Duncan Moore

So we'll get to that.

But, yeah, boy, you know, and the installation and provisioning in 10.3 just became –

super fast, super easy.

So people who haven't looked at this product in a long time might recall StorageGrid.

Wow, it's really cool.

It's rock solid, but it's a little complex.

I had a broadcast customer of a large entertainment company in Germany deployed 16 petabytes of StorageGrid web scale in 5 and 1 half hours.

A lot of it was just in the automation capabilities that we had within the installation process.

The fact that we had that separate provisioned SLEZ environment and we couldn't send the whole box of bits to you at once.

By having the master distribution agreement for Debian and the bits, this greatly simplified itself.

And again, foreshadowing, when we talk about 10.4 in a minute, you'll see how we make it even easier.

We've also continued to make the appliance deployment very, very simple, right?

You know, our appliances ship with this bit of software on Flash on the appliance on an M-SATA device, basically, that we call it the PGE or pre-grid environment.

And it basically says, oh, I'm a storage grid appliance, and it kickstarts the installation process.

So that's become very, very simple as well.

It's definitely a real deployment vehicle.

In fact, I see software only as more the on-ramp.

Interesting.

The behavior that I see is typically at a, you know, someone's doing a pilot or a small deployment, they're getting going.

That'll be software only.