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| And when you look at all of the priorities that our customers are looking at, we feel like we're really well-positioned |
| And enhance our position for the long-term |
| I'm pleased to report, that we delivered exceptional performance across the board, despite an uncertain macro environment |
| I'm very pleased with our momentum and very confident in our ability to deliver positive outcomes for customers and stockholders |
| This strength coupled with continued operational discipline yielded company all-time highs for consolidated gross margin, operating margin, and EPS for the second consecutive quarter |
| So we feel very, very confident about the expanding opportunity in front of us |
| These actions have delivered strong results to-date, support our raised outlook for the year |
| I think the C-Series product cycle is to modernize both, traditional hybrid flash systems as well as deploy new private cloud environments, and we are seeing strong advantages there |
| And I feel really, really good with the focus on execution |
| The consistent operations, common management tools, integrated data services, and unique and proven capabilities for Hybrid Cloud of our unified storage architecture, provides customers the ability to simplify at scale and lower storage costs |
| Our silo-free approach to unified data storage is clearly resonating with customers, driving healthy demand for our products and services, and positioning us well to deliver long-term growth |
| Turning to the results of the quarter, we delivered robust year-over-year performance in our Hybrid Cloud segment with revenue growth of 6% and product revenue growth of 10%, driven by momentum from our newly introduced all-flash products and the go-to-market changes we made at the start of the year |
| Strong customer demand for our industry leading all-flash solutions drove all-flash growth of 21% year-over-year, to an all-time high annualized revenue run rate of $3.4 billion |
| We are performing well in these areas and expect continued growth |
| Capacity flash, block storage and AI all represent enormous opportunities for us |
| And so, we got strong momentum |
| We've sharpened our focus, improved our execution and successfully introduced new products that expand our addressable market |
| We also have solutions with colocation providers like Equinix that allows the customer to get a full cloud-like opportunity in a colocation environment, connected to the Public Cloud and our Keystone service in the customers' data centers had another really strong quarter |
| We're excited about the enormous potential in the nearly $20 billion SAN market |
| Our modern all-flash SAN arrays, backed by industry-leading data availability and efficiency guarantees, are well-positioned to redefine the competitive landscape |
| Let me reiterate my strong confidence in our position to drive continued growth and profitability despite the uncertain macro |
| We continue to see strong interest in our advanced portfolio of Ransomware Protection Solutions |
| We continue to see good progress on that front even this past quarter |
| And as we have shared many times, the number of new to NetApp customers in the public cloud sales motion is very strong, and we are excited about that |
| ONTAP is the first Enterprise-Class Storage Solution validated by the NSA for the Commercial Solutions for Classified Program, demonstrating the strength of our state-of-the-art, data protection and cybersecurity solutions |
| We saw good momentum in AI, with dozens of customer wins in the quarter, including several large NVIDIA SuperPOD and BasePOD deployments |
| So I feel really good about our strength in the AI market |
| So hey, we're super excited about the 30% margin |
| And we have focused on our all-flash portfolio as the two major priorities, and we have had strong results in both of them, and I'm very pleased with the results |
| Our focus and strong execution again delivered record-setting results, reaching all-time highs across key profitability measures, including consolidated gross margin, product gross margin, operating margin, net income and EPS |
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| Total deferred revenue as of the end of Q3 was $4.1 billion, down 2% year-over-year |
| I know you touched on the driver being in some part due to this uneven macro that we're seeing |
| So in the last two quarters, we've seen deferred revenue actually decline year-over-year |
| I have to with all the numbers I had you didn't -- that's a miss on me |
| Our tax rate was 18%, lower than expected due to an adjustment of our full year tax rate |
| In Q4, we anticipate approximately $20 million in ARR headwinds from unrenewed subscriptions |
| As a result, issues like malicious injection of bad data into a data landscape can cause huge impacts on AI, the ability to maintain data security, privacy, and lineage is are all conversations that are happening regardless of the regulatory environment, and they will only get stronger as the regulations get enforced like you are seeing, for example, in the European Union |
| It is uncertain |
| It doesn't sound like you're seeing any signs of that momentum slowing down, but can you just confirm that |
| Please note, in any given quarter, commodity prices, product mix, and the pricing environment will cause product gross margin to fluctuate from this new baseline |
| A couple of things to haul, keep in mind, that what you see on the balance sheet as a total deferred, it also includes cloud that has declined a little bit more than the Support business in the last two quarters |
| It will be a little bit of a lagging indicator a couple of quarters, but it will definitely follow because of the business model |
| George, you mentioned new customer wins resulting from the displacement of competitor 10K hard disk drive and hybrid deployments with C Series |
| Operating expenses of $682 million increased 5% year-over-year and declined slightly from Q2 as expected |
| Just on the dip in your mix of U.S |
| It's not getting worse, but it is not the fundamental reason for the improvement in results |
| George, I think many people still underappreciate how file services is an AI beneficiary |
| That may mean that, hey, margins stay relatively consistent or they go up or down in a quarter |
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