Andrew Sullivan

pretty consistent of course i would say that um you know on the podcast we've traditionally just tried to simplify this problem down to who's going to use it right you know let's just talk about who's going to be living with the infrastructure on a day-to-day basis what that skill set is what what what other work that that individual is expected to do and and that kind of helps us rationalize where in in in you know that that decision tree

As Andrew laid it out, we find customers, right?

If you still have architects and full-blown ops team with network guys and server guys and virtualization guys, you're going to be able to design something as good, if not better, than anything we're going to give you, right?

And it'll be properly aligned with no waste anywhere inside the stack.

It's also very expensive and you need a lot of very specialized talent to do that.

FlexPod lets you get rid of all those architect roles, right?

You don't have to worry about the design.

We take care of that.

But you still need all those operations guys.

You still need a network team.

You still need a storage team.

You still need virtualization teams.

Today, the tooling to make that easier is getting better, but you still need to have those.

with an HCI market, typically there, we're just looking at an app admin, you know, they don't have to know anything beyond that.

If they do great, the system has the knobs that they can get into.

But But from an organization perspective, it just opens the door wide up, right, you can make the jump to owning your own infrastructure and having some control over your destiny, without having to also like jump up, you know, 4050 people and staff.

And probably somewhere between two days to a week, depending on how much experience and how good the team was.

Okay.

Well, I write FlexPod, so I better be an expert.

That's the standard that we use for everything.