(funky music) >> Welcome back. Now we're sitting here with Eric Burgener, who's a research vice president in the storage coop at IDC. Eric, you've listened to Infinidat's portfolio announcement, what do you think? >> Yeah Peter, thanks for having me on the show, so, I've got a couple of reactions to that. I think what they've announced is playing into a couple of major trends that we've seen in the enterprise. Number one is, as companies undergo digital transformation, the efficiency of the IT operations is really a critical issue. And so, I've seen a couple of things with this announcement that will really play into that area. They've got a much larger, much denser platform at this point, that will allow a lot more consolidation of work loads, and that's sort of an area that Infinidad has focused on in the past, is to consolidate a lot of different workloads under one platform. So I think the efficiency of those kind of operations will increase going forward with this announcement. Another area that sort of plays into this is every organization needs multiple storage platforms to be able to meet their business requirements, and what we've seen with this announcement is, they're basically providing multiple platforms but that are all built around the same architecture, so that has management ease of use advantages associated with that. So that's another benefit that will potentially allow CIOs to move to a smaller number of vendors, and fewer administrative skill sets, yet still meet their requirements. And I think the other area that's sort of a big issue here is what they're announcing in the hybrid cloud arena, so clearly enterprises are operating as hybrid clouds today, well over 70% of all organizations actually have hybrid cloud operations in place. What we've seen with this announcement is an ability for people to leverage the full storage management data set of an Infinidat platform, while they leverage multiple clouds on the back end, and if they need to move between clouds they have an ability to do that with the way they're operating with this new feature, the Netwrix cloud, and so that really breaks the lock-in that you see from a lot of cloud operations out there today, that in certain cases can really limit the flexibility that a CIO has to meet their business requirements. >> Let me build on that a second, so really what you're saying is that by not binding the data to the cloud, the business gets greater flexibility in how they're going to use the data, how they're going to apply the data, both from an application standpoint as well as a resource and cost standpoint. >> Absolutely, I mean moving to the cloud is actually sort of a fluid decision that sometimes you need to move things back, we've actually seen a lot of repatriation going on. People that started in the cloud, then as things change, they need to move things back, or maybe they want to move to another cloud operation but they might have moved from Amazon to Google or Microsoft. What we're seeing with Netwrix cloud is an ability, basically to do that it breaks that lock-in. >> Great. >> They can still take advantage of those back-end platforms. >> Fantastic. Eric Burgener, IDC research vice president, storage. Back to you Dave.