that you've reviewed? Well, I'd say that the Ronco Rotisserie oven and the 3-par stores, they were similar in many, many ways. I find them comparable in, you know, they're both shiny. Square? Yeah, that's right, square. Yeah, they're shiny. You said that though, right? That's right. The problem- You can't cook chicken in a 3-par though. We tried to shove the bird in there and it does not end well. No. So in that way, the Ronco Rotisserie oven is superior. Yeah. So it's probably so much less than the 3-par array, so... Yeah, that's true. And the chicken is, you know, we did try to put the chicken in there and, you know, I think we broke it and we don't have any more money now. That's kind of the, you know, the pattern for these testing blogs is we pretty much break everything we test. We didn't break anything. But it's fun. Yeah, it is fun. Yeah. So but people keep hiring you despite you breaking the stuff and eating the hand that feeds you. Oh, we weren't hired to test all those other things. Only HP has hired us. Those other things we just sort of did on our own willy-nilly. Dave, let me tell you, Dave, we are as surprised as you are that we were hired to do anything. Don't do it. Well, it seems to be working out for you guys. What's next for you? Well, you know, we'll probably go to In-N-Out Burger. Oh, yeah, we're going? Are we doing that? Yeah, we got to get it. Yeah, what's coming up next for us is actually after this interview we are going straight to In-N-Out Burger. Yeah, you see, we're from the East Coast. Dave, they don't got In-N-Out out there. They got the Shake Shack. You can't get that sweet goodness out on the East Coast. I'm from the East Coast, too. Where are you from? Really? I'm from Boston. Hi, guys. So you're a Red Sox fan? Yeah, I am a big Red Sox fan. You guys obviously from New York. Yeah. But you know, I went to In-N-Out Burger in LA with my kid because we're from Boston. And it wasn't In-N-Out. So it was In and it took like 25 minutes to get a burger. Is that what you guys found? Is that why it's called In-N-Out? Because you get In-Quick and you get out fast? Is that it? I thought it's because you eat the burger and then the next thing you know it goes out because you can't handle it in your intestines. That could be. I don't eat a lot of meat so that was maybe the case. Did you find it delicious, though? I find it's worth the wait even if you have to stick around. I guess. Like I said, I don't eat a lot of meat. What kind of food do you enjoy, Dave? I like, you know, a lot of fruits and vegetables, actually, you know. I know it sounds boring but that's what I like to eat. That is pretty good. What about you guys? You're from New York. You eat like... Oh, man. Pasta. Yeah. Big steaks. Yeah. Hot dogs at Yankee Stadium. Yeah. Good stuff. Pizzas. Chicken. What's the story? You guys Mets fans or Yankees fans? We're... We're Yankee fans. We're Yankee fans. Jets are giants. Well... Broncos, Denver Broncos. We like the Jets. We like the Jets? Yeah, unfortunately. So you don't like the Patriots? Jarell Rivas is playing for us now. Yeah, I'm sorry. We're excited about that. Thank you for that. You're welcome. Yeah. All right. All right, Jets. We got to leave it there. I'll give you guys the last word. What's the bumper sticker leaving HP Discover? What's it say on the back of the truck when it's pulling away from the Las Vegas Sands Convention Center? What's that bumper sticker say? That bumper sticker says you sure did a lot of challenges this week and we got some guy to wrench HP on his forehead with a Sharpie. That's how much people love the HP. And it says, honk if you love HP. Honk loud. All right, gentlemen. Thank you very much for coming to the Cube. It was really a pleasure having you on. And welcome back any time. Maybe we'll see you in Barcelona. Thanks for having us. You're welcome. To keep it right there, everybody, we'll be right back with our next guest. This is Dave Vellante and We Are Live. This is the Cube. We're right back.