Ken Kaplan: Let's talk about sustainability and NC2. Tell me how it's helping you particularly achieve some goals or set some new strategies for sustainability.
Nick Mahlitz: Yes. So we're actively looking at the metrics and analytics behind what we currently have in our private data center. And then with Nutanix's assistance, we know what that will look like with NC2 in the cloud. And there could potentially could be up to a 40% reduction in our footprint, which is a big savings. So whilst we don't have the analytics yet, it's a report I'm looking to create in June this year. NC2 really does help with that. And as we try to meet Scottish government targets for sustainability and we'll do that via our vehicle management and our buildings management. But our data center is another big area where we can reduce that by using public cloud and NC2.
Ken Kaplan: Do you, do you ever get a sense that what you're doing can also help other government agencies?
Nick Mahlitz: Yeah, yeah, very much so. We meet frequently with other agencies and the Scottish government in cloud communities where we share what each of us are doing in that area. And there's been so much good work done by the Scottish government and realizing all the technologies to migrate to the public cloud, but what we are doing, no one else has done. And so using NC2 to trailblaze in this and show the benefits to my peers in our government organization, I think it's key for me if I can help reduce costs and manage those costs in a fixed way. And if I can avoid the challenges around recruitment, which is a particularly challenging thing in the UK to reduce our footprint, then I think other organizations in the government and public sector should also look to and analyze both your native cloud approach and using technology like NC2.
Ken Kaplan: I mostly want to just capture what it is that you do. It's interesting because we don't think about, you know, the forest and technology and that you're actually trailblazing. You said that those great words.
Nick Mahlitz: If you think about what's important to people nowadays, you know physical and mental health and wellbeing are very much on the forefront of the organization. You've got to look after your people. If you don't invest in your people and lose them, then you know, the organization suffers. So, Forestry and Land Scotland wants to invest in their people. We want to look after the people of Scotland, too. So, you know, there are areas that we do in terms of creating visitor centers and tourist places, and those green spaces where the family can go out for a day and enjoy a wonderful day with a picnic and enjoy the beautiful scenery that Scotland has. That's very much also in our hearts. And again, technology is playing a part in that because we can deliver services to these rural areas that are in isolation in a better way with technology, which is a fantastic thing to do, to look after your people.
Ken Kaplan: Stepping back. The land of Scotland is the treasure, it's precious. What's your mission with all this?
Nick Mahlitz: Yeah, our mission is to look after our land and enhance the management of the land and forest for the people of Scotland and manage it on their behalf. Really, we're just custodians of this. And give them the beautiful scenery that Scotland has and give it to the people to enjoy. But we also have the responsibility to not only manage that but to manage that in a sustainable way. So managing our forests in the best way possible, managing our land and creating renewable energy to help that sustainability piece is very important to us. So that's our mission, to really provide what Scotland is to its people, but also really help our government and the world for climate control because it's one of our big, big strategies that we take.