Aloha and welcome back to The Creative Life from the American Creativity Association's Austin Global Chapter on Think Tech Hawaii, a streaming network series. I'm your host, Phyllis Blyse, and joining me today is our guest, Shaku Selvakumar, and she is talking about answering the call of the creative quest by using the alchemy of the heart. Shaku is a poet, an author, and a communications leader with multi-national and startup experience with Fortune 500 companies like IBM, Shell, Oil, and AI tech startup companies. So she's used her skills and her vision and her poetry in service to helping others become better leaders and more intuitive and more in touch with themselves. Shaku, I want to welcome you with a big aloha to be on the show. Aloha, Phyllis. Thank you so much for having me on this show. This is wonderful to be here. Well, it's wonderful to have you. You and I go quite a few years back now, and I am so thrilled that you're bringing us something that we've not talked about on the show before in terms of this answering the call of a creative quest. And in doing that, maybe we could open with your giving us your definition of creativity.  It is all light springs from it. It is the it's the way that we move forward. And and that that the the there are two there are two ways that are that we progress and one is one is the cyclical way of creativity. And the other is is that creativity that is purely tapping into inspiration, which is actually that place of divinity. And and when when we talk about creativity, we also sometimes tend to feel that one person is more creative than the other person or creativity is defined in a particular output, but that is not the case. Any time we pour our heart into any project, any undertaking, that is that is proof that our creativity is blooming within us. And when we don't recognize creativity in in in the East, I'm I'm from India. When we don't recognize creativity, we actually believe that we are. We are dishonoring the the the muse, the goddess herself. So that is that is why when we don't recognize, we don't understand, we don't honor. That's why we feel small. We we feel like we need to move into the external sphere of validation rather than understanding that this is absolutely the source itself. This is boundless. This is flowing. Saraswati, the goddess of creativity in India, she's the river. She is always flowing. So that is the that's how I see creativity. OK, OK. So, you know, I'd like to come back and touch on a few points. As you said, if you don't if you don't really come fully from the heart, you're not accessing creativity. And I want to put I want to put in that kind of in the in the waiting room.  And when they're desperate and the last thing they're thinking about is their heart call, but they're thinking about survival. And and and maybe that's something you're going to unpack for us because there might be different levels of answering the call or the quest to accessing our creativity. Maybe we're like, you know, why don't you speak to that? And before we get to the byline of what the alchemy of the heart or maybe we're ready for that. But not and so much. But but I do I do think that there's a spontaneity. There's a there could be crisis. There can be anything but feeling like you're accessing your heart when you're rising to a quest, but to the call for survival, those kinds of things. So talk to me a little bit about your statement to me at one point was that creativity is a quest to find proof that life exists beyond the obvious. So I don't want to hold you to that. But can you talk a little bit still about framing what creativity is and how we get it to being a quest? Yes, or not. Yeah. So what what happens is we we forget that our that life is cyclical, that we forget that we because we are used to the fact that time because we consider time as a linear as a linear force, we we seem to we actually look at everything in in chronology. But the the fact is that life itself is searching for for meaning, all life searches for meaning. And and when we when we embark on the creative quest, we are actually, we are actually reaffirming to ourselves that we matter that we exist, that we might be a speck of dust in the whole scheme of things. But that dust matters. So when you look at your life as proof of existence, and in even in its smallness, it encompasses expansion and magnitude and that and it creates a ripple effect.  When we understand that, that we are both when we understand the paradox and the polarity of our life that we can be small, but we're not insignificant. Me and and we understand that we that we are not also we we look into the hubris of believing that we're the center of all existence, we are not. So that whole understanding that each of us matter that each of us have come to this world to give something back to the world, then we understand that are we learn how to recognize what our creativity is, and we tap into our gifts. And the way we serve is we tap into that potential, the promise of our lives. And that's the gift we give back to the world. So in giving the gift back to the world, we're actually gifting ourselves. So that's the whole premise, my premise of creativity.  It is something that we live. We owe it to ourselves and to our world to live up to the promise that we bring to life. You know, we just haven't had this particular conversation on this show. And I am very drawn in to your view of creativity. It feels like a partner.  So you're, you're, you're personifying life apart from us and that it has its own presence. And are you saying we're, we presence it and you're in your experience and worldview through our heart. And when we're, so I'm drawing some broad conclusions. When we're disconnected from our heart, then we're disconnected from, we can be disconnected from our, the most vital source of our creativity, not exigent creativity, but the well of creativity. I guess, I guess there could be differences, you know, creativity in the moment, not to fall off a cliff is a kind of creativity that's exigent. Whereas I, what I'm getting from you is there's a wellspring here that you're going to help us tap into that is life giving. Not just, not just an emergency, you know, like our emergency life vest, you're talking about a life giving well that's an endless and boundless and timeless when I talk about pyros instead of chronos. Yes. So talk to us about this wellspring. What does he mean by alchemy of the heart? What does the heart have to do with it? And how do we interact?  But if you look at the language along the heart, you know, look at all the illnesses that we come up in common language, you know, you have heart attacks, you have heart strokes, you have angina, you have so many blockages. And what are these, what are these in relation to their action in relation to our heart harboring guilt and shame and regret and blame? And these these emotions, they hold our heart from from actually accessing our life force. And when the heart is not open to access that life force, creativity is stifled. And and you will see that there are different forms of creativity. There there there is actually darker creativity, which which exists in in the in the enriched heart, in the suppressed heart, in the small heart. And then there is this magnificent channel that opens as you open your heart, the channel that opens up to you is boundless. It's expansive. It is that is when you understand that this this the seat of the heart is is the seat of Atma is the seat is the lotus when the lotus glows in the heart. That's when the golden heart awakens. And when the golden heart awakens awakens in us, you will see it in that person. They are no longer triggered by every little thing. I'm not saying that suddenly we wake up and we're not bothered by anything. And then we're just, you know, someone, someone cuts into the lane or or, you know, hurts us in any way that we don't react. We will that those things will happen. But you'll find that you're able to heal faster and faster and faster and you're not going to be hoarding. You're not going to be hoarding all that negativity in you and because any any time we hold that anything we at any time we hold anything heavy, those are literally the analogy of putting rocks into our heart. Which which is why we we start finding our we start finding that heaviness. And in a heartbreak, it's real. Heartbreak is real. So much of our grief has to be worked through. Otherwise that heart is never, you know, that beautiful analogy, kinsuki, which is which is mending all of life's failures and lessons and pain and everything with the gold. And that's the alchemy, the gold that we use to mend our heart, to heal our heart is the alchemy because what then emerges from that is another piece of ecstatic heart that is a work of art. So that's so we can actually create from our own brokenness. Okay. I want to hold, I want to hold a minute because you've come, you've taken this through a bit of a journey, different heart journeys where we're afraid where and you is the poet that you are, we have a slide on this. You've used the alchemy of language to bring out this aha for me. When you talked about you talked about the golden heart, you've also talked about sacred art, which is a very huge symbol in the Christian tradition and and you shifted the word moving from the scared heart to the sacred heart. And yet, so you're, now we still need to tell the audience how we do this. So we're talking about, don't do it, but talk a little bit about what's here and what we're seeing and why we, why you put that slide in. So we right now with the kind of chaos that we're facing in the world, the predominant emotion is fear and that fear is constantly at our door and that fear is real. There's no way we can go to someone who is actually facing financial problems, who's impacted by climate, climate disorders at their doorstep. Who's in the middle of a relationship problem. There's no way we can go and say, don't be afraid. You know, fear is as, fear is actually hardwired in our genetic makeup. So you cannot act and fear is also important for survival, but when you're constantly only operating from being scared, then what happens is you are afraid to even step out of the house. You're afraid that you're, you're afraid of death. And that death comes in different guises, that death could be the death of your identity, that death could be the death of a physical death. That could be, that could be the death of someone you love very much or the loss. So that place of fear, it rests so heavily within us that we are unable to understand that there is something that is bigger in store for us. That is the sacred. When you understand, when you move, when you shift from scared to sacred, you're actually allowing yourself to co-create with the divine. Okay. You're then walking in faith and trust. Okay. You need both. So let's look at the next slide and talk us through a little bit this alchemy of the heart that you have developed a process and an understanding about to get moved. What are we seeing here? So this, the alchemy of the heart, this particular piece was inspired by the elements. And one of my favorite all-time animated shows is Avatar, The Airbender. I just love the way they take this wisdom right to its essence. And when you look at fire, you look at the energy of fire, if it is then, if we're operating from the scared vision of fire, then we are constantly in reactive mode. We are reacting to everything because that's what fire does. It just goes up in flames, it burns everything down. But if looking at, if we're balanced, then you're working at fire from the sacred fire. We need sacred fire because sacred fire is a source of vitality. That is agni, right? And it's the same with earth. If you're too rigid in its rigid state, you will not change your mind. You will not open up to anything that is beyond the normal.  You cannot let go because control is maintaining some sort of order, at least you think you are. But positive earth is groundedness. It gives you that stability. It gives you the ability to make decisions knowing that you have the ground, right? You may walk in that. The same with water. If water is moody, it's emotional. It is, it can just plunge you to the depths. But water, like I said earlier, is the flow of the goddess. It is, it is actually connectivity. It is you and me talking here. It's that having that ability to connect and maintain those essential relationships. And then finally, if you look at air, air, disordered air is actually where we are, where in social media, where there's so much going on, we're just, we're not even thinking through, we're distracted. But air is actually inspiration. It's prana. It is, it is holy air, which, if you look at the quality of air, we are all breathing the same air. And we're all drinking that same water. It's coming from, and we all, so this connection is what we have to understand that the element of sacred versus scared. All right, so I'm gonna ask you, we have a, we can show the slide. I know it was too soon, I'm skipping something. I wanted to talk about your book of poetry. It is the next slide. So that's gonna be the quest on how we become our own avatars, our air bender, so our own air bender, water bender, fire bender. I mean, the kids are gonna love that you're using this as a model, but walk us through this quest. How do we enter into this circle? So like we started, the quest is to find proof of life. The quest is to re-energize us. And we have to understand that a lot of times there are, there is a part of us that is dormant, that goes dormant because we actually follow the seasons of life, right? You, when it's fall, you have to harvest. You cannot plant certain things in fall because that's the time to harvest. When it's winter, you have to retreat. The reason we have to retreat is so that we can be, we can, you know, right now it's, I can see spring starting to enlarge and it's because it's timing. The quest is actually in line with our own divine timing, right?   When you are a householder, you have certain responsibilities. In fact, a lot of times they say when you're a householder, do not, you cannot just abandon your home and go off to the mountains because there are certain commitments. And the same, when you are in this, an empty nester, then you start, you move into your second period of creativity because now you're actually operating from a different sense of sacred. What has been emptied from the nest can now be filled with different kinds of eggs. Those are the eggs that you're birthing into the second half of life. And then finally towards the end, you have to slow down. You cannot operate at that same manic pace and the quest actually takes you through the questions of who am I? What is my timing? What do I believe? The what do I believe is very important because if we do not understand what we believe intrinsically, every share, every viral post, every meme is going to just knock us off and take us into a different direction. And I just wanna say that this is, I was reading this article by Mark Lee Robinson and he talks about the four areas, right? One is personal, my physical presence. Who am I personally, my personality? The next one is interpersonal. What is my relationship with others? How do I show up with others? The third is intrapersonal. Intrapersonal is what is my inner life? How do I define my inner life? The fourth is the transpersonal. What is my belief about the cosmos, about the world? And we need to understand where we are in resonance and where we are in dissonance in these four areas. Okay, I should ask our request. And hold that thought. If we've just got a few minutes left, I was wondering if we wanna, I wanna show the next slide of the book of poetry. Be still in my heart that you have written and that you've drawn all the illustrations for. I love it. I have it next to where I read every morning. And do my meditation. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't know if there is any poem in there that illustrates any one of these points or not because you've only got 30 seconds. I think not, right? There isn't like a haiku in there or something. I think this would be done, which is just basically it's, the best is not yet to come. It is not a place in the future or a memory languishing in the past. It is not a trade with the present or born in fair weather or a dream in fetters. It is not waiting for planets to align, deffered for an unpospicious time when your ship can finally sail. It is anytime, anyhow, every day, any place, anywhere, everywhere, always. The best is the old constant bet on yourself. Oh, I'm so glad you read that. It gives the audience a chance to see how delightful you help us show up. And I love your language. And there is a, you dance with words, Shaku. It's a real joy to read and be with you. I want the audience to know that we'll have to leave it there and you have a website and you coach and you craft and you dream and you help others through this journey of the alchemy of the heart. So I really want to let people know to take a moment at the end here and stop the video and take your contact information. But for now we'll have to leave it there. I want to let the audience know that you've been watching The Creative Life on Think Tech Hawaii. Today I have been discussing how to answer the call of the creative quest through the alchemy of your heart with our guest Shaku Selvakumar and Mahalo Shaku for joining us. And Mahalo to you our viewers for tuning in. Find your host Phyllis Bleece and we will be back soon with another edition of The Creative Life. Aloha.


ery much. Very good. If we're through the manager's report. Is there any other business to be brought forward tonight? Thank you all still very much for a long meeting and very productive meeting. We've had an interesting job trying to get a new member of the board and we're successful. So thank you. And with that, I'll declare us adjourned. All right, good night, everyone. Bye. Bye, everyone.


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, bringing you data-driven insights from theCUBE and ETR. This is Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante. Welcome to this week's Wikibon Cube Insights, powered by ETR. As we exited the isolation economy last year, SuperCloud is a term that we introduced to describe something new that was happening in the world of cloud. In this breaking analysis, we address the 10 most frequently asked questions we get around SuperCloud. Okay, let's review these frequently asked questions on SuperCloud that we're gonna try to answer today.  Why the hell does anyone need a new term? Aren't hyperscalers building out SuperClouds? We'll try to answer why the term SuperCloud connotes something different from hyperscale clouds. And we'll talk about the problems that SuperClouds solve specifically. And we'll further define the critical aspects of a SuperCloud architecture. We often get asked, isn't this just multi-cloud? Well, we don't think so. And we'll explain why in this breaking analysis. Now, in an earlier episode, we introduced the notion of a SuperPaz. Well, isn't a plain vanilla Paz already a SuperPaz? Again, we don't think so and we'll explain why. Who will actually build and who are the players currently building SuperClouds? What workloads and services will run on SuperClouds? And 8A or number nine, what are some examples that we can share of SuperCloud? And finally, we'll answer what you can expect next from us on SuperCloud. Okay, let's get started. Why do we need another buzzword? Well, late last year, ahead of re-invent, we were inspired by a post from Jerry Chen called Castles in the Cloud. Now, in that blog post, he introduced the idea that there were sub-markets emerging in cloud that presented opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.  And so we introduced this notion of SuperCloud to describe what we saw as a value layer emerging above the hyperscalers, CAPEX gift, we sometimes call it. And it turns out that we weren't the only ones using the term as both Cornell and MIT have used the phrase in somewhat similar but different contexts. The point is something new was happening in the AWS and other ecosystems. It was more than IaaS and Paz and wasn't just SaaS running in the cloud. It was a new architecture that integrates infrastructure, platform and software as services to solve new problems that the cloud vendors in our view weren't addressing by themselves. It seemed to us that the ecosystem was pursuing opportunities across clouds that went beyond conventional implementations of multi-cloud. And we felt there was a structural change going on at the industry level, the SuperCloud metaphorically was highlighting. So that's the background on why we felt a new catchphrase was warranted, love it or hate it. It's memorable and it's what we chose. Now, to that last point about structural industry transformation, Andy Rappaport is sometimes and often credited with identifying the shift from the vertically integrated IBM mainframe era to the fragmented PC microprocessor based era in his HBR article in 1991. In fact, it was David Michela who at the time was an IDC analyst who first introduced the concept in 1987, four years before Rappaport's article was published. Michela saw that it was clear that Intel, Microsoft, C8 and others would replace the system vendors and put that forth in a graphic that looked similar to the first two on this chart. We don't have to review the shift from IBM as the center of the industry to Wintel, that's well understood. What isn't as well known or accepted is what Michela put out in his 2018 book called Seeing Digital, which introduced the idea of the matrix that's shown on the right hand side of this chart. Michela posited that new services were emerging built on top of the internet and hyperscale clouds that would integrate other innovations and would define the next era of computing. He used the term matrix because the conceptual depiction included not only horizontal technology rows like the cloud and the internet, but for the first time included connected industry verticals, the columns in this chart. Michela pointed out that whereas historically industry verticals had a closed value chain or stack and ecosystem of R&D and production and manufacturing and distribution. And if you were in that industry, the expertise within that vertical generally stayed within that vertical and was critical to success. But because of digital and data, for the first time, companies were able to traverse industries, jump across industries and compete because data enabled them to do that. Examples, Amazon and content, payments, groceries, Apple and payments and content and so forth. There are many examples. Data was now this unifying enabler and this marked a change in the structure of the technology landscape. And super cloud is meant to imply more than running in hyperscale clouds, rather it's the combination of multiple technologies enabled by cloud scale with new industry participants from those verticals, financial services and healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media and virtually all in any industry. Kind of an extension of every company is a software company. Basically every company now has the opportunity to build their own cloud or super cloud and we'll come back to that. Let's first address what's different about super clouds relative to hyperscale clouds. You know, this one's pretty straightforward and obvious I think hyperscale clouds, they're walled gardens where they want your data in their cloud and they want to keep you there. Sure, every cloud player realizes that not all data will go to their particular cloud. So they're meeting customers where their data lives with initiatives like Amazon Outposts and Azure Arc and Google Anthos. But at the end of the day, the more homogeneous they can make their environments the better control, security, cost and performance they can deliver. The more complex the environment, the more difficult it is to deliver on their brand promises. And of course, the less of margin that's left for them to capture. Will the hyperscalers get more serious about cross-cloud services? Maybe, but they have plenty of work to do within their own clouds and within enabling their own ecosystems. They have a long way to go, a lot of runway. So let's talk about specifically what problems super clouds solve. We've all seen the stats from IDC or Gartner or whomever that customers on average use more than one cloud, two clouds, three clouds, five clouds, 20 clouds. And we know these clouds operate in disconnected silos for the most part. And that's a problem because each cloud requires different skills because the development environment is different as is the operating environment. They have different APIs, different primitives and different management tools that are optimized for each respective hyperscale cloud. Their functions and value props don't extend to their competitors' clouds for the most part, why would they? As a result, there's friction when moving between different clouds. It's hard to share data, it's hard to move work, it's hard to secure and govern data, it's hard to enforce organizational edicts and policies across these clouds and on-prem. Super cloud is an architecture designed to create a single environment that enables management of workloads and data across clouds in an effort to take out complexity, accelerate application development, streamline operations and share data safely, irrespective of location. It's pretty straightforward but non-trivial which is why I always ask a company CEO and executives if stock buybacks and dividends will yield as much return as building out super clouds that solve really specific and hard problems and create differentiable value. Okay, let's dig a bit more into the architectural aspects of super cloud. In other words, what are the salient attributes of super cloud? So first and foremost, a super cloud runs a set of specific services designed to solve a unique problem and it can do so in more than one cloud. Super clouds leverage the underlying cloud native tooling of a hyperscale cloud but they're optimized for a specific objective and aligns with the problem that they're trying to solve. For example, it might be optimized, super cloud might be optimized for lowest cost or lowest latency or sharing data or governing or securing that data or higher performance for networking, for example. But the point is the collection of services that is being delivered is focused on a unique value proposition that is not being delivered by the hyperscalers across clouds. A super cloud abstracts the underlying and siloed primitives of the native paths layer from the hyperscale cloud and then using its own specific platform as a service tooling creates a common experience across clouds for developers and users. And it does so in a very, in the most efficient manner meaning it has the metadata knowledge and management capabilities that can optimize for latency or bandwidth or recovery or data sovereignty or whatever unique value that super cloud is delivering for the specific use case in their domain. And a super cloud comprises a super pass capability that allows ecosystem partners through APIs to add incremental value on top of the super cloud platform to fill gaps, accelerate features and of course innovate. The services can be infrastructure related. They could be application services. They could be data services, security services, user services, et cetera, designed in package to bring unique value to customers. Again, that hyperscalers are not delivering across clouds or on premises. Okay, so another common question we get is isn't that just multi-cloud? And what we'd say to that is, yeah, yes, but no. You can call it multi-cloud 2.0 if you want. If you want to use a kind of a commonly used rubric. But as Dell's Chuck Whitten proclaimed at Dell Technologies World this year, multi-cloud by design is different than multi-cloud by default, meaning to date, multi-cloud has largely been a symptom of what we've called multi-vendor or of M&A.  And so you bring it in. And when you look at most so-called multi-cloud implementations, you see things like an on-prem stack, which is wrapped in a container and hosted on a specific cloud. Or increasingly, a technology vendor has done the work of building a cloud-native version of their stack and running it on a specific cloud. But historically, it's been a unique experience within each cloud with virtually no connection between the cloud silos. SuperCloud sets out to build incremental value across clouds and above hyperscale CAP-X that goes beyond cloud compatibility within each cloud. So if you want to call it multi-cloud 2.0, that's fine, but we chose to call it SuperCloud. Okay, so at this point, you may be asking, well, isn't PAS already a version of SuperCloud? And again, we would say no, that SuperCloud and its corresponding SuperPAS layer, which is a prerequisite, gives the freedom to store, process and manage and secure and connect islands of data across a continuum with a common experience across clouds. And the services offered are specific to that SuperCloud and will vary by each offering. You know, OpenShift, for example, can be used to construct a SuperPAS, but in and of itself isn't a SuperPAS, it's generic. A SuperPAS might be developed to support, for example, for instance, ultra low latency databases work. It would unlikely, again, taking the OpenShift example is unlikely that off the shelf OpenShift would be used to develop such a low latency SuperPAS layer for ultra low latency database work. The point is SuperCloud and its inherent SuperPAS will be optimized to solve specific problems like that low latency example for distributed databases or fast backup and recovery for data protection and ransomware or data sharing or data governance, highly specific use cases that the SuperCloud is designed to solve for. Okay, another question we often get is who has a SuperCloud today and who's building a SuperCloud and who are the contenders? Well, most companies that consider themselves cloud players will, we believe, be building or are building SuperClouds. Here's a common ETR graphic that we like to show with net score or spending momentum on the Y-axis and overlap or pervasiveness in the ETR surveys on the X-axis. And we've randomly chosen a number of players that we think are in the SuperCloud mix and we've included the hyperscalers because they are enablers. Now remember, this is a spectrum of maturity. It's a maturity model. And we've added some of those industry players that we see building SuperClouds like Capital One, Goldman Sachs, Walmart. This is in deference to Michelle's observation around the matrix and the industry structural changes that are going on. This goes back to every company being a software company. And rather than pattern match an outdated SAS model, we see new industry structures emerging where software and data and tools specific to an industry will lead the next wave of innovation and bring in new value that traditional technology companies aren't gonna solve and the hyperscalers aren't gonna solve. You know, we've talked a lot about Snowflake's data cloud as an example of SuperCloud after being at Snowflake Summit, we're more convinced than ever that they're headed in this direction. VMware is clearly going after cross-cloud services, you know, perhaps creating a new category. Basically every large company we see either pursuing SuperCloud initiatives or thinking about it. Dell showed Project Alpine at Dell Tech World. That's a SuperCloud Snowflake introducing a new application development capability based on their SuperPas, our term of course. They don't use the phrase. Mongo, couch-based, Nutanix, Pure Storage, Veeam, CrowdStrike, Octa, Zscaler, all of those guys. And yes, Cisco and HPE. Even though on theCUBE at HPE Discover, Fidel Maruso said on theCUBE, she wasn't a fan of cloaking mechanisms. But then we talked to HPE's head of storage services, Omar Assad, he's clearly headed in the direction that we would consider SuperCloud. Again, those cross-cloud services, of course, their emphasis is connecting as well on-prem. That single experience, which traditionally has not existed with multi-cloud or hybrid. And we're seeing the emerging, merchants of companies, smaller companies like AVA Tricks and Starburst and Clumio and others that are building versions of SuperClouds that solve for a specific problem for their customers. Even ISVs like Adobe, ADP, we've talked to, UiPath, they seem to be looking at new ways to go beyond the SaaS model and add value within their cloud ecosystem, specifically around data as part of their and their customer's digital transformations. So yeah, pretty much every tech vendor with any size or momentum and new industry players are coming out of hiding and competing, building SuperClouds that look a lot like Michelle's matrix with machine intelligence and blockchains and virtual realities and gaming all enabled by the internet and hyperscale cloud capex. So it's moving fast and it's the future in our opinion. So don't get too caught up in the past or you'll be left behind. Okay, what about examples? We've given a number in the past but let's try to be a little bit more specific. Here are a few we've selected and we're gonna answer the two questions in one section here. What workloads and services will run in SuperClouds and what are some examples? Let's start with analytics. Our favorite example is Snowflake. It's one of the furthest along with its data cloud in our view. It's a SuperCloud optimized for data sharing and governance and query performance and security and ecosystem enablement when you do things inside of that data cloud, what we call a super data cloud. Again, our term, not theirs. You can do things that you could not do in a single cloud. You can't do this with Redshift. You can't do this with SQL Server and they're bringing new data types now with merging analytics or at least accommodate analytics and transaction type data and bringing open source tooling with things like Apache iceberg. And so it ticks the boxes we laid out earlier. I would say that a company like Databricks is also in that mix doing it, coming at it from a data science perspective trying to create that consistent experience for data scientists and data engineering across clouds. Converged databases, running transaction and analytic workloads is another example. Take a look at what couch base is doing with Capella and how it's enabling stretching the cloud to the edge with ARM based platforms and optimizing for low latency across clouds and even out to the edge. Document database workloads, look at MongoDB, a very developer friendly platform that with Atlas is moving toward a super cloud model, running document databases very, very efficiently. How about general purpose workloads? This is where VMware comes into play. Very clearly there's a need to create a common operating environment across clouds and on-prem and out to the edge. And I say VMware is hard at work on that. Managing and moving workloads and balancing workloads and being able to recover very quickly across clouds for everyday applications. Network routing, take a look at what AVatrix is doing across clouds, industry workloads. We see Capital One, it announced its cost optimization platform for Snowflake, piggybacking on Snowflake super cloud or super data cloud. And in our view, it's very clearly going to go after other markets is going to test it out with Snowflake, running, optimizing on AWS and it's going to expand to other clouds as Snowflake's business and those other clouds grows. Walmart, working with Microsoft to create an on-prem to Azure experience that's seamless. Yes, that counts, on-prem counts. If you can create that seamless and continuous experience, identical experience from on-prem to a hyperscale cloud, we would include that as a super cloud. And we've written about what Goldman is doing. Again, connecting its on-prem data and software tooling and other capabilities to AWS. So for scale. And you can bet dollars to donuts that Oracle will be building a super cloud in healthcare with its CERNR acquisition. Super cloud is everywhere you look. So I'm sorry, naysayers, it's happening all around us. So what's next? Well, with all the industry buzz and debate about the future, John Furrier and I have decided to host an event in Palo Alto. We're motivated and inspired to further this conversation and we welcome all points of view. Positive, negative, multi-cloud, super cloud, hyper cloud, all welcome. So the cube on super cloud is coming on August 9th out of our Palo Alto studios. We'll be running a live program on the topic. We've reached out to a number of industry participants, VMware, Snowflake, Confluent, Sky High Security, G-Rittenhouse's new company, HashiCorp, Cloudflare. We've hit up Red Hat and we expect many of these folks will be in our studios on August 9th. And we've invited a number of industry participants as well that we're excited to have on, from industry, from financial services, from healthcare, from retail. We're inviting analysts, thought leaders, investors. We're gonna have more detail in the coming weeks, but for now, if you're interested, please reach out to me or John with how you think you can advance the discussion and we'll see if we can fit you in. So mark your calendars, stay tuned for more information. Okay, that's it for today. Thanks to Alex Meyerson, who handles production and manages the podcast for breaking analysis. And I wanna thank Kristen Martin and Cheryl Knight. They helped get the word out on social and in our newsletters. And Rob Hoef is our editor-in-chief or at Silicon Angle who does a lot of editing and appreciate you posting on Silicon Angle, Rob. Thanks to all of you. Remember, all these episodes are available as podcasts. Wherever you listen, all you gotta do is search Breaking Analysis Podcast. I publish each week on wikibon.com and siliconangle.com. You can email me directly at david.bulante at siliconangle.com or DM me at dbulante or comment on my LinkedIn posts. And please do check out etr.ai for the best survey data and the enterprise tech business will be at AWS NYC Summit next Tuesday, July 12th. So if you're there, please do stop by and say hello to theCUBE. It's at the Javits Center. This is Dave Belante for theCUBE Insights, powered by ETR. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on Breaking Analysis.


Thank you for staying with us. You're still watching the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's time for our second hot topic Which is a woman who is looking to cook for charity and also break against world record in the process And that is the person of grace will call beer. She's the chef of graces gum a kitchen. Good morning grace Thank you for joining us Okay, so I was looking to you earlier and I was saying congratulations are in order because you were making an attempt to break the Guinness world record We've seen that You know with the case of here that bassi who did that for Nigeria and she broke the record and now you're also looking to make that attempt But from your own kitchen and also cooking for charity in the process as well And so my first question to you is what inspired all of this for you to say? Yes, this is what I want to do Well, this is the next step for me for me to be able to break the Guinness world record and also cook for charity because I mean That is a very commendable Act so what inspired you? Okay, thank you so much You know how about that? So in my business I always like give out to people so that was during The answers for example, I give out food and let you go gates. I also give out food that allows that Also, my bet is I always Open which belongs and you know, just give them just the it's not really an inspiration But it's it has been a part of me that just to give up to people just to give back to my community That really has been a part of me and I wanted to include this It's my record attempt That's that's fantastic. I mean that is really sweet I mean if that's your lifestyle, it is great because we always tell people it's good to be able to give the charity It's good for you to be a philanthropist and in your own little way. That's what you're doing So I want to ask what is a specific record you're trying to break at this point and what is your goal for this? Okay, so The record is different from Here that's one. Yeah, it has been broken 2018 and the last record that was with you looking at the book if I think sixty-eight hours 30 minutes And I'm telling you that it's our non-stop. So I need to pass that record because I mean people by anyone see Yeah, just say that's an opportunity to you know, include a lot of Witions to this attempt as well. So I'm not just in a world of an attempt I'm also doing for a purpose or few people like This is because I have it up to this attempt. That's fantastic That's fantastic. So what preparations have you you know put in place for this to ensure that you are ready?  Hello Oh, sadly we've lost her Okay, guys, can you hear me? Yes, I'm sorry. Okay, so I was just asking what preparations have you made because I know that with things like this You need to be prepared Not just physically. I mean you need to have the stamina obviously, but then mentally Spiritually in every aspect. So what preparations have you made? Okay, I'm like physically I'm working on my health I'm working on, you know, I think because what I do, I'm going to cook So like cooking as a part of me, I cook food, I deliver, we're like standing on scope for hours, eight hours It's like it's not it's not like This is one issue I'm already like inviting that so health-wise I'm working and spiritually I'm working as well Just I'm trying to get everything together the the sponsorships of the company Just everything, just everything really I mean so that'll even list my next question would be what kind of support are you looking for at the moment? And you know, also, how do you plan to involve the community and just engage with your audience at this time because this is This is an amazing thing that you're doing. So what type of support do you need people to offer to you? And how do you just hope to engage with everyone? Okay, so for the community support is that while I will be cooking, so we're giving out food items to people on the streets So while the home I'm going to be cooking at, the kitchen apartment I'm going to be cooking at So we're looking at people around the area. We're giving food to the homeless We're giving food to people on the streets So you're packaging like rice, curry base, ziploc bags, and they're sharing it So my team is going to be out there Yeah, my team's going to be out there sharing this food while I cook in the apartment that I am in So they are transporting to the streets and they are sharing the food. They're sharing water They're sharing a wealth of items to people on the streets So Yes, we're engaging the community around and also for online audience I will need a whole lot of support for online audience Because my dry run is under 29th of this month And I will need a lot of engagement online I'll be streaming live on all my platforms, your accounts, your Facebook, Instagram I want to be streaming live and I will need a whole lot of online support from Nigeria And also through this live damage, we've chosen home cooks So we're also giving out home cooks that are struggling in their business We're giving out non-stick pots, blenders We're giving out knife sets to like six home cooks Our home cooks are struggling in their businesses So we need to engage them as well I've gotten to already but I need four more home cooks that need Like the basic things for their businesses If you want to start a business, you can always reach out to us GDK of Lagos, if you need like a knife set Point F for our cast spawner So I need to give the steps out to people that are struggling in their businesses That's amazing So you got me when you were talking about sharing the food And I'm like, I hope I'm invited Because I definitely want to come taste your cooking And I'm sure everyone who's going to taste it will be happy about that Go ahead Okay So the thing is that the amount of people that attend that's limited Okay So the amount of people who is limited but You can just come out of your apartment and just You know, you can come in and watch me Do your time, Nigerians can come as well But then they would come in because it's a kitchen So they'll be based downstairs So that you can always just come as sick and watch their table and eat food Okay, don't worry, I'm sure we'll try to be there Plus, if you will try to be there to just, you know, chair you on while you're cooking Because you always need that chair, really And you just kind of motivate you to even do more Yeah, I'm sorry Yes, go ahead Go ahead Yes, I just Okay, we'll try to be there to motivate you So my final question to you now is GDK Okay, I was saying that we'll try to be there to, you know, motivate you Chair you on and, you know, just give you that support that you need And now my final question, you're welcome My final question to you is So what impact do you think this would have on your career as a chef And even the culinary world as a whole So what impact, what's your hope for this Guinness World Record you're trying to break And then obviously the charitable, you know, just being charitable to the community around you What impact are you hoping that this would have? I know you're having a dry run first before you now make that attempt But yes, what are you looking to get from all of this? I mean, like Nigeria is already on the map And it's so hard to put Nigeria on the map Because I'll be making a whole lot of Nigeria and food as well I'll be making Jamaican food, I'll be making Ghanaian food So basically the main purpose of this attempt is for my home folks People that are struggling in their businesses, they just want to get it right They just want to study food business, they don't know how to It's just like being an inspiration to home folks in Nigeria They are the inspiration to Jews that want to be chefs Jews that want to be in the food scene as well These are the ones with content creators And also while you're practicing our generation of food So just to reach out to people, know that you can do it You want to start that business, and do this business with a very long time And try to find your niche and purpose can be very hard But that doesn't mean that you stop there Just keep on keeping on That's fantastic, we want to say congratulations to you I hope that you're successful in all of your endeavors And breaking this record while making the attempt or the dry run would be fantastic And then when you go on to the attempt, you would break and even surpass the record So congratulations are in order for you by the grace of God Thank you You're welcome All right, have a nice day We've been sticking with Grace Wonkabye She's the chef from Grace's Gourmet Kitchen And we've just been talking to her about our attempt To break the Guinness World Record And also cooking for charity as well This is where we ended on the show today It's been an amazing ride with you Thank you for having a breakfast with me I hope you have a wonderful weekend And I will see you again on Monday My name is Rume Paulson Have an amazing weekend


Aloha and welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 in the think tech studios and beautiful downtown Halalulu in the Pioneer Plaza. And if you're looking for us, we're on the 8th floor, suite 888. We've got a very high tech group of equipment here as well as individuals. We've got some of the state of the art technology and we're putting it to good use. Business in Hawaii is a show that focuses on successful stories in Hawaii of the owners and the businesses as well as the groups that support the small business community in Hawaii. Today we've got a guest that's been here on the show before, very popular. It's the Maui Chamber of Commerce, Pam. And she's going to come and tell us all about what's going on on Maui and there's a lot going on over these days. Thank you, Reg. It's great to be here. It's great to have you back. We should probably evolve this into like a quarterly event of some sort. You've got so much to talk about and there's so much going on.  The Maui Chamber of Commerce has been around since 1910. We are the second oldest Chamber of Commerce after the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii in the state of Hawaii. And we actually, though, preceded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Very good. So we've been around for a very long time, business leaders supporting other business leaders in the Maui community. Well, and I think everybody knows that Maui is pretty much the second economic center for Hawaii. There's a lot going on there. There's a lot going on in Maui and, you know, we, of course, we always say Maui no Kauai. We're very proud of what we've got going on and lots of innovation at all times. As I'm here today, there's an energy conference going on in Maui right now today. Well, and that's very appropriate for it to be going on. We need the energy and we need to drop the cost of that energy down a little bit. Exactly. So what I understand, we just got a little bump in our rates here and we need to start addressing that. Yes. And you've been involved with the Maui Chamber yourself personally for quite a while too, haven't you? You know, I have a long history with the Maui Chamber of Commerce even before I became president. So I started my career in my 20s with the Maui Economic Development Board, was a vice president there after working there for 11 years and then went on to be director of marketing for Oceanic Time Warner Cable where I still served and participated in activities for the Chamber and then went on to run Maui United Way and then went back to, you know, again, Maui United Way was more of a social, obviously social service as non-profit and helping the community, but went back into sort of a hybrid, the Chamber is a non-profit, so I'm still in the non-profit world, but also very business oriented. So I kind of have my feet in both passions and this April I will have been there now for 11 years. 11 years with the Maui Chamber and how many years is the CEO? 11 years, all of that time. That's a record I think. I think it's going to be the record for Maui and right now I am, the president currently have the longest standing position as president in the Chamber system for the main chambers across the islands right now. In the islands. So you're truly a Maui girl then. You've been there for a long time. I have. I was brought there as a teenager in 1981 and I've stayed ever since. Very good. Thank you. And you've also got a little bit of an entrepreneurial streak in you too, right? In addition to running the Chamber, I have a couple of side businesses. Well, first I should mention that my fiance has a company called Island Landscape that he and I built together. But he owns that company and it's a landscape construction company. So we do that in our household and I often do, I do his accounting and books and some of his reporting and things like that. And then I have a betting line that I created to help some of the women's sewers. I was trying to partner two companies together and their partnership fell apart and the women's sewers needed some projects. So we created a betting line company and that keeps some of our Maui ladies sewing and recently we're working on a gift basket and gift box company. And in addition, we're developing a botanical garden nursery and farm. Well, it sounds like you've got the perfect set of credentials to be running the Maui Chamber. I mean, you really know how to provide the services to the membership. Thank you. I would like to say that it takes a team effort. And I'm very proud of our team. We have a wonderful board of directors. We also have a great staff with Kailea Moikeja, who's been with me for several years, and Amber, who's been with me for over a year, Amber Kuzosin. And really, when I'm out with you today and doing the business development side of things and working on programs and partnerships, they're back in the office holding down the fort, doing all the grunt work and detail work that it takes to make all these things happen. So it's when you have a big group of volunteers and you have a committed board and you've got a committed staff that you can really take things to a new heights. And you mentioned volunteers. I mean, there's always going to be a need for volunteers, i.e., more membership. And so you're looking to grow membership on the Maui Chamber? Thank you. We're always looking to grow membership in the Maui Chamber of Commerce. And what most people don't realize, and some people still don't even know we exist on Maui, which is tragic. We keep trying to rectify that. But what most people don't realize is how affordable chamber membership is. So chamber membership starts at just $344 a year. So that's really about the cost of one business card size ad in the local newspaper. And that gives you so many advantages. And like many chambers, we do a fair share investment. So that means that when the company's a member, so are all their employees. So we encourage companies. Make sure you're sending your sales team, your marketing team, your financial people. Make sure you're networking with other business members because that is some of the best leverage. But of course, we also have great discounts that are afforded to all chamber members, and great education and training programs, and business to business and business to consumer opportunities. You know, I'm a firm believer that you get out of something what you put into it. And once you join an organization like the Maui Chamber, you really need to start getting engaged. And you can really start to multiply the impact by getting your people involved and getting them engaged as well and going out and doing that networking and going to different events. I mean, that's one of the better ways, from my experience, that you can actually build a business. You're absolutely right. And you're one of the people, Reg, that I always say walks the talk.  And you make amazing things happen. And it's true. The more a business and the business owners and their employees get engaged, their knowledge goes up, their training goes up, their network goes up, sales become easier, we have affordable advertising methods, but they build relationships and partnerships, and they're seen differently in the community as well. People honor and respect them, and they're top of mind. So when somebody's looking to do business to somebody else, who do they think of first? It's their chamber membership. The one they see the most often, the one that they're familiar and comfortable with. You know, that's for sure. I'll tell you a funny story real quickly, is we had a chamber member who I hadn't seen for many years. Their membership fell by the wayside. And I was helping three families get painting done for their houses. This was just on the side, not really to the chamber, but of course I'm referring them to chamber member painters, and in walked this former member, and I had completed, it didn't even occur to me to have them get a quote from him because I just hadn't seen him in such a long time. So you are, of course, referring to the people who are top of mind and that you see. Well, and that's just normal. I mean, that's just the way it works. You know, I mean, and sometimes, you know, you may be having a conversation in the afternoon and then you go to an event and all of a sudden you start connecting the dots and it starts all coming together. Yes, absolutely. It's a great, I love doing business. And a real quick story. I had a company that I started with one person. And within 12 years I had over 200 employees and we were doing 7,000 tax returns. We were the second, third largest payroll company in town, blah, blah, all this stuff. And it was done predominantly through chamber membership. Yes, what a great story. Going out and engaging and getting involved and not only me but my managers and as a company grew I got more and more people involved. And it just, it was, for me, a very low cost way of building a business. And I didn't have to spend the tens of thousands of dollars with the ads that some people don't even look at. That's true. And I met you through the chamber. That's how we met, through your great involvement. So it's a great place to go and for $344 or even if you have a little bit larger company with a little bit higher fee, I mean it's well worth that cost as long as you put the effort into it. Absolutely. And nowadays too more and more chamber organizations, including ours, offer other discounts. So discounts on your buying power like through other major corporations, Office Max, Office Depot, we can get you computer discounts, we can get your marketing discounts. So the other thing is we have a whole package. Like a member to member type of. Member to member discounts and also affiliate program discounts. So major programs that we've been working on over the past year that really can offset the complete cost of membership to the degree that you use. Let me ask the question. How much does it cost to pay in a house? Well I'll tell you it depends on the size of the house. Let's start there and the complexity of the house since I just helped three people do it. So one house was very simple. And one person, we got the person a lower rate. But the first quote they had was $10,000. We were able to help them get that done for seven. The other person's quote was $25,000. Bigger, much more complex house, five different roof lines, things like that. So there's a lot of, it depends on your windows and yeah. But you just scale a little bit. Let's just say a $10,000 job if you were doing a member to member and affiliate program and you can get 10% off. You just saved $1,000. That's right. And that's double your membership. That's right. And again, this might be for your home, not necessarily your business. Could be for your business, could be for your home.  Right. Now it's a great organization. And if somebody wanted to find out more information about how to join or what the events are or what's going on with the chamber, how can they do that? I'm going to give you two quick ways. First, you can go to www.maui chamber.com. And that was just on the screen in case you did. Oh, I did. I didn't notice how awesome. And second, you can call my amazing team at<PHONE_NUMBER>. 0081. All right, very good. And they go to the chamber website or they call that number and then they can be told how to get the application form. It's really easy. There's a join now button. You can join us right away. You can learn more about our programs, our benefits. You can, from the front page on the website, you can find out about our events and our caliber of events and sign up for different things. We have an electronic registration system. You can also learn about the topical programs and upcoming activities. Which is very valuable. And a lot of them are very low cost to go and participate in. Absolutely. And I guess if there was chamber committees that they want to get involved in, there might be a way to do that. Absolutely. There's a list of our committees under the membership tab. And you can find out about those. And we are always looking for new volunteers. And that's another way to really get engaged and involved and really meet the movers and shakers in the business community on Maui is to get involved with some of these committees and participate. And establish yourself. You get a network. People start recognizing who you are. It really builds up to credibility. It does. It does. And there's even been a Shapiro study that talks about, again, most chambers offer you some sort of window decal or something to put on your business that says you're a chamber member, you have increased favorability and credibility automatically by having that logo. People understand the chamber system. And that's something that's invaluable, worth a lot more than $200 a year. That's right. Now, you just finished the first half of the show. We're going to go into the second half here shortly after a short break. And I hope we have enough time to cover all the different events that you've got coming up here in the next few months. So I hope so. This is business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're here with the Maui Chamber of Commerce, Pam, and who is explaining to us all of the events that are going on on Maui. And we'll be right back after a 60-second break. I'm Carol Mon-Lee. And I want to welcome you to our newest series called Education Matters, where we will explore education-related topics that touch everyone, not just formal programs in K-12 and higher education, but also broader issues and information that affect our community. Aloha. My name is Richard Emory, and I host Kondo Insider. We talk about issues facing the Kondo Association throughout Hawaii and talk about solutions. When you think about it, about one-third of our population lives in some form of common interest real estate. We broadcast every Thursday at 3 p.m. Please tune in. Tune in. And thank you. Aloha. Hi. I'm Cheryl Crozier Garcia, the host of Working Together on Think Tecawaii. Join us every other Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 4 30 when we discuss the impact of change on employees, employers, and the economy. Aloha. And welcome back to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. This week, we're talking with the Maui Chamber of Commerce. And we've got the CEO out here, Pam, who is explaining all of the different benefits of being a Maui Chamber member and all the different events that they've got going on for the next few months. So, Pam, what do you got on your calendar these days? Oh, my gosh. We have such exciting things going on on our calendar. And I do want to mention just one event that we just had. But it's part of what I call Small Business Recognition Season. So we just held the Maui Small Business Awards in March. And we do that with Mayor Alan Arikawa. And it's a partnership with the County Office of Economic Development and the Maui Chamber of Commerce. And it's like the Academy Awards for Small Businesses. We even have a step-and-repeat banner that they take their picture in front of in a red carpet and music as they come up to get the awards. Sounds like a lot of fun. It's a hoot-and-a-half. And it's a great way to recognize the small businesses. And in that awards, it's not about the winners. It's about all the nominees. And then, of course, the winners. But it's about recognizing everyone for their amazing contributions that led them to be nominated. You know, Pam, I've been in a judging position. Yes. And sometimes it's really hard to decide who wins and another one doesn't. You know, it's so difficult. And sometimes that line is so close. Yeah, exactly. And so we really wanted to honor everybody's accomplishments. And so in that awards ceremony, we get to do that. And then we're very proud on April 26, again, gearing up to Small Business Week, which is in May. We're leading off with the Maui SBA Awards. It's an annual event we do with the Jane Sawyer of the Hawaii District Office of the SBA. And we are going to get to honor, I just want to share some of the companies. Garrett Marrero of Maui Brewing Company, one state-of-wise small business person of the year. Excellent. We're so thrilled with that. Mark Harmer of Harmer Radio and Electronics, Inc., County of Maui Small Business Person of the Year. And then we have County of Maui Family owned Small Business of the Year, Ina Excavation and Grading. Then County of Maui Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Brian Bowers of Artistic Builders. And then David Dally of Maui Economic Opportunity, one Maui County Small Business Advocate. And you've won a state award. Oh. Okay, it's hot trash. Ruma has it that you too are being recognized. But... I'll be recognized. But in full disclosure, what's kind of interesting is that I sit on the National Board of Directors for the SBA for regulatory fairness. And so I've always had a very keen interest in what's going on with the SBA in Hawaii. And I chaired the ninth region, which is the western United States. So, you know, I'm very involved in a lot of the different programs and the awards and whatnot. And it's always very exciting to come out and watch these events. And if you don't mind, I'd like to come out and maybe participate, but just kind of watch and observe and see what's going on. You are going to come as my guest. We would love to have you come and participate in this great awards ceremony. That would be great. And it's a lot of fun. And we also use it as an opportunity to do an economic update. So Dr. Carl Bottom from UHERO, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, will be there presenting the economic update. And that's important for small businesses to hear. Where is the economy going? What are things that we should be watching and being aware of? So that's going to be awesome. And that day, April 26, also happens to be Administrative Professionals Day. Wow. So don't forget your administrative professionals and on Maui, make sure you come to the bunch. Maybe they should just bring them with them. That's what we want. Let them learn, have a fun lunch and event and be educated on what outstanding small business people are doing. So that's a really exciting thing that we're working on. I've heard Carl speak a number of times and he's always got a bunch of neat information. But this year, probably more than any others because there's a lot of interesting things that are kind of playing out right now in Washington. It's going to be hard to predict exactly how that's going to all end up in the next year or two. It really is. And recently, we just saw a chart that's been circulated around about where they're expecting the Trump administration to make cuts programmatically in departments. And some of the departments that are key to Hawaii, including small business, agriculture, east-west, a lot of programs are looking, those big programmatic areas that were once larger are starting to shrink. And it's some in very big ways. So you're right, it's a very important time. And even with. Hopefully, when it's all said and done and the dust settles, we are getting a lot of cuts in a lot of the areas. But we've also got some huge increases in the Department of Defense and military area. So I'm not sure how that's all going to balance out at some point. That's correct, too. There is a lot of turmoil, to say the least, going out. And people are going to be trying to figure out how this is going to impact them. One little sidebar comment. Everybody knows that the audit rates at the IRS has been dropping significantly. Well, they just cut another $20 or $30 million from their budget. That's what's being proposed. So those low audit rates are going to go even lower. No. Now, use that as you see fit. I was going to say. That's good. There are some good things that are coming out. You're right. So the SBA Awards is going to be really exciting. And it's always good to be out there with Jane and see everything that's going on on Maui and all the award winners. But you've got some other things going on, too. We do. We have stuff going on every month. But I'm just highlighting for time some of the bigger programs in June. And it's actually on June 13th and 14th. Maui will be joining all of our neighbor island chambers in the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii has partnered with Macy Hirono's office, Senator Hirono's office, to present Hawaii on the Hill. This is where we take local manufacturers and food products up and showcase them up in the Capitol. And so we have a Senate conference room that we use, food vendors from all across Hawaii there, and the legislators and their staffers and guests get to come by the Capitol conference room and sample all these phenomenal products from Hawaii. So we're excited about that. It's a big event. And I have heard, because with the SBA, I go and do some things in DC occasionally, I have heard that it is probably one of the most popular events in DC, because it's very local flavored. It's very Hawaiian style. Yes. And they just fill the room, and there's lines waiting to get in. Huge lines. And apparently, so what happened is Senator Hirono saw that other states were doing this and said, why not Hawaii? And so of the other states who have been doing it, maybe for many, many years before we ever jumped into this arena, we have now taken over. Everybody who comes through gets a lei. And so it's just the spirit of aloha is present, and we have Hawaiian musicians who play. And so they get treated to fabulous Hawaiian food, beautiful music, the spirit of aloha, all the wonderful people there, and then these lays that they get to take back. They love it. And one of the reasons why this is so important is, for example, you've got members of the Maui Chamber that actually sell a product, have a product to sell. And they go there, and they promote the product, and they're able to actually get some new sales leaps. Absolutely. It's a way to really introduce these coasts. And again, people from every state to Hawaii and to the beautiful things that we have to offer. And so it's very exciting for our manufacturing industry to participate in this. And for us, it leverages another thing that we do every year. So we've long had the Made in Maui brand and been promoting Made in Maui products. But we also now, every year in November, hold. And this year, it's going to be the fourth annual Made in Maui County Festival. So again, we've got companies from Maui, Molokai, and Lanai with products locally manufactured on Maui. And in November. And in November. First week in November. So you're inviting everybody from the East Coast? Please, everybody. We actually have buyers, wholesalers, and distributors who even come from Japan for that festival. So this again, Doug tells that. It's always keeping that presence of buy local first, find out what Maui and Hawaii has to offer, and remember the phenomenal products that we're known for and continue to innovate on and create.  This is the third year now. We helped out the construction industry when during the recession, their association kind of fell by the wayside. They came back as a trade council of the Maui Chamber of Commerce. And so we have, it's called the Construction Industry of Maui, CIM, Trade Council. And we're excited to say that this year is going to be their second annual, bringing back, for over a decade, they had done a home show. And then when that organization went by the wayside, there were many years where there was no home show. So now it's the second annual CIM home show in June. Very cool. And where are they going to be doing it? They're going to be doing it War Memorial Stadium. So they're going to do that, which has traditionally been the home for the home show. And it's going to be June 16th and 17th. And again, statewide, we welcome everybody to come to this phenomenal home show, see our Maui contractors and the types of work that they're doing, the products they're bringing in. We have many suppliers who participate in the home show. So if you need a fence or you need a pool or you need a house painting or whatever you need, they're going to be able to find it all and then some. Because what's really exciting is we're seeing more and more Maui companies bring in eco lines of products. So new fencing products, for example, made out of aluminum. So unlike the wood that's getting run in over time, now there's aluminum fencing that looks like wood. So there's smart irrigation systems that my other half and his company promote that allow you to do water management remotely. And save on water bills because the system will alert you if there's a leak or if a sprinkler had popped up. So in other words, you can divert water into different channels remotely now? You can remotely, yes. Yeah, and if you really just want to play, you can do a quick little sprinkler irrigation show if you just want to have a good time popping them on at different times. I only do that when the dog comes into the yard. Exactly. But yeah, there's new amazing technologies in the construction industry. And so you're going to see a lot of that featured at the home show as well. So we encourage people to come by the home show and check that out. And then right after that, this is a new partnership for the Maui Chamber of Commerce. All businesses in our community deeply care about affordable housing. And all across Hawaii, we know that we're short of the units that we need to take care of our population. In Maui County, it's just under 14,000 units that they say should have been needed between 2015 and 2025. That's a lot of homes. It's a lot of homes. And some of it might not be home. Some of it might be we need to look at rentals. So what we're saying is that we're partnering with the County Department of Housing and Human Concerns to put on an affordable housing summit. And that will be held on Friday, June 30th. And we are going to be looking at, what are the opportunities in affordable housing? We're going to discuss the state of where things are at. But what can we do? And while certain things may have hampered in the past, we're going to showcase that things can be done. But it's how do we clear the runway so we can just take off? Well, and that's the trick. I think we can define what the need is. And we know how to get there. But we just got to make it efficient and productive and get there quicker than later. Now, I'm afraid we have run out of time. That's all right. We could probably do a whole show on affordable housing. And there's that, for sure. Pam, it's always good to have you in town and have you on the show. And I'm looking forward to our next quarterly update. Sounds like June is going to be very busy for you. So if you get through June, then we'll have another get-together, maybe in July or August. That would be wonderful. I love coming here, and I love sharing with your audience. Thank you so much, Reg. Thank you, Pam. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30. We highlight businesses, successful businesses, and successful individuals, and those organizations that support that. So please join us next week on Thursday at 2 o'clock. Until then, aloha.


A squared plus B squared equals C squared. Cool story, bro, but how's it relevant to me in my life? If you find yourself asking that question and you like making games, I might have an answer for you. Because in this tutorial, I'm gonna share with you an application of Pythagoras' theorem in real life using Scratch, coming your way in just a sec. Hey, what's up, crew? It's the Surfing Scratcher here, teacher-surfer programmer, and I help curious people just like you along on their learning journeys through video tutorials. In the last tutorial, I showed you how to get this rocket ship moving across the screen using X-Velocity and Y-Velocity. As always, I've got a starter project available for you down in the description, and there's also a card in the top right-hand corner right now where you can go check out that previous tutorial. You can get through this tutorial without watching the previous one, but if you've got no idea what I mean by X-Velocity and Y-Velocity, I strongly encourage you to watch it. This tutorial is gonna teach you two things. We're gonna create a variable called speed, and we're gonna be using these two existing variables to help us understand that, and we're gonna explore what this operator means, this square root operator. So to do that, we're gonna jump over to Sketchbook. Okay, here we are over in Sketchbook. I've got our little rocket ship here in the center. We've got the X going across and the Y going up and down, and over here, we're gonna be exploring Pythagoras' theorem. What if it actually came up in real life?  We're gonna be using Pythagoras' theorem to understand speed, but firstly, the theorem. So we've got A squared plus B squared is equal to C squared. Can think of this as the square of one side plus the square of the other side equaling the square of the longest side at the right angle triangle. And here's our formula. A squared plus B squared is equal to C squared. Now we can just substitute some values in. So we could make A equal to three, we could make B equal to four, and C would be equal to five, because three squared plus four squared is equal to five squared. Three squared, well that's just nine, three times three is equal to nine. Four, four times four is 16. So nine plus 16 is equal to 25, five squared. Well, let's take a copy of our right angle triangle down here and place it directly on the ship. What this shows is if we wanted to get our ship to this point right here, our ship would move across the x-axis here and move up the y-axis here. We can just substitute those names, because remember, the change in the x-value is just the x-velocity, and the change in the y-value is just the y-velocity. If that's confusing, go check out the card on the top right-hand corner and then come back to this tutorial. So refer to our formula down here where we had A squared plus B squared is equal to C squared. Well, C squared is just the speed, remember that's the long side, and that's the same thing as the A squared, which is our x-velocity here plus B squared, which is our y-velocity. Now our change in x is around about two, so that would be two squared. Our change in y-value, well, that's around 1.5. So we go 1.5 squared here, and we need to add those two things together. And I just got the calculator to help us out with that. Two squared, so two times two plus 1.5 times 1.5 is equal to 6.25. But there is an issue with this. 6.25 is actually the speed squared. That's what the two in the top right-hand corner means. It means squared. To find the actual speed, we need to take what's called the square root. Here's a quick recap of the square root. We're gonna use the x-velocity because that's a nice, friendly number. The x-velocity is two, and we know that two squared is just two times two, and that's the same thing as four. So if we wanted to find what the square root is, the square root is signified by this little symbol here. And if we put four in there, we just wanna know what number times itself is equal to the number inside the square root. So what number times itself is equal to four? Well, that's actually two. So two is equal to the square root of four. Let's just do one more example, three squared. You know that as nine, three times three. So the square root of nine is going to be, that's right, it's gonna be three. So to find our speed, we wanna find what the square root of 6.25 is. And the calculator tells me that that number is 2.5. So 2.5 is our speed, and our speed is just the length of the hypotenuse. So our speed here is 2.5. So we can just slightly modify our formula and turn it into speed is equal to the square root of the x-velocity squared plus the y-velocity squared. What we've done to get rid of the square here is take the square root of speed, whatever we do to one side we need to do to the other side. So that's where the square root comes from. Okay, you've been super patient and we're just about to get into scratch. I just wanted to show you the block and scratch that you can use for the square root. So this square root symbol is represented by this scratch operator block and it's square root, sq for square and rt for root. Kind of looks like a square root. And now to tie this all neatly together. So this formula here, speed is equal to the square root of the velocity squared plus y-velocity squared. Well, we can represent that in scratch by creating a variable called speed and we just set speed to the square root of x-velocity times x-velocity plus y-velocity times y-velocity. Let's go do that across in scratch. I'm just over here in scratch. Remember, grab the starter project if you don't have a copy of this already down in the description. Okay, we're gonna make a new variable. Yeah, we're gonna call it speed. After we move the ship, we're going to set speed. We're not gonna set it to zero. We need to go grab that operator and change it from the absolute value to the square value. Remember, we need to add together the x-velocity squared and the y-velocity squared. So we're gonna need some multiplication blocks. Then we wanna get the x-velocity, duplicate it and multiply it by itself. Then grab the y-velocity. You can just grab two of them. And we're gonna put those two values inside the addition operator. And then that whole block, we're going to put inside the square operator. So now when you look up at the screen here in the top left corner of the stage, you'll see we've got speed. And as I click the green flag, I will move the ship around and you can see our ship speed is updated. And notice that it's always positive, which is exactly what speed is. It's positive even when we move down and the velocities are negative. Because remember, a negative times a negative results in a positive. So it's always gonna be positive. The last thing I wanna show you is just what we covered over in Sketchbook. And that's when we square a number when we multiply it by itself. Now I remember that 2.5 times 2.5 was 6.25. What value do you think will result here? That's right, 2.5. I recommend playing around with these values a little bit, changing them around to negative numbers and seeing the result. There you go, there's the positive number. Of course, if you got rid of the negative symbol here, we would result in a negative number. But now we're not multiplying the number by itself, are we? There's two different numbers here. And there you have it. We can get the speed of an object by using Pythagoras' theorem. And we can also use the square root operator to help us out with our calculations. In the next tutorial, we're gonna get our rocket ship turning around and we're gonna be exploring some trig functions to help us out with that. I hope you found this tutorial useful. That's one way that you can use Pythagoras' theorem in real life. Until next time, I'm off to go find a wave. I'll catch you in the next one.