 Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante. We're here at Wikibon headquarters in Marlboro, Massachusetts. And this is theCUBE where we bring you the smartest people we can find. We extract knowledge, and we're here with Ed Walsh, who is the vice president of IBM's portfolio strategy for the storage division. Ed, welcome. Well, thank you. And we're hearing a lot about smarter these days. IBM obviously has a big branding campaign around it. And now we're hearing about smarter storage. Sure. About time. What is smarter storage? Perfectly done. Again, it's an easy play into a smart planet, plays into smart computing, and smarter storage supports all those initiatives. But really, it's our approach to design and deployment of storage infrastructure. It really has three key tenets, if you would. So, smarter storage is efficient by design, smarter storage is self-optimizing, and smarter storage is cloud agile. And what I mean by each one is, efficient by design is all about managing cost and also capacity growth. Self-optimizing is all about improving performance, having agility, dynamic workloads, and overall productivity. And cloud agile is all about improved performance, having agility across a private cloud environment, and also robustness of the environment. Okay, so Ed, let's, in our next segment, drill down into each of those. Okay, so hang with us. We're going to go drill down and peel the onion. And I also want to know what's different between smarter storage and the competition. So, thanks for watching. Keep it right there. We'll be right back with the next segment.