Sorry i’m late, I was….ermm….detained. ;). Going to live blog this from the green room backstage!

8:44a

Did I just hear “NetApp Kubernetes Services”???? Who the hell is this NetApp??

With all this automation, Anthony Lye’s group is answering the question “This Data Fabric thing sounds all wonderful, but HOW do I utilize it without a Ph.D. In Netapp and the various cloud providers??”

So the room I’m in has some cool people in it at the moment; Henri Richard, Dave Hitz, Joel Reich, Kim Weller, bunch of other really smart folks!

Wait- FREEMIUM MODEL??? Somebody actually talked to the AppDev folks.

OK time for Cloud Insights. James Holden on stage.

8:52a

Cloud Insights is GA! Again, free trial!

Lots of focus on using performance and capacity data to save money

“All that power and nothing to install.” – Anthony Lye

8:56a

Time to talk about Hybrid Cloud

Brad Anderson , SVP and GM Cloud Infrastructure Group

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure – If it talks like a cloud, and walks like a cloud…(then it’s not a cloud because they neither walk nor talk.)

Seamless access to all the clouds and pay-as-you-grow.

“Last year it was just a promise, today hundreds of customers are enjoying the benefit of hybrid cloud computing. ”

Consultel Cloud – from Australia! Why are so many of the cool NetApp customers from down under? Dave Hitz says to me that companies in Australia are very forward leaning in regards to technology.

These guys are leveraging Netapp HCI to provide agile cloud services to their base, with great success. They “shatter customer expectations”.

100% Netapp HCI across the globe. Got common tasks done 68% faster. Using VMWare. They looked at other solutions, they already had SolidFire experience so that probably helped.

50% cost savings over former storage platform (but…weren’t they Solidfire before this? Maybe something else too?)

So Netapp has made cloud apps a TON easier – and letting them run wherever you want. This has been the dream that the marketing folks have been talking about for years, made real.

9:30a – Joel Reich and my friend Kim Weller up there to talk about the future of Hybrid Cloud.

In the future most data will be generated at the edge, processed in the cloud.

Data Pipeline – Joel Reich, a self-proclaimed “experienced manager” will use Kim’s checklist

Snapmirror from Netapp HCI to the cloud.

Octavian looking like DOC OC! He has a “mobile data center” on his BACK. Running NetApp Select! MQTT protocol to Netapp Select (for connected devices)

Netapp automating the administration for setting up a FabricPool. You don’t have to be an NCIE to do this. Nice.

FlexCache is back and it’s better! Solves a major problem for distributed read access of datasets.

Netapp Data Availability Services – now this is something a TON of users will find valuable.

9:51 – Here’s what I was waiting for – MAX DATA.

“It makes everything faster”.

Collab with Intel – Optane persistent memory.

Will change the way your datacenter looks.

11X – MongoDB accelerated 11X vs same system without it.

NO application rewrites! In the future they will make your legacy hardware faster.

In the future will work in the cloud.

Looking forward to more specifics here. Wanted to see a demo. But we’ll see it soon enough.

OK, starting late but this is important stuff. Going to talk about the cool stuff as it happens.

8:41a- George Kurian makes a bold statement that Istio is part of the de facto IT architecture going forward. That’s service mesh folks, where each containerized microservices app knows about all the others in the ecosystem by employing Nginx in each container rather than going through redundant centralized load balancers, and do automatic service discovery. That’s a big recognition.

8:47a – Dreamworks- “NetApp is the data authority”.

8:50a – Preview of “How to tame a dragon”. Never ceases to impress, and this tech is going to get exponentially better over the next 3-4 years.

8:52 – Got a note from an A-Teamer that there are new selectable offerings on cloud.netapp.com! Go check it out. New node types and software offerings…

8:53 Next speaker – Some future perspective from one of the leading media futurists in the world – Gerd Leanhard.

8:56 Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. (My note- expect resistance, and more resistance as the pace quickens).

8:57 “MS Hololens may be free one day” – We all know that NOTHING is free. The form of payment just changes.

9:00 IoT/AI creates a 62 TRILLION DOLLAR economic shift. “Data is the new oil, AI is the new electricity, IoT is the new nervous system.”

9:02 2020 starts the Cognitive Systems Era. Just because Watson reads all the philosphy books doesn’t make it a philosopher. Won’t know what love feels like. “Knowledge is not the same as understanding!”

9:05 “They could buy France…they would think twice about that…” ZING.

9:06 Megashifts – a new Meta-Intelligence – for better or worse. When we cognify we will change the world. (How?) Disintermediation, Cognification, personalization, augmentation, virtualization

9:09 Tech is morally neutral until we USE it. #HellVen

AI will enable 38% profit gains by 2035. But inequality increases.

#DigitalEthics is a primary discussion now more than ever, discussed in news more than ever. Gartner #1 topic for 2019.

9:13 – China opensesame – instant credit, everyone gets a number.

9:14 Tech and data has no ethics – but societies without ethics are doomed. Cannot argue this- but purist capitalist societies do not incentivise ethics.

Who will be “mission Control for Humanity”? “Facebook gunning at Democracy”. Facebook wasn’t hacked, they’re not criminals, it was used properly but it was used unethically. FB doesn’t have lack of money.

Data Mining – Data MYning.

“Technology is exponential, Humans are NOT”.

“Don’t let your kids learn low level coding, or anything routine.”

Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge.

9:25 Summary from Gerd Leonhard – The future is driven by Data- defined by Humanity. Emrace technology- but don’t become it. WOW.

9:28 George back on the stage. I really love that NetApp, a company that has defined Data Fabric, and is at the core of so many data driven companies, is talking about the ethical use of that data and of technology in general. We need this industry leadership to extend this message into our policy making processes both at the state and federal level. Otherwise, we cede our policy making to the industry, who will act as (hopefully) benevolent feudal lords.

9:38 – Demo time coming….. :). Anthony Lye is on the stage.

Cloud.netapp.com – NetApp Cloud Central – not something to install, maintain, or configure- just something that exists, 7×24, optimized by workloads, accessible by callable routines.

1) discover endpoints – ActiveIQ. The fabric will tell YOU if there are opporftunities to tier and save money, capacity, etc.

Netapp “My Data Fabric”

Create Cloud Volume on all clouds from one page and API. WOW. And BACK UP those cloud volumes with snaps and a new backup service for archival. Full solution.

How does the storage get to compute? Combined Greencloud and stackpoint, control pnae to deploy K8S Istio, + trident. WOW WOW.

“CREATE FABRIC APP” – WuuuuuuuuT?

Install trusted config to your PRIVATE cloud. Create a “cloud volume” on your PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE…..

CLOUD INSIGHTS- SaaS, no SW to install. Access to On-Prem and all public clouds, realtime performance on both. Pay for what you consume. Small to extremely large businesses.

OK what I just saw what earth-shattering. There is a LOT of learning to do!!!

9:50 Now a customer who deals with Genome Sequencing.

“NuxiNexCode” – the internet of DNA

This guy just EXUDES scientist.

Single human genome sequencing in hours. 3 Billion Letters. Understand the millions of differences from one human to another. 40 Exabytes/yr

Expected to be the biggest datasets in the world

MArry this data with clinical and other patient and relative data.

GORdb Platform overview

Not sure if they could’ve gotten this done without Netapp Cloud Volumes functionality. By the way what other storage company is doing what Netapp is doing with on-prem, in-cloud instance, and in-cloud services? NONE. In fact, none are even CLOSE and that is astounding, there will be one storage, er data services, company standing in 10 years.

10:02a

George: Netapp #1 in US public services, Germany, and Japan, and ALL the biggest cloud providers. That’s a bold statement.

That’s a wrap until tomorrow!