 Hi, this is your host, Sapin Bhartia, and welcome to 2024 Predictions. And today we have with us once again, Keshav Roo, vice president of Customer Experience at Sios. Keshav, it's great to have you on the show. Great to be here and happy New Year. Good New Year to you as well. Before I ask you to pick your crystal ball and share Predictions, quickly remind our viewers what is Sios all about. Sios Technology Corp is a high availability and disaster recovery solutions company providing application availability for critical mission critical databases, applications and services for our customers across Windows and Linux systems and a variety of cloud platforms. Perfect. Thank you. Now it's time for you to grab your crystal ball and share with us what Predictions you have for this year. Absolutely. So first prediction, application high availability becomes universal. So what I mean by that is as reliance on applications continue to rise, IT teams will be pressured to deliver efficient, high availability for applications that were once considered non-essential. High availability was once reserved for the most mission critical systems such as those running the backend databases, SQL server, Oracle, SAP HANA and the application servers. And now what we're gonna see is pressure for those IT teams to look to add more high availability and disaster recovery to additional applications that were previously considered not essential for HA. And so that is what we'll see more in 2024 an expansion of high availability software solutions and services across the entire enterprise. Cloud and OS agnostic high availability will become an expected requirement for most applications. So as we previously shared in some of the predictions from previous years, more and more companies are expanding into the cloud and into different clouds and are expanding across different operating systems, whether that be Windows or Linux, whether that be in AWS, Azure, Google or Oracle cloud, more and more teams, either through acquisitions or mergers are being expected to cover a diverse set of operating systems, applications and cloud platforms. And because of this, IT teams in 2024 will look for application HA solutions that are consistent across the combination of operating systems and cloud environments to reduce their complexity and improve the cost efficiency. As the need for HA continues to rise, companies running applications built on-prem and cloud environments will use and expect those environments and those HA solutions to support both Windows and Linux. And they will look to streamline their HA solutions to those that are consistent across the operating systems and cloud environments so that they reduce the burden on their IT teams. We'll continue to see this push for OS and cloud agnostic HA throughout the 2024 year. The trend towards migration to SAP HANA is going to continue and intensify in 2024. So we're all aware that SAP has a mandatory migration date and that date is going to push more companies to begin migrating faster and at a more intense pace towards SAP HANA. As these companies migrate to SAP HANA, there will be an increased need for more sophisticated and flexible HA and disaster recovery solutions. These solutions that they're looking for will be those that help them bridge the gap between what they currently have existing systems and the new, more modern systems that they will need for SAP HANA. They'll look for solution providers who can still provide HA for their current systems and also be the same provider that can provide HA and DR for their new SAP HANA systems. They wanna make sure that whatever solution they're going with, those HA solutions will help them take advantage of emerging technologies and accelerate their digital transformation while not losing HA and DR for their existing clusters during that time, that gap between here and now. The focus on data security and compliance will intensify in 2024. This focus on data retention, security, access controls and permissions will intensify, prompting organizations to integrate enhanced digital and security measures deeper into their high availability and disaster recovery solutions, services and strategies. Listen, as the volume of data and the variety of data and the channels at which that data is being accessed and provided to companies increases and continues to expand beyond many of our imaginations, organizations will require more security measures to be baked into their high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Automation becomes more common and high availability and disaster recovery efforts as data and analytics increase complexity. So the volume of data as well as the channels in which that data is collected is continuing to increase, organizations will require more information about why faults and failures occurred and how to address that potential information. Automation and orchestration tools will play a central role in streamlining root cause analysis, improving intelligent responses and providing companies with more data that they can access to enhance their disaster recovery and HA solutions to further reduce downtime and enhance data availability. And these are our key predictions for 2024. In light of these predictions, what kind of challenges do you see will be there this year? Of course, in 2024, we're gonna continue to see high availability expand and companies need a solution that, as I mentioned, will cover multiple clouds, multiple platforms, multiple applications in a seamless manner. Some of the challenges we'll see is the expectation for HA solutions and DR solutions to be simple, to be automated, to be quick, to be intelligent and to take advantage of increasing analytics where that seems optimal. One of the other challenges I expect to see in the new year is as companies continue that migration, they're not standing still, they're still accumulating data in those systems so they'll need help dealing with migrating to newer systems and making sure they don't lose data in the process. And what is going to be the focus of CYOS technology in 2024? Obviously, the first thing we wanna consider as a high availability company is helping our customers avoid and reduce downtime and make sure that they have their data and their applications available in the moments where the business needs them most. So that will continue to be an ongoing focus of improving the high availability solutions. We'll also wanna take on the challenge of expanding the services and solutions that we provide to our customers so as they continue to expand where they expect HA to play a role in their environment that CYOS is already there to meet that need and challenge. And we'll continue to look for ways in which we can optimize our solution and provide additional adjacent services to benefit those customers and to benefit application providers and cloud providers where they need help forming an HA strategy and proving an HA strategy, expanding to DR and then things that come in and problems that we see arise in this field as the year progresses. CYOS, thank you so much for taking time out today and share these predictions with us. As usual, I would love to have you back on the show to know and check which of these predictions turn out to be true but also get the next set of predictions for the next year. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.