Music legend Tina Turner recently passed away in her home near Zurich, Switzerland, where she had lived for almost 30 years, a place that she'd made her sanctuary. Her property was more specifically located in the town of Kouchnott, where Tina was a valued member of the community and the star revealed in her 2021 documentary Tina that she spent the last phase of her life in private alongside her husband Erwin Bach. Tina Turner passed away at the age of 83 on May 24th, 2023, following a long, unspecified illness. In what may have been her final public words, Tina told The Guardian about how she hoped the world would remember her. She responded to this question, saying, As the queen of rock and roll. As a woman who showed other women that it's okay to strive for success on their own terms. And when she was asked about what frightens her about getting older, she replied, Nothing. This is life's full adventure and I embrace and accept every day with what it brings. After Tina's passing, tributes were laid outside the iron gate of her massive mansion with notes from fans reading things such as you're simply the best and with candles and flowers being piled outside. In her recent documentary, we could see that one of the main properties Tina and Erwin called home in Switzerland was their Chateau Algonquin estate. They moved to the countryside back in the 90s and she said she liked it in Switzerland because everything here runs according to the rules. While Tina reportedly didn't speak German, one of the national languages of the country, her husband would always translate if needed. While Tina Turner was born in Tennessee, she became a citizen of Switzerland in 2013 and renounced her US citizenship after marrying her longtime partner, German born Erwin Bach, who she'd been with since 1986. When speaking about why she relocated to Europe back in 1997, Tina said, I've left America because my success was in another country and my boyfriend was in another country. Adding that her single private dancer was a smashing success in the UK. The couple had been living in Switzerland for years but due to strict laws in the country, there are restrictions against foreigners purchasing property. Therefore, Tina and her man had been renting a compound known as Chateau Algonquin for many, many years, an absolutely jaw-dropping home in Zurich, Switzerland. Back when Tina was still with Ike, she always felt like she never had space of her own and needless to say she's now making up for it with this home, where she was in total control of her physical surroundings. While the interior of this place is under pretty strict lock and key, reports suggest that this estate looked like a European palace. It has ivy sneaking up the walls, gardeners manicuring plentiful shrubs, and a life-size two-legged horse sculpture that suspended from a domed ceiling inside. I mean, there's reportedly even a room stuffed to the gills with Louis XIV-inspired sofas featured alongside a portrait of Tina rendered as an Egyptian queen. If what's been rumored is true, then the Algonquin is simply overflowing with beautiful things inside and out, like pieces of a giant shattered amethyst crystal arranged alongside the in-ground swimming pool and framed photos of Egyptian royalty. If you're wondering about the Egyptian-inspired decor, well, Tina sensed that she used to be Egyptian royalty in a former life. When asked in a more recent interview about her favorite parts of this stunning mansion, Tina replied, oh, I don't have a favorite room at all. However, in the course of one's life, one accumulates many objects for which one needs space. I have, for example, some artifacts of Egyptian art. I like to be surrounded by these and other collectibles. It is not at all about whether they are expensive or valuable. The important thing is that I have a personal relationship with each one. I also love the view of Lake Zurich from our garden. I enjoy the peace and quiet. While the couple was happily living in Chateau Algonquin, it was reported that in fall 2021, Tina and Irwin invested in a property of their own, an estate which cost $76 million no less. This property is a 10-building waterfront estate overlooking Lake Zurich, also in Switzerland, of course. And it's said that tennis star Roger Federer considered buying the property at one point, but I guess Tina beat him to it. Irwin had hinted that he and Tina used the new compound, which spanned over 240,000 square feet of space as a weekend retreat close to where their main residence is located. This property is a century-old historic estate with 10 structures spread over 5.5 acres of land with plenty of private lakefront access. There's also a private pond, stream, swimming pool, and a boat deck on the shore of Lake Zurich. It's no doubt this was Tina's type of place as outdoor space has always been a priority for her. Back in 2000, she told Architectural Digest, I need nature and solitude. They nurture me. My idea of a vacation is reading a book on the terrace while my boyfriend cooks his dinner. The mansion purchase came quite recently, only a month before Tina agreed to sell her vast music catalog to German music company for $50 million. To which Tina said, the protection of my life's work, my musical inheritance is something personal. I am confident that with BMG and Warner Music, my work is in professional and reliable hands. Aside from this retreat, Tina also long enjoyed a vacation home located on the French Riviera, a villa situated in the hills. Tina would often drive herself south from her home in Switzerland to throw lavish parties and celebrations here in France. But she also enjoyed this property because it's in the heart of the wilderness. Tina says she discovered it after renting a little pink house nearby and when she heard that a villa was up for sale, she jumped at the opportunity. The villa is situated between two mountains and surrounded by woods and wildlife. More recently, the interiors at the French abode were described as a mix of grandeur balanced by informality. She told Architectural Digest, When I see something I love, a suite of furniture, a piece of art I never measure, I never hesitate, I just buy it. Eventually, I'll find a place for it. I've always wanted and needed to transform my surroundings because decorating is my first response to loss and upheaval, settle, collect, create a private universe. Tina and her designers drew inspiration from all over, including the Greek. Her home boasts Greek and Roman pottery and sculptures that are always on display and other accents throughout. Even the column pool and terraces have canvas shades bordered with a Greek key motif. Elsewhere, Tina had a small private library where she could write and study on an antique card table surrounded by her leather bound volumes on art, religion and ancient history. Then we come to the master suite, which was Tina's favorite room in this house and one that she's taken to calling Cleopatra's Barge, which obviously has an Egyptian theme, while the decor complements the amazing views of the sea. Downstairs you'll find a plush basement spa, a screening room and a trophy room, while every major space in this multi-level villa opens to a patio or balcony with stunning views over the Riviera. While the world grieves the loss of legend Tina Turner, she will no doubt be remembered forever for the mark she made on the music industry, as well as in the Switzerland community she chose to call home for so many years. It was one of the most famous musical marriages in history, resulting in the sales of millions of records, breaking down racial barriers and winning over fans across the world. However, the one-time relationship of Tina Turner and her first husband Ike Turner was marked with violence and abuse. Before this tragic nearly 20-year relationship left Tina, who recently passed at the age of 83 physically, emotionally and financially broken, the one-time couple owns a famous home in Los Angeles. Located in the View Park neighborhood, Tina and Ike's former residence was once a retro piece of history, but more recently it was turned into a modern mid-century home. The Ranchdale property was built in 1956, featuring just under 3,000 square feet of space, and it was also used as Tina and Ike's home in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It, about Tina's rise to fame and her tumultuous relationship with Ike. Before his death in 2007, it's said that the last place Ike Turner called home was his modest property in San Marcos, California, which is also where he passed away. The home which Ike Turner once lived with his wife Tina Turner for over a decade had quite the facelift in recent years, turning the 1956 built retro property into a modern mid-century residence. Located in the View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, this ranch-style home span 2,964 square feet of space and came equipped with four bedrooms and five baths throughout. Not only was the home the actual place where Ike and Tina lived for many years, it also played the couple's home in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It, about Tina's rise to fame, rocky, personal life. While many facts in that movie were reportedly fake, at least the main filming location was true to reality. Ike purchased this property, situated on just under a quarter of an acre of land in 1964, after he got a $40K bonus for signing a contract with Sue Records. Reports claim that Ike spent $100,000 for the residence back then, while in today's day that would equate to nearly $900,000. The couple called this View Park property home until Tina moved out after leaving Ike in 1976 when Ike then sold it, fully furnished the next year for $115K. Those buyers kept the home, even with the super retro decorations for almost four decades and changed basically nothing about the pad. So when it came time to shoot the film, this house was an easy pick to make use of. Both the inside and outside of the house was featured plenty throughout the movie. Apparently it was Ike's idea on how to design these retro and interesting interiors as he redecorated in 1970 while Tina was in the hospital. It was written in a biography about her life. When she was finally released, she went home to a real shocker. Instead of having spent money on flowers to send to Tina, she found that he had spent a small fortune on completely redecorating their house from Florida ceiling in superfly, ghetto or house chic style. Ike added a wet bar with a built-in fish tank, mirrored ceilings, a coffee table shaped like a guitar, and a blue velvet couch with arms that turned into octopus tentacles if you could believe it. In the living room, he also had a Florida ceiling rock waterfall installed in the corner. Some features of the home remain to this day, but not those ones, including the ornate front doors that were actually custom made for Tina with door handles shaped like arms and hands in a Buddhist style. Another thing that actually stayed from Ike and Tina's days of living here was also the fieldstone fireplace and entry wall. While many of these strange home amenities could be seen in the 1993 film, one thing that was fake was Ike's at home recording studio because in reality he rented a studio in a private apartment, not on the premises. One thing that certainly was revamped was the formerly not so pretty kitchen. Tina hasn't quoted saying about this one time green colored cooking space. Ike thought I'd be happy because yeah, I did like green, but not necessarily in my kitchen. In that way, everything had been done first class, custom made at the house. I mean it cost a fortune, but it was poor taste. Well, the late Tina would be happy to see that the kitchen was completely refreshed and after renovations, all the cabinets and appliances were traded in for white and stainless steel amenities. The small doorway that opened the living room was also fully opened up to give the area an airy and spacious feel. Out back, the pool area of the home remains largely the same and aside from the custom swimming pool, there's also a cabana and fire pit lounge area on the property. As shown in what's love got to do with it, Tina's time living here with Ike wasn't what you call bliss. She spoke about the abuse she endured at this property and elsewhere on many occasions, one time saying in 1981, my ex-husband was a physically violent man. I went through basic torture. I was living a life of death. I didn't exist, but I survived it and when I walked out, I walked and I didn't look back. And after she ditched Ike for good, Tina did find her own power and happiness, going on to win a ton of awards and record hit songs, as well as finding love again with her next husband, Erwin Mock. As for this property, following the huge remodel, it last sold in 2018 for just under $1.4 million. Looking back on what happened to finally end the cycle between Ike and Tina Turner, the moment she left wasn't until 1976. When the star escaped her abusive husband, it had been building up for years and Ike, the musician and band leader, had built an act around his wife. In his mind, he was the one who made Tina a star. The control that Ike had over Tina's life was immense and made it nearly impossible for her to prepare her exit, meaning when she did leave, she only had 36 cents and one credit card in her pocket. When Ike and Tina met in 1957, she was still Anna Mae Bullock, a 16-year-old country girl from a small town in Tennessee, while Ike was in his mid-20s and already polished band leader in Rising Star. Tina impressed him enough with her unique singing voice that he added her to his band as Little Anne. There was no romance between the two in the first few years and, instead, Tina was in a relationship with the band's saxophone player and fell pregnant with his child, giving birth to her first son in 1958 just after graduating high school. Eventually, Ike would reorganize the band around Tina and, in 1960, he renamed them the Ike and Tina Turner Review, while they had already started a romantic relationship. They even had a son together that same year, but they weren't legally married until a quick Tijuana wedding in 1962. Tina later said, I knew that I didn't want to marry him, didn't want to be a part of his life, didn't want to be another of the 500 women he had around him by then. But I was, well, I was scared and by now, this was my life. Where else could I go? We're a decade. Tina Turner lived a life that was a whirlwind of fame, her forming, abuse, and drug use, which all centered around Ike. Where, on stage, she was full of energy, sexy, and strong, offstage, she was an exhausted mom struggling to control Ike's rages and meet his demands. Years after, Ike would deny the extent of the abuse to Tina, stating, sure, I slapped Tina, we had fights, and there had been times when I punched her without thinking, but I never beat her. In 1972, a few things happened that got Tina on her way out. She talked back to Ike for the first time, and by then she was raising the kids, writing the songs, and paying the bills. She also found Buddhism and began chanting a mantra regularly. The more she chanted, the more she noticed her life improving. Tina was offered an acting role in the rock musical Tommy and filmed a TV special with Anne Margaret. Being on set, gave her time away from Ike in a peek at how capable she really could be without him. Finally, on July 1, 1976, Tina saw her chance. On a flight to Dallas to begin their next tour, the two began to fight, and in the car on the way to their Hilton Hotel, Ike began slapping her. She remembered later she hit him back, kicked, and cursed, which is when she admitted she knew she was gone. As she freed herself from an abusive relationship, the planned review tour Tina had coming up failed, and the promoters and advertisers wanted her to pay. She began booking appearances on game shows such as Hollywood Squares, anything that would generate cash flow, and Ike wasn't giving an inch in divorce proceedings because he had copyrighted her name, he wanted to take that too. Eventually, she decided against her lawyer's advice to let him have just about everything. The house, cars, the recording studio, in exchange for her professional name, Tina Turner. The divorce was finalized in 1978. Tina had no many, no bands, and no record label, and she didn't know that it would be six years before she would release the album Private Dancer, the biggest hit of her career. In her future, also Leia Happy Marriage, Grammy Awards, an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist, and much more. But Tina had already proved to herself that Ike hadn't made her a star, and whatever Leia had, they would be her best days. While we know that Tina Turner went on to have the best days of her career after leaving Ike before her 2023 passing at age 83, what became of her ex-husband? Reportedly, the final home of Ike Turner was located in San Marcos, California, where he also died. There aren't many photos online of Ike Turner's home aside from aerial and exterior shots, but what we do know about the residence is that it spanned a modest 1,604 square feet of space, and featured three bedrooms and two bathrooms throughout. He passed away in this North County home in 2007 when he was 76. While Ike was once a groundbreaking guitarist, pianist, his reputation was tarnished by his drug addiction, stint in prison, and of course, because of the abuse he inflicted on his ex-wife Tina. The cause of Ike's death hadn't been determined, but foul play wasn't suspected. Ike Turner's ex-wife and manager Ann Thomas was the last to see him alive in his bedroom just after 8am the day he passed. With the band members in the house ready to play some music to cheer him up, she delivered the news that he wasn't breathing. Band members tried unsuccessfully to revive him before paramedics arrived. Year away, Ike Turner's action in his marriage to Tina Turner resulted in the downfall of his reputation. While that story of the two late musicians in one time couple is a long and complicated one to tell, before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist and selling more than 100 million records worldwide, only to then pass away following a string of illnesses, singer Tina Turner was born Anna May Bullock on November 26, 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee. Tina's family lived in a rural and unincorporated part of Haywood County known as Nutbush, a community that would live on in infamy after she penned her song Nutbush City Limits later in life. But back in these early days, Tina would describe her family as well to do farmers who lived modestly off the businesses of sharecropping. Unfortunately Tina's parents didn't exactly set a sterling example of two people in love and they were constantly at one another's throats. Eventually her mother left to live in St. Louis when Tina was 10. Three years later, her father left as well so Tina was sent to live with her grandmother in Brownsville, Tennessee. Following high school, she picked up work as a nurse's aide in the hopes of entering the medical profession. At night Tina and her sister would head to nightclubs in St. Louis which is where she saw a man named Ike Turner perform for the first time as the band leader of Kings of Rhythm. Only 18 years old, Tina became enamored with their music coming back and time and time again to watch the band perform. One night the drummer handed Tina the microphone and she took to the stage. The rest is history. Ike was so impressed by her ability that he invited her to be the group's guest vocalist and began teaching her lessons on voice control as well as performance. Originally performing as little Anne, she sang alongside Carlson Oliver on Ike's box top which became her first studio recording. That song dropped in 1958. That very same year, Turner gave birth to her first son Craig following a relationship with the band's saxophonist Raymond Hill. But Raymond wasn't the one Tina would end up with. Soon after, she moved in with Ike to help him raise his two sons on his own after he had broken up with their mother. A love affair ensued and inspired by the movie serial Sheena Queen of the Jungle, she changed her stage name to Tina Turner at Ike's request. Two years later, Ike and Tina Turner released their debut single A Fool in Love. It became an immediate success reaching the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. They then took off on a tour of the country that became noted for its incredible spectacle and the diversity of its crowds. But there was trouble in paradise. Following their monumental success, Ike became possessive and fearful that he might lose Tina who he considered to be his meal ticket. Not that that ever stopped him from sleeping with other women and writing songs about these relationships only to have Tina perform them. Eventually, she refused to sing those songs anymore which is when Ike got physical beating her with a shoe stretcher. Rather than leave him, Tina ended up marrying Ike in his ceremony in Tijuana in 1962. Four years later, the couple took part in the TNT show which is where Phil Spector discovered them. After signing them to his label, he produced the song that he considered to be his masterpiece River Deep Mountain High. Tina was forced to sit through countless vocal takes to pull this baby off and the song wasn't the hit that Phil was expecting it to be. But it still led to further opportunities for Ike and Tina. Soon they were opening for the Rolling Stones and producing a crossover hit with a cover of Credence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary that won a Grammy for Best R&B vocal performance by a group. Her marriage finally began to unravel as Ike grew more abusive while being fueled by cocaine. Tina had attempted to leave him many times in 1968. She was so desperate she attempted overdosing on sleeping pills. Finally, while performing in Dallas, she fled to a friend's place, actress Anne Margaret, who provided her with shelter in Los Angeles. Ike would come looking for her but to no avail and the couple would divorce in 1978. Tina came away with just two cars and the right-stair stage name. Turns out that's all she needed to turn herself into a full-fledged superstar. Tina Turner's legacy to the music industry was largely shaped by her incredible, uninhibited, one-of-a-kind stage presence that influenced everyone from Mick Jagger to Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson, and Beyonce. But somewhat surprisingly at first, Tina struggled to establish herself as a solo performer. Her first record, starting with 1974's pre-breakup album Tina Turner the Country On, failed to generate any hit songs and she spent the next eight years touring to help pay off the debts she had from a canceled tour with Ike. She supplemented that income by also appearing on variety and game shows like Hollywood Squares. Her rebirth began in 1982 when the British synth pop band Heaven 17 recruited her for a remake of the Temptation's Ball of Confusion. This would lead to a new record deal for Tina with Capital, which in turn led to a top 30 hit in the US titled Let's Stay Together. In 1984, Tina released her masterpiece, Private Dancer, which instantly turned her into a superstar thanks to a little song titled What's Love Got to Do With It written by British songwriter Terry Britton.  The following year she met German music executive Erwin Bach and for Tina it was love at first sight, kicking off a relationship that would last the rest of her life. The 90s would then become an ongoing validation of her entire career when her autobiography I, Tina was turned into a 1993 movie titled What's Love Got to Do With It, starring Angela Bassett as Tina and Lawrence Fishburne as Ike. I Don't Want to Fight, a new song included on the film's soundtrack, would become Tina's last ever top 10 hit. Then in 1999, Tina released her final album 24-7. Between 2008 and 2009, Tina embarked on a 50th anniversary tour and four years later, she and Erwin finally married after 27 years together. Tina might not have been touring or performing any longer by this time, but she was still constantly being flooded with interview requests, asking her to relive some of her most painful memories. For instance, during the HBO 2021 documentary Tina, the performer would reveal that she had been dealing with a string of physical and mental ailments for years. Three years later, she was battling intestinal cancer, followed shortly thereafter by kidney failure in 2017. At that point, Erwin stepped in to heroically donate his kidney to his partner, but it would only buy her so much time. Just two months before her passing, Tina would take to Instagram to let her fans know that she was in great danger due to her battle with kidney disease. She wrote in part, My kidneys are victims of my not realizing that my high blood pressure should have been treated with conventional medicine. I've put myself in great danger of refusing to face the reality that I need daily lifelong therapy with medication. For far too long, I believe that my body was an untouchable and indestructible bastion. A few short weeks later on May 24th 2023, Tina would pass away at her mansion in Switzerland. Her upsided a battle with lifelong illness and natural causes were ultimately declared for the reason for her passing. With as important a place as she held in the industry, it didn't take long for tributes to come pouring in, including from Angela Bassett, the actress who portrayed Tina in the movie of her life, writing on social media, through her courage in telling her story, her commitment to stay the course in her life, no matter the sacrifice, and her determination to carve out a space in a rock and roll for herself, and for others who look like her. Tina Turner showed others who lived in fear what a beautiful future filled with love, compassion and freedom should look like. Others like Mick Jagger, Elton John, Diana Ross, Beth Middler, and Georgia Armani would also share their emotions and tributes with the rest of the world as well. But as for what Tina herself would like her legacy to be, we have the answer to that question, thanks to what was quite possibly the last interview of her life with the Guardian in April 2023. When asked how she would like to be remembered, she told the media outlet, as the Queen of Rock and Roll, as a woman who showed other women that it is okay to strive for success on their own terms. There's no denying that that's exactly what Tina Turner accomplished in the span of her life and none of us are going to forget her legendary accomplishments anytime soon. Alright everyone, that's gonna bring this latest addition of Before They Were Gone to a close. Thanks so much for watching and before you head out, what's the one memory of Tina Turner that comes to mind when you reflect on her incredible career? Let me know in the comments down below, otherwise like, subscribe and turn on your notifications to make sure you never miss an episode. My name's Kara and I'll see you all next time.


theCUBE presents HPE Discover 2022, brought to you by HPE. Hi everybody, Dave Vellante and John Furrier wrapping up theCUBE's coverage of day two HPE Discover 2022. We're live from Las Vegas. Vishal Laila here, he's the Senior Vice President and General Manager for HPE's GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions. Vishal, good to see you again. Likewise Dave, good to see you. It was about a year ago that we met here or maybe nine months ago. Yeah, that's right. It was September of last year. New role for you, is that right? I was starting that new role when I last met you. Yeah, but it's been nine months, three quarters now. What have you learned so far? I mean, it's been quite a ride, right?  We've executed on all of them. So I mean, if you remember back then, Dave, we talked about improving a cloud experience. We talked about data and analytics being a focus area and then building on the marketplace. I think you heard a lot of that over the last couple of days here, right? So we've enhanced our cloud experience. We added a private cloud, which was the big announcement yesterday, or day before yesterday that Antonio made. So that's been, I mean, we've been testing that with customers, great feedback so far, right? And we're super excited about that. And down there, the test drive section, people are testing that. So we're getting really, really good feedback, really good acceptance from customers. On the data and analytics side, we launched the S3 connector. We also had the analytics platform and then we launched Data Fabric as a service a couple of days ago, right? Which is kind of like back into that hybrid world. And then on the marketplace side, we've added a ton of partners, gone deep with them, about 80 plus partners now, different ISVs. So again, I think great. I think we've accomplished a lot over the last three quarters or so. A lot more to be done though. The marketplace is really interesting to us because it's a hallmark of cloud. You got to have a marketplace. Talk about how that's evolving and what your vision is for a marketplace. I mean, you're exactly right. I mean, having a broad marketplace provides a pull for the platform, right? It's a chicken and egg. You need both. You need a good platform on which a good marketplace can sit but the vice versa as well. And what we are doing two things there, right? One is we're expanding coverage of the marketplace. So we are adding more ISVs into the marketplace, but at the same time, we're adding more capabilities into the marketplace. So for example, we just demoed earlier today, click to deploy capabilities, right? So we have an ISV in the marketplace. They're tested. They are, they work with the solution, but now you can click to deploy directly on our infrastructure. Over time, we'll add commerce capabilities, licensing capabilities, et cetera. But again, we are super excited about that capability because I think it's important from a customer perspective. Michelle, I want to ask you about that because that's, again, the marketplace will be the ultimate arbiter of value creation. Ecosystem and marketplace go hand in hand. What's your vision for what a successful ecosystem looks like? What's your expectation? Because now that GreenLake is up and running, I say up and running, but like we've been following the analysis, it just gets better, it's up and to the right. So we're anticipating an ecosystem surge. What are you expecting and what's your vision for how the ecosystem is going to develop out? Yeah, I mean, I've been meeting with a lot of our partners over the last couple of days and you're right, right? I mean, I think of them in three or four buckets, right, their ISVs. And the ISVs come in two forms, right? They have bigger solutions, right? I think of Veeam, Nutanix, right? Comvault, you know, bigger solutions. And then there are smaller software packages, right? Think Mongo, think about open source, right? So again, one of them is targeted to developers, the other to the IT ops, but that's kind of one bucket, right? ISVs. The second is around the channel partners who take this to market. And they're asking us, hey, this is fantastic. Help us understand how we can help you take this to market. And I think the other bucket is SI's, system integrators, right? I met with a few today and they're all excited about, they're like, hey, we have some tooling. We have the managed services capabilities. How can we take your cloud? Well, they build great practice around Accenture, around, sorry, AWS, around Azure. So they're like, how can we build a similar practice around GreenLake? So again, those are the big buckets I would say. Yeah, yeah, that's a great answer, great commentary. I want to just follow up on that real quick, if you don't mind. So a couple of things we're seeing and observing and I want to get your reaction to is, with AI machine learning and the promise of that, vertical specialization is creating unique opportunities on with these cloud platforms. And the other one is the rise of the managed service provider because expertise are hard to come by. You want Kubernetes, good luck finding talent. So managed services seem to be exploding. How does that fit into the buckets or is it all three buckets or do you guys enable that? How do you see that coming and then the vertical piece? So really good question. What we are doing is through our software, we're trying to abstract a lot of the complexity away. Take Kubernetes, right? So we have actually automated a whole bunch of Kubernetes functionality in our software. And then we provide managed services around it. With very little, I would say, human labor associated with it is software managed. But at the same time, what we are trying to do is make sure that we enable that same functionality to our partners. So a lot of it is software automation, but then they can wrap their services around it and that way we can scale the business, right? So again, our first principle is automate as much as we can through software, right? Abstract complexity. And then as needed, add the managed services capability around it. So get some functionality for HPE to have it and then encourage the ecosystem to fill it in or replicate it. Or replicate it, right? I mean, I don't think it's either or. It should be both, right? We can provide managed services or we should have our partners provide managed services. That's how we scale the business. We are end of the day, we are a product and product company, right? And it can manifest itself in services as customers consume it, but it's still IP based. So let's quantify some of that momentum. I think in the last year, we've called your over $800 million now in ARR. You're growing at triple digits. You got a big backlog, if we get the exact number. Give us some... Yeah, I mean, the momentum is fantastic, Dave, right? So we have about $7 billion in total contract value, right, significant. We have 1,600 customers now, unique customers running GreenLake. We have triple digit growth year over year. So in the last quarter, we had 100% growth year over year. So again, fantastic momentum. I mean, the other couple, one other metric I would like to talk about is the stickiness factor associated with... Tension, N-R-R, how do you measure that? Is retention, right? Is renewals, it's running in like high 90s, right? So if you think about it, that's a reflection on the value proposition of GreenLake. And that's kind of on a unit basis, if you will. That's a number... On the revenue basis, yeah. On a revenue basis, okay. You know, the 1,600 customers, can you just talk about the size?  They're both, right? So I'll give you some examples, right?  They come from different industries, different geographies. We are seeing like the momentum across every single geo, every single industry. I mean, just to take some examples, BMW, for example, I mean, they're running the entire electric car fleet data collection on data fabric on GreenLake, right? Texas Children Health on the healthcare side, right? On the public sector side, I was with Carl Hunt yesterday, he's the CIO of County of Essex, New Jersey. So they're running the entire operations on GreenLake. So just if you look at it, Barclays is the financial sector, right? I mean, they're running 100,000 workloads of GreenLake. So if you just look at the scale, large companies, small companies, public sector. In India, we have Steel Authority of India, which is the largest steel producer there. So we're seeing it across multiple industries, multiple geographies, great, great uptake. Yeah, we were talking yesterday on our wrap up kind of dissecting through the news. I want to ask you the question that we were riffing on and see if we can get some clarity on it. If I'm a customer, CIO or CISO or a buyer, or HPE, I've been working with you or your team for years, what's the value proposition? Finish this sentence. I work with HPE because blank, because GreenLake brings new value proposition. What is that filling that blank for me? Yeah. So I mean, as we speak with our customers, customers are looking at alternatives at all times, right? Sometimes it's other providers on premises, sometimes it's public cloud. And as we look at it, I mean, we have value proposition across both, right? So from a public cloud perspective, some of the challenges that our customers see are around latency, around cost predictability, right? That variability in cost is really kind of like a challenge. It's around compliance, right? Things of that nature, it's around open systems, right? I mean, sometimes they feel locked into a cloud provider, especially when they're using proprietary services. So those are some of the things that we have solved for them. As compared to kind of like, you know, the other on-premises vendors, I would say the marketplace that we spoke about earlier is a huge differentiator. We have this huge marketplace now that's developing. We have high levels of automation that we have built, right, which is, you know, which tells you about the TCO that we can drive for the customers. What the other thing that is really cool that we introduced in the public, in the private cloud is fungibility across infrastructure, right? So basically on the same infrastructure, you can run virtual machines, containers, bare metals, any application you want. So you can decommission and commission the infrastructure on the fly. So what it does is increase- No matter where it is. No, in the same- On-premises. On-premises, right? But earlier, I mean, if you think about it, the infrastructure was dedicated for a certain application. Now we've basically made it composable, right? And that way, what really, that does is it increases utilization. So you can get an increased utilization, high automation that drives lower TCO. So you've got a horizontal, basically, platform now that can handle a variety of workloads. Yeah, and these workloads can sit anywhere to your point, right? I mean, we can have a four-node workload out in a manufacturing setting to multiple racks in a data center. And it's all run by the same cloud trains, same software train. So it's really extensive. And you can call on the resources that you need for that particular workload whenever you need them. Exactly right. Excellent. Give you the last word, kind of takeaways from Discover. And when we sit down and talk next year at this event, where do you want to be? I mean, I think as you probably saw from Discover, this is like very different. Antonio did a live demo of a product, right? Which was cool, right? I mean, we haven't done that in a while.  No, no, no. Well, I think you'll see more of that from us. I mean, I'm focused on three things, right? I'm focused on that cloud experience we spoke about. So what we are doing now is making sure that we increase that time for that, make it very attractive to different industries, through certifications like HIPAA, et cetera. So that's kind of one focus, right? Just drive hardware at that adoption of that private cloud, right? Across different industries and different customer segments. The second is more on the data and analytics I spoke about. So we'll have more and more analytics capabilities that you'll see building upon data fabric as a service. And the third is the marketplace. So that's like, it's very specific. It's the three focus areas and we're driving hardware. We'll be watching for that. All right, number two, instrumentation is really key. It is absolutely key. And the marketplace too. I mean, you mentioned, you know, Mongo, some other data platforms that we're going to see here. That's going to be, I think, critical for monetization on GreenLake. Absolutely. Michelle Lowe, thanks so much for coming back in the queue. Thank you. Good to see you guys. Thank you. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back up to wrap up the day with a couple of heavies from IDC. You're watching theCUBE.


Preživam, da bo mi počut, da so našem vrde, da je tudi je zelo počut, da je zelo počut, da je svoje zelo počut. Zato možemo da je vzelo počut, da je začela, da je podal za porut. Tako, našli. Mr. Rui Moreira, počut. Našto ne, Dr. Duard is the former coordinator of the Portugal National Program Against Tubercloses and assistant professor at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Portugal, Izpup, the Vice President of the International Union Against Tubercloses, a land disease as well as shared Tubercloses working group of the European Respiratory Society. Hakel, dajte služenju, a ne vostajte v teži. Thak'j, mladje. Potečno, srečenje, ko je. Však sem zelo, čeljite, da se razrečujem v现šenju. V 2019 hrvih vseh vseh vseh vseh vseh vseh. Prepočujem, Mr. Naomi Burschein, resekutiv, resekutiv delarstv, Mr. Joseke Roš, ki je moj fran in resekutiv delarstv, za časno poslednje, da je to v 2019 vsega resekutiv delarstv, in za vsega resekutiv delarstva organizacija. Prepočujem, da vsega resekutiv delarstv, Bread is opening ceremony with the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Mrs. Michelle Blanshi, with the former Portuguese President George Sampaio. With Mr. Rui Quimba Muraes, from Consumidoros Sociados Viving Organizados. And Mr. Alexandre Quintanilla, scientist and leader in the Portuguese drug policy reform. Over 4 days of presentations, workshops and networking events we expect a major reflection about devices for harm and risk reduction, that we consider essential in our policies. In the context of the related policies, the first national drug strategy, whose 20th anniversary we celebrate in the coming weeks, has provided a balanced approach between supply reduction and reducing demand in the context of the related policies. I remember that it was approved by the Portuguese government in 1999. These policies and this balanced approach to the illicit substances have been successful, and therefore we have extended the concept, not only to the controlled substances, but to all addictive behaviors. Portugal's approach is a well-known model of best practices because we are fully committed to the principle of drug control conventions based on principle of proportionality, respect for human rights, putting health and welfare in the center. Drug addiction and substance addiction is a health problem first and foremost. But we are still concerned about the future. We are not a country free of drugs, free of addiction, and mostly about access to legal substances, such as alcohol, tobacco, and other behaviors, such as gambling. The regulation of these access, which we can consider as an environmental prevention, is also extremely crucial and important to us. In terms of prevention and in the context of demand, we have several strategies and we try to go beyond mere information about risks and harms of drugs, but we want to favor the capacity of resilience and the capacity of making conscious choices about the behaviors we adopt. We try not to diminish our fellow citizens or use the connotation of certain behaviors as addictions or even scenes. We do not believe in just saying no. We wanted to help people understand why to say no. The strategy settles in several core values, of which I highlight the humanism and pragmatism as the most relevant and we heard about them today. If humanism leads us to consider the dignity of the human being in all circumstances and its condition as a citizen with rights and duties, pragmatism leads us to recognize that the same human being and the specific conditions is enslaved by dependence and inability to self-determine. It is fundamental that we support that same human being regaining the most basic levels of human dignity so that he can therefore make a conscious choice. We are attentive to the responses that other countries have applied and we also support the evidence that the EMC, the DEA, help us to compile. We have extended the range of responses. We have also advanced legislation in harm reduction, which gives space to find answers. We believe are the most appropriate to the problems faced as is the creation of monitored consumer programs. The success of these policies, like the needle exchange program, has contributed to a decrease in dejectable consumption, but we are also far away from being free of addiction. In recent years, above all in the aftermath of the economic and social crisis that has affected us, we have witnessed the recruitment of old consumption by injection. We therefore support the initiative of a consortium of NGOs supported by the Lisbon Center Council that allowed recent opening of the mobile monitor consumption space in Lisbon and now also in Porto, which will soon be followed by the creation of fixed space in Lisbon. And it's very good, very good for us all. Life is an absolute value that knows no borders, no differences. It's for the defense of a better life that we meet here. I want to warmly welcome you all here in this conference. I hope you all share your experience, share your knowledge. We all win with that. And I wish you a very, very well staying in Portugal in this extraordinary city. I must say this is my home, so I hope you like it as much as I do. And I hope you enjoyed the session. Thank you. Next up, it's my absolute pleasure to introduce you to Professor Alexandra Quintanilla. When we're looking for the people who could best tell the story of the Portuguese decriminalization model, his name came up straight away. And so I'm so excited to hear him speak. Professor Quintanilla is trained as a theoretical physicist, is a former professor of biophysics at Berkeley in Porto and was the chair of the Commission for Portugal's National Drug Strategy in 1998 when it all happened. Without further ado, Professor Quintanilla. Well, you know that I come from academia because I have a few slides. Let me first say how honored I am to be here today with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michel Bachelet and with our President, George Sampaio. I cannot express in words how emotional I feel about your presence here today. Distinguished guests. I was reminded. I was told to talk a little bit about the Portuguese story. And it's interesting because I also chose, I came to live in Portugal about 30 years ago, and I also chose Porto. So I wasn't born here. I chose to come here to live and to teach and to do research. And I'm immensely proud of the fact that this gathering is taking place in Porto. A few days ago I was reading a Stanford alumni publication that my husband, who spent time at Stanford, receives regularly. And the March 2019 issue talks about the drug issue. It's interesting that it should be something of last month. And I think what the Portuguese story and experience tells us and shows is that it provides evidence for the fact that ideas that did not start with our work, previous to work that we have done, actually do work. They talk about a former professor at Stanford called Avram Goldstein, who in 1979 started building the foundations of addiction science in that university. And in 1993, in a book called Addiction from Biology to Drug Policy, he wrote, and I quote, drugs were a public health problem, not a law and order issue, 1993. And that caffeine and nicotine were also addictive. Today the list of addictions is much longer. It includes alcohol, many other drugs, including the new opioids, smartphones, sex, video games, caffeine, food, gambling, social media, shopping, exercise. All of these are addictive to many people. And I think it's interesting that we can look back and see how in Portugal it was possible to have public policy conceived based on robust knowledge and evidence from different types of domains. And I want to emphasize the issue of multidisciplinary because in complex problems, you need people that come from different backgrounds to be able to dialogue with each other. And it's not easy. Each area has their own specialized words, which they try to make it as incomprehensible as possible to show that they're intelligent, so that others don't understand. And so this is not easy to do. This is a difficult thing to achieve. So I also just finished reading a wonderful book, which I recommend to everybody, by a man called William Davis. And it has a very provocative title. It's called the Happiness Industry. And he talks a little bit about this difficulty of dialogue. And he says, and I quote, the language and theories of expert elites are becoming more idiosyncratic and separate from those of the public. How they narrate human life and how we do so are pulling apart from each other, which undermines the very possibility of inclusive political deliberation. And again, I think the Portuguese experience maybe because we are a small country, maybe because we value human rights above anything else basically because we suffered from 300 years of inquisition and 50 years of a dictatorship that basically locked us in fear because we were liberated from that 45 years ago. I think we value some of the things that human rights teach us to respect. There's another book as a recommendation by David Runciman, who says basically the same thing, published in 2018, which he calls also provocatively how democracy ends. I recommend both of these books. Now, let me come to the Portuguese story because I think it illustrates how it's possible to develop a strategy. I was simply, if you want to call it some sort of a catalyst to this, I was the person that had least knowledge about drugs. And in fact, when I was invited to chair this committee, I laughed. I said, you must be joking. This was a deputy prime minister who called me and I said, I don't know anything about drugs. I've never worked in drugs. I have a few friends that, yes, but I've never smoked anything. It's strange. I grew up in Africa and then went to California. I'm not proud of it. I'm not ashamed of it. But I didn't know much about it. And he said, that's the reason we're asking you to chair because you don't come here with fixed ideas. And I agree, 20 years later, I think that's true. Let me talk to you a little bit, then, about the Portuguese story, as it's called. It became the national strategy on drugs, which we submitted to the government in 1998. And what's interesting is that the government didn't change a single comma of the strategy that we proposed. These were the people. This was a committee established during the presidency of George Sampaio, which has been mentioned many times. The prime minister was Antonio Guterres. And the deputy prime minister was Socrates, who was then prime minister for a few years. He was the one who called me and told me that it was because I didn't know much about it, that they were inviting me. And these were the people involved. These were, as you can see, a very multidisciplinary group of people from criminologists. They even have a biophysicist. That's me. And a few psychologists, a nurse, an attorney general, an adjunct. And these people worked for about four and a half months. This was an immensely sort of work-driven group that for four and a half months worked. We established different groups that were responsible for different chapters in the strategy. And these were the ones that you can see here in prevention. We had Daniel Sampaio in treatment, risk reduction, resocialization, drone go long, who's here with you today and who's been active in this area for a very long time. He probably knows more about it than I don't want to exaggerate. But like many of you, he's been associated with this for a very long time, and nun Miguel. And the legal framework in international perspective with Lorenz Martins, research and training by Kandagren, organization impact with Julie Machard-Vazh and Joakim Triggs. And I've put at the bottom in red something which did change the way we worked. We decided to have public hearings about the strategy all over Portugal. We organized, we rented cinemas, cinemas that took up to 800 to 1,000 people to have public discussions about what we were doing. And that was probably the one event. There were several, we did half a dozen or more that touched me the most. Because there you had real people who would come up to us at the end of the meeting.  There were people sitting, the security people were very worried because they were not allowed, but they were sitting on the floor around the place where we were talking. People came up to us in tears at the end of these discussions which went on for about four hours, thanking us for doing the work that we were doing. And this was humbling because we had real people, ladies, you know, small 85-year-old ladies who would come and would grab us and would thank us for the kind of work that we were doing at that time. It was very touching, it was very motivating and it helped us develop the work further. The timetable seemed almost impossible. We were given the task in September in, I think it was February of 1998. The strategy was delivered in the summer of 1998. It was approved and adopted by the government in 1999 and I suspect a few weeks later signed by President George Sampaio because it doesn't become law until the president signs it and it emphasized essentially three main aspects. Integrated policies. You can't try to solve this by just looking at one aspect. You have to have an integrated policy across both education, training, harm reduction, judicial policies, international policies, the way you do, you train future researchers in the area. It was prevention was a very important aspect. Shift from criminals to patients and somebody recently said, well now maybe we should use it from criminals to patients and now to human beings, which is perhaps how we should look at this whole issue and trust accumulated and robust knowledge between the people that we're working here. 20 years later, the results are impressive. I don't think we solved everything at the time. The whole issue of procurement of the drugs was not dealt with at that time. It still needs to be addressed and although not perfect, the strategy veined enormous momentums. The government decision to adopt the strategy in early 1999 was bold and very controversial. We were told that international, many governments in the world and international organizations would take us to international courts when we did this. We were threatened that this would never pass in the legal system internationally and it was possible because it was based on the most reliable existing knowledge, which you know evolves very rapidly these days, but what we had at the time had the most knowledgeable people working, a capacity to listen to many stakeholders. I think this is probably the most important aspect of the strategy, the fact that we were able to listen and to understand what we were listening to and to be able to then trust the people that could then develop a strategy for the future. And as you all know, many of those who've had boyfriends and girlfriends and have been married, trust takes a long time to build and can be destroyed and can be in a very short moment. It's extremely fragile. In Portugal the strategy is being sort of oscillating, it's been going, you know, there's some moments that are more positive than others. I think looking back 20 years, I think we've done, we've done, we've done well. It was very risky at the time. I don't think it's risky anymore. And I would like to end with three ideas. And these are from people that I respect a great deal, a philosopher, a writer. And the first one simply says, take care of freedom and truth will take care of itself. And what he's referring to there is take care of the freedom to ask questions, take freedom, respect the freedom to give different answers, answers that are not old, answers that are new, that are innovative and truth will take care of itself.  And the second one is very clearly demonstrated by our strategy, which has the voyage of discovery has less to do with finding new landscapes than looking with fresh eyes. And we have problems sometimes looking with fresh eyes. We, after a certain time, our eyes are no longer so fresh. And if we have other people asking questions that we've never heard before, maybe our eyes become fresh. And my final message is supposed to be an African proverb. I'm very proud. I was born and raised in Mozambique and then in South Africa and then I spent 20 years in Berkeley. This is a wonderful quote. If you wanna go fast, go alone.  And I think the group showed that that was the way to move. And thank you for having me here to tell you the story.