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- Thank you Microsoft for the invitation today
and for decades of an amazing continued partnership.
I'm absolutely thrilled
to be with you all here today virtually,
but I have to say that I'm really looking forward
to be on stage with you again someday.
So, let's start with a quote.
"You never know how strong you are
until being strong is your only choice."
By one of my favorites, Bob Marley.
And that pretty much summarizes,
I think the last 18 months for all of us,
both personally and professionally.
I think we've all had our albatrosses,
our unique personal battles,
our crosses to bear this past year,
but it hasn't only been personally,
it's been professionally as well.
We've had to learn to work differently,
to learn differently, and even play differently.
We found new ways to manage our personal health,
our finances, our relationships,
and most recently our supply chains.
In each case, technology has helped turn that challenge
into an opportunity
accelerating that long awaited digital transformation
that we've all been talking about.
And through this, we've had to help our customers
with solutions to ingest and analyze
and make business decisions
with the growing amount of data
that's being produced during this time.
While all of that's happening,
managing the complexities and policy
and privacy and security,
and we've had to be flexible and agile,
and we've had to do it with tremendous speed.
As an industry, could we have done this
through one single company?
No, we all know that that's not possible.
And we've all heard the phrase that, it takes a village.
But in tech speak, I think we would all say
it takes an ecosystem.
And Microsoft and Intel
have been and continue to be key players in this ecosystem.
We're working together to provide solutions
to our mutual customers toughest challenges.
We're working together to design an infrastructure
and a set of solutions
that will handle the digitization of everything.
And we're all in with you, Microsoft.
And we have a great example of that,
Microsoft and Intel and DataOn,
transform the way Flint Hydraulics manages their business,
using an Intel select solution and Azure Stack HCI.
And what were some of those business challenges?
Network downtime, application performance,
and operational inefficiencies.
And I think that this quote summarizes the impact.
"With our new Azure Stack HCI cluster,
workers no longer experienced annoying downtime
and operations have been completely hassle-free.
With Intel Optane Persistent Memory,
we got incredible performance."
What a testimonial to the technology,
to the relationships, and to the ecosystems
that we're building together
to service your biggest problems.
Microsoft and Intel are committed
to going beyond terabytes and gigahertz
to enable hardened secure solutions
that are available today.
With our partners, we've created a library
of select and market ready solutions
that will help solve the most difficult business challenges.
We're investing in enabling and the ecosystem
for both traditional enterprise
and cloud-based infrastructures.
And we continue to work with our hardware partners
in that journey.
Customers like Lenovo
and their ThinkAgile SXM Hybrid cloud offering,
which is targeted at workloads
with stringent performance and latency requirements
like video streaming.
We have Quanta Cloud Technology,
Windows Admin Center enhancing features
like server health status and lifecycle management.
And as we discuss DataOn for SMB and edge environments
leveraging Intel Optane technology
to support demanding workloads like Microsoft SQL Server.
And infrastructure for the digitization of everything
starts with a comprehensive portfolio
showcasing the power of Azure Stack HCI.
With Intel products including Xeon processors,
Optane memory, connectivity, just to name a few.
Today, we have over 200 solutions
optimized for hybrid cloud
that bring together the best of hardware and software
delivering world-class infrastructure.
And we're not done.
In the second half of the year,
we're gonna continue to grow our solution library
using our latest third generation
Intel Xeon Scalable processors
that will transform your business opportunities
into business advantages.
Thank you again for having me here today
and for working with Intel and Microsoft
as exceptional partners.
I look forward to working with you all through the year,
supporting you and your business challenges.