Mar 07, 2022 / 06:20PM GMT
Meta A. Marshall - Morgan Stanley, Research Division - VP
Welcome, everybody. It's my first in-person one in a while. So I'm very excited to have George here. Welcome, everybody. We have George Kurian, CEO of NetApp. I'm Meta Marshall. I traditionally have done networking and communication software, but we're adding enterprise software to the mix with Katie's assumption of the Director of Research role. For the record, just so we get it out ahead of time, if you have any questions, go to the research disclosures page at morganstanley.com/researchdisclosure.
Questions and Answers:
Meta A. Marshall - Morgan Stanley, Research Division - VPSo let's jump into questions now. So NetApp has been at the forefront, really, of adapting towards a hybrid world. How did you build these relationships with the public cloud vendors and get all of these vendors to kind of buy into your idea of a hybrid world?
George Kurian - NetApp, Inc. - CEO & Director
We started the work 7 years ago. We saw that enterprises that we were