>> Live from Las Vegas, it's the CUBE,
Covering Informatica World 2019.
Brought to you by Informatica.
>> Welcome back everyone to the CUBE's
coverage of Informatica World here in Las Vegas.
I'm your host Rebecca Knight.
I'm joined by two guests for this segment.
We have Rik Tamm-Daniels,
he is the VP Strategic Ecosystems
and Technology at Informatica.
Welcome Rik. >> Thank you.
>> And Yoav Einav.
He is the VP Porduct for GigaSpace.
Welcome. >> Thank you, happy to be here.
>> So this is a fun segment.
You are the winner of the Informatica World 2019
solutions expo could and innovation award.
I want to get to you in a second and hear all about GigaSpace,
but I want to star wit you, Rik.
Talk a little bit about this award
and about the genesis of it.
Where did the idea come from?
>> Yeah so one of the things we
really wanted to do at Informatica World this year
is create, address some of the most important topics
that the customers want to hear about.
So cloud and AI, two of the hottest topics of the industry.
Everyone wants to know about it.
And what we wanted to do is
take a lot of our emerging partners
that are doing some very innovative things
with Informatica technology
and put them front and center.
So if you look at the expo hall floor,
it's right in the middle.
We have this, almost like an art gallery
of all this cool innovation going on
around the Informatica technology.
And the idea was that we had attendees come in
and actually review the solutions.
They had to be real full demos, full working demos
and they could vote on the app.
They could say what their favorites were.
And the end result is, I'm happy to announce,
GigaSpace is our big winner.
Congratulations. >> Congratulations.
>> Thank you.
>> And so, yeah, attendees would vote on the app.
And so GigaSpace, tell us about it.
You're based in Israel.
>> Yeah, so R and D is based in Israel,
our HQ is in New York.
Basically, GigaSpace was,
we've been in the market for more than a decade,
deployed in the largest enterprise in the world.
Like banks, like Bank of America,
like International IOT, like United Electric,
largest Airline, largest railway company.
And basically, we provide the speed
for their application and big data infrastructure.
So they deploy like real time used cases
like fraud detection, dynamic pricing,
predictive maintenance,
all those different types of services
that require the speed on the big data side.
>> So you're all about speed?
>> All about speed, if you need speed,
we are the provider for you.
>> That's very exciting.
So talk a little bit about the conversations
that you were having with some of the attendees.
What kinds of questions were you getting?
>> So I think a lot of customers,
joint customers of ours and Informatica
are talking about the move from
kind of a historic analysis to more proactive,
event driven analytics.
We want to be able to, instead of interacting with the data,
once a day, once an hour,
you want to be able to drive analytics on the moment
as soon as it happened to provide the ability
to run your online processes
instead of kind of offline processes.
So for example, fraud detection,
which is the most easy example,
you want to be able to run a fraud analysis
on the payment as soon as it happened
on a millisecond level,
not like a few second after the transaction was over.
So it's again, we're talking about the speed,
the ability to handle high amount of data
with low latency, subsecond response time.
>> And how are you using Informatica?
>> Cool, so we've been working lately
with Informatica very tightly
with both their product team and their R and D team
across Israel, India, the U.S.
On integrating with some of their different product.
We, basically we've built kind of what Garton calls
the digital integration hub.
It's like the next gen big data architecture
which provides you both the Informatica side
that allows you to ingest any type of data,
it could be text, logs, transaction,
payments, anything you have,
together with metadata management.
And on top of it, using GigiSpaces
for the real time analytics
and the high performance and speed.
>> So Rik, I know that this was attendee chosen,
so there's no rigging here,
but I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on GigaSpace
in terms of the innovations that they're doing
and these very important problems
like fraud detection and predictive maintenance.
These are big problems that
companies are really wrestling with.
>> I think what's exciting about the solution they had
is it was a great business case.
Right, I think that really resonated with attendees
looking at everyone can identify with fraud analytics,
everyone's, unfortunately, probably been a victim of it,
so they get to see how it works.
But I think it also focuses on the aspect of AI,
but how do you operationalize AI?
So it's the whole model building piece of it
and Informatica is a strong play there as well,
but now you say well let's actually,
we have the model, we need to execute quickly.
How do we do that?
You know with the GigaSpaces technology,
but also combine it with the right historical context
right, to make the right decisions.
So it really does hit on how do you actually take AI
and make it a real thing?
>> And the other important part is the business case
in what you were just saying
in terms of if a customer is the victim of fraud,
he or she blames the institution, not the hacker.
And if there's a problem with
an airline maintenance problem,
you blame the airline, of course,
not the faulty problems that it was having.
So I think that that also really shows.
What's in the future?
What are you seeing, kind of more innovations
that you want to add to the GigaSpace platform?
>> So I think we're working today a lot about like
Rik was mentioning about operationalizing AI.
So we see a lot of challenge today
of moving from the research development training
part of the AI or the machine AI model
to move to production.
Let's say your a payment provider,
you have model, you can detect fraud,
but your, the ability for you to run it on
millions of transactions a second
in a sub or let's say a few millisecond level,
that's the biggest challenge.
And if you do it in a few seconds
after the transaction was over
then the loss of the fraud or the wire was already happened.
So again, the operational part of taking your model,
formulate data set platform,
put it in production with the scale of
the ingestion rate low latency,
you know scaling on peak events
like Black Friday or Cyber Monday,
that's the biggest challenge on production systems.
>> Oh yeah, speed is of the essence.
Rik, this has been a successful experiment trying this,
what are you hearing from attendees?
Did they like it?
Were they sort of how does this work?
What is this about?
>> I think they really enjoyed it.
Every time I went over to the zone,
it was full of people having deep conversations,
really getting into the technology and understanding
because as I mentioned, these are topics that
I think everyone came here to the show
to really learn more about how are they going to get,
where are they going to go in their cloud journey?
Where are they going to go in their AI journey?
Some great feedback from attendees.
Lot of active participation, so smashing success.
>> So you're going to do it, we're going to see it at
Informatica 2020? >> Absolutely.
Bigger, badder, it's going to be great.
>> So now that you're the winner,
you're going to be up there on the main stage,
getting some recognition that's exciting,
what are you going to take back to,
I know you're based in both Israel and New York,
what does this mean for your company?
>> So I think the next step
is taking it to the business side, right?
We want to make sure that the joint offering
and the joint partnership moves to the next stage,
taking it to the next customer.
We have some joint customer, we have some new prospect.
We have a lot of leads from the show here
sitting side by side with other partners of Informatica
like Databricks and Slowflict and Cloudera,
so we have a lot of joint offering
in solving real time like business end
of the largest most challenging enterprise we have.
Like you know, largest banks, largest airlines,
largest railways companies.
So I think the next step is
moving, taking from the exhibition to the field.
>> Great, well this is terrific.
Congratulations once again, really exciting.
>> Thank you. >> Really happy for you.
Rik, thanks so much for coming on the show.
>> Thank you. >> Okay.
>> You have been watching the CUBE's live coverage
of Informatica World 2019.
I'm Rebecca Knight, stay tuned.
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