Yossi Weihs

It is.

It definitely is.

And, you know, we've been going through an evolution here because the industry has been evolving, right?

So a lot of customers remember DFM4 and DFM5 or Unified Manager 5, and, you know, they draw comparisons between them.

But the reality is that what we did with Unified Manager 5, where we basically shipped a single Linux tarball with everything in it,

That's just not cutting it today because customers really want to be in control and audit about any and every piece of software that goes into their environment.

Heck, we've had some corporate customers reach out to us and ask to run Black Duck scans on all the third-party components and only use certain versions that are blessed by their gods, if you will.

I believe that.

We are tightly aligned with ONTAP releases.

So basically, our goal is the same day that ONTAP releases an awesome new release with great features, that we have a unified managership the same day with the corresponding features in it.

And while we also guarantee that previous releases of Unified Manager that the previous release will continue to work correctly, it won't obviously provide visibility into some of the great new features in ONTAP.

So we expect to be releasing a couple times a year on an ongoing basis.

And one of the conversations that we have with customers is, well, how often should I, the customer, upgrade, right?

Because there's a pain and cost involved with that as well.

And that's where we have ongoing conversations.

And we're actually sort of investing a lot in making sure that customers that want to upgrade every six months

can do that and minimize the pain.

So we're focusing on making sure that the various integration between the products, the APIs, et cetera, remain stable and so that things don't break when you do these software upgrades.

And on the other side, we also maintain a wide compatibility matrix so that customers that are looking to upgrade not as often,

we'll basically be enabled to do that.