 Welcome everyone to this video about the Azure Stack HCI playlist. My name is Thomas and I'm here with Christophe who is leading the Azure Stack HCI sales in EMEA. Christophe, welcome on the show. Can you tell me a little bit more about yourself? Hello Thomas, thanks for having me here. I'm Christophe Louraud. I'm the head of the Azure Stack HCI team within Microsoft. We cover the EMEA region and we help our customers transform using Azure Stack HCI and Azure Technologies. No, that's awesome. We are here today here in this video to talk about the Azure Stack HCI playlist. Can you tell me a little bit more about what it is and what to do with it? Absolutely. Azure Stack HCI is a new product. We recognize that our partners, our customers need to learn about it, need to know how you design an Azure Stack HCI solution, how you deploy it, how you manage it. That series of videos will help our customers and partners use properly Azure Stack HCI and have the best experience with Azure Stack HCI. That's awesome that we have a couple of videos for the scaling part of Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI really is an important part of our Azure Hybrid story. Can you tell me a little bit more about how Azure Hybrid helps customers transform? Absolutely. Azure is a Cloud solution, but that Cloud now can go anywhere. So it's no more a Microsoft data center. The Azure technology, the Azure set of services can help customers in their own data centers, in their edge sites, in their stores, in their factories, in their hospitals. The Azure Hybrid is what allows our customer to innovate and to manage consistently their infrastructure using that consistent set of solutions. So we talk about compliance, governance security for management across different IT infrastructure. We also talk about how you modernize your applications, your data solutions, so that you use those Cloud services and keep on innovating and being more agile. Oh, that's great. Again, this helps really in the way we do like distributed Cloud and how we actually put things together and help customers to build that virtualization platform as well. So when we talk about virtualization, what does Azure Stack HCI bring to the table? That's a good point. Well, first, Azure Stack HCI has Azure in its name, so it's an Azure product. That's a product that has the benefits of being hybrid by design, by nature. It leverages the experience we have on Hyper-V, so Hyper-V runs on millions of servers around the world. It's the same team basically that develops Hyper-V for Azure Stack HCI and Hyper-V for Azure. The same technology as a core product. So Azure Stack HCI is a virtualization operating system that is manageable from Azure that has the same principles of being always up to date. You don't have an Azure Stack HCI 2019 and another Azure Stack HCI 2022. It's Azure Stack HCI and you keep on receiving a patch and updates regularly. You are charged as your VIP, so it's very easy to manage in terms of cost. It's very simple fresh model with one charge for the number of physical core. Simple, hybrid, and superior performance, measured by a third party. So we are independent here and superior performance on getting data and running SQL use cases. It's great. Again, as I just understood, it's not just doing virtualization. It's really delivered as a hybrid service and designed for very good use cases. Can you tell me a little bit more about what are the common use cases for Azure Stack HCI? When would actually I use a Azure Stack HCI? Absolutely. So we have two main use cases. One is data center modernization. Our customers have to modernize their hardware platform or their virtualization platform. In both cases, Azure Stack HCI brings a new, let's say a new stage, a new step in their transformation by having that hybrid approach bringing the Cloud in their own data center. So moving from a legacy approach to a more hybrid and one having facilitating the application portability between their own asset and the public Cloud. That's one use case. The second key use case is at the edge. Well, we see that when Gartner tells us that 75 percent of the data will be produced at the edge by 2025. We need a lot of compute power to process this data. We need some machine learning, we need some data analytics, and Azure Stack HCI is a perfect platform to run these data analytics in this application at the edge. So those two use cases are the main engine to deploy Azure Stack HCI for our customer. That's great. Again, there's a lot of interesting stuff happening there. Now, obviously, we created these Azure Stack HCI Playlist. What can we find on that playlist? So we will find tutorials, we will find testimonials, or we will find experts, advices, and best practices. We will find product news because it evolves rapidly. So we will find what a partner or customer need to evolve on their platform in their data center and at the edge with Azure Stack HCI as your app, as your hybrid. Oh, that's awesome. Great. So thank you very much, Christophe, and thank you everyone for watching. Make sure that you subscribe to the channel that you like link the playlist and make sure you put that in your favorites to learn about Azure Stack HCI and also don't miss any news and advances in the future. Thank you very much.