 from the Masonic in San Francisco. It's theCUBE, covering Lenovo Tech World 2016. Brought to you by Lenovo. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and John Walls. And welcome everyone to San Francisco. We're in the Masonic Auditorium at Lenovo Tech World. John Walls here along with Stu Miniman. Of course, it's the senior analyst for Wikibon and theCUBE. Huge day for Lenovo, Stu, just a huge day. Star-studded announcements, great product launches on the infrastructure side, on the consumer mobile side. We had Ashton Kutcher here doing demonstrations and really speaking quite eloquently about the entrepreneurial ship of the Lenovo products. And so, just your overall take on what we saw here and what was a wham bam hour and a half. Yeah, John, so I mean, interesting day because different than kind of some of the stuff we typically do on theCUBE. YY, the CEO of Lenovo came out and, as you said, right, Ashton Kutcher was up here dropping a phone to show chatter, new tablets, new phones, cool devices, virtual reality, Intel CEO up on stage, but a lot of consumer tech. And then right in the middle, he's like, all right, we're going to do a boring session on infrastructure and then get back to the cool stuff. It's like an afterthought, right? Exactly, and it got a good laugh from the audience here because of course from theCUBE, we love covering the infrastructure piece. Lenovo's a $46 billion company. Most people know them from the mobile pieces, the PCs, of course they made a big acquisition of the IBM PC division over a decade ago, grew that to be number one in the space. About 18 months ago, when they were already had done the Motorola acquisition on the mobile side, they spent $2.1 billion for the IBM SystemX. They're getting servers, they OEMs some storage from IBM, there's some networking components. And that's what we're here for, John, is to really dig into some of these enterprise functionality and what they touched on in the keynote, it's how cloud ties into everything. Infrastructure's hugely important in the cloud. It's how enterprises drive these out. People, the devices, he said people might think it's surprising that Lenovo would say that personal computing is dying and going away. It's about connected communications and that's where the mobility and cloud and the enterprise, the lines are blurring a lot and that's what we're excited to dig into. On the consumer product side, there was a lot of talk about partnerships, Google and what have you, but you see the same thing on the infrastructure side. In fact, that seems to be really a cornerstone of the Lenovo approach. Their philosophy right now is if we don't do it, we're going to align ourselves with people who are very good at that, like Juniper, for example. Yeah, absolutely. So right, there's the components. You look at the phone and say, okay, well, Motorola and Lenovo, they make the phone, but on the Moto side, it's an Android operating system. So why build the operating system when Android is the most deployed operating system? In the mobile space, in the networking space, there's intellectual property and knowledge that Lenovo knows real well, but for hardcore networking, they're going to partner with Juniper on the storage side. There's some stuff that Lenovo does. They've got some OEM deals, both from what the IBM piece does. We're going to talk to Nutanix today, the leader in the hyper-converged space they're partnering with, and then they've got more partnerships that we're going to dig into, including the likes of Nexenta and Cloudion, but Lenovo has the platforms. They have kind of the global brand and distribution. When we talk about Dell, we talk about the global supply chain. Lenovo competes in these spaces, both in the enterprise and the hyper-scale. So interesting to dig into all of these environments. And they've been as you well now. I mean, such a gorilla, if you will, in the PC market. Server side, got a long way to go, a lot of runway there, and we'll talk about that, I'm sure, over the course of this day, but just your thoughts of looking at where they stand, 7% market share right now, I mean, it got a lot of room to grow. Yeah, so on the server side, right. I mean, IBM was a stalwart in the server space. I remember when Blade Servers first launched, if you said, I want a high performance environment, IBM was the standard. They really helped grow that all Blade server marketplace. Cisco really came in and ate their lunch, and just took massive chunks out of specifically the IBM Blade server marketplace. HP's still number one in servers. So when Lenovo buys the SystemX, I actually moderated a panel at IBM Edge right after the announcement was done. And I said, you know, this is the most that I've ever seen IBM talking about x86, and the room was half like the IBM SystemX people. And they were all really excited, really excited to the opportunity not to just be a piece of the overall broad portfolio that IBM had. And sometimes they felt they were underappreciated, but at Lenovo, they're going to be a centerpiece for the enterprise push that Lenovo is making to really expand their presence globally. And as I said, those lines between consumer and enterprise in the cloud are blurring. So Lenovo's putting forth their vision to where their products fit in the environment between the devices, the people and the cloud. Well, you know, I should have mentioned, Steve, by the way, we're on the keynote stage. And they have just a fantastic audio visual setup here. So you're going to see some changing lights and things flickering. We've got a beautiful media demo run behind us. So really just a beautiful setup, one of more elegant setups we've had in some time and looking forward to a very exciting day here on theCUBE. We'll be back with the first of our guests from the Lenovo tech world in 2016, here in San Fran in just a bit.