The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast Scality CEO Jérôme Lecat NAB Show 2019 Booth Interview

Episode Date: April 10, 2019

Scality CEO Jérôme Lecat NAB Show 2019 Booth Interview

Hi folks Chris Foss here from the chrisfossshow.com. We're here at NAB Show 2019 and I'm at the Scality Cloud booth. How's it going? I'm with the CEO Jerome LeCatt. How's it going Jerome? It's great, it's great. It's one of the largest show in the world. It's amazing energy. I mean if anything compares to it, it would be a CES in Las Vegas, but more about movies. So I just love this show. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So Scaleidity, how do we find you guys on the website first off? www, like everyone else, Scaleidity, S-C-A-L-I-T-Y.com. There you go. So you guys are at the booth here. We're in South Hall. We're kind of over on the east end of South Hall here What are you guys doing today? And what's what a scale it about?

So we do large-scale storage on premise and in cloud especially for a media producer TV station Anyone who wants to store a lot of videos and we start with the formats moving to 4k 8k You just need a lot of space for these things. There's more and more ways to monetize videos. And we're professional in helping our customers store and manage videos at large scale in a way that's incredibly reliable and very cost efficient. Now, this is probably real important because you guys are probably working with really big newscasters, really big broadcasters, and their files, I imagine, are fairly large. Indeed.

I mean, you're talking thousands and thousands of hard drives. And our customers, some of them do live streaming, and more and more the content is watched on smartphones and you've got to be there 24 by 7. You've got lots of replay, whether it's for TV or sporting events and we support all of that that is awesome so you guys are basically our giant cloud media company and you guys have production trans coding global collaboration editing so if I have a team that spread out around the world they can all get access to these cloud these video files and everyone can edit and work on them.

Yes and no. Okay. So yes, in the sense that we enable all of this. No, in the sense that we do not operate a cloud. Okay. Either our customers are building their own private cloud, which is most of them because it's the cheapest option. Sure.

Or we help them manage that across multiple public cloud. You soon figure out that relying on just one public cloud can be dangerous. You can be victim of lock-in. These cloud can increase their prices. You can have different qualities of different cloud in different regions of the world. So we enable our customers to be free of that and be able to remain in control of all their videos while being able to leverage the cheapest option whether it's on premise or in any of the public clouds that's

really important because you know something like AWS can stack up on you pretty expensive after a while with Amazon services and stuff the Amazon cloud AWS is amazing and I keep being amazed how creative this company is how innovative they are, but they're definitely not cheap, especially if you use all their services. And the more you're going to use their CDN services and the more you're going to have egress charges and the more expensive it is. So yes, for our customers who manipulate very large quantities of videos, I'm talking thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of videos,

cloud is actually a very expensive option. So you guys help balance between any different cloud service we might use, including maybe our own clouds, and be able to make the content move between them, interact, all that sort of good stuff. Exactly. And this is the role of our newest product called Zenko. Zenko is actually a Japanese Fox because it's very smart and Zenko is a product to exactly manage data across multiple clouds. Zenko will

remember metadata about every video. You'll be able to search for your videos wherever they are, again whether they're on-prem or in any of the public cloud, and then move them or send them to a transcoding application or copy them as you need for your media workflow. So I see the Zenko up here on your board that explains how it acts as a nice sort of controller between some of the different storage, the transcoding production, the Edge, CDN, all that sort of good stuff on how it works. So pretty cool that way.

What else do we need to know about your guys' company and what you do? Well, so we really market to five verticals and media entertainment is one of them. We also market to large enterprise. We do a lot with hospitals who demand a lot of reliability and they manipulate also images, images of our human bodies actually in that case. Wow. And we actually, we were talking about cloud earlier.

We actually have many of the cloud service providers on the planet who are our customers and leverage our Ring technology, which we see on the other side of the board, to actually build their cloud storage offering. One of them that's very well known is Rackspace, for example, who actually uses Skilletree technology to build their cloud. Yeah, it's just amazing. I mean, we're creating so much data now with all these 4K files and it's going to be 8K soon, I guess.

And everyone's got 5Gs coming down the line, so you're going to have even more data that's going to be transferred and moving around. It's crazy. And the question, it's getting cheaper and cheaper to store the data. So the next question is, is it worth a human brain time to look at what data to delete? Or are we going to give this task to AI to do this for us? Yeah. So now do you guys get into the AI field at all? We leverage AI.

We're not an AI company. But as I mentioned, I think that more and more data is going to all? We leverage AI. We're not an AI company. But, you know, as I mentioned, I think that more and more data is going to actually be managed by AI based on metadata. We already can interface with programs who automatically tag the data so that you don't have to do it manually.

And more and more of these tasks are going to be delegated to automatic AI. It's crazy all the different stuff you can do with data. And then, like, I'm at the point now in my life where I've got so many videos and so many photos, especially my dogs. I have, like, five trillion dog photos.

It's just getting harder and harder to store it all. And then some of it you want in the cloud because, you know, disasters can happen, all sorts of crazy stuff can happen. Sometimes I'm like, what if my house burns down? Yeah, I really should, you know. And then the cost of what it takes. And that's just for simple little me.

I can't imagine being a big news company with 4K videos. You've got all this production for broadcast. You've got to have a place to put it, store it, manage it. So pretty crazy all the stuff that's out there. Disasters do happen. And we're here to make sure that things are secure when they happen yep and they can move between all the different cloud services all that good stuff so anything more we need to know about your company we're operating worldwide we are based in San Francisco

we've got offices on the East Coast we also have offices in main countries in Europe and in Japan sounds Sounds good. We appreciate you spending some time with us Jerome. Everyone be sure to check these guys out it's Scalidity and you can find them just search on the NAB booth app or you can find them in South Hall kind of by the east end of South Hall. They've got a big tall sign so you can't miss them. Thanks for coming by we'll see you guys next time. Thank you.