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>> Well good morning and welcome back to Las Vegas,
day two here at AWS reinvent.
Along with Justin Moore and I'm John Walls and we're
joined by Arabella Hallawell at Netscout.
Good morning Arabella, good to see you.
>> Good morning.
>> Everybody have a good night last night, by the way.
Did Las Vegas treat everybody okay?
>> Yeah it was pretty good.
>> It was good
>> Good dinner and all that right?
>> I'm on east coast time so, any time past midnight-
>> It's always a tough transition isn't it?
Alright tell us a little about Netscout
and your primary responsibilities there.
>> Netscout is a company that's been helping
the largest organizations.
90% of Fortune 100 organizations, about 90% of the
worlds communications service providers.
Basically troubleshoot their most complicated application
and service probelems, and we've been helping these
organizations for almost three decades.
And what's really interesting about a show like this
is we've seen so much technical transformation, it's
so rapid right now.
I mean even as we talk about,
serverless, agentless computing.
We're talking about microservices and containers
still when it comes to our customers, the IT teams
they still have the very same problems that they were
tasked with 20, 30 years ago which is it better work
make sure that service that's being delivered to customers
works and we want to make sure it has the performance and
the security our customers and our business need.
It's interesting because if anything that watermark
is getting higher and higher for the IT organization
yet what they've been dealt with is so much more complexity
because of all of this innovation.
So that's what's really exciting as well is how do we help
our customers manage to this new transformation and
make sure that they're successful for their organizations,
making sure that service experience, the customer
experience is protected.
>> So you talk about complexity.
Is that the driver of the biggest problems today.
You said this has been going on for 20 or 30 years
But now because of the sophistication of the technology,
you've got a whole new slew of problems.
So how would you categorize them tody as supposed to
10 or 15 years ago.
>> The biggest seat change is in many ways some of these
definitions that we hear about here.
Hybrid Cloud, most organizations have been a journey
for a number of years transforming their physical footprint
to virtual footprint, and then a public cloud footprint.
They see it sometimes linear, and then sometimes
people make a dramatic move forward.
I think what we're going to see here and over the next year
is basically that whole definition of hybrid cloud
should actually be re-thought of as almost a data center
without walls.
Because going back to the complexity, the new technologies,
the new capabilities, being able to have a workflow
anywhere you want, being able to spin something up
using some kind of instance that goes up and goes down
is amazing form the business perspective because they
can have what they want when they want it.
The piece of innovation is dramatic.
The complexity comes in from an IT perspective,
how do you manage that exponential increase
in the number of services, being able to see all those
services, where are they, what are they doing,
and what are all the dependencies.
So back to what you were saying.
Five, ten years ago a (mumbles) where people kind of,
"Hey there's a problem somewhere, is it the network team,
"is it the server team, who's problem is it?"
Right now that problem has just become so much harder
to diagnose and that's really what we're trying to help
our customers do.
How do we get that end-to-end visibility around what's
happening in this kind of data center without walls.
Which is essentially where it's all going.
>> That's certainly a theme that's come up.
We spoke about it a little bit yesterday John,
that this complexity of the data systems and these
work loads, it could be anywhere.
And there's so many more of them, we've got Microservices,
we've got Serverless, keeping track of that as humans,
the problem is so complex now it's almost beyond
human capability so we need to augment the humans with
some kind of technology.
Do you see that with customers, is that what they
come to Netscout for?
>> Absolutely, and it many ways as we've seen with
the technology transformation, even in our homes today
from smart refrigerators and driverless cars.
Technology can make the humans smarter but I think
the pace of innovation is almost too fast for the human.
Because it's so hard to grapple that type of complexity
and often times it's organizational.
Because even if you can spin up these new things,
you can compute anywhere anytime.
If you're an IT organization and you still have the same
people, processes, tools that you've always been working
towards, that's when you really run into problems.
That's where we're seeing some organizations say,
it's not just dev sec ups, it's how do I change the mindset
and the processes and then it just comes to the tooling.
And the tooling isn't really available either to get that
visibility into this new landscape.
Most organizations still have silos of different types
of data, different types of interfaces, and at the core
of that is the IT organizations still tends to have
their more traditional silos.
To your point, is because humans often are slow to change.
We're probably the biggest inhibitor
to the technological progress.
>> Well I like to say that there's three parts to it,
there's people, process, and technology.
Technology is only one of those three things.
So you need to change the people and process in order
to make use of these new technologies.
It does sound like we're moving to a higher level of
abstraction though, where rather worrying about
particular servers or pieces of infrastructure, we're
now looking at workloads and data that could be anywhere.
And we're now managing that data at this higher level of
abstraction, is that where you see this business user going
for, where they don't really want to deal with the nuts
and bolts of the IT?
>> I think again, this goes back to having a data center
without walls, I think in the future and even today
it's increasing hard to say and point to, it's that server
and that data center that's causing a problem because it's
so spread out and it's made up of so many different
components so I would say yes, the business wants that
higher level information which is, "I want my workload
"anywhere, anytime, with the service levels that I require."
The problem with that is the IT organization then
has to manage, often a very difficult environment where
the business maybe have chosen to put an application or
workload in this place because of regulatory requirements,
or they like the service levels, so they like what that
particular vendor did.
But then you've got basically a panoply of all of these
different capabilities, and how do you manage that when
someone says, "I can't have any latency over a 5G network."
You can't have latency when it's some kind of operating room
cardiac machine, you can't say to a parent-
(laughing)
That latency kind of caused a big problem during
the operation, it's just unacceptable with the new type
of technology and again it is a human issue.
The technology that we're using is to fuel human progress,
but we at the end of the day have to find a way to manage
the complexity.
I think that begins with actually the people first.
How does the IT organization potentially needs to
re-organize so that they can get to that
level abstraction and then distend it from that perspective.
Because most of the time they're
looking at their silos of data.
>> You mentioned a little bit ago about the repitity
of change in innovation.
What about expectation versus innovation in terms of
your clients, and trying to satisfy that.
You eluded to it yourself just a few moments ago.
It's really hard to keep up if you will.
So how do you manage that with your clients,
what they're looking for you to point them toward
as supposed to what's realistic.
>> I think that again, progress and understanding where
change is going you never want to resist it because
it's scary, but making sure you can manage that transition
and that journey with confidence is what we really
focus on with our customers.
So even something as relatively simple as we're taking
a cloud that was in a physical data center, even in
a software data center and putting in a public cloud
environment, do you know the service dependencies,
do you know what it looked like before you went, and
then once you're there how do you make sure that you
still have the same types of performance that you've
always had, even though that sounds bread and butter.
For many organizations making sure that they move to
this more fluid, frictionless environment and sort of
have a continuous type of visibility, and end-to-end
visibility is key because as we started this whole
conversation, at the end of the day the problem is what
it was 20 years ago.
Which is, is my service working as it should for the
customer of the business on the other end.
Does it have errors, does it have latencies,
is it insecure.
Continuing to provide that regardless of where,
so we work with AWS, we work with VMware, we're
trying to work with every single part of this new fabric
so that our customers can still have that same confidence.
That's kind of the goal for us.
>> It's a brave new world, good luck and thanks
for sharing your time with us this morning .
>> Great, thank you very much.
>> We'll continue here on theCUBE, we're live in Las Vegas,
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