from San Francisco. It's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're here live in San Francisco for Red Hat Summit 2018. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, John Troyer. Next guest is Cube alumni. Been on so many times, I can't remember.  Doug Baylog, general manager, IBM storage client success and IBM's partners, executive leading the Red Hat relationship. Welcome back to theCUBE. Great to see you. Always great to be honored again. It's a new category you just invented. A VIP alumni is still something. On the cube.net site, we actually have badges for Cube VIP. Fantastic. VIP. Great to see you. Again, we have a little history. Your role at IBM's, you've been there for a lot of time. You've seen the history. Power has been in your wheelhouse. You built that from scratch. An open community with the power systems at IBM. But you launched Open Power. Right. An open consortium. Very much open. And you know that. There's very successful congratulations on that. Thank you. Now your role with Red Hat, the lead executive, the guy to call. Is there any problems or anything? Opportunities? Right. What's going on? Give us the update. Yeah, so I think it was mentioned by Matt on stage today where we're actually celebrating 20 years of partnering together with Red Hat. And I think a lot of folks take pause at that and not realizing how far back this relationship goes. I mean, I was hate to say I was there in 1998 when we struck this agreement. They get that time, a lot of folks inside IBM were scratching their heads saying, who's Red Hat and what is Linux and why are we doing this? And you know, at the end of the day, we have had a longstanding belief in open collaboration, drives innovation and drives value to clients. And that was the fundamental reason we jumped in when it was just an operating system discussion back in the early 2000s.  We brought our software along as well back then too, running on that operating system. Then it became a virtualization discussion and we bought Rev onto the platforms. Our software supported that. And now here with some exciting announcements today around the partnership around cloud with a common container strategy, which I think for enterprise clients will help build a larger ecosystem, give clients choice of how they want to bring that value to clients. So it's been a long, deep relationship and one that I think the two companies are more aligned than not in many ways. And you guys are humble, I'll say it. You guys were a catalyst moment. Linux, the Linux coming together at that time became an industry standard literally overnight because the industry rallied around it.  You know, that was, you know, when it was very early tier two citizen in the world, now open source is tier one. It's powering everything you see. Open source software and storage and networking, software defined data center, now cloud scale. This is a big deal. The big deal for the world. Now, the cloud strategy is interesting to me. So you got the Red Hat powering a lot of the enterprise. Hybrid cloud is the number one thing on the agenda. Multi-cloud is kind of being discussed, but that's the end in mind. Hybrid cloud is the number one work area which is essentially cloudifying, creating cloud operations for the enterprise. How has this partnership with Red Hat impact IBM's customers and what's in it for the Red Hat customers? Yeah, I think is, and I know you just had Arvin on here a moment ago. It was literally just about six months ago that Arvin and I and Paul Cormier and Jim Whitehurst sat down and said, you know what, I think the next big thing for us to partner around is containers, right? There is so much advantage for speed of software deployment, this hybrid cloud structure you talked about, then the fact that, listen, I think we're much more mature in the industry talking about cloud. There were moments a year or two ago where the answer was everything's going on the public cloud, you know, on-prem's dead. I think it's a much more mature conversation now in terms of the role of hybrid, which means clients are still going to have plenty of their data, especially if they're a regulated industry, that data's going to stay on-prem but that still doesn't mean there are parts of their infrastructure, parts of their applications that they're going to want to run in a public cloud like the IBM cloud, so that ability to have a common container approach, a common container management structure like IBM Cloud Private with OpenShift as the partner, I think it brings tremendous freedom of choice to clients of where they run what with a common development platform. It's interesting that definition's changing, we're always squinting through the noise but the bottom line is if everything's cloudified, if you will, using that word, on-prem and public cloud doesn't really make a difference where you're located because it's cloud operations and Wikibon had the True Private Cloud Report which basically stated that True Private Cloud is essentially on-premise activity just operating in a cloud framework, meaning same code bases, more operational dashboards, cloud operations not traditional IT. So I think there is the distinction, so it's still on-prem. Still on-prem. But now you got the edge of the network as well, software-based too, so you got IoT Edge, public cloud, hybrid, all coming together. You know, we used to, when the world was just on-prem for the most part, we used to talk about different architectures being fit for purpose, what's the right workload to run, what kind of applications. I was just up with a large financial institution in your neck of the woods on Friday, and we were having this fit-for-purpose conversation around the cloud, based on what kind of workload it is, how sensitive is the data, is it redacted of URMI, names and so securing numbers, right? All that stuff that's important. Where should that cloud workload run? What cloud should it run in or should it run on-prem or across both? So it was a lot of what's old is always new, but of course it keeps evolving here now to this world of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, as you said. What's going on with customers at IBM? Tell us a little bit what's happening in your world. I'll see the industry's replatforming eyes, the entire business. It's not just companies, it's an entire infrastructure's changing. Cloud, what do you call it? Cloud infrastructure, data infrastructure, AI, you can do instead, you've seen the power stuff, being successful. It's a global re-architecture. That's right. This is not about one company. No, no. This is a complete standard in the world. Everybody's transforming. And I don't think there's ever an end to transformation.  Right now there's milestones along the way that demonstrate progress, but there's no resting anymore in terms of being comfortable in today's world. So transformation is going on forever. In the systems business, we're constantly transforming, right? We brought out a new mainframe last year. We call it the Z14. And now recently, you know, kind of some of our little skinny Zs, the ZR1s, right? Which are really designed for the modern data center because they fit in a standard, an industry standard racks. So we're bringing that robust security to not only our traditional Z clients, but to brand new Z clients running Linux, by the way, right? Yeah, yeah, Arvin was, Arvin nailed it in his description and I think this is true. You got TCPIP, HTTP. These are seminal moments and now you got this glue layer with containers and say Kubernetes. This is going to change how software is being built and software being run and how businesses will be running. So that's an industry-wide dynamic shift over at the infrastructure level, instrumentation and all the software behind it. Okay, that's happening. We're agreeing with that and totally agree with that. Now the impact of the customer, what do they have to do? Because they have to now adapt to this new world, which means they got to put the legacy and plugging into the legacy. They have to have microservices. So what is that software defined infrastructure look like for the customer? You've seen the system side through storage. What does software defined mean in this new architecture? Yeah, it's certainly, part of the objective of ICP, IBM Cloud Private, was to create that on-prem cloud experience because again, so many clients were looking for not just having their traditional IT, which they're going to continue to have but continue to modernize, but also move to a new environment that was much more self-service. All the things and the benefits of the public cloud, was still being careful around their data in many ways and their core applications. So they're transforming and modernizing from legacy IT to on-prem IT and then branching out with the Fit for Purpose discussion to the multi-cloud, to the hybrid cloud world. I love the Fit for Purpose. You can fit that in so many parts of the stack, right? We, I think open source, one of its characteristics is it develops in public. And 20 years ago, the question was, not is it Fit for Purpose, but when is Linux going to be ready? Is it going to be ready? Is it going to be ready? Well, I think that answer is pretty clear now. And I think the same thing has been going through with containers and with Kubernetes, right? On theCUBE, you're tracking Kubernetes, the growth of Kubernetes. Is this a real moment where IBM says, okay, now Kubernetes and OpenShift is now ready for the enterprise? Absolutely, absolutely. If I think about kind of big moments on IT that provided ubiquitous access to developers, right? You had, we talked about Linux as an operating environment. Once all the platforms, the different architecture were in Linux, the ability for application portability while still bringing out the value of the platform became very much true. Java from an application programming model was another one, right? If you wrote in Java, you had the ability then to move that Java workload around without recompilation in many cases to different architectures, getting the value out of where you chose. Containers are the next one, right? So now we're containerizing workload. And again, you have sort of freedom of choice of where you run it. And if you run it in this cloud or that cloud or this system or that system, you get different values out of it. And we're not just containerizing microservices, right? Now we're talking about containerizing, you know, WebSphere and databases and message queuing and kind of that robust runtime that somebody in the audience joke, gosh, I haven't seen those queues in a long time, right? Not that they haven't been there, they've always been there. But again, this is back to, how do you take what you have from a legacy IT and modernize it for this cloud era, much more than cloud washing? This is really, you know, transforming in the eyes of you. It preserves the investment. I mean, the bottom line, if I'm a CIO or I'm an executive looking at this market, I say, okay, I got a purchase decision I've made in the past and I have an install base of stuff. And my choice was used to be, okay, I got to replace that, hire new people, get move everything over. To now, your approach is a little bit different. Great, just containerize it. And then when you're ready, you deal with it on its life cycle. That's right. So you don't really have, it's an ROI thing and it's also preservation of pre-existing conditions. Now the other big, of course, client transformation going on is there's not a single client on the planet who's not trying to figure out artificial intelligence and what it means to their business to bring more insights around their client set into their workflows. And so that's why, as you know, in addition to Watson and all the work we do around Watson, of course, in our cloud, we've gone down to the system level with our power platform and really optimized Power 9 with flash storage attached to it as the best combination of a platform for this AI era. In fact, I was sharing just before we went live here, right? It's actually a big announce day for our systems business too. We're announcing new models of our AI platform, what we call the AC922. Now with six GPUs, with our partnership with NVIDIA, we've got new Linux systems, kind of the fall on with Power 9 that, you know, I started back, they're much better by the way, right? That I started back in 2013. So, you know, here we are at the Linux summit. We've got a common cloud partnership being announced. And at the same time we're announcing all the way down to the metal systems and ships that are optimized to run the Linux and open source platforms. And the thing that I like about this environment is the level of granularity is getting down to the point where you can have your applications or down to the level of service to a service level and manage it on that base and Power AI would be a great example of what could happen. It actually connects it all together, right? I mean, Power AI, which again, new content there, we've just announced Power AI on Power 9 and on Red Hat for the first time. You know, back to new news here at the summit. And in fact, it'll be containerized later this year. So now you've got Power AI in a container on IBM Cloud Private, running an open shift optimized for Power 9 starts to make your brain hurt a little bit, right? But I mean, that's sort of the level of the thoughtfulness of our strategy and how all the pieces look together from the software and the applications down to the systems in the chip. You guys do a good job keeping it in the open too. I really liked that how that went with Power, certainly great, great stuff. Power AI for the folks watching, check it out, it's from IBM. Interesting product, I think it's got a lot of capability. Your perspective as an industry participant, you know, you've seen many waves. Right, right. What's this wave like in your opinion? You know, there's so much going on with this new infrastructure. Yeah, right. How do you talk about it when someone says, hey Doug, what's going on with all this stuff? You got blockchain over here, you got this going on over there? Yeah, I think the, at least from a systems perspective, the way I think about it, and myself and my peers think about it is, we've gone through so many generations where it was more manufacturing process driven innovation. You know, how do you pack more on a chip? How do you pack more on a chip? How do you pack more on a chip? And it was kind of all about that. We're now in an era where homogeneality is no longer going to cut it, right? You're going to really need, you know, a number of GPUs, a number of processors, different kind of architectures to fit the kind of workload that's coming so fast at us these days. You really don't have time to step back and say, no, no, let me replumb my whole data center with that next one chip, right? It's going to be a diversity of infrastructure. And so that- It's hard to provision, you need it available. Immediately. So this wave we're in really is about bringing that diversity of the heterogeneity back to the data center and bringing that value, though, back in a simplified deployment way because heterogeneity means complexity in some ways. And that's where the layering of, you know, software packages like PowerAI, like software defined storage, like ICP and OpenShift with our partnership with Red Hat kind of help bring that diversity and bring it back to a common level of application development. That's kind of the end goal. Common application development, the platform brings out the value, the app doesn't have to worry about it, but you've got that diversity of choice underneath. Great, Doug, great stuff, great to have you on theCUBE. Just to end this segment, just briefly summarize for some people watching, what's this relationship with Red Hat all about? What's the, obviously you have history, but what's the value? If you just talk about it right now, what's the impact to the customer watching of the relationship that's announced to you with the private cloud initiative with Red Hat? Yeah, I think if we summarize the relationship without getting into the technology, it really is about bringing innovation to enterprise clients. At the end of the day, that's what Red Hat's focused on, that's what we're focused on, and that's what we're focused on together. They have great minds in the industry. We have great minds in the industry. The power of those minds coming together to create some of the innovation that we've just talked about here in this segment, I mean, it's mind-blowing for what it means to enterprise clients to help them propel themselves forward and transform. That's what it means. These are the kind of partnerships we're going to see now that people are rallying behind Kubernetes and containers and this new software-defined infrastructure that's going on, stick more of it, right? We see it more? Absolutely, it's software-defined is the name of the game these days, right? Not that there isn't value in the systems, by the way. Still plenty of them. Systems are under the hood, they're under the hood. They're under the hood, and they're differentiated for sure. They have infrastructure as code, you still need service to run this stuff on, so. It does matter, it does matter a lot. Great to see you. Good to see you as always, John. John, good to see you. Absolutely. Hugh, bringing all the action here, here in San Francisco, live coverage on John Furrier, John Troyer, day one, we'll be right back with more after this short break.


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It's definitely making me a better player because I'm able to train better and harder on my own and I'm able to actually improve all my skills. I'm definitely training more. I'm on my turf almost every single day, which is more than I used to. Yeah, I think it's definitely an advantage because during the winter it's really hard to get outside and play because it's usually like minus 20, which is way too cold to play in. So actually being able to go on a surface that's almost like an actual soccer field makes it way better. I'm really almost practicing everything. I practice juggling, dribbling, skills and I even put my soccer net outside on the driveway so that I can shoot. I 100% would recommend this to other players because it's just such a nice thing to have and it makes me motivated to come out and play and I hope everyone would have the motivation that I do now that I have my turf. It was actually referred to us through OneUp Soccer. Then we checked out their website and thought it was a great idea to implement in our garage for our daughter. The advantages are she can train anytime. We don't have to travel anywhere to go train. When she has her moment she can come out and train it and do whatever she wants out here. That was kind of the main advantage. We've been in quarantine for quite a few months and soccer's been off and on so we've decided to get something that she can work on her skills during this time. Oh absolutely. She's trained much more. It's more convenient. She was training out in the garage but the turf makes a big difference. It simulates a more real world application with her cleats and those kind of things so she has actually trained quite a bit more. We live a little bit outside the city so practices take a large amount of time, especially commuting. When she can come out here, do an online session, train in a similar fashion to what she'd be doing if we drove somewhere and brought her to a facility. She has to roll it so we can park the car here. We haven't rolled it yet just because it's new. That was the plan and it was set up so we could roll it and use the garage as a place to park the car. I think the pricing was fair from what I understand. As far as payback, saving us time but not having to drive everywhere. She can train here. She gets more time to train. Just that alone is worth the investment. I didn't expect the install to be so fast. They were here within, I think it was a couple of days. He walked us through what he was going to do. We kind of talked to him about how we wanted this, the rolling up, that kind of thing. He did an excellent job, friendly. He said if there's any issues, give him a call. He'll come back and fix it up. We haven't had anything yet but yeah, I know it was a great experience. Any time you can train and you can do it when it's convenient is a huge benefit to the kids. There's soccer. She comes out and does workouts. There's more than just soccer when you can come out here. She plays other sports too so she can train. Absolutely, it's worth the investment from our standpoint.


Hi, I'm Meredith Marokovits alongside Hal Steinbrenner. Hal, baseball is coming back. What was your initial reaction when you found out that the two sides had indeed agreed? Excitement and relief and, you know, been a little bit impatient, quite frankly, the last few weeks, but we got it done. I'm actually up here at Yankee Stadium. The place looks great and we're ready to roll. What type of vibe is there at Yankee Stadium right now? Because I imagine you don't have your full staff there because of everything and all the protocols with COVID-19. Limited staff, but, you know, today, for instance, Garrett Cole scheduled to pitch a sim game and I got very little sleep last night. I was so excited. It's going to be great just to see baseball after all these months. You mentioned Garrett Cole. That was a big off-season acquisition and now it almost seems cruel that you had to wait this long to eventually see him in pinstripes.  Anticipation is high. We've got a few weeks to go, unfortunately, before we see that, but it's going to be great just to see this many players out on the field getting ready and, you know, there was a lot of doubts that we would play or not play, not just because of negotiations, but because of the virus in general. And it's going to be exciting. Everybody here is psyched. There is a very long book of protocols that every team must go through. Are you feeling confident that this is going to happen and you're going to be able to fit in 60 aims? Yes, I am. I am. MLB did a great job with these health protocols and the union was great agreeing to them and it's going to keep everybody as safe as possible. I mean, safety is first when it comes to the players and all of the staff and, you know, eventually, hopefully fans. Everybody's taking it obviously very seriously and I think the protocols are very thorough and very well thought out. Now, originally the Yankees were going to have their, what we're calling summer camp down in Tampa, Florida at the minor league facility, but because things have heated up with COVID, you decided to pivot. Was that at all a difficult decision to move the entire operation up north here? Well, it was difficult. We had spent weeks and weeks and weeks really perfecting, you know, sanitization techniques and products and got a lot of outside advice. And we had both facilities down there ready to go, safe as any facilities in the country. But as you said, things did heat up. So, you know, we made the decision. Things were calming down up here to move back, even though the facilities were probably better for that amount of people down in Tampa. With that being said, what is it going to look like? Cause as we know, there's only one field at Yankee Stadium. Well, we're going to make sure everybody's, you know, safe distances and we're just going to have to get through these, these three weeks and then we'll be utilizing Scranton and all likelihood for the, for the other half of the team, so to speak. But we'll, we'll get through it. We'll make sure everybody is safe. Everybody's keeping their distances and following the protocols. Make it, we'll make it happen. What are you most looking forward to over the next three weeks as the guys get ready to start the 2020 season? I'm really looking forward to seeing the guys that were injured, you know, come back and see them be able to play. Most of them have been in Tampa, obviously. So I spent a lot of time with them and they've been progressing well.  It'll be good. You mentioned some of the top prospects. Esteban Floreal is among the group. Davey Garcia, you have a guy like Clark Schmidt. Are you going to be watching those younger guys, maybe even a little bit more closely because you haven't seen them as much as this three week period progresses?  But yes, it's been a number of months and everybody I'm sure is going to be a little bit rusty, even though some of these guys have been working out very informally in Tampa, but it's going to be exciting to watch them, you know, they're our future. How can you just kind of take me through the process? Once you knew that a 60 game season was going to be implemented, what has your life been like? I imagine it has to be round the clock, busy, trying to just figure everything out logistically. Well, again, we've been busy, oddly enough, I've been as busy as I've been in a while the last few months. I mean, just trying to figure out protocols, try to figure out when things started again, how to keep people safe, talking with outside consultants regarding sanitization and keeping places clean. We've learned a lot as everybody has. But yes, once we knew it was game on and particularly as you alluded to, once we knew we had to go back to New York, which we weren't ready for at that point in time, things have been pretty crazy here for the last few weeks, but Doug Bihar had a stadium operations and everybody has done a great job. And we're now ready up here. Everybody's going through the same thing. They were ramped up during the first spring training, obviously went home and now they're trying to ramp back up again. What concerns you the most about that aspect and potential injuries? Well, I think it's the same concern we have every off season, right? We're just rolling into another spring training, the way we do every year. And we're hoping guys, you know, stay safe and stayed in shape when they were at their homes.  I know they've stayed in shape. So it's really the same concern every year, but this is certainly an altered reality, you know, doing this a second time in four months. Will there be any element of relief if you get to the 23rd and opening day is actually happening? Absolutely, there will be. And, you know, the playoffs are gonna be very exciting. We just need to make sure we keep everybody safe, play your staff and eventually fans. And I do expect to see fans in our stadium at some point to some degree. And that's gonna be a great day as well. How that's gonna make a lot of Yankees fans very happy because I know they wanna be there. How many conversations do you have with the league about potentially bringing fans back safely? When do those start taking place throughout this process? Well, those conversations have already happened. We've also had a lot of conversations with the governor's office and he's been great. He's been a big advocate to get, getting sports back on the field. And then eventually when things are safe to get fans back in the stadium. So between the two of them, we've had multiple conversations over the course really of the last month. Do you have any idea what that would look like when fans are allowed in? I would imagine there'd be some type of limited capacity for them as well. Yeah, we've done a lot of work. Ticketmaster's been great helping us out, really, really putting a diagram together which would keep everybody at least six feet apart. And it would be limited. I'm sure it'll be in the 20 to 30% range, hopefully, at first and that will, it's definitely possible in this stadium to keep people at a safe distance wearing masks at those capacities. Because of all the different variables involved, what do you see as the biggest X factor this season? Well, I think keeping this virus at bay, for me in particular and obviously New York City. And I did certainly, I think, just walking around yesterday, walking around the park, people are really behaving themselves here. It's impressive. I haven't been up here in a few months. So that needs to continue. Everybody needs to be safe. And again, we need to be doing everything we need to do at this stadium to make it the safest stadium in the country and ensure the safety of everyone. So we just need to get through these months and hopefully the virus stays down in our area. There's no question. Expectations were sky high for your team coming into this season. Has anything changed on your end because of the circumstances that we've gone through? No, but I think this is gonna be a sprint, right? Not a marathon. So we really need to come out of the gate. There can't be this two weeks of really not playing well to begin with. And I think that puts added pressure on the team. It also creates a lot of excitement, I think. And so it's gonna be a difficult first month and we really need to perform well to stay on top of the division and be there at the end. Do you feel as though Aaron Boone is even more of an asset in a situation like this because it seems like nothing really phases him? He's very adaptive and he will improvise and he will adapt and he'll find a way to lead even if it requires changes, not getting as close to players, not adding them on the back, not doing all the things that he's great at as far as motivation. This is an altered reality. We're all gonna have to change the way we operate and he'll be no different, but as you've alluded, he will do a good job at adapting. As a guy that's been around baseball his entire life, will it be odd for you to watch the new reality knowing there are no fans and guys are going to have to go about things differently? There's no doubt, for everyone involved, this is going to be a very different experience opening day at Yankee Stadium with no fans, but we hope it's gonna be short-lived, that phenomenon, and we hope to get some fans back sooner rather than later. Are you curious to see how your new pitching coach, hire Matt Blake, fares in this situation? It was gonna be his first year in uniform at the major league level as a pitching coach and now he has another wrinkle that he has to deal with. Yeah, look, he's gonna adapt as well. He's a very adaptive guy. We've made a lot of changes. I'm gonna be curious to see how Eric Cressy who we brought on and Donovan and Brett McCabe, our new strength and conditioning coach, how it goes with injuries and how these guys get in shape and so we made a lot of changes. Blake's just one of them. I'm gonna be curious to see if we made the right decisions everywhere. Hopefully we did. While you haven't seen them in-game action, but have you noticed any difference just from the limited time that they were able to work with the players? Well, I can only tell you're talking to some of the players, they're very happy with all the changes we made and personnel also and equipment in the right room. We changed a lot of things and so the players seem excited and they like the changes we make and that's a good start. So what happens for you from now until July 23rd? Just making sure, keeping my fingers crossed that we stay healthy. That's the most important thing and that these guys continue to get more and more in shape and it's gonna be a short spring training compared to usual, which has its concerns of its own. But just gonna be here watching over everything and enjoying everything I see. They're appreciating it more than I probably ever had. Hal, thank you so much as always for the time and I look forward to seeing you at the ballpark soon. Likewise, Meredith, thanks.


The United Nations General Assembly reaches its closing sessions at Flushing, Long Island. Russia's Foreign Minister Molotov is keenly concerned about the international disarmament resolution. Secretary of State Burns addresses the delegates on the subject disclosing the number of American armed forces in foreign countries. The Assembly takes a long step toward world peace by approving the resolution and routing it to the Security Council. A permanent site for the United Nations world capital is also approved. From 42nd Street between 1st Avenue and the East River in New York, the future skyscraper headquarters will occupy six blocks running north to 48th Street. This eight-and-one-half million-dollar tract is the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and solves a difficult problem for the UN. The city will add another two million dollars in small tracks rounding out the site. Many other sections were explored by the committee. And after a year's search, UN Secretary General Trig Ville calls for a deciding vote. The 18 acres in Midtown Manhattan are chosen by a vote of 46 to 7. The international organization's wanderings are over. Work of clearing the land for a magnificent world capital will start in a few months. Foreign Minister Molotov and his aides return to Moscow after the Big Four Peace Conference and the United Nations Assembly adjourned. Like the other delegates, Mr. Molotov is highly gratified with the results accomplished. Voting the line of Queen Elizabeth, he bids goodbye to the United States. Ernest Bevin, England's foreign secretary, and Mrs. Bevin also leave. Mr. Bevin expressed confidence in the prospect of a durable and lasting peace. Many UN representatives sail for home too with an optimistic feeling of accomplishment.