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| We're bringing together what we're known for best-in-class data protection and combining it with exceptional data security, recovery and -driven data intelligence |
| I'm also pleased that we did raise our ARR guidance |
| Q2 ARR growth accelerated 18% year-over-year to $711 million, and subscription ARR, which includes term-based software arrangements and SaaS contracts, grew 32% year-over-year to $530 million |
| So we're able to drive the really strong velocity business in the international markets |
| The strong earnings and EBIT margin expansion was driven by continued operating expense discipline relative to our top line revenue |
| SaaS momentum accelerated with Metallic ARR, up 77% year-over-year to $131 million |
| Metallic-SaaS net dollar retention rebounded to an impressive 130% |
| And we delivered improved profitability while continuing to return cash to shareholders through share repurchases |
| Beyond these impressive financial results, we also received numerous industry accolades, including being named the leader for the 12th consecutive time in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant |
| We also ranked highest in six of seven categories in Gartner's latest critical capabilities for enterprise backup and recovery software solutions report |
| So both businesses returning to growth, which is that acceleration of total revenue growth of about 7% year-over-year, which we're pleased with |
| We're extremely proud of this recognition |
| So, very pleased with both of our regions |
| After that security and cyber risk, so there's a lot of factors, and we are very well positioned to – to help customers through that, and we are, which is why we see the momentum in our security capabilities and customers using that, adding up 500 new customers on the software, subscription and SaaS platform |
| I am pleased to report our Q2 results exceeded expectations, and we improved across our most important KPIs |
| Non-GAAP EBIT for Q2 increased 19% year-over-year to $42 million, and non-GAAP EBIT margins were 20.9%, a 210 basis point improvement year-over-year |
| And I'm actually quite pleased with it because it derisks our business but also gives us a chance to grow in the areas that we haven't historically like the SMB and the lower mid-market |
| We continue to expect consolidated gross margins of 82% to 83% and non-GAAP EBIT margin expansion of 50 basis points to 100 basis points year-over-year |
| In closing, we've built a durable and multifaceted revenue model that should allow us to exceed ARR, total revenue and earnings objectives over the long-term |
| And then from more of the hybrid cloud mission-critical workloads, we are start seeing some very good growth on that -- on the SaaS business |
| Our improved fiscal year 2024 total revenue outlook reflects strong renewal activity, the ongoing momentum in our SaaS velocity business and the seasonally stronger trends that we historically see in the second half of the fiscal year |
| Our security capabilities that we've integrated the Security IT, which is our delivery platform inside of Metallic for our customers is doing well |
| We saw healthy growth in new customers, as well as expansion within our existing customer base |
| I mean business -- we had a very good quarter, and we've raised ARR for the year, and we've raised revenue for the year |
| I am pleased to report that our strong revenue and earnings outperformance in Q2 was driven by acceleration across our key KPIs during the quarter |
| Metallic is growing at a very healthy clip |
| We're really pleased with the first half, especially where we ended up at fiscal Q2 on all of our guided metrics, making sure we accelerated past everything |
| We saw double-digit growth in term software licenses combined with an accelerating contribution of SaaS revenue, which was up over 80% year-over-year |
| Term software license growth was driven by strong performance in renewals and its existing customer expansion during the quarter, with our subscription net dollar retention remaining within its historical range |
| Overall term software deal volume increased year-over-year driven by continued improvements in our philosophy motion |
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| It looks like clearly, your ARR updated guidance is a little bit lower than your prior guide, 24% |
| Today's problems cannot be solved with yesterday's approach |
| And then obviously, revenue a little bit lower at the midpoint |
| 4 years ago, we challenged ourselves to address an emergent need in the market, enterprise-grade cloud-native data protection as a service |
| At the current perpetual license revenue run rate, we believe the headwind to our reported total revenue growth from these perpetual license sales to start to normalize as we exit the current fiscal year |
| So I also want to better understand the lower subscription ARR and revenue guidance because that seems to be the only negative in an otherwise stellar print |
| 61% of respondents believe the data loss in the next 12 months is likely to occur due to an increasingly sophisticated attack |
| So we're seeing just some declines year-over-year modestly on the conversion fees as well as the continued trends on term subscription length |
| As more of that mix comes from term do you expect the year-over-year decline to start to subside? You're down 9% in customer more in fiscal 2023 this year is going to be something I guess, slightly lower than that |
| Is that company-specific, or could you talk to just the greater view in the industry in terms of things being complex and it seems to be a bit of a pause, hybrid cloud spend has received a bit of an uptick in the last few quarters, if not longer, as there's been a deceleration in public cloud spend in general |
| We do not see trends that deteriorated |
| And we -- the NRR, we sort of -- we mentioned last quarter that it was -- we thought it was an anomaly and we would get it back to normal sort of pattern |
| So the only, let's call it, the only sort of more significant headwind will be perpetual license line |
| So while that keeps ARR total, and we see the momentum on ARR, it could have a little bit of a short-term impact on the reported revenue results And then thirdly, just keeping in mind that we're watching the mega deal, the real big deal trends in the spending environment and being cautious on the procurement and approval cycles that are out there today |
| We ended the quarter with a global headcount of 2,900 employees, reflecting a 1% decline year-over-year |
| So you've already started to see that even if you look at fiscal Q2 actual, it's one of the smallest declines we've had in quite some time |
| And you would expect the impact year-over-year or the decline to be significantly less than we've seen in prior years, including this year |
| What really happened at the end of the quarter that essentially SaaS ARR accelerated, but we saw a deceleration secondly, in Metallic revenue that now revenue is actually outpacing ARR |
| So, nothing unusual there |
| Cyber resilience like this has never been possible until now |
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