Glenn Sizemore

Internally, when the fire is on the hottest and there's nowhere left to go,

Jeff's the guy they call.

So if he's got a blog somewhere where he's just blogging, hey, here's what I think about this, you should be paying attention.

He's doing it old school, news group style.

I think Skip Shapiro would be up there.

That's what I was thinking just now when he was saying that.

I was like, I wonder who wins, Jeff or Skip.

I know.

So let's turn our tail a little bit from talking about where they can find you and pumping up why they should pay attention.

Let's kind of dig in a little bit.

We talked about your role as a principal architect and kind of pulling all the various different engineering orgs and helping kind of sit in between the field and customers and engineering and everyone and just try to funnel this information and make people aware of what's going on next to them.

Could we start with just kind of like a state of things?

How are databases in NetApp land?

How much have you seen the cloud conversation actually impact those tier one business critical databases?

Because in the conversations that we have, we basically advise that that's the last thing customers get to.

So I would imagine if we're seeing a big impact there, that means that our customer base has made it through this problem.

So where has it been successful?

I know the story that we tell is of the full application development lifecycle from idea all the way through payments and how that development lifecycle works its way through an infrastructure cycle.

At least in that context, we typically think more of test dev and those types of scenarios.

Are we finding actual uptake with customers there?