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Good morning. Good morning. Ah, I think you all were at the nightclub a little too long last night. Good morning. How's everybody doing? Good. All right. Now, some of you might remember that great eighties song, Nothing But a Good Time, and so when you invest with Everpure, we promise you
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nothing but a good time. Now, speaking of a good time, what'd you all think about yesterday? Yeah. Pretty exceptional, pretty exciting stuff. And one of the key takeaways I had was to really recognize that the foundation of not just our architecture, but the foundation of everything that we do and
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the foundation of our business is underpinned by data. From an Everpure perspective, as Charlie laid out, what we wanna be able to do is empower you to be able to take charge of your data. And how are we gonna get there? Well, it starts with the Enterprise Data Cloud.
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Our Evergreen Architecture, keeping you ever-modern. A unified data plane powered by Purity OS, enabling you to support all of your workloads. The intelligent control plane fusion, the ability to virtualize and operate at scale from the edge to the cloud, and all of the new software capabilities that we are bringing to life.
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This is how we're gonna be able to enable you to break down all of the silos and put you back in charge of your data. Now, all this is really, really cool, but I know when you're making an investment decision, it's not just about buying from us because we're cool. Well, hopefully, you know, you do think factor that in as a part of your RFP process, but
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it's more than just about being cool. You're making an investment because you've got serious issues you're working through. You might be thinking about, "Hey, with all of the supply chain constraints, my budgets are blowing up, and I've got to drive more automation, and I've got to do more with the same amount of people." You might be thinking about, "I've got to have a flexible and an
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agile platform that's gonna be best in class for VMware, but also is ready if I were to make a change later." You might be thinking about the cyber climate and how do I restore a minimum viable business in the event something were to happen. And so as we take that up a notch, all of that ultimately ties to business outcomes you're seeking as well.
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It's not just about the technology. Thinking about VMware optionality or accelerating your data pipelines for AI, that's all about agility. Thinking about the restoration of a minimum viable business, it's all about risk reduction. When you think about how do I do more with less, how do I expand my estate without
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investing in more people because my budgets are blown up, that's all about efficiency. And so what I'm super excited to announce today, and it's something a little bit different than what we've done in the past, is what we are calling the Enterprise Data Cloud Success Blueprint. Now, historically, we've armed you with a lot of things.
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We've armed you with reference designs, validated architectures, configuration guides, and so much more. I saw Eric Knapp in here from Cisco. We've got FlashStack with AI, just as an example of that. But what we wanna do is take that up a notch, and now what we wanna be able to arm you is with a structured methodology that enables you to tie these technology
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investments that you're making into how you can enhance your risk mat posture, how you can drive unparalleled efficiency, and how you can drive and introduce more agility into your environment than ever before. And not just at those high levels, but specifics, people, process, and technology. So if you're thinking about risk, how can you constantly have compliance across your
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environment despite the moves, adds, and changes of your data? If you're thinking about efficiency, perhaps you need to think about energy efficiency, perhaps you need to think about automation. If you're thinking about agility, not just agility at a high level, but specific capabilities within agility, such as getting ready for AI.
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Now, how are we gonna make all of that come to life? Again, Charlie talked about breaking the silos and putting you in charge of your data. The Enterprise Data Cloud gets you there, and the Enterprise Data Cloud Success Blueprints is the structured methodology to bring that all to life. And so what are some of the specifics we're gonna be making available to you?
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It starts with a self-assessment. A confidential self-assessment where you can go through and evaluate across all of these areas and understand how you benchmark acr- against best in class. And it's confidential, so we need you to be honest.
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Not like me when I did my DMV license renewal. I might not have been completely honest about my weight. But that doesn't help anybody in this self-assessment. Needs you to be honest. Then we're gonna arm you with blueprint guides, playbooks to help you evaluate, "How do I get from where I'm at today to where we
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wanna go?" And customized to your business on-site dedicated workshops where some of the brightest minds in the organization at Everpure will come to you and help you build out a multi-year plan to get to where you wanna go. Now, I'm not just excited about all of this 'cause I had a double espresso right before I came on stage.
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I'm excited about this because we've been working and piloting this with customers around the world. So an example is a great customer that we worked with in Europe, major manufacturer. We were able to sit down with them, go through this approach, and our champions were able to present to their CISO and CIO.
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And now their CISO and CIO understand that this isn't just a technology investment. It's gonna enhance their risk, and it's gonna enable them to drive gross margin expansion. And so now we're on the path of transitioning eighty s- manufacturing sites that they have around the world away from legacy onto Evergreen One. So I know many of you want to get your phones out and multitask, so I'm
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giving you permission. Get your phones out. Take a photo of this QR code, and we can get started right now. If you're interested in learning more, take a snap. We'll get you the self-assessment. We'll get you the guides, and we will schedule that dedicated customized workshop
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focused on you, your needs, and your outcomes and help you build a multi-year plan. Thank you very much, and I hope you have a great rest of the event.