84: Nutanix Weekly: Nutanix Validated Designs – Blueprints for Success

Philip Sellers: Welcome to Episode 84 of Nutanix Weekly, one of the many XenTegra podcasts with context.

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Philip Sellers: We call them that because we’re trying to bring our real world experience working with our customers, working

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Philip Sellers: alongside of our partners and and running this technology in house

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Philip Sellers: and share that information with our listeners say hello to today’s panel. I’m joined today with XenTegra-GOV CEO, Harvey Green.

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Philip Sellers: Harvey, how are ya.

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Harvey Green III: I am good. How are you?

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Philip Sellers: Doing really well.

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Philip Sellers: we’ve also got Zen. Excuse me. Nutanix Field, CTO Jirah Cox, Jirah! How are ya.

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Jirah Cox: I think we just created the XenTegra podcast universe. The XPU.

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Harvey Green III: A.

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Philip Sellers: We may as well call it that after after a dozen of these, yeah, we we kind of have a universe going on.

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Philip Sellers: And we’re also joined with and I keep trying to

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Philip Sellers: recruit you guys, I I want you to become XenTegra employees, I guess. Nutanix sales engineer, Ben Rogers. Ben, how are you?

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Ben Rogers: Philip, how are you doing? And I will tell you if this is turning into a community. I am glad to be one of the members of this, because there’s some good stuff going on here.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I agree. We we we are pumping out a lot of content hopefully helping enrich our customers. And in our partners lives.

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Philip Sellers: you know. And speaking of that, we, we’re coming back from a week. I I got to spend

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Philip Sellers: some time with all 3 of you guys last week in person, which is

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Philip Sellers: uncommon, you know. We get together every couple of weeks to to record one of these. But we actually got to see each other in person.

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Philip Sellers: And we had to go to the West coast to do it, even though we’re all based here in the

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Philip Sellers: the east coast in the Carolinas. So we spent some time together at New Tanks’s global tech summit.

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Philip Sellers: Harvey, when it comes to Gts. How many of you attended.

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Harvey Green III: I don’t know. It hasn’t been that many, maybe 3, I think.

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Philip Sellers: Okay.

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Philip Sellers: you know, since you’ve been there before, what? What do you leave thinking this year?

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Harvey Green III: You know.

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Harvey Green III: That’s funny. You should ask me that.

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Harvey Green III: So there was something that happened at this one that hasn’t happened at any of the other ones that I’ve been to

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Harvey Green III: monkey.

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Philip Sellers: Wow! Harvey! What was that?

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Harvey Green III: For those of you watching the Youtube. Video. I I am so happy for you because you get to see his face go all flush red right now, just flushing away.

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Harvey Green III: I’m gonna drag this one out a little bit jar. What do you think? What what was good for you this time that that didn’t come from any of the other ones you’ve been to.

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Jirah Cox: The boy, you know, like first time for everything right? Like

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Jirah Cox: big room, you know.

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Jirah Cox: A couple 100 couple 1,000 folks. It was, you know. So it’s our our internal se and partner se training and enablement event right where we focus on the tech.

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Jirah Cox: But you know who really delivers that tech right is people. People actually come first.

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Harvey Green III: Yes.

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Harvey Green III: yes, that’s a wonderful point. Yeah. What about you? What? What did you take away from this one.

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Ben Rogers: Well, you you learn who is making moves in the business. You learn who’s learning a lot and getting certified in the business, and you learn who might be partner of the year

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Ben Rogers: at these things.

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Harvey Green III: Yeah, yeah.

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Harvey Green III: you know, that’s it’s funny you should bring that up. Cause I do remember that there was

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Harvey Green III: a partner engineer of the year that was kind of identified and brought out, you know, over

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Harvey Green III: all of the other partner engineers that new tenants has.

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Harvey Green III: I don’t remember the Guy’s name. No, Jarry, you remember who it was.

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Jirah Cox: Somebody. Somebody’s sitting over close to you. It’s amazing how you can like work with somebody

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Jirah Cox: so closely for so long, and then, like, still like, learn new things about them.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah.

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Jirah Cox: You can, like co-host A podcast with them. For just like, you know, episodes upon episodes.

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Philip Sellers: I’m hoping everyone listening is just as uncomfortable as I am.

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Philip Sellers: Maybe.

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Harvey Green III: Would you be uncomfortable? I mean, we’re just talking about what happened last week.

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Ben Rogers: Yeah.

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Philip Sellers: I was. Gonna say, maybe not as deep red as I am right now. But you know, certainly have to be uncomfortable listening to it.

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Jirah Cox: Harvey, you’re gonna, you’re gonna, put the man out of his misery.

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Harvey Green III: Honestly, I wanna put him in a little more misery. I’ll make him say it.

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Harvey Green III: Oh, wow!

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Ben Rogers: Oh, that’s loaded there.

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Philip Sellers: Well, okay. So I I was very surprised. You know, at at Gts last week, as Gyra said, we we all got together all the engineering side of the house both internal

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Philip Sellers: new tanics esses along.

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Harvey Green III: Alright! That’s taking him too long. Congratulations to the 2024 partner, engineer of the year, Mr. Phillip Sellers.

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Jirah Cox: Hmm.

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Ben Rogers: Some of us. When that was announced some of us were not surprised.

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Ben Rogers: Philip, you’ve done strong work, man, for a long time, and I remember one of the first times I met you. It was I was meeting you because I was, you know, enamored with some of the blog posts that you have been writing at the time, and it was hitting some of the problems I was having head on so congratulations. Not surprised, but man very well deserved. And congratulations on the award. Phillip, you definitely deserve that man. What were some of the stats? They said again. I think

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Ben Rogers: 6, 4 certifications is 6 months, or was it 6 certifications in 4 months?

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Philip Sellers: I, I did 4 certifications. In 6 months after I joined Zentra, I, yeah, you know, a lot of things like this. This great podcast that I get to participate in. You know, I didn’t start this. There was a foundation before that. And it is a huge honor I’m humbled by

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Philip Sellers: by the honor, and was surprised by the honor. But yeah, there, there were other people definitely before me, and there’s there’s a team of people that make stuff like this happen so. I I

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Philip Sellers: I really am genuinely surprised, but also excited and happy. I mean, I just

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Philip Sellers: you know that that’s a once in career kind of thing, if it never happens again. It was really really cool, and I was happy happy to to get that honor with a good partner, someone who’s been a great partner to us, too. So

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Philip Sellers: thank you. Guys, I I appreciate it.

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Philip Sellers: I’m.

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Harvey Green III: And then some of us were surprised, cause I looked up there, and like Holy Crap, they spelled my name wrong.

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Philip Sellers: I think.

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Ben Rogers: I think.

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Jirah Cox: Harvey. I think Ceos are ineligible, so sorry about that heavy, heavy is the crown.

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Philip Sellers: I mean.

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Jirah Cox: Yeah. So I think that officially makes us an award-winning podcast.

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Harvey Green III: Yeah.

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Jirah Cox: So yes.

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Ben Rogers: Right.

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Jirah Cox: On that note.

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Philip Sellers: That note. Yeah.

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Jirah Cox: It’s a podcast that has worn that as have won someone awards.

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Philip Sellers: So it’s adjacent, right? It’s it’s it’s award adjacent or.

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Jirah Cox: Wasn’t up.

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Philip Sellers: Something like that.

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Philip Sellers: In all seriousness. No, I mean there were. This was a very different year. When we got together. I mean I was there a year ago, and besides the award, this was a very different year. There was a lot more faces a lot more Newtonics employees a lot more partners present.

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Philip Sellers: you know. The thing that I left realizing is that the community here has grown, and there’s

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Philip Sellers: there’s a recognition of opportunity and a recognition that the technology that Newtonics is is putting out there is solving people’s problems. And and

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Philip Sellers: by doing that there’s tons of opportunity in the marketplace.

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Philip Sellers: That’s kind of what I left with, I mean, I am curious. And I meant that question seriously before Harvey jumped me. I mean, what did you think I mean like, wh, what did you see? Cause I know we talked a little bit on the the way back.

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Harvey Green III: Yeah, I mean, I I see, honestly, a lot of innovation coming and a hot that is, you know.

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Harvey Green III: Ca, both coming out, and has been put out

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Harvey Green III: over the course of the time that that I’ve been supporting and talking about new tanics as a whole.

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Harvey Green III: You know the the whole conversation that we always end up end up at talking about how it’s a platform

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Harvey Green III: is is very, very much recognized. And they’re they’re definitely leaning into that which I really appreciate.

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Harvey Green III: You know, I’ve said before that Newtonics is the technology that I would have wanted at the time that I was the person in charge of doing it. I never got the chance then, but love that I have the chance now to interact with it as much as I do and interact with the team as much as I do. So

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Harvey Green III: I’m I’m very appreciative of that.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I shared with Harvey on on the travel back. And I call this my one day in Durham story.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I joined Zentagra

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Philip Sellers: in November of 2022 officially on November first, but unofficially, I kicked off a day early to come in and get get my equipment, and then fly to a customer.

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Philip Sellers: And then, a week or so later, we were with that same customer in Evc. In Durham.

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Philip Sellers: And

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Philip Sellers: you know, Harvey Harvey been telling me for a long time? You just don’t understand. It’s it’s more. It’s more than that. It’s not at just Hci. You really need to dig in here.

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Philip Sellers: and during that one day in Durham I got to dig in, and that’s all it took for me to become a believer. It was pretty evident quickly how much more value there was

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Philip Sellers: hyperconverged was just a small piece of the overall story.

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Philip Sellers: and although everything kind of ties back into it

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Philip Sellers: ties back into that storage layer.

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Philip Sellers: It really is a valuable platform. So I do love hearing that message, and that that was one of the things that got said. I mean, what what sticks out for you, Gyra, from from last week.

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Jirah Cox: I think I agree with you there for sure. Right? That I mean I’ve been in in Newtonics themed conversations now for

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Jirah Cox: close to a decade, and

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Jirah Cox: for sure, like the storage difference.

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Philip Sellers: Used to be.

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Jirah Cox: The vast majority of the conversation. And I love actually, now, how? That’s not even like top 10 things that are most interesting about us when looking at a platform to run your apps, store your data?

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Jirah Cox: You know, really take you to the cloud from the cloud between clouds. Anything you want to do with us? The way we do? Storage is still meaningful, still crazy performance. I still love doing like the face melting pocs that that never gets old

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Jirah Cox: but but that’s a really a byproduct. Right? So yeah, fully agree with all you guys. I led a session last week about using our S. 3 storage for hosting data and servicing apps. And the best feedback that I got was that I made S. 3 storage interesting, and I’ll take that as a solid win.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah. Then I saw you across the room. We were in a Kubernetes session together.

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Philip Sellers: What did you see from that app story portion of of where things are going.

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Ben Rogers: Well, I want to answer your first question, because this is where I see it. You know, 2 years in

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Ben Rogers: man, a lot of times. We’re compared to our competition. It’s always, you know, new tanics compared to this new tanics compared to this, whether it be comparing us to storage, whether it be comparis to Hypervisor. That’s really kind of where I feel like it lands sometimes.

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Ben Rogers: And what this Gts kind of showed me is man. We’re really starting to prop up on our own story what we got coming down the path with, you know, automation containers. AI, we’re really starting. In my opinion, we’re starting to stand on our own and go. You know, we’re beyond what our competitors can do at this point, I mean, yes, we can compete directly against storage and hypervisor vendors. But when you look at the platform and everything we bring to it

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Ben Rogers: what they’re developing on it, some of the stuff we’re doing with AI is really going to be cool, man, and we’re partnering with some of the best

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Ben Rogers: in the business on the chipset. So

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Ben Rogers: that’s kind of what I brought away from Gts is you’re now starting to see we’ve got a we got some swagger behind us.

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Ben Rogers: We’ve got some large customers that are coming our way and starting to really buy in our technology, which is giving, you know, our opportunity to kind of show. We can do it a large scale and to scale out. So that to me was really the big message to it’s, it’s not about the competition for us anymore. It’s about who we are and how we solve our customer problems.

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Ben Rogers: and that’s going to make competing against our competitors easy. In my opinion, as far as the app stuff.

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Ben Rogers: we’ve acquired a new company. I’m still trying to wrap my head around exactly.

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Philip Sellers: You know.

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Ben Rogers: That company is going to do for the platform. I think we’re early in the emphy, but when you listen to the people that have been acquired by that merger.

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Ben Rogers: I mean, these are guys that are sitting beside the Google developers. And they’re developing the platform around people that have, you know, created this technology. And now they’re on board on our team, and we now have direct resource to them. I met 2 individuals there. I can’t remember their names, but I will definitely search them out now that I’m back. And going through.

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Philip Sellers: I know it’s with.

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Ben Rogers: They’re individuals. I go, hey! These have been players in the infancy of these technologies. They understand this nuts and bolts. They’re part of the organizations that are kind of guiding the compliance of where this is going. That’s a good thing for new tanics, in my opinion, man, when you could bring that kind of brain power into your organization, absorb their technology into ours, and make it better, and then hear them be excited about joining our company.

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Ben Rogers: And that’s awesome dude.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I I agree with you. It it’s

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Philip Sellers: not just comparing you to

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Philip Sellers: to another vendor. At this point. You’re you’re doing things that stand out in your own right?

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Philip Sellers: you know a a. And I think that’s a a good segue into the blog post we’ve got for today. You know, we wanted to talk a little bit about new tanics, validated designs, blueprints for success. That’s the name of the

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Philip Sellers: the blog post we’ve got for for review today. It’s written by Keaton. Moda.

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Philip Sellers: Shout out to Keaton, and

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Philip Sellers: I hope I didn’t butcher his name. I hope that’s actually

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Philip Sellers: the correct pronunciation. But

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Philip Sellers: we we appreciate everybody that that’s putting out content and stuff for us to talk about. This is a a really interesting one. Because.

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Philip Sellers: yeah, the validated designs really helps us to to put something in front of a customer that’s been tested. That is a blueprint for success.

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Philip Sellers: You know.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, walking in and talking to a new customer. I mean, it is tough.

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Philip Sellers: You know, matching a a used case back to a a technology solution. So these validated designs are are good building blocks to to start from. Gyra, I mean, how do you think about

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Philip Sellers: the Nvds? The new Tanics, validated designs.

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Jirah Cox: Yeah, I mean, I’d say to all the technical bloggers out there that if you also have an interesting name and want to hear Phillip read it on the air, live with no prep and no rehearsal.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah.

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Jirah Cox: Consider submitting your blog to the Newtonics blog and you, too. No, I’m just kidding. I think you got Katie’s. Perfectly correctly. The what do I think about Mvds? That was the question. Actually, sorry I needed to punch it up there.

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Jirah Cox: so I love the Graphic. Here we use to introduce the Mvds at the top of the article here? It’s showing Mvds. At the top of this triangle, this larger pyramid of layers below it

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Jirah Cox: cause it really kind of shows how we work with customers and think about stuff like a design. So that base layer right? Of course you’ve got. We call out certifications, supported configurations, stuff like compatibility, matrices or hardware compatibility lists really just basic stuff like someone tested it in a lab. It works. It passed their sort of let’s call it an intentionally narrow gate, for like, does this work not work right as a product, as a as an interoperate interoperability thing as a

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Jirah Cox: as a compatibility layer works right from there you move up into things that are sort of more opinionated, but also more thoroughly tested. Right. So stuff like

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Jirah Cox: a best practices. Guide right? So the bottom layers almost like what you could do

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Jirah Cox: best practices layer up one layer is like things that you probably ought to do, or ought to consider, or ought to have, a really strong reason for not doing.

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Jirah Cox: gonna ignore, like a best practice there

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Jirah Cox: on that same level. We call it the tech notes, right? Which is kind of more like a miniature design that if you were, say, if you knew a technology call it your favorite flavor of like database or application platform. But you were like.

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Jirah Cox: I know this thing pretty well. But how does it work on mechanics. Right? What should I change? What should I consider? What should I think about the take notes there for you to say? It’s sort of like application focused guidance on stuff like configuration deployment operations procedure stuff like that.

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Jirah Cox: put that all together in a huge document, and that becomes the mechanics ability to design where, if you build it this way and run it this way, it’s validated and going to work for you.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, I mean. So when you you think about a validated design, I mean, what? What’s the business outcome that you’re driving.

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Ben Rogers: But you gotta think from a customer perspective. This is this is where I really like the Nvd. This is as a sales engineer sitting down, either talking with an existing customer about taking a next step. They want to expand their installation, or they want to. Do you know, they want to get into cloud.

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Ben Rogers: or with a white space customer that has no idea who Newtons or whatever we pronounce it is. This is a good way for me to sit down and go. Hey? Let me show you some proven recipes that we’ve used to bat to to help our solutions. Come, being help our customers come with solutions, and so a lot of times this might be a starting ground for me to start my conversation, especially with the tech people of

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Jirah Cox: Yeah. So I like that. So sort of in the inventory list, right? You get to read it for the audience real fast. You get the design guide interoperability and functional validation, my favorite part of it, performance and scalability testing. Right? If you go build it.

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Jirah Cox: You use Ben’s analogy. Here are the tasting notes that you should see in the finished product. Right? So when you go, when you go, build it the certain way, and then you go to test it. These are the results. You should expect software. It even specifies, like software versions of like Aos to load on. What was, what did we do when we validated it? Your sizing template? So if you need, bigger or smaller, what are the ways to think about that, and how to adjust it for your design.

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Harvey Green III: Yeah, I was just gonna comment on 2 2 very big things that come out of this. We’ve kind of already talked about. One is predictability. Especially when you look at what Jarra highlighted around performance and scalability testing you, you aren’t just talking about, hey? What if we do this? What happens?

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Harvey Green III: They’re not going to have like F. Forget. Yes, resources are important. Yes, you know the the ability to go in and say, well, we’re gonna try out 16 nodes on a poc like ye. Yeah, that that all sounds, you know, way bigger. And you know, in in some cases, sort of a pipe dream as to what you wanna try to test.

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Ben Rogers: You know they were asking questions about how exactly do you add more nodes? You know everything they had seen in the Demos was all manually driven. They were like we’re not gonna have anybody, and go in and add a node like that. Well, in the validate design, it had some of the scripting of how we go about adding a node automatically. What are the thresholds that we look at when those thresholds are met? What scripts are lost against the environment? And this is something that we were able to produce in front of the customer and goes.

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Philip Sellers: So so not only are we an award winning, podcast, but I think Harvey may have just taken us into territory, where we need a parental advisory because of the mouth punching so.

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Ben Rogers: One of the other things, though, is like there’s territory that’s still brand new. And so when I when I look at this, you know design portfolio. You look in the first column, the third row. We’re already doing Nvds for AI and machine learning. I mean, this is still, you know, man very hot ground. And so for me personally, if I was a customer, and somebody from Newton is, Kenny said, hey, we have an Mvd. For Aidl. I would want to see it, just to educate myself on the process.

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Ben Rogers: I do want to segue to the other part of this article that talks about the success stories that we’ve had with Nvd. And one of the things. If you read these success stories you’ll hear some of the same words that we’re using like the last example, the last sentence there being able to architect and deploy as a tried and tested stack, also help to avoid

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Ben Rogers: Bruce, in the pudding, this is a recipe for success, and we’re seeing this work over and over again our customer installation. So I really think that this part of

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Ben Rogers: the article really puts all of the meat and potatoes together. And again, it’s using the same language. If we’ve been using the whole time during this of why are Nvd. So value to our company?

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Philip Sellers: You know, you’re talking about the customer success stories. Something else stuck out to me as as I went through these, there’s 3 customer success stories, a global technology company, a global retailer and a large public sector organization.

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Philip Sellers: you know, in 2 of these examples they’ve used both the hybrid cloud on Prem. Nbd. And then the database Mvd. And in another they use the hybrid cloud Mvd. Unified storage and openshift Mv. To meet their goals. So there’s a lot of flexibility. It seems in in the way that you go to market with the Mv. So I mean, is that something you.

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Jirah Cox: Oh, totally, I mean, and our largest customers, right? Yeah, like you’d expect in on any technology stack or in any cloud, you tend to get large workload pods right? And so the the way that, like you would really kind of glue glue these together is. Here’s what my standard server kind of pods look like, and they have one shape, container workloads, maybe different, and then, of course, unified storage different still.

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Ben Rogers: One of the things I’m very proud of. Our cl our clusters is, they can be multi purpose. Our our clusters can run files, containers, traditional vms, all on one platform and within the single cluster, or we have some customers that dedicate clusters to services, they’ll have a cluster for files. I have a cluster for vm, so I have a cluster of containers. So again, the flexibility is there, and we’re just following that and suit with AI.

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Ben Rogers: The way. When AI was first mentioned to me I got very stressed. I was like, you know, how do I learn to talk about this? I’m not. I’m not an AI guy, and pi one of our customer success. Executives.

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Ben Rogers: he said. Man, it’s just another workload dude. Just think of it as another workload, and then you’ll start to learn that. You know, man, we just happen to the goodness of the Gpu. We’re allowing that AI engine to run on top of the cluster and and accept these execution points. So again, we’re we’re trying to. I don’t wanna say oversimplify it. But we’re trying to have it make sense to customers

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Ben Rogers: having these Mvs prove that what we’re saying is real, and we’re not just making it up and being Hi and Scott.

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Philip Sellers: That’s true. Well, for someone who’s listening and really interested in what we’re talking about. Where can they find these? Tara.

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Jirah Cox: So I should call out a couple of really good links there that are in the article that are both great for reviewing Nvds, but also just stuff in general that are not

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Jirah Cox: part of our usual pattern of like, go look at these things. So one we link in the article here to the Detox Tech center. It is absolutely fantastic. Chock full of good stuff.

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Jirah Cox: all kinds of good stuff, covering all kinds of products or outcomes or workloads. So tech dash center, really, really good stuff there.

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Jirah Cox: And then also we link out to

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Jirah Cox: where you can get. We do also show the Nvds here, but also workload specific stuff. Right? So check this out for things like database designs. We show sap, hana mongo postgres, vdi designs, big data analytics like, if you’re like.

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Jirah Cox: if you’re wondering, how does this workload run on Newtonics, or what should I build to make it run well on Newtonics? This is is absolutely your first stop for taking a look at what have others done? What works? Well, what’s recommended? And quickly getting that answer right to Harvey’s point? You can’t buy money.

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Jirah Cox: can’t invent money. No, you can’t invent time. Can’t invent time. Sorry.

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Harvey Green III: He said it. A bunch, you know.

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Jirah Cox: Still didn’t get it right the first 2 times.

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Jirah Cox: Yeah, in this time

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Jirah Cox: Ok, we’ll edit this right one. Take. But you can read other people’s notes from testing and get faster yourself.

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Harvey Green III: Yes.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, for sure. And another quick place to find the new tanics. Validated designs is inside your support portal. It is linked on the left hand side. And so all of them are are quickly available there. So if you go out to the new Tannic support portal, you can also find them.

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Philip Sellers: but this has been a great discussion, you know. I I

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Philip Sellers: I love some of the call outs around, you know, acceleration around being able to get better time to value return on investment, you know. Can’t get return on investment. If it’s sitting on your shipping, Doc, and not actually in a rack somewhere.

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Harvey Green III: So people who’ve tried.

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Philip Sellers: Yeah, unfortunately. You know you you can’t.

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Philip Sellers: yeah, this, this is fast.

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Philip Sellers: confidence. Th, those are the words I would say, you know, stand out after our discussion today, guys, I really appreciate you joining me for the discussion Nbd’s doesn’t sound like all that exciting of a topic. But you know, this is pretty cool stuff. This is.

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Philip Sellers: This is where it gets real. Just to quote Harvey,

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Harvey Green III: Right.

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Philip Sellers: Guys. I do appreciate it. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Thank you for listening. And we’ll see you in the next podcast.

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Harvey Green III: And congrats again. Phil.