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slash disclosures. Hello, I'm Peter Levine, here at Andresen Horowitz, and I'm with Yoram Novak, who's the

CEO of Maxda, and with Flo Liebert, who's the CEO of Mesosphere.

Great to have you guys.

Thanks for joining.

It's a pleasure.

Yeah.

Thank you.

So I wanted to spend a little bit of time

talking about the consumerization of IT. And by consumerization, I don't mean bringing your own device,

you know, mobile device to work. Like that's happening and that's already done with. What I'm specifically

talking about with respect to the consumerization of IT is the idea that the components of mobile

devices will become the basis for hardware in the data center of the future. And so not unlike we saw the PC revolution

replace mainframes in the data center, the belief, I have this strong belief that the innovations

in mobile hardware over the past five, ten years will replace sort of the PC architectures in the data

center to where the mobile supply chain effectively eats the hardware of the PC world in

the data center. And you can imagine, you know, a billion mobile devices being the basis of the hardware infrastructure.

And then, of course, you know, the belief is that then taking all that hardware and putting it together requires some level of sophisticated software that then would aggregate and bring kind of the enterprise class capabilities out of this underlying commodity hardware.

So what do you think of that?

Like, you know, how have you thought about this in your own business?

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