UT08x02: Ultra-Converged Infrastructure from Verge IO – Utilizing Tech

Successful edge infrastructure must be incredibly reliable and adaptable, especially in the AI age. This episode of Utilizing Tech focuses on the ultra converged infrastructure offerings with George Crump of Verge io. Joining Janice Roski and myself, Steven Foskett.

Tune in to learn a little bit more about how edge environments can be more flexible and more high performance with VIR io. Welcome to Utilizing Tech, the podcast about emerging technology from Tech Field Day part of the Futurum Group. This season is presented by solid and focuses on AI at the edge and related technologies.

I'm your host, Steven Foskett, organizer of Tech Field Day, including our Edge Field Day and AI Field Day events. And joining me from Soy this season is my co-host, Janice Norski. Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Steven. It's great to be back this season. It's great to have you.

We had a lot of fun last season talking about the, uh, all the different components that make up infrastructure, and that's really what we're talking about today and this whole season in terms of AI and edge. Absolutely. We are diving in with various organizations talking about AI and EDGE and some of those organizations where you might not realize there is an AI or Edge component to it.

So I'm excited that we have our special guest on today to give us a deeper dive on what that might look like. Yeah, absolutely. It's, it's funny, um, you know, it's 2025, everything's AI now.

Uh, but you know, some of it really is. And so I'm really interested to hear how people are going to be building infrastructure to support AI applications. Now, when it comes to Edge too, uh, we have talked about this on the first episode and, and last episode as well.

You know, it, it's a, it's a pretty vast definition of what Edge really means. You know, it, it basically means things that are outside the traditional data center that have a different, um, environmental, different cost structure, different applications, different use case, different supportability and manageability. And one of the companies that is doing an absolutely phenomenal job of stitching together all of the diverse components that make up IT infrastructure is Verge io.

So, I'm thrilled to introduce our guest today, an old friend of mine, George Crump, who is the CMO over there. And, uh, George is gonna tell us a little bit more, but before we do that, uh, let's just hear from you. Welcome to the show, George.

Hi, Steven and Denise. Thanks for having me. Um, yeah, great to be here.

I, as you mentioned, I'm the, uh, CMO at, uh, verge io. Uh, we are a company that, uh, has created, uh, infrastructure software. Uh, what's unique about it is all the components run as a service, uh, of our operating system, and that, that gives us a lot of efficiency and things of that nature.

Uh, and so, yeah, I'm really excited to talk about what we're doing at the Edge and what we're doing in AI with you guys. Well, let's start off by just kind of understanding what, what is Verge io now? My feeling has been that essentially, uh, there was this whole phase of, um, of virtualization and then there was hyper-converged infrastructure where they basically pulled storage into, uh, like basically a virtual machine or something like that.

Mm-hmm. But what you guys are talking is kind of next level. Essentially what you're saying is we're gonna abstract all of the resources, all of the infrastructure resources, we're gonna be, make it, you know, uniform.

We're going to make it organized, we're gonna make it, um, repeatable and manageable, and we're gonna present that up the stack as basically sort of a, a super, uh, ultra virtualized, uh mm-hmm. Tell us more about what exactly Verge IO is doing. Yeah.

In fact, we use the term ultra converged and, and because what we've done, I kind of alluded to in the opening is, is instead of, uh, you know, in a hyperconverged infrastructure, to my knowledge, almost everybody's vsan runs as a virtual machine, right? If they're doing networking at all, it runs as another set of virtual machines. E even vCenter or, or any of the management gooey, they all run as VMs.

And so not all, you got all these VMs that have to coordinate with each other across, you know, potentially hundreds of nodes. It becomes very complex both from a development and infrastructure standpoint, and also from a user standpoint. And so, in our world, everything is one piece of software.

So when you install our product, you install one thing. You don't create a VM to do anything. Uh, uh, the first VM you create is your vm.

And then everything is a service. Storage is a service, virtualization is a service. All the networking functionality is a service.

And you just turn on and off these services as you need them. The result of that as a high level of efficiency, much, much easier to adapt. You know, we, we make people, if, if you look at it, networking is one of those skills that's kind of hard to really get uplevel on you.

A lot of storage guys, a lot of virtualization guys. Networking is kind of more abstract. We make people networking experts very, very quickly as a result of the way all this works together.

And as you're kind of looking at, you know, just the different types of, of customers, George, right? Who, who's really seeking this like seamless, uh, integration. You know, you mentioned, um, the compute and the storage and networking kind of all working together, but, but what kind of customers are you working with and, and what makes it so easy for those customers?

Yeah, and that's probably the question that gets me in the most trouble because the answer is yes, right? I mean, it, it can be our, we've got customers that have, um, hundreds of physical servers all part of a single, what we'll refer to as an instance. Um, and then I've got other customers that have, we have a large, um, pro name brand entertainment company that has locations throughout the United States, and each of those locations has two or three servers in it.

All of those communicate back to the corporate office, and everything's managed out of the corporate office, right? And so the, because of the way we wrote the, the software, and, and really to Steven's point, because we abstracted it so well, it, it, it almost can work in any environment. The, the only thing we don't do is a single server, right?

We're not an operating system for a single server. We're an operating system for the infrastructure. And, and I think that that's the key.

When you're talking about Edge, we talked about that at Edge Field Day many times. Um, we've talked about that on, on this, uh, utilizing tech podcast as well. The challenge at the edge is that you have, you don't have management and operational resources.

You really need something that is kind of plug and forget, forget, I mean, it's not plug and play, it's plug and forget. You, you, you bring the thing up and it just works and it's reliable and it's remote management, and it's completely integrated. And the last thing you wanna be doing is dealing with complexity.

And one of the things you mentioned, George, um, that is I think very, very true is in, in many hyper-converged or just virtualized environments, you need specialized, uh, hardware. You need v you know, VLANs, for example. You need, you know, external switches that, that have all these, you know, capabilities.

You need, um, specialists, you know, who, who can deal with a lot of this additional complexity. Whereas, you know, when you have something like what you're talking about, it, it makes everything a lot more uniform and a lot more manageable. Um, how do you handle, um, diverse, um, hardware?

Is it, is it possible to have multiple different kinds of hardware? Yes, absolutely. You can have, um, so we can have, we can support, within the same instance, we can have, uh, servers that are from different manufacturers.

We can have servers that are multiple generations of Intel processors. We can even have Intel processors mixed with a MD processors. We can have GPUs, which, you know, obviously is gonna be part of the AI conversation, right?

We can virtualize GPUs. So, and, and, uh, we're not limited to the big guy in GPUs either, right? And, and that same abstraction helps us, and it's interesting, the two topics here, because we actually use, I I would define it as narrow ai.

I don't wanna be like guilty of AI washing, but it's a very narrow ai, uh, component in our product that automatically optimizes our environment. And, and so it does, it means we don't have to write code to specific pieces of hardware. The software will actually push the hardware, learn its capabilities, and then know how to utilize that hardware specifically.

And so it's very adaptable. I've, I've got customers that have, within the same instance, they have servers that are seven years old, and servers that are six months old, and they all work well together. I've got customers with a MD and Intel in the same environment, all those different things.

And then even at the Edge, it's the same thing. You know, you, you're, you're generally getting some cases, you know, two very, very small servers, uh, and you gotta make sure they're highly available. You gotta make sure you can manage 'em, all those sort of things.

Now, I'm sorry to jump in here on you, Janice. You said two servers, right? Not three.

You don't need a cluster of three. That's correct. We don't need, we don't need a cluster of three.

We don't even need a witness. Um, we don't have any issues with Split Brain because, and, and that, you know, if you've been in this at all, split brain always comes up as part of the conversation. Yeah, that's why I bring it up.

'cause this is, this is one of the things about the Edge. 'cause if you're talking, if, if, if you're talking about difference between two servers and three servers, that is a 50% additional cost, right? Yes.

When You're talking about Edge locations and, and 50% times a thousand locations gets to be a pretty big cost, Right? And, and part of the challenge with Split Brain and why it's a thing and why you typically need a witness, uh, server, is none of those companies own the network, right? We own the network.

The network is a service for us. And so we can manage split brain functionality. We have our own voting system that makes sure that the right server has the right data.

All of those things, uh, are managed again, automatically in the product. The customer has to do nothing. And, and so we can tell, uh, what's causing the problem because we own the single piece of code owns all the infrastructure.

That's pretty interesting. Um, it, it makes me wanna just dive in and go backwards a little bit, Steven and George, and, and just kind of ask, um, you know, what, what pitfalls do you see customers having with say, alternative solutions in the market? And, and, you know, how is Verge, you know, uh, making this better?

Yeah, I, I think the, you know, the, what most customers for obvious reasons are looking for in an alternative is something that's less expensive, right? I, I think that kind of goes without saying. I think that that goal became easier to meet.

Uh, but it, but it is one of those things. And I think the problem is, is as you look at what's out there in the market, are, are you finding anything that's any different, right? Or are you finding stuff that's basically the same as just less expensive, not as mature, not as well supported, all of those sort of things.

And so that typically be, becomes the number one thing that people struggle with. The other big problem comes back to kinda what you guys were talking about with hardware. It, it, it's, most customers don't cooperate and have servers that are getting ready to come off a maintenance or CapEx at the moment.

They're also ready to switch to another, uh, infrastructure software. And so the ability to run on, um, other people's hardware becomes critical, right? And so, I I, I've got examples where we're running on what used to be storage nodes for a vendor's all flash array.

Um, and, and we just basically install our software on that. It actually ends up making a really good server, uh, and we've got an eight node cluster running on something that has somebody else's logo on it. Uh, and we've got multiple instances, uh, of that.

When I first started here, I was interviewing a customer, like, oh, send me a picture. And I realized I couldn't publish the picture because as like most vendors when they do a turnkey solution has their logo all over it. And I'm like, well, it's gonna look like an ad for them, not an ad for us, right?

So, but it, but that's, that's the real world. There's, there's two things there. One, you're, you're, you're probably not gonna throw away your existing servers, and you might want the flexibility to buy something else in the future.

And so the, the, this abstraction becomes a key element in that. Yeah, that's really important. Again, at the in edge environments, because, you know, they, they may have, you know, for example, multi-generation, multiple generations of Intel Knox out there, um, they might have, uh, as you said, uh, older systems that they're trying to migrate forward, they might want to extend some life out of those things, and they, you know, might want to migrate these things forward by, I don't know, sending one new node to every location and adding that into a cluster and, you know, kind of retiring the oldest one or something like that.

And, and I think you guys can do all that, right? Yes, absolutely. Well, even more practical, let's say you've had one of those locations running for two or three years, and one of the nodes dies, right?

One of the downsides of a, I don't wanna pick on Intel, but one of the downsides of a nook or anything like that, and especially in an edge environment, they're not treated well, right? By definition, they're not in a, you know, a lot of times they're under the cash register drawer, right? And that's not data center quality typically.

So they break. And so the problem is, two or three years from now, you might not be able to get the same server that you started with, right? And so what do you do?

Do you have to send out two new servers and replace the whole thing even though you got one that's working perfectly well? So again, with us, you just send what you got and the software will figure it out. I mean, so you're touching on a little bit around, you know, uh, overall cost savings and, uh, its overall quality and reliability at the edge.

Um, but George, what, what do you see in terms of your overall components being, um, supportive of TCO? Like, like how are you utilizing, say, storage differently today than you were maybe a year ago? Well, I think the, the big thing with storage is most of the world, if not, well, let's just say most of the world has, has definitely gone flash, but we, we now have, um, uh, generations if you will, in flash, right?

Right now, you know, we're sort of in the shift probably for most of 2025, we're gonna be in a shift of moving from TLC to some form of QLC, either all or some, and how do you manage these dramatically different technologies, right? And, and for some customers, frankly, it won't make a difference. They're just not pushing the hardware enough, right?

Where other customers, it could make a significant difference. So the, the ability to manage different styles of storage, again, with the same, within the same infrastructure, uh, is really, uh, key. The other thing that's interesting, you know, we, we've, we spent so much time as an industry working about, and, and I know Steven knows this, but auto tiering and moving data from here to there and all that kind of guess what, what you really need to be able to do is most customers don't need that.

What they need to be able to is just move a VM from tier A to tier B whenever they need to, right? And to be able to do that without taking the VM down, that, that, that's, that's the kind of stuff that, that we focus on. Now, uh, George, one of the things that we haven't heard you talk about too much yet is ai.

And of course, this is, you know, that's something that's really coming to the edge at this point. It's really coming everywhere to the enterprise at this point. Um, what are you gonna do?

How would you apply this ultra converged concept to systems that might need GPUs or special te tensor processors or something to process data at the edge? So there's a couple of things that, that we're gonna be able to do. Um, so the, the first to set the, the, the, the first layer, remember we do have that narrow AI componentry built into the product, and that's what gives us our optimization.

It, it can, you know, I don't wanna say the word think, but automatically optimize itself for the different hardware and things like that. Remember, as a, as a company, our philosophy is one piece of code. Everything runs as a service.

And we think there's an opportunity, a significant opportunity, and we're seeing it already in some of our customers where I want something like a chat GPT, but I don't want anybody else else to have access to it, right? The, the not great example I always use is, if I was the CEO of Coca-Cola, it might make sense for me to put my code into something like a chat GPT, but I'm not putting it out on chat GPT, or, and I'm not picking on chat GPT, but anything cloud based, right? I'm not gonna do that.

So we think this idea of a sovereign AI cloud, uh, we're already seeing it and we think customers are, are gonna like that because now you can load your stuff, your secret sauce into this private thing and get assistance. You know, as an example, we're, we're now running this internal, uh, at Verge io. And, and so our private, uh, LLM has our source code, it has all the technical documentation, it has every successfully answered support ticket.

Uh, and, and so as an example, I can write a paper, which I do occasionally load it into that and say, is this accurate? Did I miss anything? And instead of, you know, the, the kind of the cloud version of that where you get, get kind sometimes kind of wild answers, it knows it, it can actually answer that.

So, so translate across that, across many different types of customers who are gonna have private sensitive data that it might make sense to have AI analyze, but they don't wanna put it out there. Well, the challenge is now you're talking about a massive skills gap, right? Not everybody's gonna be able to hire a guy to go set up an LLM and and, and teach it and do all the things that need to happen to make that happen with our software within weeks, now, you're gonna be able to click a button, install an LLM, we will automatically, it's a service.

It's not another vm. It remember, our philosophy is everything as a service. So we'll install everything you need as a service mount, the NA share, which is also, by the way, we have file sharing as a service.

Uh, we'll mount the NA share, you load your training data, it starts pulling in all the training data, and within, you know, a few days you have a, you know, a functional thing that you can chat with to start getting information out of or doing whatever you would do with it. And so as a service, you say you're not necessarily locked in, right? Right.

But, But you have that, that, that support and the ease of integration to, to pivot very quickly from where you're sitting today. Yeah. So what what we're building essentially is the, the, the service will be the engine, and then the actual model you'll use will be handled, um, kind of in the same way we would do a VM today, right?

We, we don't have every, we have VM templates, and you can pick whatever distribution of Linux you want or whatever, and it'll go out to the, to the internet, download it and configure your vm, right? That's exactly what'll happen here. We'll show you all the available LLMs, uh, or models I should say, and it'll pick the one you want.

You just pick the one you want, it'll pull it down and you're ready to go. And, and I think the other beautiful part of this is, I, I think, and I don't know how much of this stays, stays this path, but it, it seems like we have different models that are better at solving different problems. Like there's some that seem to be better at research, other that tend to be better at graphics, things like that.

Well, with, with this approach, you could very quickly spin up an LLM that's gonna focus on generating imagery for you, another one that's gonna focus on research, another one that's gonna focus on general q and a and have all of those running very, very seamlessly. Now, the, the other part of this that gets very interesting is, you know, um, you know, Steven, you were talking about it, is the GPUs and things like that. Well, what if you don't need a GPU?

What if I can abstract it enough that I could just run this right off of processors? It might take a little longer, but if you know, you, you look at the kind of publicly available options and you're expecting an answer instantly, well, if it's just you locally in your organization or at the edge, if it takes two minutes instead of 27 seconds, do, do we care if that means I don't have to buy a $10,000 GPU, you know, if I'm the CEOI, I can say, yeah, you're gonna wait two minutes to save that amount of money. And so the ability to do that would also be part of this, uh, solution.

And, you know, it, it does seem like, you know, what you're describing is going to be the sort of thing that people are gonna be wanting to deploy pretty soon, you know? Yeah. I'm not sure that they're ready to truly transform the business with AI yet, but I think that they are gonna wanna start infusing AI into all aspects.

And, you know, one of the other elements of, of the picture that, that we've seen at the edge is that the more businesses deploy ai, the more data they're collecting and the more data they're processing. And this is causing something of a storage crunch at the edge, because essentially people are, um, you know, turning up the resolution on cameras, adding additional cameras, adding additional sensors, adding additional, um, you know, metrics and observability and telemetry, uh, collection, turning up the frequency of, of data collection. And all of this is requiring just more and more and more storage.

And that causes concerns in terms of the performance and the reliability of storage, especially in, you know, suboptimal environments that some of these things may be deployed, whether it's in a retail store like you mentioned earlier, or in a factory, or, uh, you know, as we were talking about earlier on the top of a windmill or in a military application or something. Um, I think that's another aspect that, um, that you're bringing to the table here is because you have integrated storage, advanced storage features for reliability for redundancy, it really helps to make use of some of these bigger and bigger storage devices, right? Yeah, a absolutely.

And you know, I, I don't know if you've met my friends at Soine yet, uh, Steven, uh, but they rolled out this, I've heard of them. Yeah, maybe, uh, they rolled out this 122 terabyte drive, and we're gonna sell all of them, right? Because, uh, that wasn't a commitment, by the way.

Uh, but the, uh, but, but that kind of ca that kind of density in a very, very small form factor becomes suddenly very interesting because of that, right? And the o the other thing I wanna touch on that you reminded me of is one of the, uh, again, as a service in our product is the ability to do multi-tenancy. We call 'em virtual data centers.

And so there's a couple of reasons why I'm bringing that up. First of all, in the, um, edge type of deployment, that edge could be what we would call a virtual data center, physically running on a, a couple of nooks there. But we could copy that entire, because we've encapsulated at the macro level, the virtual data, the data center, instead of a vm, I could copy that entire data center to a central office.

And if the, you know, one of the aspects of local offices, as we've already kind of touched on, is there are the servers underneath the cash drawer or whatever. If something goes wrong there, I can also have it immediately spin up at the corporate office until that remote office comes back online. Now, where that applies with AI is what you're saying is, I, I kind of wanna take a crawl, walk, run approach to this.

I don't, I don't, I don't wanna turn everybody loose on this thing. Well, we can also be, again, level of encapsulation because I can clone an entire data center. I can take a copy of your, your data center, put it right next to your production data center with all the same stuff, and you can start firing up AI on it and see what happens.

If it doesn't work, you can delete the entire data center. Who cares? 'cause you've got the production one right there.

So it allows people to go through this experimented experimentation phase, uh, much more quickly and safely because you have this object. Now, if you look at most solutions, they focus on doing things at the VM level. The problem with that is think of all the things you miss.

If you're just copying a vm, you don't have any network settings kind of important in the edge, right? You don't have any storage settings. Also kind of important in the edge.

You really don't even get a lot of the VM configuration, uh, stuff. And so the ability to encapsulate everything as one thing and do so consistently is a very powerful capability. It reminds me, George, of the demo you guys recently did, uh, I think live right?

Uh, we were able to kind of recover everything. Steven, we should bring George back and have him do a live demo at a future, uh, field day, is what I'm thinking. I think that would be very cool.

Um, and, and George, tell us a little bit about that demo, because I, I know it's recorded somewhere, but we could always definitely bring it back for, for a live audience at some point, but you guys failed everything and then just brought it all back up and ev all the data was there, correct? It doesn't sound great to say that he failed everything, but I, but I understand. I think we understand what you mean.

Yes, George, explain how you failed. It sounds like you're describing my college, uh, my co college journey. Uh, but anyways, the, so there's two, we did it in two directions, right?

One is, uh, you know, two, if you will not edge data centers cross replicating to each other, basically protecting each other. And then we did an edge to, uh, a, a primary, right? So 'cause of this podcast, let's focus on that.

And, and what we used was, um, a, a protocol called, or a capability called BGP, which is built into our networking service. And what you could do with that is you can have, you can break the rules, you can have the same IP address coming out of both virtual data centers, the one that's running active in the edge, and the one that's running at the headquarters, except you set different priorities so that, you know, the, the corporate data center maybe is a priority five. And the, uh, the edge is a priority one.

Well, that means that the only IP address that ever gets seen is the higher, the higher priority item, right? Well, if there's a failure, obviously priority one goes away. Priority five is now all of a sudden the highest priority, and it starts broadcasting it's IP address.

And so all that would have to happen. So imagine a, like a retail location, like a, a, a warehouse, uh, customer warehouse sort of thing where they're walking around with iPads or phones or whatever they're using. All they'd have to do is hit refresh, and it would immediately, without it doing anything, goes back to what you were talking about.

Steven is all of a sudden they're just connected to corporate. And with that type of device, you probably don't even notice a performance difference, right? It's, it's, you know, it's the wifi that's the bandwidth issue.

So, um, so all of that's built into the core product. Yeah, it's, it sounds, uh, uh, honestly, uh, almost too good to be true. And that's, you know, it is funny, George, I I think I remember the first time you told me about this.

I remember thinking, it just can't be, you know, that's just not, you know, but it, it is proven to work and you guys have, uh, successfully, you know, you got a bunch of customers signed up and you're, you know, you've got this deployed all over the place. It, it sounds, uh, it sounds great. And also, of course, um, as companies are looking for an alternative to VMware, I think a lot of them are looking at, um, you know, this as a potential, um, VMware alternative because y'all were already, uh, supporting many of the same workloads that people were, were with VMware.

Yeah. We, we, we kind of talk a it. If if you're making that change, you're obviously gonna make a, um, an important dec infrastructure decision, right?

If you're gonna do that one, even if AI isn't on your radar screen right now, why don't you do something that can do all that, the stuff you need to get done today? But if somebody throws an AI project on you, all you gotta do is click a button, start a service, and you're ready to go. Right?

It, it just makes sense. And, and by the way, less expensive, right? So it just makes a lot of sense to your too good to be true.

When I, before I joined, you know, my background, uh, as an analyst, I, I ran this thing for five months without even telling Verge, uh, io that I was running it, right? Because I could not believe it, and I was just in shock. Uh, so it, it's, it's, it's a fun company to work for.

We're, we're just good people. Uh, we, right now we're enjoying a hundred percent customer satisfaction, uh, which always makes me a little nervous saying it. 'cause all you gotta do is make one guy mad.

But, uh, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's just rock solid product and works day in, day out. That's awesome. Um, you know, Janice, um, this has been a, a kind of a cool con conversation about how compute could work at the edge and, and the, the challenges that they're facing and, and a solution to those challenges.

You know, what's your reaction to this? I mean, let's wrap up with a, with a bit of a summary from both of you. You know, what's your reaction overall to how, uh, VI IO helps AI at the edge and, and what that means for customers?

For customers? Yeah. I, I think this is a fascinating solution and, uh, you know, a lot of organizations out there are, are running on VMware vsan and, and, you know, maybe some other options, but, but I think what Verge has here is really easy to integrate.

Um, like George said, uh, it's an all in solution as a service ready to go. Um, it's very flexible. So I'm, I'm excited to see what they continue to, um, innovate on.

I know we just came out of, uh, Nvidia, GTC and, and lots of excitement around, you know, AI and not just within, um, HPC, but now we're looking at, you know, HCI. So I think this is, uh, a really exciting opportunity when it comes to what Verge is doing. Yeah.

George, thanks for, uh, giving us this little, this overview. I don't know if you have a, I I, I guess, what, what would you like to tell folks listening to this about, uh, AI at the edge and, and verges place in that? Yeah, I, I think the, the, the first thing is, you know, we're not taking our eye off the ball.

We're, we're still focused on, uh, providing an infrastructure software alternative. Um, but again, it kinda goes back to what I just said, right? If, if you're gonna go through that process and, and, and, you know, I'm not gonna kid anybody, no, no matter what you do, it, it, it's not like you just snap a button.

You're not switching from like Microsoft Word to pages, right? This is a pretty big deal, and, and so you need to think about it, but if you're gonna do that work, also have something that's gonna prepare you for, you know, an, you know, a larger edge deployment. Uh, you know, one thing I didn't mention, I probably should be fired for, we have a, you know, global, uh, display that you can see all the different sites and things like That.

It's okay, George, this isn't recorded and nobody, you know, nobody will know. Okay, okay, good thing, uh, I love live. Uh, but anyways, so we have that.

And then, you know, the, the ability to give this flexibility, so whatever comes down at you next, you've got an infrastructure that is, you know, not we're, it's not marketing, right? We've proven the ability to adapt to new technologies incredibly quickly. Well, this sounds great, and, and thank you so much.

Um, I'm sorry to inform you that this is actually recorded. Thank you so much for joining us on this recorded episode of Utilizing Tech. Um, before we go, George, uh, where can people connect with you if they want to continue this conversation?

Yeah, sure. io. Uh, all the information you need, uh, right there.

Uh, and there's, you know, essentially two paths. Uh, today, there's people that wanted a look about, uh, an alternative infrastructure, and then there's guys that wanna, uh, talk about ai. So the both of those are pretty clear on the site, so I would just go there.

Excellent. Well, thanks for joining us, and, uh, Janice, uh, welcome back to another season of, uh, utilizing Tech. Uh, where can people learn more about Solid?

Oh, thank you, Steven. I appreciate it so much. Yeah, same.

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