Justin Parisi

Basically, everything was kind of a shock, not knowing how to actually get the most out of it.

But this year, trying to build those relationships and get the time with the speakers afterwards to delve into areas that we're looking to focus on and what's actually happening within the UK market at the moment and how that can bring in.

No, I think seeing everybody again, hearing what everybody's doing, honestly, it's not just about the speakers.

It's also meeting up with the rest of the A team, being able to spend time with them and understand how they're using NetApp and what they're running into at the moment, or problems or challenges they're running into as a business, and seeing how that can...

That's kind of working over in the US to how it's working in the UK and then out into Europe as well with the guys we've got over there now.

So that's also a lot of knowledge that I get whilst I'm at these events.

It's not necessarily all of it from NetApp.

I'm getting it from people that are selling NetApp day in, day out.

They're advocating on behalf of NetApp and we're hearing their challenges at the same time.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, I mean, listen, what Antanas was calling out actually happened.

You know, we had PMs come through the meeting this week and then on their way out, you know, all of a sudden a new channel comes in Slack and we see a couple new people added to the group.

So, you know, as we've said many times over the past couple of days, as we worked our way through this group of talented individuals, you know,

You know, it's really about feedback both ways.

Us letting them know what we need help with and them telling us what we're doing right and what's resonating with their customer base and what isn't.

This episode of the Tech on Tap podcast, we brought in Veeam's tech evangelist, Michael Cade of the NetApp A team to discuss Veeam's latest release.

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My name is Justin Parisi and on the phone with me today is the absent Glenn Sizemore.