 We are here at an exclusive Silicon Angle, Wikibon theCUBE event. This is OpenStack in the Enterprise, the OpenStack Enterprise Forum, live in Silicon Valley. This is hosted by SolidFire, HP, Cloud, Nebula, OpenStack Foundation theCUBE. This is a great event, and looking at the data online is just significantly a packed house. One, physically there's a huge event packed every chair's taken. Two, online, we had over 2.2 million timeline reach impressions on Twitter, on our crowd chat. Dave, pretty impressive turnout. One, physically out here at the event, and two, online, on Twitter and on crowd chat, is pretty amazing, so we have a live crowd chat right now. Yeah, we have close to 300 people here, John, and we just heard Lydia Leong set up the day with the number of panels, we're getting a little feedback here. So, what we'd like to do this afternoon, we're basically going to bring over some of the panelists that we heard from Lydia. We're going to go a little deeper than perhaps we were able to in the panel, but what we heard was some of the challenges of deploying OpenStack, some of the risks, some of the rewards, and a lot of discussion about Open, the new Open. Well, I think one of the things that's obviously clear from my data, Dave, is that the OpenStack enterprise conversation is significant on the crowd chat. We had a lot of conversations, the engagement was off the charts, both on Twitter and on crowd chat, and here at the event, and the bottom line is, people want to know, what the hell's going on with OpenStack? And I think ultimately, you know, obviously Solid Fires has their agenda here, they're sponsoring this event, they're holding the event, so obviously they're kind of infiltrating with their Kool-Aid here within OpenStack. But you got HP here and others, and the OpenStack community is pretty clear. It's an early market, there's some real traction, but there's some real questions about the deployment. There's some real question marks around the proof where the rubber meets the road, proof in the pudding, as they say. There's real questions about, how far are we on the automation scale? Where does public cloud fit in? What about private cloud? What's this new hybrid cloud? Dave, there's a ton of questions. We are going to get at the answers to these, and to me, it's pretty clear. A lot of manual configurations, we were talking about the Marantis success, they've had great success on the consulting professional services model. Jeff Frick brought up the professional services that question on CrowdChat, but in general, the theme is, most people are really bullish on OpenStack, they want to see automation, they want to see scale. And that is really, to me, the biggest demand point, the tooling's being built out, there's huge momentum. This is not just hype, although there's a lot of buzzwords being kicked around, real deal, real community, so I think it's really exciting. And we had, we had been having a crowd chat during these sessions, and there was a lot of really interesting discussions. There was a discussion around the public cloud-ness and the fit with public cloud for OpenStack. Randy Byas came in, said there is no place for OpenStack with the public cloud, I'm sure many of the panelists are going to disagree with that, we want to talk about that. Literally, Leon talked about two separate vectors, really, for private cloud. One is essentially extending existing virtualization to the VMware and Microsoft virtualization, for example, into automation, into self-service, and the other being essentially DevOps. I want to personally thank the folks out there who are watching the event, coming to SiliconANGLE.tv, and I want to personally extend a thank you to the folks who went on crowd chat, because this is a beta preview, we are not opening up to the public yet, we are offering it for free to all the people, the part of the beta preview, if you want to get at the crowd chat, we are testing it to set the back ends very solid, however, we want to get the bugs out of the UX and get more mobile usage, but thank you for participating, that transcript is now public, you can retweet it, we're going to leave it open forever for a long time, so the hashtag is O-E-Forum, that's the hashtag, go to crowdchat.net slash O-E-Forum, and ask us questions, and be part of the thought leadership, this market has emerging, a lot more work to be done on the code side, on the business side, across the board, so Dave, we're personally excited to be part of the ecosystem in OpenStack, we're going to be OpenStack Summit coming up in Atlanta, we do the great debate in San Francisco. So just real quick, we're going to hear today from the OpenStack Foundation, we got PayPal coming on, folks from eBay, we got Chris Kemp of Nebula, one of the founders of OpenStack, and we're going to hear from HP, also we'll get the services angle, we're going to hear from Dave Wright as well, who's CEO of SolidFire, the anchor host of this event, so looking forward to that, John. We'll be right back with our next guest, we're going to go right down the line, everyone wants to get to the beer and wine, the food, we're in the evening, thanks for watching, and we'll be right back with our next guest, stay with us here, this is theCUBE, we'll be right back into this real short break.