 World 2013, this is day three of three days of wall-to-wall coverage. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, we strike the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, I'm joined by my co-host Dave Vellante for the All Three Days. And this is our fourth year of VMworld. We, theCUBE started in 2010. We really haven't skipped a beat day, four years straight. Always a great show, wall-to-wall coverage. You know, day three is always the hardest because there's so much action going on. I mean, we still have a packed day today. So stay here on siliconangle.com or siliconangle.tv for all the coverage. We have Pat Gelsinger coming in in about five minutes. He's on his way over. But Dave, I want to get your take on just so far. World win. Luckily, it's damp here. It's not Vegas, so we didn't lose our voices here in San Francisco. But we did, what, 13 hours straight interviews yesterday, Dave? What was the number? Some number. Yeah, I think we started at 10 a.m. and went till, gosh, we went past nine o'clock at AT&T Park with the NetApp customer event. If you weren't able to see that, it was quite an affair. NetApp basically rented out AT&T Park, invited about 1,800 customers. And of course, the Cube was there, right behind second base, interviewing customers, cloud service providers, partners, bunch of NetApp execs, and having a lot of fun. So we're here at day three. We've got Pat Gelsinger coming up. We've got a big lineup. Bill Faweth is with Sanjay Poon, a new exec running end user computing. He came from SAP. Be great to see you. He's been a Cube alumni. We've interviewed him at Sapphire when he was an exec at SAP. But really, there's three things going on here at VMworld, breaking it down. We're going to drill down with Pat. Obviously, he had a panel that we're going to ask him a lot of questions about the Mark Andres and Andy Bessison. They're the kind of legends in tech talking about the future of IT. But in general, there's three areas that we're going to pivot down here on VMworld with Pat Gelsinger and all the guests. Software-defined data center. That's the core theme. That is the destination. That is the moonshot for the industry and VMware's leading the charge. And they started that over a year ago when they bought Nacera for over a billion dollars. Core of their strategy. Software is the focus point. Software is eating the data center, eating the enterprise as we posted on Silicon Angle. Two, hybrid cloud, Dave. That's a killer area. That's kind of like the safe area, the halfway house of the cloud. Public is a nice area for non-mission critical applications. But when you talk to an enterprise, hybrid cloud is what people want. And three, end user computing. This is a weak spot for VMware. It's not going to have been their strong suit, but certainly with Sanjay Poon and Tim Young, a lot of good stuff hopefully going to come down the pike. So three areas, Dave. Software-defined data center, hybrid cloud, and end user computing. And then, you know, and just riff off what Carl Eschenbach talked about, the march towards that data center. So VMware's has this cadence of Pat Gelsinger inside the company. And I think that's the key theme that I'm seeing here. Well, VMware's plans have always been ambitious. I mean, I go back to the Maritz days when he said we're going to build a software mainframe. It's exactly what they've been doing. You know, when we started here in 2010, John, the discussion was always, well, what percent of your servers are virtualized and how far are you on your journey? And, you know, have you done anything beyond test and dev? And people are generally thinking about it, but you look back and now you see where we are today. It's been some considerable progress and that's shown up in the evaluation of VMware. Yeah, and one of the things we want to highlight too, last night was really a special evening for theCUBE. Obviously, VMware's always a smashing show, a lot of content, a lot of thought leaders, a lot of action, certainly under the hood with relative to the technology industry and IT and service providers, which is going to affect a lot of the consumer products. But last night, we were at the NetApp customer event, where Pat Gelsinger did a fly-by with Carl and Ragoon and these guys came by. NetApp had us on the field, Dave. The pictures are still out there. The videos are on YouTube, go to youtube.com, slash SiliconANGLE. And we had great interviews with NetApp's thought leaders and one of the things that came out there was, one, being on the field was fun, but also two, the customers are engaged and this notion of private cloud really is about hybrid cloud, but ultimately, Dave, you know, you're hearing things about software-defined everything and software is eating the enterprise. So last night, we had a great time. The thing that came out of yesterday's presentation with NetApp, our special CUBE on the field at AT&T Park was the ecosystem, the focus on partners. And that was what NetApp, you saw that relationship with NetApp and that was really awesome. So we're going to be here all day, Pat Gelsinger, Sanjay Poonin, Dill Fathers, all the top VMware guys are going to be coming through the CUBE here, we're going to do a drill down and see how they're holding up on the show and two, find out what their take is. Did the messaging go over well? How's the product portfolio look like? What's going on in the ecosystem and what's next in the future of cloud, software-defined data center and end users? So we'll be right back with Pat Gelsinger after this short break. Stay here all day, wall-to-wall coverage when a pack schedule. We'll try to hold it together, Dave, until day three. So we'll be back with Pat Gelsinger after this short break.