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MARK MIRCHANDANI: Today, we're here with Luv, CEO
from Techolution, and we're very excited to explore
how Techolution uses Anthos.
But first, Luv, thanks for joining us.
Can you tell us a bit more about what Techolution does,
and what it's like to be a Google Cloud Partner?
LUV TUSIDAS: Thank you, Mark, for having me on the show.
Techolution is a next gen digital transformation company,
and we're really proud to be at the heart
of the digital transformation that's happening in the world
right now.
Data is power, right?
But when you have too much data, it can turn into noise
and paralyze a business.
What we do as a company, we leverage the power
of cloud, specifically Google Cloud, and AI
to help businesses go from reactive
to proactive and predictive.
As a Google Cloud Partner, we specialize
in Kubernetes, helping companies from strategy, architecture,
implementation, and then managed services-- the full lifecycle
of a Kubernetes experience.
And most recently, we've been very involved with Anthos
since it went GA back in April because we
have a deep expertise in the hybrid cloud space,
and we work with various different hybrid cloud
technologies.
And we find Anthos to be one of the best.
And we're on a mission right now to share the benefits of Anthos
with the world.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Yeah.
It's great to hear about how Techolution
can help these companies adopt a very digital strategy.
So can you tell us a bit more about, specifically,
how Anthos helps enable that?
LUV TUSIDAS: Yeah.
I just want to take a moment to look at what is Anthos.
Anthos is essentially Kubernetes.
And all of the bells and whistles
around Kubernetes on the Google Cloud
being packaged so that you can bring it
to your data center, on-prem, or any other cloud.
And you can have a truly flexible
build-once, deploy-anywhere experience.
Now plain Kubernetes also somewhat does that,
but Anthos is enterprise grade.
It allows you to do that very, very efficiently.
There are a UI tools and automation built into it
for the enterprise.
We work with-- mostly we're seeing companies that are
heavily regulated in banking, health care, gov,
and a little bit of telco, where they cannot move and modernize
their entire application directly to public cloud
for those reasons that I mentioned.
So Anthos is really a great solution for them
to start modernizing in place or their cloud of choice
and then to be able to slowly, as it proves itself,
to be able to move some of the workloads to the public cloud.
And Anthos allows them to do that
in a very efficient and very rapid manner.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Yeah, it makes sense
that the value prop there exists in being
able to, like you said, write once,
deploy in multiple places, especially as environments
are becoming both a combination of hybrid and multi-cloud.
The ability to scale it out there is very valuable.
Can you share a little bit more about some of the customers
that you've worked with and how Anthos has helped them?
LUV TUSIDAS: Sure.
We're seeing a lot of traction working with customers
in health care and finance.
I'll take health care as an example.
Let's say a SaaS provider, who's serving
two hospitals and other health care institutions,
where they're providing software that
ends up recording and storing a lot of patient data.
That's very sensitive data, very highly regulated.
So typically, those would run on-prem or on data center,
but now the cloud is very mature, very secure,
and sometimes more secure than on-prem data center.
But there are a lot of larger organizations in the health
care space that you, A, may not be comfortable with running
their patient data on somebody else's public cloud
and shared with other tenants, or due to regulations
or whatever the reason may be, they're not
comfortable with that.
So the SaaS provider, by building and modernizing
the application base and their data on a Kubernetes
Anthos-based solution, they're able to make a choice.
They could serve some customers on GCP, where their application
runs, or they could, with the click of a button,
deploy that same solution on-prem
to their larger enterprise organizations that
want to run on-prem.
So that's one case study.
Similar case studies we're seeing in finance.
But the one that's very interesting,
a trend that I've seen emerge, is in the telco sector.
As 5G becomes a reality, we're seeing an emergence
of a lot of IoT, smart city type of solutions
that's generating a lot of data in real time over 5G.
And the kind of data and compute that they need
requires an edge-based solution, because even
though the throughput is faster, sending all the data
on the cloud and get a decision back
may not be fast enough in this new world.
So Anthos actually has been a really great solution
to bring some of that compute on the edge local level,
and telcos are building solutions around that.
And then for other services, you could go to the public cloud.
And the true benefit of Anthos in a deployment
like that, it's very large scale.
And managing all of the nodes across, let's say,
all the deployments out there-- all the cities and public
cloud--
can be though very difficult without a product like Anthos.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: It's great to hear
about where Anthos is actually solving these problems
and how technology is continuing to increase,
and Anthos is helping make that manageable.
Luv, thank you so much for coming on and telling us
a bit more about it.
LUV TUSIDAS: Thank you, Mark, for having me on the show.
It was a pleasure.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Absolutely.
If you'd like to learn more about Techolution,
you can visit techolution.com.
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