In this episode of Conversations in the Cloud, Joel Kaufman, Director of Manageability Products Group Technical Marketing at NetApp, discusses the company\u2019s focus on solutions that are tailored to specific problems, rather than promoting a particular product. Joel also chats about the features and benefits of NetApp\u2019s SolidFire platform and ONTAP 9 management software. He explains that Intel and NetApp\u2019s relationship has been extremely fruitful for more than 20 years, with a focus on collaboration to facilitate adoption of open technologies. Moving forward, Joel explains that NetApp will focus on areas that deal with large-scale hybrid clouds and data protection in virtual environments. To learn more go to www.netapp.com or follow Joel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheJoelk.