Glenn Sizemore

I'm way too much heads down in NetApp land.

But the ability to pull apart those desperate application workloads and build a logical application group, I forget what you called it just now, but then use that as the unit of cloning,

I can, oh man, that is killer.

I mean, that's...

It's a technique that we use internally at NetApp, and I've seen externally at customers.

A quotable reference, which is a bit dated, but whatever, it's quotable, is our old bank-in-the-box solution with ING out of Australia.

It's essentially just the problem of I have a team that needs to do something with a thing that is living in the public side of how my business runs.

and I need a means for that team to safely figure out how to do their work, whether that is writing new code for extending a feature or troubleshooting a bug, figuring out performance bottlenecks, whatever it may be, whatever's going on, the ability to go and take a logical snapshot of, in this instance, a literal snapshot.

of all of those environments and then orchestrate bringing that back together, whether it's on the primary storage or sitting off an Express Pack E-Series target, and then boot that back up and let the team work with it.

Again, you're taking something that was originally created

just for core business protection reasons.

And you're now leveraging that resource to accelerate another part of your business, right?

You're removing an entire different problem.

It's very, very powerful when you acknowledge like how it can shorten workflows in particular and particularly simplify that CICD tool chain.

I mean, this is the data fabric, guys and gals.

What Michael is describing from NetApp's perspective, this is the data fabric.

Take your data and then by a combination of ecosystem largely powered by NetApp storage specific technology,

Let's go ahead and orchestrate a workflow where we're going to combine a couple of different use cases, but in the most optimized manner possible, let's manage that data throughout its lifecycle.

I love the way you put it, man, because you're right.

As much as there may be a sales rep out there that would love for you to keep every single bit of every change that's ever come through your business on NetApp desk somewhere, that's probably not the greatest idea from a business perspective.