Barry Eggers, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Randy Pond, Pensando Systems | Welcome to the New Edge
Barry Eggers, Founding Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners & Randy Pond, CFO, Pensando Systems sit down with theCUBE's Jeff Frick for Welcome to the New Edge by Pensando Systems at Goldman Sachs HQ in NYC. https://siliconangle.com/2019/10/23/launched-with-love-pensando-rallies-investors-early-users-to-take-on-aws-pensandoio/ Bankrolled by a family of friends As an early user, Goldman Sachs ultimately converted to an investor and advocate of Pensando, hosting the startup’s launch event last week in New York City. The event was a who’s who of the technology and investor world, with attending launch partners, including Oracle Corp. and Hewlett Packard Enterprises Co., playing a dual role as partner and investor. Other investors in attendance included Lightspeed Venture Partners, highlighting MLPS’ record of success. “They’ve been pretty good at identifying a lot of these cycles. They’ve brought us land switching a long time ago with Crescendo. They’ve redefined the data center several times. … What’s driving this opportunity really is the effect of the explosion of applications in the network, and of course east-west traffic in the network,” said Barry Eggers, founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, referring to data transferred between servers within a data center, whereas north-south networking traffic moves between the data center and an outside client location. “So networks were more designed north-south, and they’re slowly becoming more east-west,” Eggers added. “But because the applications are closer to the edge and networks today mostly provide services in the core, the idea for Pensando is, ‘why don’t we bring the service delivery, the services, closer to the applications?’ Improve performance, better security, and better monitoring.”  #Pensando @SiliconANGLE theCUBE #theCUBE @theCUBE