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Hello, this is Peter Levine from Andresen Horowitz, and I'm here with Romana, and J.R.

Romana is the CEO of Coho Data, and J.R. is the CEO of Cumulus.

Welcome, guys.

What I'd love to chat about is the future of the data center and specifically

the consumerization of enterprise hardware and what that means for the data center and how

you guys think about that.

So I've gone out and I've talked about sort of this, you know, this notion of the mobile supply chain eating the data center.

And, you know, I have this big belief that mobile, the components of mobile phones will become the basis of the next generation data center.

Really, really inexpensive, sort of, you know, cheap components that require a lot less power,

floor space, cooling, but all of that stuff being sort of connected and propagated together

with sophisticated software. And so I'd love to maybe get your guy's opinion on this and maybe describe what's happening now in the data center.

You know, kind of is it an incremental change?

Is it a wholesale change?

What are you seeing out there and how are you seeing some of the trends?

I'm going to maybe start with you and then JR you can jump in. Absolutely. Thanks, Peter. Great to be here. Definitely there's a lot of consumerization. I'd like to call it sort of the

breaking down of the data center. I come from a storage perspective, right? And for the past 30 years,

storage purchases have roughly been the same, which is it's like buying a car.

It's a lifestyle choice.

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