What's up everybody? Trying to find where my feet is online? There I am You know hear me? Yep right I Hope you're having an awesome day. We're going live early because the weather is really bad in Dallas And I don't know how long we're gonna have. I don't know if we're gonna have issues with the internet or power But just in case I am going live early So I don't know if you guys remember me doing these or some like these a few years ago But I wanted to revisit the pumpkin geodes that we did These I ordered off of Amazon They're just foam pumpkins That we are going to Make look like geoids So The set that I got comes in a set of one to three four six in size ranging from Whatever the size this is to or maybe six ish inches They weren't that expensive. They were um Less than twenty dollars. I can't remember but I Thought they'd be a cute crafty thing to do with you guys for this rainy day live What's up, Bowie?   Thank you. Say hi. Hello Okay, right there lay down so Which do you guys think we should do I'm gonna do This size the big one. Should we do it playing Jane like this one where it's just one color on the inside or The one color on the inside with a glitter on the outside and some got on the inside. Whoops Or do like a multi tone one. What do you guys think? what we're going to use today for stickiness is the Artistic painting studio Sizing I just don't have any other glue So I'm gonna use this if you have any other glue it'd be fine to use An old raggedy paintbrush that you're okay with getting glue on and then throwing away probably because That's probably gonna happen an Xecto blade it be very careful with this because It's sharp and you will cut yourself. Hey stonecoats in here. What's up? so, yeah today we're going to be crafty and do some pumpkin geodes and I think after I may like mask the front off and Maybe res in the outside. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. So do you guys think two tone? One color or Multi-tone two tone definitely Cool, let's carve a pumpkin. I actually have a real pumpkin here that I just haven't Gotten into yet, but I'm going to even have a little tiny little tiny Bowie pumpkin here as well If you do want to use glitter then glitter and I'm using of course some glitter glass for The dimensional sparkle on the inside of our piece I'm gonna get down So yeah, that's what we're gonna use. I'm gonna use airbrush to color the inside of the pumpkin, but you could just paint with Like a hand paint as well. I Would recommend for anyone that's doing this for the first time to draw out what kind of shape you want on your pumpkin I'm just gonna go for it because like I said before. I don't know How long we may run out of power because it's stormy here. I don't know who's to say I don't know This is foam and so I'm kind of going in at an angle like this so that we can Make it more dimensional I'm not going straight in. I'm going in at an angle Like I said before, please be very careful when you're using exacto blades they are surgically sharp and If you have a dull one just switch it out like I should probably switch this one because I know I'm reckless Believe it or not, you can cut yourself a lot easier with a dull blade Then you can a sharp blade and I credit my husband for my knowledge of that. I Wouldn't have thought it but it's true So when you carve into it, I'm trying to make the The look kind of go from one side to the other and be kind of jaggedy You don't want straight lines at all because that's That's not geode. You is it probably not I Think I'm pretty sure that these are just like spray painted Foam pumpkins, maybe not spray painted Well, probably spray painted but after they get a coat of like regular paint on there because That's just what it feels like right now that we have our shape cut out BAM BAM I'm gonna use a something To kind of dig out What we got in there so have a trash can handy And I'm just going I don't know what the act I think this is like a weeding tool to get Stickers done but I'm just gonna kind of Pull this layer of paint off and That's going to show us the inside That we have cut so that's gonna be the shape of my geoid. I think it looks okay We think and then I'm just gonna get super reckless and start See my trash can I know it's fancy. I know it's super fancy The answer is no my nope can't do that either. So Yeah, you can see so I'm just going to Kind of go at it and pull out Some of the foam once you get it like broken up a little bit It's easier To kind of just pull it out but without having a place for you to get your hands in there To like start it, it's it can be difficult even though it's just a regular Busy foam actually you guys can't really see that. Well what I'm doing. So I'm gonna bring it over here This isn't the neatest cleanest part of the process This is the dirtiest part of the process or the messiest So just be advised and I'm wanting to leave some of this irregular texture in there because I Think that it looks the more like the inside of an actual geoid when you you leave some of that Jeff just vacuumed the studio today. So I'm trying not to get anything on this floor And I also think it looks really cool when you kind of go up under the lip a little bit So it's kind of up in there anytime you can vary or Alternate the depth in a piece. I think it looks more natural So you can see here where we initially cut it in it's at this kind of angle and We want that so that we can decide if we want the geode to go up under the lip of it Or kind of be still poking out a bit. I love doing things like this and I feel like it's an awesome little crafty project for when your kids are home for Halloween or maybe coming over for Thanksgiving. It doesn't have to be a Halloween Pumpkin it can be a Thanksgiving pumpkin They're not just for one holiday, right or no, all right, I think so Luckily this foam kind of flakes off and in a regular kind of look so it yields itself really well to the look of an inside of a geoid where all the rock crystal formations are kind of Jaggedy anyways. Oh my goodness. I need to calm down before it looks like I just have an apple core So we're gonna make this side kind of shallow But I still want it to have that jaggedy Look to it If you don't have something like those you could probably use like a fork instead So let's kind of dust out all of our Excess and see what we got So I went for like I just went for it because all like More than halfway around I went crazy on this one. Oops, okay So now here's inside of our geoid actually I think I want to have this little area like a lot deeper I'm gonna pluck out a little bit more here Maybe go like deeper into this area This part is all just preference Actually, I guess all of it is preference So did you guys decide if we wanted to go just two toned Blues or if we wanted to have some of the brown involved I'll show you the two that I know three that I did earlier and you guys can let me know Which ones you Like the best and what we should go for so so these foam pumpkins came from Amazon and I'll Get the link for you They come with just white already, but I was like, why should I bother Wasting time painting them because you can't really spray paint Boom if they're gonna come as a color and I don't have to do anything so I went with the brass or bronze colored Don't worry dust off your shirt. I didn't even notice. Okay, so here's the one color one It has just the one shade of aqua in it and the glitter glass Here's the two tone. It's got the dark Aqua and then the light aqua and Some glitter and glitter glass and then I have this To color one which I got some of that focus. No, cool. I got some of that Um Coppery glitter on the inside. Oops Thanks you guys over at stone coat.  Sorry. It's not resin, but Love it. Thank you guys If you guys don't know our Resonant of choice is stone coat art coat and the guys up there were Nice enough to hop in and see what I'm doing today. So Yeah So two tone blue seems to be the go-to And so that's what we'll do so now I'm gonna start with the darker color And that color is called something turquoise phthalo and it's an airbrush or fluid from golden Looks like this Okay It's that color So i'm just gonna push Hello, i'm just gonna push the air on and not use any color just to blow off some of this Extra foam that's in here if you're using airbrush You want to do this first because if you start going in with color and then the parts little Loose ones start blowing away, then it's gonna leave white spots Do you want any loose ones to just? Not be there If you're doing the paintbrush use a really watered down uh acrylic I wouldn't use spray paint because spray paint eats foam Okay, so let's just do this outside area This is the dark color so i'm gonna put it on the outside It's a lot easier to do this with airbrush, but Obviously not everybody has an airbrush, so it's perfectly fine to use An acrylic wash I would Definitely recommend making it a wash instead of trying to go in I smelly just got some out there, but I think I like that just of dark color It's perfectly acceptable to use acrylic just make sure it's watered down so you don't Um start brushing away any of the loose Hey carol, what's up Megan? Thank you guys for coming in and seeing what I'm up to today. I know it's not our usual resin but I thought it would be something cute for the season And I thought something you guys could do at home with your family and friends Little art night never hurt nobody I can't remember what I was saying, but I think I didn't finish my sentence about using thick acrylics. It's just going to Make all of your little foam pieces come loose in your pumpkin, so If you can use a wash if you don't have an airbrush do not use spray paint I found out the hard way what happens when you put spray paint in A foam cup and I think it was on a live too I wouldn't be surprised if it was on a live a lot of the things that happened in my life Are on live feeds Take this a long Kind of drip of color I like it. It looks like this pumpkin is like smiling at me Almost in a creepy way, but maybe not. Maybe it's just my charnalia So i'm gonna make some areas a little bit darker Because anytime you can vary the color In a piece it's gonna look More awesome Depth is key no matter what kind of medium you're using And i'm out of paint which is fine because we got that part done. So Now i'm gonna add the second color which is called something teal That's good. It's a good name for this color This color is really kind of a light milky Aqua And it looks like this. It almost matches my shirt, but it's a little bit more blue Okay, so that's the two colors next to each other One of those to kind of look like it's glowing and may have to mix some white It's too stagnant between the two colors. So i'm going to drop some of that first Turquoise phthalo into this little bit of aqua have left to make Kind of a two-tone color You can see the two different tones in there. Jeff taught me I know so they are the wedding colors which makes my heart so happy I'm going to use this trick that Jeff taught me to mix up the two colors You just plug this and then pull back So It almost looks like the exact same color as the dark one, but that's fine. We'll just kind of be light with the application to blend them in And I'm trying to like come down in different areas And go back in some areas maybe that inside areas darker Yep You make your makeup that way I have yet to get um Any kind of good at Airbrush makeup on myself Not that I've done it on a person But I feel like it'd be easier for me to do on a person then myself Now that I got That cleaned out This is what we got so You guys like the Dark aqua glitter or no seems like we burned one last year. Oh a solder gun You could um use a soldering gun, but uh or Like a hot knife Just be very very careful with anything like that G UD So Here's our pumpkin so far. Oh, I hello. Hello everyone Oh, I thought we were frozen for a second. We're good Also, it seems kind of choppy So Here we are with our aqua pumpkin So I'm gonna get a new trash brush because I've fully trashed this one Whoops, but lucky for everybody I ruined a lot of brushes. What's up Jerry? Meow I'm gonna pour out Some of our sizing liquid or glue This is just the only liquid glue I have So feel free to use whatever kind of glue you have at home I wouldn't use a spray adhesive because I don't know if that would eat the Thank you I thought they would Accentuate each other. Well, I would even almost like take like bronze Well like a bronze or a maybe even a gold like oh, I like that just so that it kind of pops it Yeah, it's really good Let me since I already have those glue started Do this and then we'll do that Now I'm just kind of dabbing on this sizing or adhesive or glue And for this part, I'm just going into the areas that I want the glitter Because While the glit great super there's red on my this but that's fine Just going into the areas that I want The glitter even though There's going to be some glitter that goes rogue anyways and just sticks wherever it wants to that's fine It may just look good that way Like I always say there's a beauty in imperfections So I'm also trying to kind of vary the Thickness of the line that I'm adding the glitter to I want it to be kind of thick in some areas Kind of thin in some areas. I want to get not right there I want to get into the crevices and I don't want to have a straight line and at any point At any point I want to have Some depth 100% of the time and nothing that's just Normal or straight or You know what I mean Straight lines are a rarity in nature So some of the airbrush color is coming off onto my brush, which is fine because it's trash brush anyways I don't think you'll have that issue if you use acrylic paint But if you do use acrylic paint, you're going to have to wait a little bit longer for it to dry Just be advised Some of the red color from whatever was on this paintbrush already Is coming off Onto my this But that's fine Because we're about to color it. I mean cover it all in a glitter anyways, right? Right Okay, now that we have the areas We want glitter on it sticky I'm going to put a piece of paper down so we don't Waste anything JK I found a paper plate Okay So for this part you can use whatever kind of glitter you want I am using Something color flex Uh, the name is Salty Salty, so I'm just going to sprinkle it on the areas that I know I want the glitter Which would be this rim area Hi, Lord Taylor. How are you doing? How are your eyes seeing my this does it look beautiful because you had new eyeballs? Going to tell myself that yes Your new eyeballs love my copper aqua patina Geo pumpkin I could have probably just go ham and Just put the glitter everywhere in it and then Dust it it off, but I'm trying to keep it from going into the center But if you want in the center Go for it go ham. Okay. I'm just going to dust off the bottom part first In my head it will Yeah I wanted to do that first so when I dump this upside down all of the glitter that we first put in Doesn't get into that center area What's that Evelyn? The bad thing about sizing like I'm using is that it goes clear when it's ready to use which is also probably I guess maybe a good thing, but Just makes it hard to see where I've been You know what I mean jelly beans The cool thing about these pumpkins doing them like this is it's so easy To do them and they always look so awesome and unique Bam, what do we think so far? If I had a lighter color of glitter Of aqua, I would put it in the center But I don't so We're just going to use Glitter glass because you can't really go wrong with glitter glass anyways If you guys are new here, I'm a glitter glassaholic. It looks like this Oh, I didn't know that bag was open man. I'm glad I didn't throw this Derp glitter glassaholic Just so we should make that a shirt and I am inclined to agree Okay, so just like with the glitter we're just going to stipple or rough paint the adhesive in there Obviously don't get too rough with it because you'll start picking up little bits of your pumpkin Be right here. I have some foam It's not going to focus because that's my life, but there's foam. There's foam on there We're just going to stipple this in into any area that we want the glitter glass if you guys don't know Glitter glass is a super fine Awesome shards of glitter They are very sharp. So maybe if you're doing this with the kids stick to glitter regular glitter And if you're having an adult craft night Don't drink too much wine before Yeah, don't drink too much wine before applying said glitter I always like doing stuff like this when I'm around my family like last time I went home for Christmas And we decided to get crafty We did those ornaments From judy Oh, we did do cakes one time. I failed But we did do cakes one time. We tried to do um mirror glaze cakes Super fail, but super fun So this sizing it does go clear when it dries whatever kind of glue you use just make sure it goes clear when you dry It or you're gonna Be really bummed Where's home for you? So Home is wherever my family is it is currently in Dallas that's where myself and my husband live I still love saying that and then um And now I'm dork and then my mom lives in alabama World-tide And then my sister is in the military. Jessica. She lives Right now where she's stationed in colorado And then I have another sister that lives in washington state And then I have a brother that lives in frisco And then another brother and a sister that live in iceland We are from everywhere. Oh Crystal points would look good on the teeth as teeth. Unfortunately. I am out But I just got notification that I should have just resonant on wednesday and color passion in on Monday So excited about that. I'm putting a little bit of adhesive up into the glitter areas so that we get some glitter glass there too Listen glitter glass is always an option. I don't care who you are. It just is Also, we've worked out a solution so that we won't end up with so much of a paint shortage in our shop So thank you to everybody that's been patient with us while we get restocked It hasn't been easy. Okay.  Anyways Let's get a new This Yay, we'll use this one Iceland is so beautiful Okay Now if you haven't seen glitter glass before it looks like this You can get it from me at artist till death dot com or you can get it from meyer imports dot com use code atd 2022 for a discount and you can use the code atd or Artistic painting studio dot com If you want the adhesive sizing Atd for artistic Painting studio atd 2022 for meyer imports glass. Okay So as you can see this glass is very fine It's super thin and the reason why it sparkles is because it's basically catching light in all different directions So essentially all the different pieces are different facets that reflect light in different ways and it always looks beautiful and elegant without being like Oh, it's glitter Some people think glitter is a little crafty and depending on the project i'm working on I tend to agree However Glitter glass is always an elegant look And you can make glitter look elegant too. I'm not saying that no hate on glitter If you need to be canceled for anything nowadays, you got to be careful If I get canceled because of glitter I'm gonna be pissed I'm just going to shake it up in there And I roll it about Sounds like it's sticking really well. It looks like it's sticking really well And I always do glitter or glitter glass or anything that I'm gonna Be frugal about over a plate or piece of paper or something to where I can catch the fall out and then use the rest of it later That's what we look like I almost feel like it's missing something but also maybe not But what do you think so these little white bits that are in here will Dry clear and you'll see more of that bright aqua background It's the same aqua that I use on this one. You can see that this Is a lot better. It's a solid color and just a couple areas where it's still White on the inside So this will do much the same so Let's just put this right Oh geez that was way too zoomed in So all this white stuff up here is glue that hasn't dried yet. So all that will dry clear It looked like this pumpkin's laughing at me. I feel like it is I think it looks good Let's go see the ones that I did last year Actually just recently found them. So we'll put them right here Oh, that's a Christmas ornament Never mind on that one. I just did white on the inside of this one Wait a minute. I put fire glass on the inside of that one too Then I did this Big one Happy Halloween everybody I'm gonna have to do another one with gold leaf on the inside. I think that looks pretty cool Are you going to do the gold airbrush that Jeff suggested? um Hand paint that Or airbrush airbrush it I'm always so nervous when I airbrush, okay You want to do it? And we're working on this one too. Does it look like A mouth with an eye I feel like it would make that sound Okay so Jeff suggested using this color This is cretex airbrush Hurlized something hurl satin gold Should I put some water in this for you B? Or is it um Is it okay if it's a little on the thicker side? Yeah, I think it is Not quite as runny So what Jeff's talking about is adding a highlight essentially of gold to These areas of the pumpkin These can I do that for you? This is very thick paint so If it does we'll just glue it back in what on the back and just see what sure What are your real pumpkin plans? You know, I have no idea what I'm actually going to do with those actual pumpkins I thought about just doing a glitter Look to it What is because it's shiny what if you just dusted it on and made it all kind of It's just very subtle, which is what I was wanting. Yeah, I mean there's a difference What's that dainty doer? I'm so glad you caught another live as well so Jeff's just bringing a highlight onto the peaks of each one of these What Why do I want to say pumpkin folds, but that doesn't sound right bridge Swamper So there's a highlight to the ridge because yellow plays off the aqua color really well And it'll actually make our aqua color stand out a little bit better It kind of gives it more detail layers and depth people layers and depth So this first one was an accident and I was like, I really like that look That boots Yeah, that looks good Do we go all the way around already? It's just very subtle That gum that was quick, but he says hi Love him I apparently have decided it's a him so Accents are usually best parts. I agree like if I had time to get crazy crafty with it I would probably airbrush some dark into these cracks With maybe the He's got a burnt umber That might work Maybe the brown oxide Or the red oxide It would look like the other that smiley one The dark I have on this one is red iron oxide and brown iron oxide So it looked like a one-eyed Jim Henson character All right So I love it. I hope you guys do too if you are interested in Getting um these pumpkins foam pumpkins I'm gonna add them to my Um amazon shop, which you can find down in the description box poop poop poop I'm gonna add the exact ones that I got which I think are these Yeah, so 16 dollars for the plain white ones or also 16 dollars for the bronze colored ones So I'm gonna add them I thought I was gonna add them to my this Okay, y'all look at this till I get this figured out Jason Momoa knows Okay, I can't figure out my password, but I'll have it linked As soon as I get off the live, but these are the pumpkins. I got them in the bronze colorway They look like that And these are the sizes that they come in Fun fun fun for fun fun fun so Thank you guys so much for coming in and seeing what we are up to today Hope you are going to give these tea tiny pumpkins a shot They are a fun inexpensive Very creative way to have like a night of artsy things To get some glitter glitter glass and some sticky stuff and exactly a blade and some paint It's a puzzle like a geode But we'll move back tomorrow Yeah tomorrow at two for our two o'clock live. I'll be doing resin tomorrow Oh, thank you krish And I hope you guys have an awesome evening Stay safe if you're having bad weather It's lightened up for the moment But anyways, you guys have an awesome day You kind of want another because you never know what someone's going through So you don't have to I felt like more arose when I did that. Anyway, so you guys have an awesome day. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye Did they buy bobo? Oh, he did say bye He did say bye He's so cute Hey, he's so cute. Who told you he's so cute. Who did it? Who told you? I bet it was your dad


from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Cover EMC World 2016, brought to you by EMC. And welcome back inside theCUBE as we continue our coverage here from EMC World 2016 live in Las Vegas at the Sands Expo. We're joined now by a dynamic duo here, a couple of presenters that have spent some time together here this past week. Sam Lucido, who's the director of technical applications marketing at EMC. And Don Sullivan, who's the product line marketing manager for business critical apps at VMware. So gentlemen, thanks for being with us. We appreciate that. Hey, thanks for the opportunity to talk to you today. Absolutely. So as I said, you've spent a little bit of time together. You've been presenting together and individually. If you would tell us about just your feeling on the vibe of the show, what you've been hearing from customers and folks with whom you've been interacting here and just your thoughts about the first three days. Don, Sam, if you would. First I'd like to mention that I think there's a lot of energy at the show. A lot of customers talking to a lot of customers in terms of the cloud. Cloud seems to be very important, particularly how the cloud relates to mission critical applications and database workloads. The conversation, pretty much everybody accepts virtualization these days, especially VMware virtualization. But they want to know how to extend virtualization, the virtual infrastructure into the cloud, right? So the cloud seems like it's the next step in terms of how I get my mission critical databases to the cloud. So we talk a lot about the cloud. It's been a conversation for me at the show that people have really been truly interested in. How about you, Don? Don? Well this show, EMC World, that is, is always the kickoff for the conference season that goes through early May and into the VMworld conferences and VMware and into Oracle Open World and so on. And as you were saying, Sam, the technology itself has taken such a leap forward in regards to the cloud. But I would add the idea of the hybrid cloud more than just any other particular cloud form. And in particular, we know that all of that involves a common denominator of vSphere and VMware. And what we really are seeing, and the reason you and I here and what we presented on yesterday had to do with how to properly architect both in terms of the entire engineered system and the sub-capacity architectures of the engineered systems and how to use those engineered systems as they are right now with the incredible technology advancements including what's now the new norm, which is Flash a couple of years ago at this conference and one of these interviews, I was asked how, what I thought the bumper sticker would be to take forward in this show and I said, well, Flash into the future. Well, the future is here, it is now and it's Flash and it's Flash in these engineered systems. So, Sam, when we talk about the journey to cloud as it were, when we talk to users, it's really an application focus. People need to understand what applications go where, how they make that decision, the various architectures. How does that fit into the discussions you're having? Well, you know, I think a lot of the DBAs particularly are concerned about where their databases go in the cloud and they have two primary concerns. You know, what infrastructure do I use for my databases in the cloud? And what does that do for me, the DBA as well? They have a concern about, it's my skill set going to disappear if I put my database in the cloud, right? So we talk a lot about the enterprise hybrid cloud and the on-prem story of the cloud. So for example, using a V realized orchestration and automation as part of the on-prem cloud and the capability then to essentially create a self-service catalog in which people could order databases very easily. Yet the DBA still remains controlled. They create the automation blueprints. They create all the standards that go into that. So they still have all that ownership that they're used to. So they feel like the security issues are no longer a concern because it remains on-prem. They're building their skill set instead of giving away part of their skill set. So they really like the enterprise hybrid cloud and what it can do. And then, you know, the capability of using VMware to attach to other clouds, for example, and being able to push maybe your test and development environments as needed to public clouds is something that the DBAs are really, I think, embracing in terms of messaging. Yeah, so, Don, you know, those of us that have been in the industry watched the journey of virtualization to go from, you know, a certain subset of applications to, you know, basically any application that did, I'm running on x86. I can run in a virtualized environment. Bring us up to speed on the hybrid cloud solutions you've been talking about. You know, is it the same? You know, are we there? Can I run all applications? We are there. We are there, Stu. One of the mottos that we sort of tied into last season in VMworld was this idea of no application left behind. And with vSphere 6 and the capabilities of a single VM going up to 128 virtual CPUs and four terabytes of memory, it is truly a fact that every application and database and existence is a candidate for virtualized infrastructure. And then when combining that with the various different forms of the hybrid cloud to include what I was saying before in terms of the engineered systems, it becomes a totally compelling solution overall that can't be ignored. And in fact, one of the projects that Sam and I have, jointly funded from EMC and VMware, is to focus on the individual user groups such as IUG and SQL Pass and do scientific studies with them to ascertain the actual adoption rate and infer the actual accelerations of the adoption rates of vSphere, virtualization in general, but vSphere in particular, in regards to the entire broad community of in those very, very specialized groups. And we're seeing incredible numbers. We first started this project in 2014. We're redoing it all this year. And although we don't have the data yet, we think we know what we're going to get already.  So what are you going to see? Where's the shift? Or what's happening, you think? I have things to change. So two years ago, we actually saw conservative numbers that said somewhere around 65% of the IUG membership, which is the most sophisticated group of Oracle users that exists, or had at least one of their production systems in virtualized infrastructure. And more than half of that was using vSphere, which meant that vSphere was being used more than twice every other possible solution combined. And we could see that the acceleration of that, because we tested and we surveyed how much adoption went on for the previous two years from then, in other words, 2012 and 2013. So we inferred the acceleration and we're expecting to see those numbers go up. I'm not going to necessarily speculate on the exact numbers, but I do know what, for instance, Oracle sees in term. I'm really not even supposed to talk about those things necessarily. But we do know that Oracle certainly sees internally in a massive adoption rate for all of its non-engineered systems in regards to the individual implementations, in the 50 plus percent range as an example, and I think that's very well known. So it's all happening and it's happening very fast and it's a really powerful, compelling solution that again, nobody can ignore. So when Sam and I would come to these types of events five years ago and we would ask in general, who out there is virtualizing any database at all? We'd get one hand out of 50. And then we would ask two years, three years ago, anybody virtualizing and you get a few hands and then you'd ask if they were production, you'd get less, what happened yesterday, Sam? How many people raised their hands? Yeah, we had a session yesterday about Oracle licensing and some of the rules and guidelines for Oracle licensing. But one of the first questions we asked the audience is how many people have virtualized their Oracle databases? I will say a healthy majority of the people raised their hands. Healthy majority. I couldn't see anybody who hadn't, but I wasn't looking that hard. Right, right. So, you know, and that's really quite interesting because you're right, five years ago, it was a difficult discussion to actually get people to virtualize Oracle databases. Now, virtualizations are given. It's that next dimension of the cloud.  Basically we win. So I'm curious because, you know, if you listen to Oracle, you know, Oracle understands virtualization, that seems to be there. Oracle's also has a big push towards cloud. So does Microsoft, so does IBM, the folks that own some of those applications and hope to have kind of affinity to be able to take theirs and, you know, build that whole stack. How does that impact what you're doing and what do you see from some of those competitive cloud environments? Yeah, you know, it's definitely got competitive, but one of the things I think I really like is Oracle's actually embraced virtualization in the cloud. That's a big change from just a few years ago, right? So that's really helped us in terms of messaging as well, because a lot of DBAs are saying, okay, wait a minute, hold up. Now Oracle's talking all about the cloud. They're not talking to me about keeping my database as physical anymore. They're really trying to push the cloud. So what they're seriously doing now is looking at their options, right? And looking at the cloud options and seeing which cloud option fits best for that particular business. And I have to say, because we've been doing the cloud, working on the cloud for such a long time, we have one of the most mature options out there in terms of what customers can use on-prem or off-prem in terms of the cloud. So I really like the fact that Oracle's switched the conversation to the cloud because it's really helped us out quite a bit. I think we can be as very bit competitive with Oracle. You know, Oracle claims they have these optimizations for the cloud. But it's, you know, I call the Oracle cloud kind of the silo cloud. It only works with Oracle. But, you know, a lot of databases and applications attach to that database. So you got to look at the cloud more holistically than just simply putting a database in the cloud, right? So I think that's where we have an advantage and a better story than Oracle does. You know, you were mentioning about virtualization being given today. I mean, can you say the same about Flash? I mean, is that just, that comes with the territory now? I think Flash is the new norm. I think when you talk to any of the Flash companies, most prominently, EMC, you'll see that the actual cost per gigabyte is reaching a level, a usable gigabyte certainly, is reaching almost a level of classical mechanical storage. The flexibility that you have from a critical applications perspective is an order of magnitude different. I don't want to insult any of my friends who are storage administrators, but from a perspective of, say, an Oracle database, the actual ease of implementing that Oracle database on Flash storage is an order of magnitude different to the point where it's really simple for your average database administrator to actually implement and utilize the storage rather than having to worry about a plethora of different lungs and different locations based on various different RAID configurations. The philosophy of Flash is put it all here and the array will take care of it. You don't really need all the sophisticated, the sophisticated architectures from a storage perspective unless you're trying to absolutely get the absolute nth degree of performance out of it. When you're looking at sub one millisecond response times from a RAID perspective, you're just feeling there's an entirely different realm of storage performance than when we had even three, four years ago. That's right. I'm really kind of excited about the announcement of the dual DSSD together. Double the capacity, double the performance, one-third the latency. I think we're going to be a little bit more competitive with folks like Oracle in terms of pure performance as it relates to the database. Sam, if you could help us unpack, that's really an application-specific need when we get to kind of some of those hyper-performance needs. Can you give some examples, tell us what customers would be a great use case for that DSSD solution? Yeah, DSSD is the extreme in terms of performance, right? And customers really have to weigh what they need, right? Is it a performance or is it more of the enterprise data services, for example, right? With DSSD, I think what we really have is a pure performance play in which a sub millisecond performance is given, right? And it's the capability to scan thousands if not millions of rows inside of seconds or minutes. So it's very, very powerful, but you have to weigh your options here too, because DSSD doesn't have the capability like ExtremeIO might where you could simply push a button and copy a database quite easily and have no initial capacity used in creating a database like you have on ExtremeIO. So ExtremeIO comes with deduplication and compression whereas DSSD is just pure performance at the moment, right? But the idea is that, you know, I think them stacking the performance, 22 DSSDs together for double the performance, a double capacity really is going to give us the capability to be very competitive with workloads, particular workloads like data warehouses, OLAP, DSSD, those types of workloads, I think will really excel in that type of platform right there. Well, Sam had done, I think you have a pretty good road show. I think you should keep the act together. I'm sure that you said it's a busy time of year for you, so we appreciate the time here today and best of luck down the road. Thanks, nice to talk to you, gentlemen. Good to see you. All right, back with more here on theCUBE from EMC World 2016 in Las Vegas right after this.


Hey, what's up coaches welcome back to the YouTube channel in today's interview. We have coach Harry Harry is a professional soccer player. He is from the UK and he's had an amazing career. He resides now in Southern California. And in this interview he shares how he started his soccer training business. And he said something I think in the middle of this interview that I really liked. He talked about how you never know who is watching and how that will affect your business. So watch this all the way through. I think you're going to gain a lot of value from this. And I'm excited for you to watch this interview. I started off obviously in the youth system in Austin Villa. So we have to do our coaching licenses there as part of the sort of academy program. So that's where it kind of started for me, which got put on the back burner for the rest of my playing career, if I'm honest. Then I got presented the opportunity to come out to America to play out in California. Obviously I was coming to the back end of my career. So part of the plan was to continue to play, but start to build a coaching business out here, you know, in a growing market out in the US. And I started that probably two years ago. Now I think probably around the beginning of COVID was when we really started to pick up and pick up clients. COVID was a tough time for everybody. Personally for us as a business, it was actually a good time because clubs had shut down and kids were stuck at home and we had loads of parents reaching out who were willing to let us train their kids and they wanted us to train their kids. And it sort of grew that way organically through recommendations and word of mouth. So that's where it really started to pick up my coaching journey and discuss to where we are today. That's awesome. So tell us a bit about your business then. What does your company specialise in? We specialise in technique training, I'd say. So we're trying to bridge the gap between sort of club practice and then going out and doing stuff on their own and just being that middleman to help really progress their techniques and understand the game more. I think club coach has got a difficult task of really nailing down a certain player's techniques and how they need to improve because they've got so many people to look after. And I think in the UK what I've noticed is there's more staff to actually take a kid to decide and work on that. Growing up through the youth systems of like I say I started at Watford, Aston Villa, went to Brentford, Doncaster, then Rangers before I moved here. So I've seen how the clubs in the UK actually have a good infrastructure and loads of staff to really concentrate on a certain individual's needs. Now out here there's not that sort of luxury of having that. So we started Prospect Soccer which is, like I said, a technique training-based company as you say. We specialise in that and we started to branch out into camps now. We done camps last year which have gone very well. But yeah I'd say we're just trying to bridge the gap between them going out and kicking up all and the club. Awesome, awesome. So how did you find that transition from the UK to the US then? It was quite natural if I'm honest. You know I knew what to expect when I come out here. It's a lot different than at home. You know at home you've got, I don't know how many clubs in London, you know from League 2 to Premier League or 15 clubs maybe.  So there's a lot of kids and who aren't in academy setups who need help. So the transition's been good. We've got a lot of kids coming from all over. We've got kids coming down from LA and up from San Diego which has been great. And it's just implementing what I've learned through my sort of 20-odd year playing career. It's just learning how to manipulate the players and really change their mentality and get them to think about what they're doing on the field rather than just going out and kicking a ball. I love that, love that. So you've been in business for two and a half years, correct? Yeah, we'll take it. Yeah, so let me take you back to when you first started your business. What has been your biggest obstacle since you started? Field space, there's not a lot of field space around. The clubs take it. The high schools have sort of taken them for school programs and you know any good facility, you know, the big clubs around have normally taken that. So that's actually been our biggest hurdle was getting a nice little facility where we can train day in, day out. We don't want to be moving around. We don't want to keep trying to find new fields. We want a certain spot where people know we're there. And that's been the biggest struggle to be honest so far. Other than that, it was just finding the time to fit in all the clients because we've got a real surge of demand. And myself, I'm currently still playing. So it's, you know, we've only got a certain amount of hours in the afternoon and we can fit everyone in. So actually playing and coaching in the afternoons is proving difficult but it's just managing players and trying to group players and trying to get people on the same wavelength and going from there. But like I say, probably the biggest headache for me was field space at first. Yeah, that's a very common one with coaches we work with. So how have you gone about that obstacle then? We've got a nice one now. No, so we've got a nice one now. We've managed to sort of lock down that we're at 99% of the time, which is great. We're currently talking to a couple of higher schools as well now, just recently, very recently about using their fields that when they're not using them and helping out with their sort of soccer team and technique base. So give and take with a relationship there, which is working very well. But like I say, we've managed to find one and we've nailed that down. We've been there probably a year and a half now. And just from that, we get more and more clients because the same people will pass the same people see us and it's eventually they reach out and they say, we've seen your training and it's very good and how can we help sort of thing. So we got lucky with that obviously. And obviously being in Orange County, it's expensive. You know, it's very, very expensive. It's not like we can go and find a bit of land and build a field and sort of branch out that way because you're looking ahead of a lot of money. Awesome. Perfect. So where do you see private training going in? So you're currently based in the US. So I'll ask you, where do you see private training going in the US in the next two to five years from now? I think it's growing rapidly. I don't think it's as big in the UK, like I say, because you've got the academies and then anyone good gets sort of taken and then they look daft off from that moment forward. Here it's a little bit different. They have to go out and work on their own, which it was a different market. Although I've seen it sort of become more popular now in the UK, people we follow on Instagram and stuff, they're starting to do it out there as well. So it's quite good. But I think it's a huge market. And obviously once the World Cup comes here in a few years and kids start to see their heroes and witness the atmosphere and what it is, I think it's going to really take off, which was part of the reason why I decided to move and start to build before. I think there's going to be a big, big surge in after the World Cup comes to the US. For me personally, we want to start to really develop players and then send them back home to Europe. Like if we can get players where we work with them for two or three years and they're good already, but we really fine tune their techniques and game understanding. We do game analysis and stuff like that. So eventually once we get the one or two players we need to send home, we've got the contacts to really give them a chance to go over to Europe and try it there. Yeah, love that. So you've been, well, you're currently playing and also you've been coaching for a while now. So tell us, like, for you, what does the perfect training session look like? What should it include? So yeah, we start off with warm-up, real generic warm-up, glute bands, that sort of stuff, go into the SAQ, speed and agility, whether any balance work on a bozu, whether we use the bungee, you know, whether it's proprioception, whatever they do. Then we go into a sort of a basic passing drill to get them sort of fired up and lively. Then I go into specifics for the last sort of 40 minutes, depending on players' positions and stuff like that. But a lot of it's just to get their feet moving as fast as their brain. So we work intense for a short period of time, then they have a rest. It's never walking around. It's never sort of two or three minutes just talking. Like we try and get them moving, getting them working hard, and then we give them the rest after that. One part I specialise in, I'd like to think, is the attacking side, just because I've played, so that's my thought can hear. He wants to be an interviewer. The attacking field and on the wings. I like to help players that way. And just fine-tune their techniques. And it's funny because I learn more about techniques the more I coach it. So the more I teach people how to do it, and I do it myself, I kind of wish I'd have known that when I was playing. Do you know what I mean? There's certain things that are weak in players' games where I think, Jesus, if I'd have known that, I might be able to strike the ball better and strike from distance. But yeah, that's how a session would go. And we finish, obviously, depending on the player. We've just finished in or we don't need fitness. We do a little bit of fitness as well, just always just to keep them sharp and top it up. Awesome, awesome. So what's the journey that your client takes when they first join your company then? What's the end result you're looking for as a trainer? So first of all, we sit down with them and just get to know what they want to do. Where they want to go in their career. Because there's people that just come and they want to just come out and get better. And that's fine. There's people that come out and they want to go to Europe. Do you know what I mean? So there's a difference there in demands and how many sessions we need with them and how long it's going to take. So we go through all that program, sit down with the parents and understand where they're at and what demands I can place on them as a family. Then they come out, they train, whether it's once a week, twice a week. I like to try and include them into group sessions. The longer I've known them. So if I can pair one or two, or if I can get three or four into a group, that are at the same level. Then we really try and get a nice session in where they're challenged against their peers. And you always find out the ones that really want to compete and they want to impress. And the ones that kind of shy away from it and find it a little bit daunting. And like I say, we haven't yet got anyone to Europe. We had a guy come over. We've had a guy fly over from the UK for a month. He's found a club. He's going to be coming back out in July. We got a guy a year ago who come for a month around Christmas was going to go back to a USL club and we sat down with his parents and he had an opportunity to go to Miami. So we sat down and we just batted through it and what would you rather go back to a USL club where you're comfortable? You regret giving that opportunity up or would you rather go and see if you're good enough? And in the end, he kind of realized he was like, well, I'd rather go and see. And if not, I couldn't wait for me to drop back to a USL club. He went there, he ended up signing. He's been there for like two seasons now. So, you know, it's just the advice side as well where myself and my partner have been at a level where it's, I know what's needed, I understand what's needed and I try and give that advice as much as I can. And that was one example where I felt like our advice was pivotal in his decision and he took the tougher route and it paid off for him. That's awesome, that's cool. So you guys do one-on-one and you guys do small group training, correct? We do one-on-one, we do small group clinics and we do camps as well. We started camps last summer, which went very well. We're just starting now to launch our elite camps, which is going to be maximum 20 players who are really looking for that training of a high-high caliber, you know, sort of training you do at a pro-government pre-season, et cetera, et cetera. So that's what we're just starting to launch now. So some of the coaches we work with, they have a fear of moving into group training. And the fear is because they think that you can't provide that value to the client that one-on-one training has. So how do you sort of sell and promote the difference between one-on-one and small group training to your clients and to the parents? A lot of it depends on age.  So that's one thing I do say is they tend to compete, they tend to challenge each other, no one wants to be the worst, someone always wants to be the best and it works like that. And a group of three or four, you can still manage it. It's not that you've got 10, you've got three or four, you can see who's struggling and who needs more work and we always balance it out with individuals as well. So we wouldn't just do groups. We do a group once a month, twice a month and the rest of it, you're back to individuals. One way we sell that, like I say, is the older boys, they get a lot out of it, to be honest. Because as you know, coaching older boys and girls, sorry, they challenge themselves. They know the levels. They know how hard they should be working.  But like I say, they always compete against each other. Is they also find out where they're at amongst their peers. I've got parents come to me sometimes and think, no disrespect that their kids are well beat up. And I put them in a group and they're always like, you know what I mean? Like, there are kids out there as good if not better and they need more work. Which is sometimes a good thing to see. And also you have the opposite where they're humble when they come in and they're on fire and they get confidence lift from that because they all of a sudden see, hang on, I'm actually probably one of the better ones here. Like that. So what would you say to a coach, a trainer watching this video or listening to it? And they want to start a business but they haven't yet. What's one piece of advice you'd say to them to get started? I think just go out there and do it.  Make sure that every session you do is what you want to portray as a business. Like you never know who's watching. We've had so many people just walk by and they're stopped for 15 minutes watching and they carry on walking. And then in two, three weeks we get a call and it's like, oh we watched you for like and you never know who's watching. So, you know, I've had days when I've been out there and I'm tired and it's hard to be honest. I've trained in the morning. I've had a game on the weekend. I'm tired but I know that if one person walks past and I'm sat there lazy on my phone or whatever it is, it's that one person who could go and tell someone else that, oh no, don't train with me. I've seen him. He's lazy, blah, blah, blah. Do you know what I mean? So your reputation is always on the line. So as long as you're getting people coming back for the right reasons, which is a good training session the kids are developing, I think it will organically grow. You haven't got to do too much work outside of that. So that's the only advice I'd give, is just make sure that every session is a good session because that's how you're going to grow in the end. Love that, love that. So let me take you back again to the beginning when you first started. How did you get your first client and how many are you currently working with right now? How did I get my first client? I think it was a hand me down actually. I got lucky from one of the boys at the football club. So there was a couple of boys doing on a smaller scale by that I mean just doing two or three kids in a week just for a little bit of pocket money or whatever. And I think he left and he'd give me the kid, give me a couple of actually at a time. I took them on, started doing it. And then it wasn't till probably COVID time when like I say we started to really pick up. So I said I'd have, for the first year I probably had eight or nine kids that I would do. COVID we really, really picked up. And I think now probably between myself and my two other coaches, we're probably near like 80, 90 kids, I'd say.  And then you've got your kids who come every other week. Then you've got the kids who come and come out of the woodwork every now and then. But I'd say between you and Arnie. So what would you look for when you bring on a new client then into your business? What are you looking for? The first thing, like I said to you before, is where they want to go and what they want to be and what they want to achieve. So I know what to demand from them. And if someone comes and they want to have fun and learn and get better but they don't see it as a career, I'm not going to demand as much from someone who really wants to push themselves. Also, the only thing we ask from them is just hard work for one hour. Like, you know, how long the session is? Just give me your attention, give me hard work. And if you don't understand something, ask me. And we'll go through it. It's just, you know, I'm there to get you better. But if you don't want to get better, it's going to be very difficult for me. And you make my life hard and you make your life harder. And your parents, your parents are paying, do you know what I mean? They're paying money and it's, money's hard to come by these days. Do you know what I mean? People work hard for their money. So I don't want you coming here, not working hard. And then it affects badly on my session as well. So the only thing we say is come in, work hard, you know, get better every day and that's what we ask. And what's your current sales and marketing process? How do you guys market your business? That needs work, if I'm being totally honest. We use Instagram ads and stuff like that. But the beauty of that, of my client base, honestly, is it's all been word of mouth and it's all been recommendations. Like it's not, I think we get the odd one through Instagram for our videos and stuff like that, which I believe if we were to really promote ourselves, we'd get a lot more. But 95% have been recommendations and just people recommended and seeing us training and stuff like that, which has been great. I think for us to really branch out and become bigger, which we've just hired a new coach because me and my partners can't take on all the players, we're going to have to start to look into marketing and stuff like that. That's cool. So a question a lot of the coaches in our program always ask is they want to partner with another coach. So you're obviously in partnership, a business partnership. So tell us a bit about what it's like to be in a business partnership and what does it require for it to be successful? My business partnership is very unique to be honest. So my partner Rob, he played with me about Watford when I was six. So I've known him, I've been the best friend since I was six. We went through the system at Watford together, end up at Brentford together randomly, end up at Rangers together for three years and now we end up at Orange County together. Although I played agent Rob in that one. But yeah, no, he moved out here to start with me. Obviously he doesn't do much now because he's still playing and he went for visa processes and stuff like that. So he doesn't coach at the moment, but he's just in the back end. But you've just got to have trust in your staff. We've had camps, our first camp with 80 kids and I didn't know what was going on. I thought we'd sell 30 tickets but I ended up selling out at 80. I was director of it and I've got Chris who's our head coach now who I trust and having him and having a couple of others that come along really took the weight off me. And you can't oversee everything. You're not going to be there the whole time. You need people that want the brand to grow as much as you do and want the brand to do better. They know if the brand does better or if we do better, they earn more money and it's better for everybody. So good staff is one thing, man. Like I preached that massively to Rob after our first two camps. It was like, we have to have good staff because if we're not, it's the whole thing falls apart. And as soon as one or two start questioning your reputation, it's very hard to win that back. So it's just having everyone on the same wavelength as you. Love that. So where do you see Prospect Soccer Academy in the next five years from Melbourne? To be honest, I'm going to be honest and say I don't know. We're working on a few different things, a few different avenues which we want to go down. There's a lot of routes we can go down. The camps are doing great. We're working on a pro program. We've obviously been lucky enough to grow up in England and around players that are now doing very well in the Premier League. I'm not going to name drop anyone, but there's probably five or six that are in the Premier League at huge clubs that come over here on holiday who we're going to work with and we're going to train. So we're going to build that up as well. There's the camp stuff that's obviously which is growing every single year. It's just branching out. I think we could be, definitely we are, if not in the next few years, we will be probably the biggest and the best individual training company in Orange County in Southern California. We've got two or three great coaches underneath me who we trust. And it's just going from there, like I said, the elite camps are something we're venturing into. So it's just trying to worm our way through it and see what really benefits us, benefits the player and benefits us as a business. So my last question for you, and this one's more of a personal one, which is something I've always loved asking trainers, is what does failure mean to you? Failure means do better for one, learning from your mistakes. I always think if I've made a mistake all the way, have I prepared well enough in the beginning? I feel like when I prepare, when I'm ready, when I've done all what I need to do, I don't really fail that much. When I've left it to the last minute or let other things get in the way, and I go into a session or I turn up to something, and I think that's not going as well as I like, it's normally because before then, I've not really done the work I needed to do. So I tried just to make sure that I'm prepared in everything I do in all my sessions and all my camps, so that if it does go wrong, great, I've done everything I could up to then, and I've learned from what happened after that. I think if I've gone into things where I've cut corners and I've failed, I've got myself to blame and I know why it's happened. Love that, love that. Perfect. All right, Harry. Well, first of all, thank you so much for sharing your story with us. I know our audience is definitely going to enjoy it. There's your dog. Can I be here? Now, if anyone's watching or listening and wants to follow Prospect Soccer Academy or wants to get in contact with you or you guys, what's the best way of doing that? Obviously, our Instagram's at Prospect.Soccer. Websites, ProspectSoccerAcademy.com. My personal email is Harry at ProspectSoccerAcademy.com, so we can be reached on any of them if coaches want to come out, want to collab, want to come and see a session. We always need coaches for camps of a high caliber, to be honest, so we're based in Orange County, so if anyone wants to hit me up, I'm always available. Perfect. So, Harry, I wish you and your business all the best. Thanks again for your time and look forward to at some point in the future connecting again. Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate it. All right, take care. Take care.