Sudip Hore

It's a very comprehensive program helping in different aspects of managing our systems, both internally and externally.

Yeah, absolutely.

So one of the fascinating things that we have done actually in this latest release is Upgrade Advisor has been there, and I'm glad that you brought it up.

But it was more of a reactive capability within the whole MyAutoSupport portfolio.

And in this recent release,

we have actually taken the recommendations that we give to our customers and tied it to Upgrade Advisor.

So on the new dashboard, if you go there as a customer,

you will now be able to see proactive recommendations that tells you, okay, I have 65 controllers, and based on the recommendations that NetApp has given, there are 17 of those that are eligible for upgrades to newer versions.

So this is kind of much more efficient than me as a customer trying to go in and look and find out things.

It's very proactive.

It's right on your face.

It's right on the dashboard when you log in.

Yeah, absolutely.

In fact, we are actually working hand in hand with our ONTAP and on command counterparts to align things that we do within our simplified upgrade process.

All the rules that you see in Upgrade Advisor are completely aligned with the simplified upgrade process that you have through on-command system managers today.

We're working hand-in-hand, the set of rules are very similar.

What Upgrade Advisor does in addition to automating all of the rules is really bringing together

some of our digital support assets.

So for example, in this case that I just cited, we had these recommendations on our support site and it was an excellent opportunity for us to take those recommendations and tie those to the upgrade process.

It makes life for users and customers much easier.