 From Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, it's the Cube covering VTUG Winter Warmer 2019, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Hi, I'm Jackie Sampson here with Stu Miniman wrapping up the show today. We're here at Gillette. So, Stu, this is the Cube's fifth year at VTUG. What's changed? Yeah, so Jackie so much has changed. So, I've actually been coming to the show for about eight years and it was known as the New England V-Mug back then. So, when it switched to the V-TUG, number one is it was a little bit more independent than a VMware user group itself. So, broader on virtualization, but they actually made a conscious effort to expand beyond virtualization and talk about cloud computing. And four years ago, cloud computing, while it had been gone and gone for about five years, most people coming to the show really didn't understand much beyond, I'd heard of cloud computing, I might have seen it on like commercials from Microsoft, you know, to the cloud or some stuff like that, but they really didn't understand it. So, I loved an event like this that brought in, they brought in Amazon, they brought in Microsoft and had them give presentations and they were breakout from the ecosystem. This ecosystem's gone through maturation. Most of the vendors, I believe there's about 35 vendors here, have their base in virtualization but have grown into cloud. So, we've seen the users, the ecosystem, and the show mature. It's still over 1,000 people here every year and it's one that I always love to kick off the year. That's awesome. So, I was wondering, there are a lot of interesting guests that were on the Cube today. So, what were the common things in the virtualization space that you think company should start paying closer attention to 2019? Yeah, so a common thing when I look back to 2018 and continue here into 2019, change really defines our industry today. So, when we talk about going from virtualization to cloud, we understand that that's going to have some disruption. We're at a user conference here. I love talking to these users and I talked to one user. I talked about their hyperconverged rollout and they're going to be extending that for DR to the cloud in the future. I had a guest on today. Actually, the first one I've done at VTUG, he used to do virtualization but in his day job today, all he does is AWS and he does coding with PHP and he helps build out. Actually, Jackie, you got to listen to this one because their company does hair and massage but for senior citizens only. So, it's really interesting based out of Cleveland. He's based locally but it's a nice niche and understanding the technology underneath that helps them at all of their locations to do that. So, the common theme is it's a great time to be in technology. There's a lot of change going on and there's great opportunities at events like this and training material for people to learn and grow and keep themselves relevant and keep their business moving forward. That's pretty cool. So, speaking of relevance, who are some of the key players in the space? Some of the key players that you talked to today. Yeah, so, you know, look, my first two guests were probably the two that have the biggest market share and the most relevant. So, that is VMware, you know, Dominant in the virtualization place and Amazon, specifically Amazon Web Services, who is the clear leader in infrastructure servicing going beyond. Actually, we're supposed to have a guest on for Microsoft. Unfortunately, she was sick today and look, it is not a winter take-all. There's broad ecosystem and a lot of diversity out there in the ecosystem. So, look, there's lots of virtualization that is in VMware. There's lots of cloud activity that's happening and both of them, what they've done really well and are balancing is their ecosystem. So, a lot of change going on there. Neither of those companies is nearly as dominant, Jackie. They say the New England Patriots who are going to their third Super Bowl in a row. And Jackie, did you know I'm a little excited about being here at Gillette? I wore my season ticket pin here. They just turned the lights on for us behind here. I could see my season tickets here. I was here and we had Rob Nigovich on the program. So epic. She's so epic. We didn't talk to Rob about too much tech, but, you know, even he was talking about the charitable works that he does and, you know, technology is the underpinning. He was actually telling me off-camera, he's like, you know, now that I'm not doing football, he's like, I should be in tech. You know, tech, there's a lot going on. It's really interesting. And, you know, that's the analogy we always have with theCUBE is, you know, one of our earliest clients said, we're the ESPN tech. Let's give independent coverage, you know, help understand what's those waves and change. Just as in sports, if you watch them long enough, things do change. You know, the NFL today is a very past happy league. You know, I think back to when I was much younger, it was like, you know, a defense and running wins game today. You know, I mean, cloud computing is all the rage and rightly so, and there's still a lot of growth there. But, you know, virtualization is still hugely important. And there's so many different areas for people to be able to dig in. And that keeps us hopping from show to show and keeps me excited to find and talk to community people and technologists and users that will share their experiences. That's pretty cool. So, did you have any favorite interview today or interviews, plural? Yeah, you know, Jackie, it's always tough for me to, you know, choose a favorite. So, you know, right. Look, we had some great thought leadership pieces. You know, we talked about it. We talked about career with some computer people. We talked to users. So, yeah, I hate to say it. I always like to be like, yeah, yeah, this one. But, you know, overall, it was really good. I'm really happy to be able to participate. And even it's tough when I look back at the years that I've been doing this, it's just the diversity and the new things that we get to learn that keep me excited, you know, from year to year. It's awesome. So, Stu, thank you so much for wrapping up the show today. And Jackie, I really appreciate you helping me, you know, wrap this up. You know, you're now a CUBE alum, Jackie. You know that? It's pretty cool. I'd love to say that. Thank you, everyone. I'm Jackie with Stu Miniman. Thanks for watching.