56 percent less hardware spending each year. That’s how much organizations can potentially save with a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution. There are many benefits related to moving to the cloud using solutions like DaaS (such as improved employee and IT efficiency, easier software upgrades, and enhanced security), but optimizing IT spend is usually the main driver. Because the cost of cloud computing is based on the IT resources you actually use, it’s usually much most cost-effective than building out physical server rooms that can sit idle during off-peak times.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Geremy Meyers
Co-host: Todd Smith
56 percent less hardware spending each year. That’s how much organizations can potentially save with a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution. There are many benefits related to moving to the cloud using solutions like DaaS (such as improved employee and IT efficiency, easier software upgrades, and enhanced security), but optimizing IT spend is usually the main driver. Because the cost of cloud computing is based on the IT resources you actually use, it’s usually much most cost-effective than building out physical server rooms that can sit idle during off-peak times.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Geremy Meyers
Co-host: Todd Smith
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Andy Whiteside: I want to look up to you.
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Andy Whiteside: Number one, buck and 2. Episode 135 of the citric session of your host, Andy White. So I'm coming to you from my in-laws house, and I'm not really sure what my bandwidth scenario is, so we'll see how this goes. I've got the
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Andy Whiteside: Todd Smith from a cloud software group, and Jeremy Myers from Cloud Software group, both Citrix and Netscal are subject matter experts. But you guys consider yourself subject matter experts on anything else in the Cloud soft group stack.
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Geremy Meyers: you know what I think I would. I'm always afraid to say yes, but we'll just say, citrus in that scalar and occasionally podium. There you go. Yeah.
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Todd Smith: in every once in a while, for some Zen server skills in there.
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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, I guess. let's see 2 things. If you look at the the amount of people out there that have Zen server expertise and experience. You're you're probably in the upper 1%.
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Geremy Meyers: That's a good call. That's a very good call
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Andy Whiteside: And then regarding Sharefall, you're probably in the upper 10%. So I I'd say yes to both of those.
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Todd Smith: Yeah.
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Geremy Meyers: that's fair. That's fair. Although I would give my I get much here for still file knowledge a pretty good nod.
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Geremy Meyers: But Ca, considering it's a new, be you now, and I've been out of the loop here for probably 6 or 8 months. I'm not quite sure what the latest greatest is, and that's probably being pretty transparent there.
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Todd Smith: Yup! In fact, he threw down the podium cards there. It was pretty pretty strong
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Geremy Meyers: it is I, you know I would take a step further, actually use the flows a lot right now. So you know, we've got some workflows. that I've been using global flow for that are pretty good. So just trying to figure out how to navigate requests that come in. You know, I built some web forms that we'll, kinda you know, notify some folks gather some info and try to get that over to the right team.
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Andy Whiteside: You know, we're gonna talk about Cloud today. But I'm gonna make the argument that
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Andy Whiteside: enabling and making workflows more efficient is the most important thing that it does in a business today.
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Geremy Meyers: Yep, I would not dis disagree with you, and and seeing that first hand it really just I mean where it all starts, is gathering requirements from the business, right? So I think a lot of times being someone who's built things technology over the years. I like to start with the technology. And I go to figure out where to put it on the flip side. This is really turned into, you know. What needs am I seeing from the business. And how do I turn that into a workflow? And what technology can I leverage to get that done? So
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Geremy Meyers: you're absolutely right, Andy.
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Andy Whiteside: we got a call
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Andy Whiteside: mechanics infrastructure, Guy Friday. And
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Andy Whiteside: it was pretty stand office. And we started talking about workflows and automations. And it was no, no, no. And then we started talking. Okay, what's your biggest challenges with takes up most of your time and start talking about, you know, workflows are associated with those that we're doing for only Newton's environment.
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Andy Whiteside: And it came around pretty quick.
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Todd Smith: Well, it and it's becoming much more critical
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Todd Smith: as in terms of the auditing in the in the actual documentation piece of work workflow. And if you can build a good workflow, you don't have to do as much documentation because it's already built into that workflow itself.
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Todd Smith: especially for things like approvals signatures
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Todd Smith: a variety of different, you know. You look at most workflows nowadays. There's multiple branches that go off of a workflow.
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Todd Smith: you know. And it's just gonna it's it's not only is it going to optimize it, but it's also going to create it as a
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Todd Smith: in in such a way that the compliance programs are
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Todd Smith: are easily implemented that way.
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Andy Whiteside: So, Todd, I got some else to talk about. But you hit on some there that I love, and that we have a product called App T, which we use across those integral business units.
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Andy Whiteside: and what it does is you get to something in a workflow, and you don't know what it does. You kind of hover over it, and it starts to explain in more detail what that is, real time, which is extremely powerful.
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Todd Smith: It's a great It's a great product, you know. Some people are what we're over there.
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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, just say some of the Citrix folks left to go there. That's how we got to.
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Andy Whiteside: hey? But how about this? I may have said this in a podcast with you guys, or
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Andy Whiteside: maybe what with you guys, I said several times, but we've spent our careers justifying ourselves on the id infrastructure side of things as being a enabler for the business, not a call center. And to some degree we failed at that. but we start talking about workflows like we just we're talking about
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Andy Whiteside: it becomes a no brainer for the business like you, only you probably don't get questioned about it. It becomes a natural conversation about how that's enabling the business. What you guys think about that state?
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Todd Smith: I I think it's I think it's one area that that we have been able to see it
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Todd Smith: becoming much more of an enabler when it comes to business process.
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Todd Smith: you know, we've got tools we've got. We've got history, you know, in the It community. We we've got a history of being able to do workflows
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Todd Smith: everything from.
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Todd Smith: you know, upgrading a server to rolling out a new application to doing onboarding a new user. Those are all workflows that existed.
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Todd Smith: The the big shift has now become automating those workflows
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Todd Smith: instead of having a checklist or a sheet of paper that you're working through, that that's becoming your documentation. The the the workflow itself has become much more
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Todd Smith: electronically driven or or technology driven as opposed to, you know, the old days of.
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Todd Smith: you know, keeping binders worth of reference material.
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Todd Smith: File the way. And that's, you know, that's the impact of the of the way the technology has progressed. But also the way you know, the employees and the and the people are actually doing the work
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Todd Smith: have progressed as well. you know you brought up, apt you before, you know App. You know all of those things that are making it easier to to consume a workflow
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Todd Smith: or deliver a workflow.
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Todd Smith: that used to be manual. So people used to have to read through. you think about it is, you know, you pull out a
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Todd Smith: unbox. Your computer. The first thing you see is A, read B, first.
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Todd Smith: those things don't even exist anymore. You're getting a laptop in a box that basically has 3 color codes or 3 colored cables. You plug them in.
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Todd Smith: connect to your Wi-fi network and machine knows how to how to do that right? It's it's becoming much more simplified
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Todd Smith: because people don't need to go into a lot of that reading. You know the the workflow of creating it. Or starting up a new computer is has become simplified as well, the applications themselves are becoming much more,
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Todd Smith: self, document.
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Geremy Meyers: it. And so you know, I totally agree with todd and you kind of wonder, what's enabled this
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Geremy Meyers: you know, we covered this on a podcast I don't know. A few weeks ago we talked about Apis and Rest Api's. And when you think about it, like the products that were built 1015 years ago. I mean, they just didn't have this natively built in. The reason they were manual is because the software was very manual, right? Like I had to go take a request from like a service. Now, type solution
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Geremy Meyers: and go all right. I see a ticket come in. Great. Now I gotta go do this other manual thing because it's a separate system that didn't interact because systems back then just didn't interact the way they do. They did. But Middleware companies made it Crapton over the years, you know, kind of figuring out how to do this. I remember there's a tool I use called auto it that would manually do a workflow. But you know what it did. It's simulated someone clicking a button. It literally had to look on the screen and figure out where to press a button, and it would send a virtual click. I mean, that was
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Geremy Meyers: that was my automation 20 years ago. Now I mean, we talked about how Citrus Cloud, the Das tenant. You know they have an open arrest. Api, so you can automate some things. You know, we have an adapter built into that cloud tenant that you can automate. We're moving these things on Prem as well.
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Geremy Meyers: The idea of being so that you can automate it so that when you go into a service now, and you know right now it's still, you know, I've got to go open a ticket that's slowly becoming more automated right? you know, like things like chat bots. But ultimately I go to service. Now request something, and on the back end there's not a human doing anything. It's all automated. And Annie and I have talked about how to make that even more automated right? So there's no reason why.
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Geremy Meyers: you know, it takes anyone to go reset a session anymore. Why can't we automate that process? So you know, if we go into the technology and we've all been consumers of these workloads for a long time like, Todd said. They've been very manual.
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Geremy Meyers: but now we've automated them, and I think that's where that's going to continue to evolve. And so it makes it easier for us to think through workflows and kind of what that looks like is.
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Geremy Meyers: you know, at the end of the day we're going to start looking at software going. Well, how can I fit that into my automation strategy as much as we're talking about? How can I get a desktop in front of someone?
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Andy Whiteside: I agree with you guys the same time you guys just made it the It centric conversations. I think the biggest game change and all. That is that same methodology and thought process, because it's becoming easier with platforms to tie in Apis for things like service now and everything else with the Api.
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Andy Whiteside: It's it's now outside of it. And it's every business unit. It's starting to think.
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Andy Whiteside: okay, how do I improve efficiencies with this and use technology to do it.
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Todd Smith: Well, it. And it's really kind of driving this economic discussion as well. Right?
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Todd Smith: It's if I can automate the administrative costs. I've already found ways to reduce the costs within the data center by leveraging cloud resources or outsourcing
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Todd Smith: data centers, or, you know.
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Todd Smith: support functionality or variety of different things. It's yet another thing. It goes into this giant economic formula to determine what is the best. You know. How much money are we actually saving? How much of the benefit do we have? I I think there's a huge aspect of it. As well.
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Todd Smith: you know, when we're when we're looking at the total cost of ownership. One thing that we never factored into that was the ongoing operational reduction in in administrative costs.
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Todd Smith: there was actually quantifiable
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Todd Smith: right? So we know that we can speed up the user
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Todd Smith: on boarding. We know that we can reduce the number of help desk tickets through self service. We know that we can go and reduce the number of
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Todd Smith: applications that we need to manage. But there's also the aspect of
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Todd Smith: who's using the applications. How do we charge it back? How do we charge for the resource locations that we're actually utilizing? you know, going back to Jeremy's
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Todd Smith: example of being able to spin up a new resource
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Todd Smith: location, or or a new resource for a user to connect to whether it be a virtual desktop or some type of other device. It's out there, or some type of other service that's out there. What if we could get real time information about hey? You know what? For this month it's going to be cheaper to run this on azure or use it as a third party data center or use the resource. Simply. So that's where we're going to start seeing a lot of this economic impact
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Todd Smith: come to fruition.
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Andy Whiteside: So, Todd, that's a good step way to our topic. Our blog for today is from the Cloud software group content team, whoever that is. But the blog title is how to how cloud economics can help you optimize
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Andy Whiteside: dazz desktop is a service cost. And I had built up another screen. The I
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Andy Whiteside: total cost optimizer total cost calculator Tco.
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Andy Whiteside: and what I'm highlighting in that common is.
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Andy Whiteside: you know, 20 years into this business, and I still have only found 2 customers. And all that time they walked into a meeting.
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Andy Whiteside: saying they do what their total cost of ownership of a PC. To buy it, manage it, maintain a deep provision. It was one was my very first meeting, and the other was a a joke. He said it was $500 total over 3 years. So a couple of $100 each year. you know, this, this changes the game when we start talking about moving it into somebody else's environment, whether it's, you know, it's Integr data center, or whether it's your own data center managed by somebody else in a different rack or in true public cloud.
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Andy Whiteside: But all of a sudden you get a bill, and you can divide that bill by the number of desktops. And all of a sudden you know exactly what it's cost.
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Andy Whiteside: So in this blog generally jump in first. what? The the couple of interrupts. What are they trying to point out?
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Geremy Meyers: so there the first one they're they're mentioning the fact that folks appear to be spending less hardware each year in data centers. Right? So of course, if they're not spinning it in a data center, you know where they sending it, you know they send it in the cloud.
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Geremy Meyers: probably. But I think there's a lot of nuance to that. yeah. So we will talk about as a citrus companies. Csg, there's a lot of benefit to going to the dash service. and how you can leverage that
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Geremy Meyers: to help manage some costs. but a lot of the reasoning folks are considering clouds, you know. J. And I, Todd knows this. You know, we joke about this all the time. you know they're they're considering clouds because they're trying to optimize it. Spend now in reality. that's not always the case. It's not always what happens. Danny's point is, he's mentioned a customer, and you know, talking about, you know, price per endpoint.
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Geremy Meyers: you. You've got to treat your usage in the cloud much different than you do on Prem, because it will be more expensive, you know, optimizing it. Spend
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Geremy Meyers: in the cloud. It's got to be a full time job for not just one person, but for a team of people. And there's a lot of software out there. That does that right. But
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Geremy Meyers: you know, cloud computing is certainly more flexible, but it also takes more oversight as well. Just to make sure you are at actually optimizing your spend. We got a lot of customers who have moved to the cloud, who have also moved
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Geremy Meyers: back, or at least landed, in some sort of hybrid approach, you know, for that exact reason.
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Andy Whiteside: So let's do some of this call. Let's let's when we say Cloud, let's try to specific call out, which
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Andy Whiteside: part of cloud we're talking about? Is it? Is it pads? Is it S? Is it dance, or is it a little bit of all the above, like that conversation so far, has been around that desk, including the control plane as well as where the desktops are running, which, stiff on top of is right
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Geremy Meyers: correct, I mean, so it is a little bit of what you just said. It is, Pad. It is I, as we have customers who are deciding to look at their application stack and replace that with something more cloud native because they don't want to spend I as on it, they much rather that'd be a pad service. You know. Folks aren't spending money, you know, specifically standing up, you know, a Crm solution with virtual machines. And I, as anymore, what are they doing using salesforce? They're using some solution like that. So I mean, it's a, it's a very nuanced conversation for sure. Yeah.
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Todd Smith: And and I think also also to that into Jeremy's part of the conversation. It's it's
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Todd Smith: say I select pla a platform as a service. So, for instance, I want to go with Sa salesforce. Well, salesforce maybe the platform. But there's a bunch of other
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Todd Smith: fast solutions to get bolted into there right? So I'm using salesforce. For one thing, I may be using something else that adds a value on top of that. And
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Todd Smith: now, all of a sudden, you look at it and say, well, my salesforce costs have gone up. Well, the cost of running my overall Crm, my overall customer.
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Todd Smith: experience, environment has gone up because I've started bolting on all these additional tools. It's very similar. When you buy a car, you start off with the base model and you start adding packages. In some cases you're you're adding, not individual components. You're adding in a suite of packages or a a feature pack that's going to include, you know, the automatic
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Todd Smith: door openers as well as the automatic windows.
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Todd Smith: You know a a variety of different things. The only way you can get that is to either build a custom car or you build or you buy some some version
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Todd Smith: you've got to look at that total total overall impact. and I think all historically, yep, go ahead. I want to. I don't know if you just did. You made me think about something which is really a great way to tell this story for me. Personally, I've got a I got an old G,
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Andy Whiteside: and I've got a a new bronco part of the broncos that we did give away. Last year a customer came in, came in at the wrong time. But my point and all that is
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Andy Whiteside: the god you just said the word customizing, and what I'm finding on both.
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Geremy Meyers: Oh, I think I I think Andy's mother in laws Wi-fi is family. Why, if I may have gone out. So. Huh?
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Todd Smith: So finish your thought there, Todd. I'm sorry. So you know, when you look at the cost of customizing anything. I think this is the point that Andy was trying to get to was
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Todd Smith: the the cost of customizing is always one of the most expensive you can get out there.
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Todd Smith: If everyone could get away with a generic car, everyone in the world would be driving a you go.
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Todd Smith: problem is is that? Yes, it got you from point A to Point B.
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Todd Smith: It wasn't very comfortable. It wasn't very affordable when you start figuring and maintenance costs and things like that.
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Todd Smith: But it was, it's solve that basic me. Now, all of a sudden everyone's looking at saying, you know what I want to have an additional
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Todd Smith: function or an additional capability added in there. And I know, in order to get that, I need to be able to purchase it as a bundle.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah. So what airplane does Southwest airlines use. They all use 7, 37. They all you 737. Right? They do that for a very specific reason. You know, it's it's just. It's just simple. No customization will just make it generic. We know the cost of managing a fleet of airline airplanes
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Geremy Meyers: when it's all the same model is insanely cheap now, does it work for every airline? No, you're not going to find Southwest flying to Tokyo, or certain long distance destinations right? But for domestic carrier. It makes a whole lot of sense. You can get anywhere in the Us. On a 737,
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Todd Smith: and and you have one type of pilot with one type of certification needed. You have one type of maintenance guys.
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Todd Smith: They have to have one supply chain of parts and pieces, and they can swap out
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Todd Smith: those those parts and pieces any time.
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Andy Whiteside: got a whole team of guys that have learned Newtonics. Hv. Aos citrix integration with that.
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Andy Whiteside: And it makes it a to me a scale for us to the host customers that buy into that platform with us a no brainer, even if it means we, you know, put the
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Andy Whiteside: put the solution in their data center or in the public cloud or in our news.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, yep.
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Geremy Meyers: So this next session section, by the way, so before we skip through, we're talking about cloud economics, but they drop a word in that previous section, Andy, how to use the cloud elasticity to your advantage. Right? So at the end of the day.
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Geremy Meyers: What? Actually, I might have skipped ahead either way I did. I I got too excited.
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Geremy Meyers: So, so, Todd, I would argue with you that you're not over buying when you're thinking about the worst case scenario. That just is what it is, you have to plan for your peak usage. That's just how the economics of the on-prem work. At least, if you want to have a good solution. Right? So that is your normal. And the hope is the plan. And I guess the promise of cloud is you can buy just as much as you need at any given point in time. That's the goal.
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Geremy Meyers: if your business objective is virtual desktop the dedicated virtual desktop to everyone in the organization.
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Geremy Meyers: Maybe your desk solution involves putting all the workloads on pro, because now your solution just maybe got cheaper than doing that in the cloud dedicated Vdi is the most expensive solution. You can run the cloud. But you gotta understand what your business objectives are versus. You know what the dash provider can give you.
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Andy Whiteside: and what I love about this conversation is because of what we're doing here is integral every way. You look at it in paths
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Andy Whiteside: staff as A as PC. In the cloud, PC, the cloud in our data center and PC in the cloud. And your data center.
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Andy Whiteside: Zintegra is a effectively and and then succinctly and
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Andy Whiteside: focus on being able to answer yes to all those questions for our customers.
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Andy Whiteside: And then the the thing I factor into. If you're going to do desk from, say, like a publicly traded company. How well do you trust that company, and how much influence you have on? You know what they're gonna do next quarter, based on earnings, resource, discord.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah.
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Andy Whiteside: but that's how we see the world. And we we see the I opportunity to server to meet our customers where their need is. Not that where we think they going because it
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Andy Whiteside: best benefits us.
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Geremy Meyers: Yep. yep.
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Andy Whiteside: caught any closing remarks
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Todd Smith: I I I think the sorry the economics of cloud need to be a little bit more simpler. So you don't need a Phd. In quantum mechanics the quantum math to to start figuring out. But it's same time. It's
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Todd Smith: you know, the the cost structures are getting
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Todd Smith: a little bit more reasonable. but once again, this is where
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Todd Smith: this is where partners like yourself. really coming into play. Right? Help! Help a customer, figure this stuff out, and and be able to be more. Understand the economics behind it.
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Todd Smith: because the economics are only part of the equation you experience as the other part. and you gotta have them both in in balance.
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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, which I wanted to think of that is no matter what direction you go. Leave yourself options to go the other direction and evaluate it every so
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Todd Smith: absolutely.
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Geremy Meyers: Yep.
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Andy Whiteside: Do you have a close.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, I mean, I guess one of the questions that I've been in this industry for 25 years now. and you know this is not something as an it professional that I've never necessarily had to think about in the past. Right? Is this a skill set
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Geremy Meyers: that your average? You know it professional is gonna have to
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Geremy Meyers: start to learn about and be good at Andy going forward. I was so focused on technology in the past.
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Geremy Meyers: Now, I'm going to have to think about these things. Yes, I think
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Andy Whiteside: you know I I think you're. I've got a 21 year old, son, right? He's growing up in pas and sass world.
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Andy Whiteside: and I think he's not going to have to figure that we're we. We we've never figured out the people on this call, and I don't think anybody's gonna necessarily figured out it. In theory it becomes easier to figure out, or at least I to whether you control it off. Not another topic we've talked about here, but I do think like I mentioned. While it goes, it goes fast and pass. This becomes less and less of a calculation.
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Andy Whiteside: it's hard to figure out less of an equation and more of a direct formula.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah.
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Geremy Meyers: I would agree. Okay, yeah.
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Andy Whiteside: Well, guys, I appreciate. You don't have this conversation. Hopefully, people find a lot of value in it. I I know it's I feel like it was a therapy session.
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Geremy Meyers: It's funny how we I know you and Amy. And we've talked about this a little for 5 years. We go back and forth. It's a it's a topic that has never stopped. I'll just say that.
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Andy Whiteside: And I would go back to the comments made a long ago. Step one is just getting at. You know what your current costs are on your physical PC world, and I've got 2 out of what seems to be 10,000 clients at this point that I've that even thought they knew. One of them had a good number. One of them was a Bs number.
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Andy Whiteside: but I'd say this in front of people every week, and they look at me like, well, that's a good idea. I'm like.
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Andy Whiteside: of course it is. Let's do that. And then they never do it.
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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, it's hard is what it is.
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Andy Whiteside: Alright, guys, I appreciate it.
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Geremy Meyers: Alright. So you guys.