Sandeep Singh

"when you think about the cybersecurity angle for a minute, it's basically storage becomes the last line of defense for customers. Of course, they should have all multi- layers of protection, and it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. And storage becomes that last line of defense where you want to get real- time ransomware detection in your primary storage."

"ransomware is where I get the most questions from customers. It is an absolute top of mind priority, and this is about changing the game from post- process to real- time detection. If you can detect in real- time in a matter of seconds to minutes, you vastly minimize the impact level and it becomes the enabler of rapid recovery."

"it's critical for AI to be able to have the context of your enterprise data. But even for that, when you think about just the reasoning models to have the large context memory awareness, this is where storage is becoming critically important to provide that high performance access to KV caches. Another is just essentially being able to enable enterprises to harness their raw data and turn it into AI- ready data."

"everybody is looking to unleash the power of AI with their data. We're super excited about the vision that we've just unveiled to help customers get their data AI ready and bring AI to their data to be able to help them overcome this whole notion of AI and data gap."

"having a modern, underlying data infrastructure that brings in the intelligence and unifies their data operations across on- prem and cloud and gives them the intelligence for leveraging their data, also becomes part and parcel and critically important part of that stack."

"customers have had to accept trade- offs between simple and powerful. And in powerful, what they're looking for is scale- out clustering and load balancing and high- end overall intelligent data management. And that trade- off when they're choosing between operational simplicity and the high- end capabilities, it's holding back their modernization efforts."