Jeff Baxter

In fact, in this first phase one release, it does require either an AF or for it to be an all SSD aggregate on our fat systems.

It's going to go through, take those snapshots, take the older data,

and push it out an S3 interface off the back end of the system, hopefully to a lower cost capacity storage.

And I'll mention what the targets are in a second.

The other use case is on a backup.

So basically, when using SnapMirror, SnapVault, and you move those snapshots over to another system, you're able to essentially dehydrate that system and move that data as it gets older and as it gets aging.

Instead of sitting within your data center or within an ONTAP system, you can push it out an S3 object interface off the back end.

So those backend targets, at least in phase one, are NetApp Storage Grid technology, which is our industry-leading object storage technology.

So if you want to move things out to a central sort of private cloud, get them off your ONTAP systems and move them into sort of one central repository, you can build out a storage grid environment within your data center or data centers.

And then the other use case is moving it out to the public cloud, in which case you're moving it out in this virtualized AWS

and moving it out to an S3 bucket sitting on AWS.

Again, we can talk about security, but TLS encryption over the wire, you're obviously using Amazon encryption to encrypt your S3 bucket there.

So pretty much secure it at both sides and down the wire and store it out in a bucket on Amazon S3 for people that are interested in really changing the economics of storing that sort of longer-term secondary or backup data.

It's a cloud aggregate.

It's a composite aggregate, even, perhaps.

Composite aggregate.

A composite or a hybrid aggregate.

We are.

I don't know what you're talking about.

don't know what you're talking about but um it's it's yeah it's basically taking your aggregate your disk pool and on an aggregate by grade basis you can go in and say yeah i want to go ahead and take my primary data and or i'm sorry take my secondary data my backup data and as it gets older just go ahead and shift that out to the cloud so it should i mean some of our additional initial sort of tco and roi on it i mean you can achieve pretty significant savings by not having to sit especially if it's sitting on you know especially those primary snapshots that are sitting on the aff system just