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Iowa. We've upgraded VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.1 to VMware Cloud Foundation 9, and the thing I'm really the most excited about is delivering all of these capabilities that are so well integrated out to the people that need to use them, whether it's a developer or an internal customer. We have a lot of companies that are really old like us. We have all of this tech debt, and we have been struggling a long time with how do we support our developers in a more modern development cycle. And now we have a lot of software that we're using currently that is starting to come to us in a containerized format. For the first time, we're going to be giving our developers a native cloud experience on premise. And that is going to create momentum that we can use to service that tech debt and bring up a lot of legacy applications to modern technology. VMware Cloud Foundation is allowing us to provide new technology and new capabilities to our developers. One of the ways we're doing that is with Data Services Manager. We're going to deliver new services to our developers that provide that full stack developer service to them on prem. We get a lot of benefit from B2Fend Distributed Firewall. I think the biggest benefit is just simply being able to tag workloads and not have to think about IP addresses anymore. That's really powerful because it's going to allow us to automate most of that work for providing that protection to those various workloads. VMware Cloud Foundation is addressing our infrastructure needs by providing this really unified architecture for our storage, compute, and networking. vSAN ESA is so easy to manage that we almost don't even have to think about what's going on with our storage anymore. NSX is the first time that I'm bringing my network team into these conversations with my systems team. All of that shared understanding just makes all of our jobs easier. VMware Cloud Foundation just makes it easier for us to do those things and start forgetting that the infrastructure really is there and start solving those much deeper problems.
