Gabriel Chapman

It really is more of a comprehensive infrastructure stack solution that we're providing.

And while the storage is important, and it's definitely part of all the decisions that you're going to make, there are a whole bunch of additional decisions that need to be made on top of that.

Yep.

And also you don't have a lot of the caveats associated with some of those first-gen technologies around data locality and how does that affect my DRS and, you know, how do I, am I able to scale significantly, you know, past six or eight nodes?

Because, you know, a lot of those early systems had a challenge with metadata and how do they track all those informational changes?

We've solved those problems quite some time ago.

And I think that's one of the bigger issues of bringing a very mature scale-out storage platform into hyper-converged infrastructure that doesn't have any of the caveats associated with kind of some of those first-generation packaging exercises.

Live long and prosper.

No, just really excited about, you know, getting a chance to bring this product to market with NetApp logo on it.

I think it's been a long time coming.

There's a lot of people in the NetApp organization that have been chomping at the bit to get a product to go out there to market with.

And we're listening to our customers and we've surveyed the marketplace and seen what has come before us.

And we've made some purposeful design decisions that will allow us to bring this product into the enterprise, core enterprise customer base.

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