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They all have their missions. What my team does is that we pretty much manage all of the infrastructure for the city. So there's a lot of city services that you're aware of, water, fire, transportation, municipal parking, finance, HR, property taxes, our political departments, our city council, our mayors, pretty much every department in some way, shape or form is having their data secured by Cohesity. I would say what makes Cohesity different from other solutions is that Cohesity is proactive instead of reactive. It has a lot of security features built in from the encryption, the erasure coding, the way that the system itself is very resilient. We're made aware of things that could potentially be wrong before it even happens. Data security was probably one of the highest priorities for us. When we were picking our next solution, things like ransomware protection, making sure that if our environment went down, we could potentially use Cohesity as a source of truth were a very high priority. HPE historically has just been a strong partner here with the city. It just made sense for us to make sure that whatever solution we did take from a backups perspective was compatible with HPE. The improvements and benefits I would say would definitely be the reduction in manpower required for a solution like this. We've been able to drastically reduce, I'd say roughly about 40% of the amount of time, and that is something that we can make productive. Historically we've had someone who's the bulk of their day has been managing a backup solution. That person still works here. It's free to do other things that is productive and helps out the rest of the city. It strengthened our data security and resilience by quite a lot. It makes things like cybersecurity insurance a lot easier to get qualified for. The fact that our stuff is backed up, it's encrypted, it's immutable, it's in multiple locations, and it's something that we just have definitive proof that it works. Our systems need to work pretty much all the time, and because of that we're constantly combating threat actors. When we're dealing with outages, historically the stress has been very high because there is a human factor. If this stuff doesn't work, there is real lives and real people out there that are being impacted, and so that's what causes us to take this stuff extremely seriously. That's why we went out and got an enterprise solution for this. It's nice to know that when the going gets tough, I truly do trust and believe that Cohesity would be right there with us.
