 Back here live in San Francisco, California. I'm John Furrier with siliconangle.com, all the angle on tech. We have siliconangle.com, devopsangle.com, servicesangle.com, and we are covering the emerging tech scene, and we're live in San Francisco, the Node Summit Conference. It's the inaugural event where node.js is really growing like crazy. This is day two. Day two is the Node Jam, and the Node Jam is where all the startups come out who are hacking with Node, to demonstrate their apps, get some funding, impress the judges. Naval Ravikant from Angel List is emceeing the event, and it's just a great day, a lot of energy. Yesterday it was day one, go to siliconangle.tv to see the highlights we did yesterday, live here at theCUBE, which is our flagship telecast. We go to the events and extract a signal from the noise and share that with you. Right now I'm here with a startup called Cloudant, and Sam Bisbee, who's from Massachusetts, and a rich Levin Dawson investor, friend of mine, so congratulations to get him to write a check. He's a powerful, connected, cool investor. So you guys are down there also with a table. You guys are growing, you're profitable. You got some fresh financing to expand. Tell us about what Cloudant's doing right now. Obviously you guys are an example of success story on the web, and it's great to see Massachusetts-based company kicking the tires in the marketplace and doing well. But you got the profitability pretty fast. Lean team, now you're scaling, growing. So give us the update on Cloud and how you see this whole world. Sure, so we're basically hitting, trying to hit the inflection point right now. We are trying to be the data layer for web apps. And when I say web apps, I really mean any app that has data. We're built on solid open source technology, no SQL, couch DB, and we've been running, we forked it, put Dynamo clustering into it two years ago. A couple of MIT PhD physics students. And they went through Y Combinator, and they've built a great service that we've been running at scale for two years. So I just posted a story, not to pivot too far off with Cloud and things doing. I just wrote a story that Amazon just cut out the middleman with their cloud storage gateway. So you find it a little weird that Dynamo DB got a bunch of hype and AWS storage got a small press release? No, because it's, first of all, I want to say that we welcome Dynamo DB into the market because now we actually have some competitor, and we love competitors, and we love to mix it up. We just see it as one big validation. Also, the technical response to Dynamo DB has been somewhat interesting. It'll be interesting to see what the actual pricing comes out to, the actual benchmarks that it comes out. We didn't have much success running our initial public clusters on AWS because of random outages, so that's why we moved off to and partnered with SoftLayer. As far as their kind of focus, I'm really not surprised that Dynamo DB got more coverage because Dynamo, the Dynamo white paper that they published years ago was really the first big no SQL clustering paper that got a lot of traction, and it's named after that. So they like it. So talk about your team at Cloud and right now. What's the makeup of the core team, and then let's talk about the market opportunity you guys have. Sure, so the core team, we're about 12 employees right now. It's traditionally been purely Erlang Guru's really, really bright technical people, some of which are from the Apache CouchDB Committer team. Recently, we announced Derek Shuttle as our CEO, and we've been bringing on a few more people to build out our field and sales staff, and yeah. So let's talk about what it takes to compete in the market. I'll see you here evangelizing out Cloud and you've got a table down there, great developer community here, and kind of a business crowd, kind of a perfect storm. It's not too much of a geek conference per se. You've got JF Conf, which tickets will go on sale here pretty shortly like today or tomorrow. So it's kind of that crowd, but you guys have to compete. What is, and obviously joining it with huge financing is demonstrating that it's fully integrated Cloud, turnkey making it simpler. What are you guys doing in that market between, how are you competing and your offering? How are we competing against joint? Just in general, what's the market opportunity for you guys? What's your differentiation? What's your solution set? And what's your value proposition that you pitched the customers? I mean, when we're talking to business people, which this conference primarily is, we start to really talk about removing the DBA role. And it's not that the DBA role is going to disappear from monster.com, it's that we're trying to make it easier. Oracle doesn't like that, do they? No, they don't. But a lot of the people that we deal with are running, screaming and crying from Oracle, or they just don't, they can't afford $100,000. And so we're trying to be that kind of agnostic data layer for any application where we can go in your data center, you can talk to our private Cloud, you can come into our data center if you want to. We've got everybody from free accounts who don't care as much about latency to real-time bidding ad agencies where we've got, we have to respond within milliseconds on the same LAN. So it's, we... Are you onboarding developers primarily, or businesses are both? What's your, I mean, because Joanne got that nice, and Heruku made a killing by onboarding app developers and kind of prefabricating some of those resources. I mean, right now as far as, if you want to talk about corporate strategy, it's not like we're going out there and whining and dining, CTOs, you know. You don't have to cash for that. Yeah, you know, we're really trying to focus on... Maybe a few Red Sox tickets because everyone loves Fenway, but you know. Absolutely, no, we are patriots, which we will be winning the Super Bowl, by the way. There's, we're really trying to go after developers now, and you know, high-tech companies that are small, that being said, we weren't playing on going after enterprise, and yet enterprise has been knocking down our door. It's why they get it. They get it from a business prop, and they get it from a technical prop. Is it the scalability or the security? It's the scalability, but it's also the fact that we can get updated, queryable data to their platform faster. So to use the technical talk, it's because we couch DB, even the open source version, has what's called incremental map reduce. And this allows us to get you updated indexes within seconds instead of rebuilding your index over three days. So explain incremental map reduce, versus what people know about Hadoop and traditional map reduce. What's the difference between the two? Right, so Hadoop, Mongo, any of these guys, even if you go to the SQLs, basically it could take you three hours or three days to build your index. That could be primary key index, that could be any kind of index. You could be using Lucene. Incremental map reduce, you have to do the initial large build of the index. After that, we are able to represent new updates to the primary data set, into that index within seconds. And so that's huge for analytics companies, business intelligence, really anybody who cares about data being fresh. So what do you think about nodes? Let's talk about node summit. I'll see node.js is a rapid rise in the energy and multiple communities kind of coming together. Node community is dynamic, it's respectful and very professional developers. What's your take of this and opportunity for node? Well I think node is just going to keep growing. It's one of those things where JavaScript is extremely accessible. It's going to be interesting because PHP seemed to have gone through a very similar life cycle. It was extremely accessible, people started to standardize on it. And so it's going to be interesting to see over the next, let's say a year, to see if the pool just gets really crowded. PHP didn't do a good job of managing all the people who wanted to get on the bandwagon. And I love PHP, I still code in PHP, but not many people can claim to be good at PHP. There's a lot of bad people on it. And so it's going to be interesting to see how the community kind of handles that. Okay, we're here with Sam Bisbee from Cloud and a great growing company, classic success story. And it's kind of an East Coast success story, although they have a Maverick investor and Rich Leventoff from Avalon Ventures, also invested in Zynga and a lot of the big web company, so he knows, he's been around the blockin' for many, many cycles. So you got a really strong investor, great validation, self-finance, well that's self, well self-finance, some seed, why Combinator success story. Congratulations on your success and good luck with everything. Great to come on theCUBE. Thank you.