Morning Briefing

Thursday, September 24, 2026  ·  Dan Abreu  ·  DTCC/AI opportunity closes today — update stage in Salesforce  ·  Today's 1–2 PM TD CVE review needs rescheduling  ·  Tomorrow 9–9:45 AM is triple-booked

Schedule

Today — Thursday, September 24
Tentative7–8 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Automation Connect
Zoom  ·  Org: Krishna Makani  ·  DTCC: rkumar24, DTCC-NB distribution  ·  NB: Shiladitya Sen, Dan Abreu
Tentative9–10 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Weekly Automation
Zoom  ·  Org: Krishna Makani  ·  NB: Shiladitya Sen, Dan Abreu  ·  DTCC: wclaffey, hquinonesruiz, cpillitteri, dprior  ·  HighPoint: nspencer-maggs
Cancelled11–11:30 AM ET — 1 on 1 (Dan) with Michael Pasqualoni
11 AM–12 PM ET — JetBlue Airways Corporation - NetBrain | NetBrain Training
Zoom  ·  Org: Ajeet Kumar  ·  NB: Rakesh Mandava, Abhay Bhardwaj, Timothy Richardson, Dan Abreu  ·  JetBlue: ITNetworkEngineering, Manish Madwal, Vincent Cammarata, Vasundara Agurla
12–1 PM ET — Empower / NetBrain - Incident Response Workflow Enhancement
Microsoft Teams  ·  Org: Jeff Notaro  ·  NB: Suneet Tatikonda, Mike Christopherson, Ian Ballantyne, Dan Abreu  ·  Empower: suraj.pradhan, mario.rivas, paul.gann, bryan.roberson, tewodros.eshete, armando.euceda, Benjamin.Rizkowsky
Reschedule Needed1–2 PM ET — NetBrain: follow-up meeting to review CVE functions in NetBrain v12
Microsoft Teams  ·  Org: Danny Deng (TD)  ·  TD: Andrew Miller, Irwin Chan  ·  NB: Eyituoyo Grage, Dan Abreu
Lei Li (running the CVE booth at NBLive today) can't join and asked Eyituoyo to push this to Friday or next week — he's already given Karan Patel (TD) a CVE demo at the booth and has slides ready to share with the customer instead.
Tomorrow — Friday, September 25
Tentative7:30–8:30 AM ET — EY - Automation Session
Microsoft Teams  ·  Org: Anvesh Kosna  ·  NB: Edgar Sanchez, Pradeep Gaddameedi, Shaun Watson, Amlan Mukherjee, Dan Abreu  ·  EY: sunil.p.d1, sivaprasad.sivadasan.pillai, George Munjanattu1, chella.adisesh, varadharajan.r1, praveen.biligiri.vijaya, pradeepto.mazumder
8:30–9 AM ET — TD - NetBrain Sync-Up (Ermal catch-up)
Zoom  ·  Org: Dan Abreu  ·  TD: Ermal Gjylameti
Booked from Ermal's offered slots; he's traveling most of next week so this was the window.
Conflict9–10 AM ET — CIBC - NetBrain Weekly Meeting
Microsoft Teams  ·  Org: Laky Singh  ·  NB: Appachu KP, Ian Ballantyne, Reza Shokraie, Terry Fera, George Jiang, Dan Abreu  ·  CIBC: vadim.sclear, jim.dalby, David Mullings, Margaret Chen
Overlaps with the Dream Team Forecast Meeting (9–10:30) and the Evgeny Levine call (9:15–9:45) below — pick a priority and delegate or decline the others.
Conflict9–10:30 AM ET — Dream Team Forecast Meeting
Zoom  ·  Org: Michael Pasqualoni  ·  Broader Dream Team distribution, Dan Abreu included
Conflict9:15–9:45 AM ET — Dan Abreu and Evgeny Levine
Google Meet  ·  Recurring every 3 weeks  ·  evgeny@buzz.ai  ·  also on invite: Bill Santangelo, Craig Curtis, Elbert Ruff
Invite text references Evgeny being sorry to hear Dan is "looking to cancel" — worth confirming whether this recurring series should actually be dropped instead of juggled against the conflict above.
10–10:30 AM ET — NetBrain | Bi-Weekly Sync-up | SMBC
Microsoft Teams  ·  Org: HarshaVardhan Khareedu  ·  NB: Wendy Han, Dan Abreu  ·  External: chuck.roy (jri-america.com)

Important Emails

Action Required
DTCC/AI opportunity closing today — update Salesforce
NB Automated Admin (Sales Operations)  ·  "ACTION REQUIRED: Opportunity The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)/AI/ Closing Today"  ·  1:00 AM ET
The DTCC/AI opportunity (Discovery stage, $0.00 logged, Forecast Category "Likely Case") has a close date of 9/24/2026. Salesforce is asking Dan, as opportunity owner, to update the Close Date and Sales Stage today.
Reschedule today's TD CVE review — Lei Li can't attend
Lei Li  ·  "Re: FW: NetBrain: follow-up meeting to review CVE functions in NetBrain v12"  ·  11:51 PM ET, Sep 23
Lei is running the CVE booth at NBLive 2026 today and can't join the 1–2 PM session with Danny Deng, Andrew Miller and Irwin Chan (TD). He's asking Eyituoyo to push it to Friday or next week, and already gave Karan Patel (TD) a CVE demo at the booth with slides attached to share with the customer in the meantime.
HighPoint needs the PO 91239 invoice math explained
Judy Perentin (HighPoint Procurement)  ·  "Re: PO 91239 DTCC"  ·  3:37 PM ET, Sep 23
Judy is asking Dan to walk through how the split invoicing on Dan's earlier proposal (issuing line 2 licenses early: $40,968.08 on 9/4, $118,151.88 on 12/27, no change to total PO amount) was calculated.
SalesOps asking why Dan's email domain changed
Shane Min (Sales Operations)  ·  "RE: Lost access - Request to update SSO for Gong"  ·  3:58 PM ET, Sep 23
SFDC, ZoomInfo, Sales Navigator and Gong have all been updated to Dan's new @netbrain.com address. Shane just wants a quick reason for the change on record — low urgency, but worth a one-line reply.
FYI
MSCI Kubernetes Ingress Controller discovery — progress
Prasad Umredkar (MSCI)  ·  "RE: MSCI-support for discovering the Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a new device type"  ·  6:25 AM ET today
MSCI can now see the object as a single device; Prasad uploaded the required maps and Sept 24 logs following a successful daily benchmark. No action needed from Dan — support/engineering thread.
DTCC Weekly Automation post-meeting notes (Sep 23)
Krishna Makani  ·  "Re: DTCC - NetBrain Automation Connect - Post Meeting Notes"  ·  3:39 PM ET, Sep 23
EIGRP topology report work continued (BGP/RIP/static route parsing fixes); device uptime monitoring intent is close to done, targeting the 7:15/7:30/8:00 AM Monday build/run/email schedule. Upgrade to 12.3.1.3 completed over the weekend and is under monitoring (CLI rate 84%, service monitor healthy). Several open support cases tracked, including the Infoblox rediscover issue pending Deepak's fix.
CIBC currency/EOL policy case progressing
Jim Dalby (CIBC) & Nicole Huang  ·  "RE: CIBC -NetBrain currency policy/schedule - case#00195118"  ·  6:11 AM ET today
CIBC confirmed its 6 servers run the NetBrain OVA appliance built by DXC. Jim says that's the statement CIBC's currency governance team needs: NetBrain won't continue support on expired components, but it's on CIBC to upgrade before end-of-life. Nicole/Ian are driving the response — no action needed from Dan.
Q3 quarter-end order deadline: Sep 30, 5 PM EST
Order Management  ·  "Order Management: QUARTER-END REMINDER FOR SALES"  ·  9:13 AM ET, Sep 23
Any opportunity expected to book after 5 PM EST Wed Sep 30 needs to follow the attached checklist to avoid delays. Worth checking DTCC/AI and any other open deals against this cutoff.
Claude/SSO login ticket — already resolved
NetBrain IT (Zendesk)  ·  "Re: Need help logging out of Claude"  ·  4:02 PM ET, Sep 23
Automated nag asking Dan to confirm the fix worked. Per yesterday's Teams thread with Henry Chu, the login issue was already resolved ("all good" / "it went away") — safe to close the ticket.

Action Items

Update the DTCC/AI opportunity in Salesforce
Close Date and Sales Stage need updating today per the automated closing alert — it's still sitting in Discovery.
Help reschedule today's 1–2 PM TD CVE review
Lei Li can't attend (running the NBLive CVE booth); coordinate a new time for Friday or next week with Eyituoyo Grage and TD (Danny Deng, Andrew Miller, Irwin Chan).
Reply to Judy Perentin (HighPoint) on the PO 91239 invoice split
Explain the $40,968.08 / $118,151.88 line-2 licensing calculation from the Sep 4 proposal.
Reply to Shane Min (SalesOps) on the email domain change
Quick confirmation of why the SSO domain moved to @netbrain.com — SFDC/ZoomInfo/Sales Navigator/Gong are already updated.
Resolve tomorrow's 9–9:45 AM triple-booking
CIBC Weekly, the Dream Team Forecast Meeting, and the recurring Evgeny Levine (buzz.ai) call all overlap. The buzz.ai invite text hints Dan may already be planning to cancel that series — worth confirming and clearing it from the calendar if so, then choosing between CIBC and Dream Team.
Close the NetBrain IT ticket on Claude login
Issue was resolved via Teams with Henry Chu on Sep 23; just needs a reply to stop the automated reminders.