Jeff Baxter

We added so much to ONTAP over the last decade.

I mean, if you really look at it, the industry's leading number one OS and the SAN and the NAS features and everything we've done with All Flash and everything.

I mean, we piled this thing high.

We went to the salad bar and added just about everything you would ever need from a storage OS.

It's a Dagwood sandwich.

Yeah, it's pretty darn big.

And in the process, we went from being a toaster.

right to going to a toaster oven so now we're basically we were at short order kitchen status right where you could order just about everything but you had to know the secret menu and you had to know what to ask for and and all sorts of other things so we've taken this multi-year journey and anyone who tells you that oh in the next release everything will be simple of any product not just ours anything right you should you know ignore them and ask them to politely leave your office because it's a lying vendor in front of you right but

What we're on is this journey to go back to simplicity and not just by papering over the complexity of the system and having a nice shiny GUI.

That's part of it.

We've made tremendous improvements in the GUI.

One of the obvious things we did in ONTAP 9.2 is add the ability to

to pan the cluster directly within system manager, right?

As a clustered scale out OS, that would seem to be an important thing to be able to do.

So that's the non-type 9.2.

So there are all those important things we've done within the GUI and those are critical, but it's more about baking simplicity directly into the system with the things that we'll talk more about during the session, but, you know, balanced one placement,

application-based provisioning of workloads, expanding QoS minimums as well.

All of these things are really about taking it away from having to manage individual storage objects down at the LUN level and the volume level and all those different things, and try and manage things based more upon service level objectives and SLAs.

Whether or not you're tying that into orchestration, right?

We all know that most of our large enterprises now, people are not creating individualized storage objects, right?