From our studios, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hi, I'm Peter Burris and welcome to another CUBE Conversation from our beautiful Palo Alto studios. One of the things that makes theCUBE so exciting is we get great guests from great companies coming on here and talking about some of their new products that they're trying to get into the marketplace so customers can do more with their technology. And we've got that today. Eric Herzog, CMO and VP of Worldwide Storage Channels at IBM Storage is here to talk about some new things that IBM is doing that are specially relevant to high performance, closer, more down market, branch-oriented kinds of applications. Eric, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, Peter. Really appreciate it. Very excited to be with theCUBE, as always. All right, so let's start. Give us the quick business update in IBM and let's talk about how that informs some of the new announcements you made. Sure. So 2008 was a great year for IBM Storage. Lots of new introductions in the portfolio. Continue with our multi-cloudness, everything we've doing now for several years all about multi-cloud, hybrid, private, multiple public cloud providers. We continue that mantra. We also did something that was very interesting from a storage array system level perspective, brought out extensive portfolio around NVMe, the newest high performance protocol, both inside of a storage array and connecting a storage array into a network fabric for storage. Now let's talk about that NVMe because NVMe has been associated a little bit more with higher end stuff. Some of the new things you're doing are bringing NVMe and related classes of technology, flash to a new class of workload, new class of use case. Tell us about it. Absolutely. So what we're doing is bringing out the brand new, refresh, store-wise portfolio. We start with our V7000, which has NVMe both inside the array and support for NVM over Fiber Channel. We have our 5100 just below that, also supporting NVMe in the storage system. We're bringing out a new version of our 5030 called the 5030E. And at the very entry space are 5010E. These solutions all deliver dramatic performance gains, but incredible price discounts as well. For example, the 5010E is not only twice as fast as the older 5010, but it happens to be up to 25% less expensive, more for the money. That's the key watchword in the store-wise family. So tell us a little bit more about the 5010E. What kind of use, you left talking about applications, workloads, use cases. What kinds of applications, workloads, use cases are we talking about? So we've done a couple of things. So first of all, we're leading with all flash across the portfolio. Yes, we still sell hybrids and hard driveaways and we'll still do that in the 5010E, for example. So if you're using hard drive arrays, backup and archive workloads, of course. Now, when using all flash arrays in a smaller shop, it could be your primary storage. At Herzog's Barn Grill, that might be the great way to go. When you're thinking more of the broader enterprises, it's great for edge. So branches of a bank, all of the outlets of a retail location. And even a core data center, not every workload is even. Not every data set is even. So certain things need more expensive arrays. And other ways you can go with an entry product, still deliver the availability, the reliability and the performance you need. But you don't always need to spend the most amount of money. And storage gives you that breath, gives you the right price point, the right software. And it even gives you six nines of availability, which is only 31 seconds of downtime in a full year on an entry product. That's incredible. Well, I would think that the 5030E would just be especially relevant for some of those scale out workloads. Tell us about that one. So in the 5030E we can scale out into a two node cluster up to 32 petabytes. But we start small, you can get it at 12. Same thing, two X performance at up to 30% less money. And all of the store-wise family comes with our award-winning spectrum virtualized software, which delivers enterprise class data services, such as snapshot, replication, data rest encryption, tiering, migration, et cetera, et cetera. Not only for IBM's store-wise portfolio, but actually can work with over 450 arrays, most of which are not ours. Great value for the money, great software, and bringing better performance at a lower price. The 5030E and the whole portfolio includes our spectrum virtualized software family. Now, that's important because as we think about the relationship between these and other products in the IBM portfolio and multi-cloud, I know there's some work that's being done there. Tell us a little bit about some of the new updates that you've made to how that spectrum family is becoming even more relevant in a multi-cloud sense. Well, when you look at the whole family, everything in the spectrum family has heavy cloudification in a multi-cloud environment. Let's take spectrum protect. Not new from an announcement perspective of what we're doing and what we're launching and what we're doing from a new perspective, but it's been able to back up to the cloud for years. In fact, over 350 cloud providers use spectrum protect as the engine for their backup as a service portfolio. Spectrum virtualized Contudo cloud, but we also have spectrum virtualized for public cloud that allows you to do snapshot replication not only for IBM arrays, but for competitive arrays out to a public cloud and even supports air gapping with a snapshot so you don't have to worry about ransomware or malware. That's all with a spectrum virtualized family. Our spectrum sale product can automatically tear to the cloud. IBM Cloud Object Storage can go from on-premise to off-premise. So the big thing we've done with all of our portfolio, the software and then the arrays that sit on it when the case of spectrum protect backup is make sure we can work with any and almost every single cloud in the industry whether it's a big cloud like IBM cloud, Amazon or Microsoft or a small cloud provider. You may want to use a local cloud provider depending on where you're located and not use one of the big cloud providers. We work with that cloud provider too. But you made some, especially for spectrum virtualized, IBM spectrum virtualized, you're adding a new brother to the portfolio. So that's spectrum virtualized for public cloud. We first brought it out on IBM cloud only. It now supports AWS. We know customers multi-cloud, most end users, and you guys have written about it extensively at Wikibon and theCUBE and Silicon Angle that end users will not use one public cloud. They will have four, five, six different public clouds. So spectrum virtualized for public cloud delivers to on-site arrays all the capabilities. Spectrum virtualized for public cloud sits in a VM where virtualized instantiation out of the public cloud provider, giving all those enterprise-class functionalities and allowing us to move data back and forth to IBM cloud, allows us to move data back and forth to an Amazon cloud, not only for store-wise, but also for, again, over 450 arrays that aren't ours using the spectrum virtualized software. So that's a great addition. We had it for IBM cloud, now for Amazon. As we publicly stated, we first brought it out last year. It'll also be extended to more clouds in the future as well. So store-wise, gotten a refresh, new spectrum virtualized for public cloud, also getting, you know, adding to the portfolio. Great stuff. How do you anticipate that customers are going to respond? Well, we've already had a great response for those customers we've talked to under a non-disclosure agreement. Now we're public with this new portfolio. What's not to like? You get extensive software capability spectrum virtualized. With our 5100 store-wise and our 7000 stories, you now get the NVME technology, which is the White Hawk performance technology in the storage industry, except at a much lower price point that what our competitors have brought out. So we brought NVME high-end technology into the entry price point space, which is great. And we also have a nice portfolio that gives you certain products you could use at Core Data Center, other products that you would use at Edge, like banking at all the locations or in retail. So you're not going to put the most expensive product but you have a great six-nines of availability, extensive software, twice the performance. And it said up to 25% or 30% less, depending on which of our products, than the older product, bigger, faster, better, cheaper. So Eric, let me be one of the first to congratulate you. Thank you. The IBM storage journey since you and Ed, Ed Walsh have shown up at IBM or come back to IBM in some cases has been a great thing to watch. You've really refreshed the portfolio, made some great strides, and we're getting great feedback from customers about the effort. So congratulations and all that. Great, thank you. And the new store-wise is the latest in that and look for more just like we did in 2018, refresh across the pod. There's more coming in the second half of the year and other elements of our portfolio. Great to see IBM back and relevant in the storage world. Eric Herzog, CMO and VP of Worldwide Storage Channels, IBM Storage, thanks once again for being on theCUBE. Great, thank you, Peter. And I'm Peter Burris, thanks for listening. Until next time, thanks for participating in this CUBE conversation.


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Hi guys, it's Maa, it's Meks creation and if it's your first time come across this channel, please support me by subscribing to this channel. In today's video we want to take a brief look at what you call a sale city, when we are talking about a sale, most of you have heard about what you call a sale, but a sale is a city that is going to hold the 5th World Cup final. It's quite an amazing city with all its buildings, with all this future, its designs, it's quite amazing. Let's try to take a look at the sale and see what does it look like, the mad made city that is going to host the 5th World Cup final in Qatar. It's actually one of now the best destination for people coming to Qatar because it just looks so beautiful for anyone that would like to see very unique buildings, very unique futures, very unique things and the cleanliness, the smart cleanliness of the place is quite amazing. Let's go straight into the video as you try to watch and see how this place looks like. Remember, a lot of festivals are going to be held in this place from fun zones, from fun games, traditional games, traditional accommodations, hotels, residences, so definitely you have a variety to choose from and you have a lot of things to choose from, starting from what you call food. Remember, it also has what you call the food, lusail, food arena where you find all sorts of different restaurants, all different international cuisines all made in one place that you can have a variety to choose from if you're coming from Brazil, you're coming from Uganda, you're coming from Kenya, you're coming from Japan, you're coming from the USA, wherever country you may be coming from you will definitely find your favorite cuisine in that what you call the food arena. So definitely it is congested, it is in only one place that you can share all the services at your fingerprints without any hassle itself. The kind of the building is the fresco building also are quite amazing, the traditional designs are also quite amazing that you definitely don't see as an individual if you definitely come to Qatar, so for those people that have not visited lusail city, it's the time right now you go and check out what it has to offer.


I'm a conservationist and I knew from a very young age that that was what I wanted to do. We live in a country that's just blessed with this incredible diversity of large animals, elephants, rhinos, lions, cheetahs, you name it. And it seemed very natural to me that I would dedicate my life to protecting these animals. But my first job really did create a completely different realisation for me. My first job at the age of 18 was to measure the entire stockpile of Kenya's ivory. There I was at the National Museums of Kenya, measuring every one of thousands of tusks. And from the information that I could get, I realised that elephants in Kenya were being poached over time at younger and younger ages. We were getting females killed, calves, elephants only five years old. Now elephants live as long as humans. That means that we were having baby elephants five years old being shot dead for their teeth, which were being turned into trinkets for people in China and Japan. Well all my work went up in smoke in 1989. And on this day I realised that Kenya had the power to make a massive global political statement. And that really committed me to conservation for the rest of my life. This statement led to the banning of the ivory trade worldwide, and elephants began to recover. I joined Wildlife Direct in 2007 so that I could make a difference across the whole continent of Africa. I'm a scientist, but my work really is working with people at the front lines of conservation. I'm bringing their stories to a global audience so anybody anywhere can read stories from Africa, from people in the field, on the ground, at the front line, communities, ranges. Scientists telling their stories. This is an example of one of the blogs. We found a group of amazing Maasai moran warriors out on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, saving lions. It's really, really unusual. And through their blog they can raise attention to what they're doing, they can raise money and they can get donations and volunteers to come and help them. And lions really are a huge passion for me. As a Kenyan, lions really are our national symbol. Can you imagine Kenya without lions? It's almost impossible to imagine. Lions, however, are declining very rapidly. We used to have 15,000 lions just 10 years ago. Today we have fewer than 2,000 left in this country.  Lions are being killed. Most of the range lands where lions occur is shared with people with their livestock, pastoralists, Maasai, Samburu. These landscapes are also shared with wildlife. Almost 75% of Kenya is semi-arid and this is the kind of land that they live in. Every seven years or so we have these fantastic droughts. In 2009, the last drought, we lost between 30 and 80% of our cattle as a result of the drought. And of course, wildlife died as well. Many herbivores died. Well, that put lions in a really difficult situation. They started killing livestock. When a community has lost so many of their livestock to the drought and then they start losing their livestock to lions, their tolerance is zero. And what happened in that year was a lot of lions started getting killed. Kenya loses more than 100 lions a year to this conflict with people. Almost 40% of the lions are killed with spears with traditional means by the pastoralists. But what we're seeing is a very disturbing trend.  And I'm going to draw your attention to the second tallest bar there, furidan. Furidan is a chemical that's been imported into this country for the agricultural development. It's really supposed to create the green revolution. But this chemical is deadly. It's so deadly that one container of furidan which is 100 grams can kill 250 lions. It comes in a salt shaker kind of container, sprinkled on the carcass of a cow that's been killed by lions. The lions will return to the kill, feed on it as a pride.  And then hyenas come. They also die and then vultures as well and jackals. Anything that comes to this carcass will be killed. What I saw was I was looking at the blogs on Wildlife Direct. I'm looking at these blogs and I see that it's not just lions that are being killed by this chemical. The same chemical is being used to kill fish in Lake Victoria.  We're killing birds to feed our people. These birds are killed for commercial trade. They're sold on the local markets. But the government didn't listen to us very much when we complained about the lions being killed. But the moment we revealed that this pesticide is being used to procure food for human consumption, they realised this is a public health crisis in the making. It's not just in Kenya though. Furidan is manufactured in the United States by a company called FMC. The US realised that this chemical was also dangerous to users, consumers and the environment. It was killing millions of birds, so they banned it in 2009. That didn't stop the manufacturers from pumping it into Africa, Asia and South America. We managed through our awareness, creation through Wildlife Direct locally and internationally to get this product removed from the shelves in Kenya. You can't find it in any chemist or agrivet anymore in this country. But sadly, all the product that was taken out of Kenya was dumped in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. And this is what the Ugandan said. So the impact of Wildlife Direct really has been to create an international awareness and a local reaction. So while there are many disappointing stories about conservation in Africa, it's not just lions, we're losing elephants, we're losing rhinos and cheetahs. I'm still smiling because what we're doing at Wildlife Direct is we're creating a community of people on the ground telling their stories, raising global awareness and actually impacting governments across this nation. Today we're influencing Kenyan legislation and Kenyan policies and it's all because the people who live on the ground with the wildlife, their say is now being taken into account. Thank you.


And in other parts of Africa, the market town of Kozeri in the far north province of Cameroon, close to the border with Chad, has been struggling with major floods for a week. As two regional rivers, the Logoni and Chari have had their confluence there and are both seeing exceptionally high water levels that are predicted to rise further. Homes in the town have been flooded and people were seen walking through knee high muddy water carrying possessions to try and save them from the floods. Even as families have been left homeless and have built temporary shelters from sticks and sheets on dry higher ground. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.