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Hello and welcome to the Microsoft Minutes, the three-part series where I'm going to sit down with Chibuzo Obi, the Director of Partnerships, globally for NetApp here at Microsoft and we're going to talk a little bit more about this joint partnership. Chibuzo, thank you for joining me here today. I want to get started. The NetApp and Microsoft partnership is so strong. Talk to me a little bit about that. Can we just delve into that right off the bat? Yes. Firstly, Caroline, welcome. So nice to have you here at Microsoft. Yes, our partnership is strong. We are alike. Our companies are alike in many respects. We have a very strong value proposition. We are both customer obsessed. And there's strong alignment in terms of how we in co-innovate and how we sell together and our cultures are identical because weboth embody and drive a growth mindset. In terms of the partnership itself, NetApp has been trusted for a long time by its customers as custodians of its data estate, especially in an environment where data is ever growing. Microsoft has been trusted by our customers too, who have bet their businesses and wallets on our cloud platform. So this. So there's a unique value proposition for us where we come together to land our mutual customers on Azure with cloud solutions and that's really where our partnership is centered off. It sounds like there's a lot of synergies between our two companies and to come together like you said for a growth mindset. Talking about growth, talk to me about the next three to five years. We have this solid foundation, this incredible partnership. Where do you see it growing? Yes, NetApp has articulated is ambition to be a $2 billion cloud business of the next few years and we are so excited about coming along on this journey as NetApp drives more cloud in our mutual customer base. So we are uniquely positioned because we have A massive install base. Our customers are have espoused the aspirations of moving to the cloud and we have, we're uniquely positioned to work to collaborate with enough to land as many of their customers on cloud and capitalize on this momentum that we're seeing in the industries where enterprises,are largely you know data factories, they are ever their data estates are ever growing and theirneed for cloud storage is ever growing as a result. So it's really unique opportunity for us to work together and help net up achieve this cloud ambitions. Well, thank you. Yeah, it sounds like, I know there's a huge growth potential, but it sounds like there's a lot there. So I think next episode, let's dive a little bit more into the innovation behind this partnership. Join us for episode two of the Microsoft Minute next week and we'll see you there.
Caroline Van Buskirk sits down with Chibuzo Obi, Global Director, ISV Partner Development at Microsoft, to discuss how we are helping customers globally with our joint innovation and offering.