Q What is, where, where are we, um, in the arc?
A So there, so I think, uh, uh, there has been a marked change in the last five years. Uh, you know, when my, when I, when we started the company first, uh, we would regularly go, you know, end up into companies which would say, there were two, you know, The companies would either fall in a category of, hey, we have adopted cloud wholesale, or as you are saying, you know, we're not going to test the cloud even on the long pole. We see a lot of hybrid environments now. We, you know, even in these Fortune 1000 companies, uh, we see, we see that cloud deployments are taking hold. And part of the reason that has happened is because, is, you know, one of the big, uh, uh, reasons for not using the cloud at that time was security. And, ah, the cloud providers, their roadmaps have become, have addressed security over the last two, three years in a very, very big way. Ah, not just security, but even compliance and stuff like that. So those, ah, you know, those, ah, objections are going away, and then when you compare those objections with the amount of agility that you gain by using a cloud platform, ah, the fact that you can, you know, ah, shift, ah, you know, your, your workload change and you can shift your infrastructure and things like that. It becomes, it's starting to dawn a lot on the, on, on, on, on these companies that they are actually losing competitive advantage if they're no…
AI assessment note: “there has been a marked change in the last five years”