Today, NetApp announced the new version on Data ONTAP, now called ONTAP 9. Not clustered data ONTAP nor data ONTAP 7-mode. From now on, it will just be ONTAP, since 7-mode is no longer being developed. RC1 is scheduled to be out by late June, 2016.
The last few years, NetApp has focused on bringing feature parity to cdot, so new features and usability were a little behind in my opinion. However, the company is now at a point of greater innovation and most importantly, it appears that they are finally listening to the partners, and customers.