 Live from San Francisco, it's The Cube. Hi, Jeff Rick here. We're on the ground at the Weston St. Francis in San Francisco, California at the Cassandra Summit 2014. It's about 2,500, 3,000 people here. They've got a distributed conference all over the world. You can see the map behind us. So we're grabbing some people out of the hallways trying to find out what's going on, get a vibe for the conference, and what's exciting. So we're joined here next by Said Rajah from Sandisk. So what is Sandisk doing here at an open database conference? Sandisk is a major player in nan technologies. We see huge opportunity in open source, and particularly at Cassandra. Cassandra is a very big and important segment for us, and we want to be a major player in that community. So we were talking a little bit before we went on camera, and you said that you guys identified a big hole in the functional capability. So talk a little bit about what that hole was and what you guys decided to do about it. So Cassandra, if you look at Cassandra or stock Cassandra, it is extremely powerful for right cases. So you look at 50, 50, 75, 30, or 100% right cases, Cassandra is wonderful for that. But our customer base, especially the enterprise customer, told us that they want very high performance for read cases. We took Cassandra off the shelf, made some changes and adaptations to that, and the following are the results. We gain speed or additional performance by five times. That's a five times. It's a major, major boost to stock Cassandra. The benefits are, customer can get major server consolidations, much lower power consumption, and up to 50% TCO benefit as a result of this version of deployment in their data center. So what does it mean in the context of a large enterprise data center? A company that is running 15,000 or 20,000 servers or Cassandra on 15,000 servers, for them this will translate into millions of dollars of savings. So talk a little bit about Sandisk's place in the enterprise, because I think everyone knows Sandisk as the zip drive that I had in my pocket. I put it in my PC. We trade some files. I don't know if it's as well known, and certainly with what's going on in Flash, certainly a great opportunity for you guys. I wonder if you could talk a little bit about your place in the enterprise, and why were you the first to identify this hole in the Cassandra stack? Our CEO Sanjay and his top management had a very big vision. First of all, they believed in vertical integration. That means we control fab, software, all the way below the application. So they realized there is a huge opportunity for Sandisk. After that, they start acquiring key assets in the marketplace. In the last two years, Sandisk has made billions of dollars of investments in the acquisitions. Our latest acquisition was Fusion IO, about $1.1 billion. Prior to that, some software assets. So we are building a vertical integrated stack to solve the problems of enterprise data center. We covered the Fusion IO atomic launch a little while ago, I think right before the acquisition. So Sandisk, not necessarily known as an open source company. So part of this whole open source game is you contribute to the community. Are you contributing this software improvements back into the Cassandra community? How's that working? So Sandisk is a very big player in open source. We have a very dedicated team of professionals that is working in that area. We do plan to contribute this version of Cassandra back to the open source community. You are absolutely committed to that. There will be a small portion of software that resides below it, which we plan to monetize. We believe we are providing huge benefit to enterprise customers and we want to have a piece of share of that benefit to enterprise customers. Okay. And what are your objectives for this conference? What are you trying to get out of this conference? First of all, we want to tell the conference participant that Sandisk is very pro open source company. We plan to contribute. We are very much engaged in that move. We promote by attendance, by donations, by contribution. Second, we want to promote our software. We want to talk to people who are interested in this software come work with us. Great. Well, thanks for stopping by, giving us the update. We'll look forward to that contribution back so everyone else can get these tremendous benefits. So I'm Jeff Frick. We are on the ground at Cassandra Summit 2014, San Francisco, California at the lovely Western St. Francis. Thank you very much.