Live from Midtown Manhattan, the Cube's live coverage of Big Data NYC, a silicon angled Wikibon production, made possible by Hortonworks, we do Hadoop, and when this go, Hadoop made invincible. And now your co-hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone to the live from New York City for Big Data, New York City, Big Data NYC. This is where all the action is happening. Part of Hadoop World Stratocons are exclusive coverage. Silicon Angle and Wikibon is the Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events, we start with the silicon noise, and we're wrapping up towards the back end of day three, I'm going to show my co-host Dave Vellante, Dave, third day. We're grinding it out, but it's a lot of fun, a lot of great stories, great personalities, great technologists, tech athletes, as we say. And our next guest is Mike Hoskins, CTO of Actinian. Welcome to the Cube. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming on to the Cube. Cube is where we talk about just tech, one, and things going on in the news and what you guys are doing. So talk about your company and tell us about what's going on in the past year since the last strata. Sure. Glad to. So Actinian is a private software company, about 140 million in sales. We're one of the largest private software companies in the world. I'm the CTO of Actinian. It's been an incredible last 12 months for Actinian. A series of Acquisitions 3 altogether that we've strung together started with an acquisition of pervasive software, a public software company, about 50 million. That was my business. So I got to Actinian recently, only in the last year, via that transaction, I was CTO of pervasive. Right. That's where we met. That's right. Last time we met, I was wearing the CTO of pervasive hat. We had an effort around data integration and big data and analytics there. And that was the interesting technology for Actinian. Then in flight, while we were acquiring pervasive, we acquired Versant, an object database. So data management is young again, object databases are interesting, no sequel is interesting. And then finally, to wrap it off, kind of the signal achievement, we acquired Paracel, which is, in my opinion, the world's fastest column or analytic database. And of course, analytic databases are hot. And so there we had those series of assets stitched together now. And we made two big announcements in July a few months ago around the Actinian data cloud, which is a secure elastic cloud for doing data integration. How do you integrate the Internet? How do you tie together all the new APIs born on the Internet? And we announced, and that's what we're talking about at the conference here, the Paracel big data and analytics platform. We adopted the Paracel brand name. And so Paracel is a brand name now, spreads across the entire end-to-end portfolio of big data and analytic IP that we bought and product offerings that we have. A lot of bots on Twitter around that product. So tell them, what's the talk of the show? What are you learning out there? So the show is really interesting. What have you observed? Maybe not learn, CTO, I'm sure you've taught a few things to folks out there. But what's the buzz? I presented yesterday, and we talked about that a little bit. But first, just stepping back and looking at the show, I've been coming to Strata cheese year after year for four or five years, it seems now. And it's bigger and it's better every year. I really think they've lifted their game this year. I think the buzz was higher. It's certainly packed. I just read that they're going to move to the Javits Center next year, which I applaud. I think that's a good idea. But it's just the vibrancy in the ecosystem is stunning. I mean, without mentioning any names, you walk in, the sponsor pavilions are just overflowing with booths and with people. I tucked way back in the corner are these two obscure little booths with fancy names that I won't mention, but the sort of multi-billion dollar, you know, legacy data management players that just seem to be overwhelmed in what I call the age of data. And so that's one takeaway that the boom is on. The other one is, and this was just odd, it hit me today when I was sitting there listening to conversations was how international the software industry has become. So those of us who grew up in software know it as a space that was dominated by U.S. players. That's just not true anymore. You listen to the languages spoken there in the events and at lunch and in the conversations next to you. Development centers are in Europe or in Eastern Europe and India and China and Brazil are just, it's a global, and I think that's exciting. So the software industry, since the advent of big data and analytics has become global and it really is, that's a positive development for software. So that was my kind of interesting personal takeaway from Strata this year is how global it's become. So I wonder if you could talk about the Paracel acquisition. So you were part of a, or Paracel was part of an ecosystem or a competitive ecosystem. It was kind of going after terror data, right? I tend to disrupt that. There was certainly Vertica, Green Plum, the TISA were some of the big takeouts. I used to joke it's like the offensive guards when there's a draft and the NFL, one goes and then they all started to go. But Paracel went later, obviously, Astrodata's another one, but terror data actually picked up. Each of these companies, well they're approaching their platforms in different ways. You know, you've got IBM doing its big insights thing, you've got Green Plum now sort of rolled into Pivotal, Vertica, they've got some autonomy assets that sort of mash in together, but they're all doing some kind of platform play. So what is your platform play? Do you have a platform play? Can you talk about that a little bit? What does that look like? How does it relate to sort of the Hadoop ecosystem? It's a very good question. Let me turn back the clock a little bit because I think it helps to give context to the answer before I talk in detail about our Paracel platform. The database industry is kind of interesting. We had sort of traditional OLTP straight databases. Then you had terror data kind of get in the game when the data got so large it was difficult and they understood sort of scale out and clusters. But it was still a row set traditional relational database that was used. I think the first really giant watershed just in the last 10, 12 years was in the TISA. The TISA really broke the chain there. Terror data is more of just the biggest of the prior. The TISA said, geez, you can use an open source database Postgres and you can use an appliance and you can change the economics forever, I think. So then you had a string of players. The TISA, Green Plum, Datalegro, Aster. I kind of lump them together because some of them were geared towards hardware. They were all still geared on row set relational database technology. There are two vendors in that list you mentioned that I think are unique and that is Vertica and Paracel. They're unique because they're each software only columnar analytic databases. And in my opinion, that is the future. And not Postgres, I'm certainly in the case of Vertica, not Postgres, same thing with Paracel. We're from scratch. In fact, the inventor of Paracel, the founder of our company, Barry Zane, was the sort of key co-inventor and founder of the TISA. And developed that for five years and then left that and we like to say, sort of figured out where all the bodies are buried, figured out how to do it right and yeah. Oh, two companies that Stonebreaker didn't invent it. Yeah, three of them. So Barry's a great guy and I think Paracel and anybody who understands that all of the value in future innovation is going to come from the software stack. And so a pure software stack that is columnar and it has to be columnar and that is analytic in nature for analytic workloads because that's the exciting area of IT right now. Operational workloads and systems have kind of been solved. The entire next 30 years is all about how do we build a new generation of analytic applications on analytic platforms. And so to the specific of your question then the acquisition of Paracel is sort of the key stone piece of this end to end portfolio. But it's much deeper than that. We acquired a data flow engine from Pervasive. Data flow is a beautiful technology for data and computationally intensive workloads. Our data flow engine is, we just announced last week that it's available under Yarn so we're a Yarn certified natively executing data flow engine on Hadoop. But it's next generation, it's post map reduce. And so it does fine grain thread level parallelism, enjoys complete sort of no touch that is parallelism scale up in the node and then we use Hadoop to scale out across the nodes that uses pipeline parallelism. So it avoids all of the terrible performance traps of MapReduce. In fact, I think a hidden story here is Yarn is going to liberate the world from the bane of MapReduce on productivity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know MapReduce is well acknowledged to be terrible at design time. But the truth is it's pretty terrible at run time also for a tremendous number of workloads. It's completely inefficient. And yet it's still what pretty much 100% of the people use. I think the arrival of Yarn and platforms like our Peruxel platform and the data flow engine are really gonna change the game and allow people to move beyond MapReduce to vastly more price performant and efficient platform. So we have data flow as kind of a backend engine tying together the entire platform. It allows us to capture data at scale. So raw data comes in the front of the pipe. We can move the data through the pipe. We have advanced ETL technology and data quality technology. And then we can move it to its optimal storage tier and that's where the databases come in. We own also a product that used to be called VectorWise. That's the world's fastest single node column or analytic database. We have a kind of a stranglehold on the column or analytic database market here at Acti. And so we can move the data at scale across your Hadoop cluster or any hardware and then deposit that data in whatever the optimal tier is for the downstream analytics that you might wanna do. And so that's why we call the platform the Peruxel Big Data and Analytics platform. It's really for building a new generation of end-to-end data and computationally intensive analytic applications. So you're going back in and that was a great description of your platform. Thank you for that, but I'm still, I struggle sometimes and I'd love your CTO perspective. There's an eclectic mix of platforms in this space.  But then there's all kinds of, I mean, you look at what Pivotal has. It's with Cloud Foundry and Spring and you know, those are, are those white spaces for everybody else? Are those just adjacencies that are distractions?  I wish I could pour the data in my predictive analytic machine and tell you. Yeah, it's hard to tell right now. Here's the truth. We are in a highly disruptive period between the old and the new. I call this the interregnum, the period between the kings. It's kind of a wild west. It is a discontinuous break from the past. This is not your father's data warehouse on steroids. This is literally something new. And so we're in year one or two or three or four of a 30 year span and we don't know how it's all gonna play out. The princes are contesting for who's gonna be the new king. They'll be multiple kings, but. Plenty of land, certainly, that's for sure. What's that? Plenty of land to be king on. There is, and this is why, why are there 150 startups and big data? Why are people pouring tens of million dollars into this? This is the gold rush, but it is so early.  They need things like yarn. They need things like ZetaSet. They need things that help them mature and become more business ready and enterprise ready. So I can answer the question, we're gonna be the winner. There's gonna be multiple new names. But the truth is, it's a very interesting time. It does present a challenge for customers though because that Wild West makes it very hard for them to go say, oh, this is the obvious answer. Here's a single vendor. Yeah, it's very fuzzy for the customers. It is, and I think there's, you see a lot of best of breed stuff out there now where customers are being forced to mix and match and adopt a little bit of open source, of the commercial and kind of brew it up in their own cocktail. So it's an exciting time, but it is not obvious. You know, it's interesting too. And a lot of the legacy, I call it legacy, the traditional IT spaces, the best of breed or integration of a suite, it seems to be the ladder that's winning in this space because it's so immature. It seems like best of breed is gonna win for a while. It's always like that in young spaces. Look at cloud computing. The ERP, the CRM leaders, the HR leaders, they're all autonomous ISVs out there that then therefore require integration. Hence the Actian data cloud, which is the glue that lets you integrate the internet. But yeah, anytime you have a young, immature emerging space, you always have a lot of best of breed activity and that's what's going on right now. And you know, we think at Actian, one of the differences we can make is we can offer that platform. So we've already stitched together some of the core pieces of technology. The acquisitions we made were very modern software stacks written in the last four, five years, understanding chip scores and clusters, modern patterns of parallelism, so AC John's gonna roll his eyes again after cutting. No, I like it, it's clever. Talk about the, I noticed you guys are branding the hashtag age of data. Yeah, you guys, okay, so talk about what that means. Start with vision behind age of data. You mentioned some of the forward-looking we're not in, we're in a new world. That's right. New industry being built from scratch with all the players now here on the field. What does age of data mean? It's interesting. I talk about the massive revolution that is modern computing. I divide it into the age of hardware, sort of 1945 to 75. The age of software, 75 to 2005. Microsoft was founded in 1975. It's a pretty old company, really. And Google went public in 2004. And you look at companies like Google and Facebook and Twitter, they're not software companies. They use software, but they also use chairs and electricity. Yeah. What they really are are data companies. They're basically collecting data, harvesting the value out of that data, and then renting or selling the value back to the marketplace. And so in the age of data, this is the kind of business that's gonna have high value. We're basically, in our lifetime, living through a transition from an analog to a digital universe. We're instrumenting the universe.  And the net result is an almost constant river of data that is flowing at us. You think of a modern transaction.  That's a classic business transaction. It took Walmart 60 years to get to a terabyte of those business transactions. Facebook generates that in a week. I was with the large bank the other day. They generate that in a day, just in their firewalls and routers and network logs. Between classic business transactions and then social interactions and click streams and then machine-generated observations, the digital data tap has been turned on and it will never be turned off. The flow of data is complex. It's completely continuous forever. Which is why you see a lot of things in Hadoop around real-time frameworks and streaming frameworks. Which is going to, by the way, obsolete large swaths of the software industry. People who have built their models on static, rigid architectures where you can kind of stop at night and e-tail your data and wait eight hours and then stick in your warehouse so you can give people information that's two hours or two days old. It's over. That's not where things are gonna go in the next step. So do you see the data warehouse and business intelligence markets being flipped around where business intelligence is just the standard analytics? We were joking. Dave and I were joking. The internet created the killer app email. Which we all use. But now the young kids, my sons, like what, they don't even turn on their voicemail on their phones. They're texting and they use social networks. Analytics is the killer app for the data business. In some way or another, there's a lot of things going on in the covers. What's your view on that in terms of the apps that are coming? Are they mostly out of the covers? Is it gonna be just a simple interface, app interface? Well, I wish I knew. Let's give the BI crowd, the business intelligence crowd sort of the history of the last 10 years where they've established this idea that I can turn raw data into information into some meaningful way. But it's still kind of backwards looking. How many widgets did I sell yesterday? And so the key to analytics is really advanced analytics and kind of forward looking and discovering patterns in your data, making predictions. It is very early, but yes, that is where all the value is going to become. I think businesses are gonna start looking at ways to optimize this kind of analytic flow. I think there's really two analytic flows. There's the large discovery pipes. That's what a lot, what you see here at the Hadoop event is about. You know, the last guy who was here from Squirrel, you know, it's really about collecting enormous swaths of data and storing it and investigating and finding the patterns and the meaning in that data so you can make predictions about who's a good guy and who's a bad guy. But the second wave of that revolution will be how do we operationalize those analytics? How do we make analytics pervasive in an enterprise? And that's gonna come with little applets and full blown apps and predictive models that tell you how to price the seat on your airplane or when the maintenance valve is gonna fail in your AC or when you're gonna have a heart attack three hours before you have it. This is the exciting future. So it's very early days, but yeah, I think you're exactly right. Think of business intelligence as now a much larger landscape that includes advanced analytics and those analytics are going to be moved into our personal lives as well, but our business lives and we will slowly learn how to operationalize and carry those analytics to optimize our business processes. Awesome. Age of data, I love it. Final question for you. Put a bumper sticker on this year's the Hadoop World Stratoconference, big data NYC. What is it, what's it gonna read this year on the car as people drive away from the event? So I'll give you the CTO perspective because it's what I'm carrying away from the show. In my presentation yesterday, I presented our new Yarn certified data flow engine and I invited the CTO of Hortonworks, who's one of our partners, we partner with Cloudera and Hortonworks. Hortonworks has really been a driver behind Yarn and we had a great dialogue, Ari Zilka and I around how important Yarn is and both of us agreed that Yarn is one of the most significant milestones in the entire history of Hadoop. It really immature frameworks, there's sort of the Wild West and MapReduce jobs are contesting for space and bumping into each other and so bringing adult supervision, bringing a resource management framework into the game of course is enormously valuable but that's not even the real power of Yarn. Yarn is not just so MapReduce jobs sort of behave themselves and negotiate for resources, it really allows a thousand new flowers to bloom. You can move beyond MapReduce into the post MapReduce world like our data flow engine because now you can bring alternate computation and execution frameworks and engines to bear where the data lives. We both agreed that you have to bring process to the data and where the data lives and the data lives in your Hadoop cluster increasingly but does that mean you should bring sort of extremely inefficient MapReduce takes forever to design, everybody hates it, executes with poor performance? No, what if you could bring something that was a fine-grained thread level highly parallelized data flow engine that did pipeline parallelism, never touched the disk, didn't do MapReduce, MapReduce, MapReduce. You know, the 100 X type performance games you could get would be off the charts but we used people like us who had those engines used to sort of live outside the Hadoop cluster and go, oh, I wish we could get in there and of course now with Yarn, anybody can get in there and anybody who registers themselves as Yarn certified becomes a first class citizen inside Hadoop. This is awesome, Mike, great chat. We want to definitely have you on the roster. Are you based out of the East Coast or were you out of? So Acton's headquartered in Redwood City we're all over the world. I'm based in Austin, Texas. Okay, so you're an easy living down in Austin. It's a great town. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. I want to keep in touch with you obviously to get more CUBE action. We love this topic. This is really relevant. Totally agree with you, age of data is here. Just beginning, the dawn is here and what's really exciting I find personally is that it's a blend of the older systems guys with the new blood and it's a whole new generation this industry is being built and it's really exciting. It's not just jumping into an old market. It's a complete radical new industry. Yes it is. Like the computer industry back in the BC days.  No lawyer is just, hey, why don't we just team up? A lot of beach head, a lot of real estate to be king on. So we want to get you on some of our crowd chats as well. Get some of this data out there. A lot of great technical innovations, a lot of business model innovations, a lot of people innovations with the connected internet as you said. Perfect storm for innovation. So thanks for coming on.  We are, we're ready. The market's growing. This is theCUBE, we'll be right back after this short break. CTO of Acti in here inside theCUBE, talking columnar databases, talking about the future, the age of big data. We'll be right back.


quite candid camera come on in all right so welcome to Tokyo as I mentioned a little bit earlier I've been going to OpenStack summits for a long time four years eight seven summits eight summits I think this is my eighth summit I've been working on OpenStack since since the Diablo release or maybe the Diablo development cycle since the cactus release and let's see I don't think I even put up my name but OpenStack is five years old this summer and in the community track which is a session as part of we're talking about things beyond just technology beyond enterprise beyond development tools we're not going to talk about infrastructure we're not going to talk about much useful at all as I prefaced my comments earlier with you will get nothing useful out of this unless you need a dog frisbee for your dog to fetch so that's about it so let's go on I'm using some stock Google Doc or Google presentation slides so you'll see some things that may be familiar to you this one is kind of kind of jeopardy ish across the top we have four categories places people services and Arbok so this is going to be a free-for-all question anybody can answer it you don't have to stand up you don't have to raise your hand fishers not allowed mics not allowed because I think Mike saw this before but let's see so this this first icon over here I don't know how well you can see that picture but who knows what that place is and why it's on this slide what's that it is Austin Texas who said that for okay there we go there's a winner why why is Austin Texas on the slide what's that first release what else next release excellent everybody's everybody's a winner all right so that's that's why places is being represented by Austin all right people who's the person Jonathan Bryce that man wants to what's that oh he's already got a frisbee okay we'll throw it to somebody else I'm just gonna throw it over this way whoever grabs it gets it all right so Jonathan Bryce is the executive director and I've just picked him as a figurehead that most people should recognize what's the service in the third picture sender did you already get a frisbee nope nope all right see this is this is this is just a this is just fun for me I don't know how you why you guys are here but all right what is the fourth category our buck it's not role-based access control it's something else it's a random bag of confusion if you're familiar with a woot.org or woot.com you'll know that they give away a random bag of confusion so most of these questions are going to fit into one of these categories I did not quite get quite through all of my organization before the start of the session so it's not going to strictly follow places people services our buck but there will be it'll fall into that our buck category if it doesn't fall anywhere else so let's go on as I said before you don't need to come up and use the mic it's a small group just raise your hand if you have the answer and if you haven't want a frisbee yet raise your hand fast that way I can get a frisbee out to everybody hopefully by the end let's see places okay so if I just click the slide what's this summit location none of you were here as far as I could tell okay so it's an older summit session so now we kind of need to guess it is not Vancouver it is not Paris it is in the United States though it's not Portland it's not Atlanta go back in time it's Boston says my boss in the last row alright so this is actually occupy Boston which was across the street from the Boston summit as I click the slide you'll see that it was the Essex design summit it was my first design summit that's that's why it's so memorable to me it's in front of the Intercontinental Hotel was Occupy Boston and I will post these slides later not that they're very important but that way you can click the links etc and go see some more information let's see who is this that's and gentle and I think you haven't got a frisbee yet is that correct all right all right who is and gentle who can you tell us who and gentle is roughly what does she do perfect absolutely correct and is the open stock open stack docs guru principal engineer leader of people women of open stack she is pretty much one of the first people I met an open stack that was not a pgl at that time she was not a ptl so and is and is legendary so that's your people all right what open stack affiliated service might you need to pass this option okay this is a very technical question and it's not an open stack service as per se but it is an open stack affiliated service so if you don't know guess when would you have to really really mean something what would be going on if you really really wanted to do something very close I'll give you've already got a frisbee though right all right so it is it's actually deleting storage pools it's a seph command and it basically they want you to repeat the name of the pool you're deleting twice yes so you say delete this very important storage pool yes delete this very important storage pool and yes I really really mean it it's absolutely would cry required to type the full command it will always fail and give you a nice little warning if you don't say all four parts seph if you're not familiar with it is a block storage device that's used that can be used by sender it's also got an object storage component as well as an object storage front end so it can also behave like swift what is the name of this performing duo oh I I will let you answer this mr. Fisher it is dope and stack all right so I don't know if we've got the audio on but let's try it can I play audio all right I'll just move it back to I'll move yeah I'll move it back to my machine okay here we go present this was presented at the San Diego summit at about 9 a.m. maybe 845 a.m. and it really did wake up the room and you can still buy these shirts but you can they're not they don't give these shirts away what the f-cloud cloud K is open stack did I throw you a frisbee mat this is how I open most of my Colorado open stack meetups and sometimes our Friday morning team meetings right that's enough to open stack all right so we've kind of gone through that was a random bag of confusion right there we've gone through a couple of people places services and random let's do it again all right name three open stack projects that's supposed to be a J projects that are also places okay what heat is that a place Oslo yes very well done you've already won a frisbee does it designate that's another project designate somebody to get a frisbee pointed somebody you guys ready okay so yes you're correct so there's lots of them Sahara Oslo Marano Manila Cola or a little more meta horizon Keystone Barbican Trove all those are places legitimate places all right what were the first two open stack sub projects they weren't even called projects back then because open stack was itself a project so what were the first two projects in open stack I heard it but I didn't see what's that yes Nova and Swift I don't see anybody's lips moving so I'm gonna have to throw the frisbee in that general direction all right so thing I like to call it thing one and thing two but yeah Swift and Nova Swift actually even predates Nova if you're gonna get really technical about it but when open stack came out they were both there what large core open stack project was renamed in 2013 and if you were paying attention at the keynote quantum neutron yes I heard I heard it down here first all right so quantum was renamed due to quantum you know quantum storage having a little bit of issue with that so it was renamed to neutron after they did a due diligence on making sure that neutron was available so now that's another round of four let's keep going all right another project was renamed in August 2014 it is now known as Zechar what was the original name of that project and this picture is a clue what was it Mark Coney is correct and did whoever say that have a frisbee yet okay let's see somebody back there has not had a frisbee there you go yeah so so Zechar was originally known as Mark Coney it is the messaging service so it kind of makes sense for it to be represented by a radio but Zechar I don't even know what Zechar means other than the messaging service okay probably delivered mail maybe okay same reason Mark Coney Mark Coney is a registered trademark in some internationality same reason oh let's see what is the messaging services service provided by an open stack project but wait and I think I just gave that one away what did I just say what is the messaging service Zechar all right let's see what project and this this changed recently that's a big clue what project is alphabetically first it is not Barbican it used to be there's an earlier one in the alphabet now it's a new one from a conda does anybody remember the name of the new project donated by a conda a Stara who do you want to get the frisbee Matt Haynes is getting the frisbee where is Haynes is he back he's hiding under the light I can take out the light if I don't get it to Haynes thanks guys yeah so the other one is a owed which is a sub project underneath salameter so it's not a full project on its own but I would have accepted either answer let's see what summit introduced dev stack there has not always been a dev stack for those of you developers in the audience it was introduced at one of the summits what's that Paris no Bolivia no not San Diego not Austin rhymes with Austin did somebody say what it rhymes with I said it right Boston yes it's an approximate tool so dev stack was created by another Jesse and sleeps on the floor it was introduced at a lightning talk in the Boston summit it was the best lightning talk ever I was actually doing cloud on a stick at that time which was like a USB thumb drive that had Nova and Swift and a little bit of horizon on it I think or whatever predated horizon dev stack just made that completely pointless and I think I've even got a speaker note here with these guys real names let me jump down to it Jesse Andrews is not is another Jesse and Anthony Young is also known as sleeps on the floor all right all right raise your hand if you don't yet have a Frisbee okay still got good good okay dev stack isn't a project listed in the official products projects but is part of another one which one is dev stack part of and this is kind of a trick question I thought what's that it is not that's a that's exactly what I think everybody would think automatically it is not part of infra it's a project that doesn't have a code name which is kind of interesting as well anybody anybody Bueller okay it's not infra it's not part of docs it's actually in the open stack QA project so think raise your hand again if you don't yet have a Frisbee there's two right there maybe I can't ah yes got one of them that's a win all right oh okay and this this question you have to justify your answer and because I've been coming longer than most of you my answer might differ from yours but I'll take pretty much any valid answer on this question who's the most famed or infamed for giving live demos during summit keynotes Mark shuttleworth is the right answer you've got a frisbee right what color do you have well there you go oh well I don't want to take him back on the plane I brought him here on a plane I brought two suitcases yes so Mark shuttleworth who is also the first African in space at the International Space Station paid his own way the founder of canonical the sponsor of a bun to chief technical officer at a bun to and here this week he's not good he did not give a keynote this time in a private party he did do a live demo and he is very famous for doing them absolutely I would say that Kyle Mestri tried to do one yesterday morning that kind of failed so I would have taken that as an answer and then there's a couple of other people I know that have done them that have failed which is kind of even more important which project has reinvented and re-implemented itself the most and this is kind of an older open-stack question as well it's not a recent project it's not salameter okay just just for those those that think it might be salameter keystone yes keystone I think that voice has already gotten the frisbee where should I throw this frisbee which the back right back back this way okay there you go right there all right yeah keystone went through several implementations in the early days they did it like three times in a year and then and I don't know how many times since then so that happened in like bear cactus Diablo Essex timeframe okay and guess what guys that is the end of the trivia went pretty fast I hope that you understand how community works a little bit better I've got answers to questions oh so you guys can ask me trivia questions now if you want but you certainly don't have to and if you would like a frisbee and did not receive one just come on up and I will be happy to hand you one as opposed to throwing one at you I'd like to thank Time Warner Cable the company I work for for bringing me here and allowing me to give you this presentation so let's give a hand to Time Warner Cable for sponsoring this meetup and I know I know it's not beer 30 but if you haven't found a beer yet probably you could at somewhere some place some time thanks but please come up and get a frisbee I've got I've got like 20 more you're welcome yes


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Pro-Government groups win big in Jordan's elections. Rotas continue in Peru against impeachment of president. Over 70 refugees die in boat accident in the Mediterranean. Pfizer declares that its vaccine candidate is 90% effective. What's the way ahead? In our first story, as per the results announced by the Independent Election Commission of Jordan, the pro-government factions and leaders scored amidst a historically low voter turnout for the elections for the Hauser representatives. As per the results announced on Thursday, pro-government figures and independents won a majority of seats with a large number of them from a military background. Of the 130 elected members, 100 are first-time winners. According to the oil monitor, only 16% of winning candidates have any political affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood's Jordanian version that's the Islamic Action Front, claiming victory in 11 seats. Only 29.9% of all eligible voters turned up to cast their votes on Tuesday, November 10th, when the elections were held. There were around 4.5 million eligible voters. In the last elections, the electoral turnout was around 36%. Over 1,670 candidates were contesting from 294 lists. The country was divided into 23 electoral districts and the representatives were chosen on the basis of open list proportional representation. The results also saw a significant decline in the number of women members of parliament. As per the results, only 15 women were elected to parliament down from 20 last time. Even those were from seats reserved for women. The election for the 130 member Hauser representatives was necessitated after King Abdullah II had dissolved the parliament in September. In our next story, protests continued in Peru with thousands taking to the streets against the impeachment of President Martin Vizcara by parliament. Vizcara was impeached on Monday by Congress on the charge of moral incapacitation. Now this was due to his alleged involvement in corruption. The protests that began on Tuesday intensified on Thursday, they were met with police repression. Dozens were detained and the police attacked protesters with tear gas and water cannon tanks. Journalists from AFP, El Comercio and other outlets were injured by pellet guns and tear gas canisters. Nonetheless, the protesters remained defiant. On Monday, we were hundreds of people in the streets and by Tuesday we were thousands. Mobilizing against what is without doubt a coup d'etat, said Lucia Alvites, a member of the Peruvian people's movement Lahunta and the new Peru Left political party. Many Peruvians are disenchanted with their political system and seek Congress as the embodiment of this failed system. They also believe that the impeachment of Vizcara was a political ploy and was meant to divert attention from the charges of corruption that many members of Congress themselves face. Peruvian social movements have called for systemic change beginning with the drafting of a new constitution. Now next story, at least 74 migrants died when a boat carrying them capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday. This was in Combs near the Libyan coast. The dead include women and children. The small dinghy was reportedly carrying over 120 people. The Libyan coast guards and local fishermen were able to rescue 47 people. The search for the bodies of victims was still on a few hours ago. According to the UN's International Organization of Migration, this was the ninth such incident since October 1st this year. In a separate but similar incident, a six-month-old baby from Guinea died hours after being rescued from a sinking boat near the Libyan coast on Thursday. The IOM stated that due to the restrictions imposed by European countries on disembarking of undocumented migrants, travelling by sea and their policy of forcefully returning them to Libya and other places of origin, thousands of migrants are a danger. As per the data available with the IOM, more than 900 people have drowned, trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe this year so far. And finally, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has declared that its vaccine candidate has been found to be 90% effective. Now, even if this vaccine candidate completes all the trials and regulatory formalities, delivering it to the people will be a huge challenge as it needs to be stored in very low temperatures. News Clicks Praveer Purkhayastha and immunologist Dr. Satyajitarath discuss the various possibilities that exist in this field. What is the immunogenicity or the efficacy of the vaccines, which are now in various stages of clinical trials? And the Pfizer one has made a lot of noise the last few days. I'm sure the Pfizer's stock prices have risen significantly and strangely enough, the oil prices have also risen significantly. The back of the Pfizer claims about how the vaccine has been highly efficacious, 90% efficacy and so on. But before we go into the Pfizer vaccine, the efficacy part of it, one thing is that we must also understand the three vaccine families that we are talking about right now. One is, of course, the Rinovirus vector vaccines, which are the Malia vaccine, the AstraZeneca vaccines and so on. So this is one set of vaccines that we are talking about. Also, the whole inactivated virus vaccines, which India is also manufacturing. But apart from that, you have the protein vaccines, subunit of all protein vaccines. And you have the mRNA vaccines. mRNA is the only one that requires ultra cold chain minus 70 to minus 80 degrees. Now, do you think that, and this is the Pfizer vaccine at the moment, also the Moderna vaccine. Do you think it actually is something that we can even think of in countries like us, and also in large parts of the world, considering even Mayo Clinic has said they don't have the facility for ultra cold chain for the Moderna vaccine or the Pfizer vaccine. So clearly the RNA vaccines, which require this ultra cold storage, which include, as you point out, the Moderna and the BioNTech, which Pfizer is only the money bag for. So the vaccine company that Trump wanted to buy, if you remember. And the Germans are very unhappy about it. Finally, Pfizer stepped in and said, hey, we will manage them, don't worry. Correct. So the RNA vaccine storage issue, I am personally aware of at least a dozen groups across the world, including in India, who are desperately trying to test small modifications that allow them to be stored at more and more practical temperatures. So you are saying this is an impractical temperature for most countries? It's certainly an impractical temperature. It's an impractical temperature for the US, even though very brave noises are being made by the federal government in the US, at least in the Trump administration. One has no idea of how a Biden administration will look at this, especially since Vivek Moorthy is co-chairing the Biden and COVID task force with a much more realistic grasp of the public health situation. I don't think that that's practicable on a large scale. Is it practicable for well-off people to get an RNA vaccine with this kind of a cold jet suddenly? Pretty much anything can be bought if you have enough money for it. So yes, but is this a public health answer and response? The likelihood is no. One technological response to that reality has been that a large number of groups, and I'm certain that this includes Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna and so on and so forth, are trying to tinker with the stability issue. I've heard encouraging lab rumors about stability at much higher temperatures, meaning closer and closer to zero degrees. So my expectation is that over the next few months, those issues will also come into play. Now, keep in mind that it depends on how much the tinkering is. If the tinkering is too much, then it needs to go through an appropriate process all over again. So none of this is easy and straightforward. But clearly, the RNA vaccines have a major scale hurdle of implementation because of the temperature issue. There's just no avoiding that. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


The Special Olympics Summer Games are right around the corner and then this week's Community Spotlight or Josh Peterson shows us how local law enforcement is offering a helping hand. The Olympic spirit was in the air at Paul Bunyan Park this morning as local law enforcement rallied around athletes for the Special Olympics Summer Games. While this is only the second time local authorities have carried the Olympic torch, the partnership goes back further. Law enforcement torch run is actually started in 1981 by Chief Richard Lemonyan out in Kansas as a fundraiser for Special Olympics. We've now been picked up as the charity of choice for both the Chiefs Association and the Sheriff's Association. So the law enforcement torch run is the biggest fundraiser for Special Olympics. Six local officers will alternate along the route to Pequot Lakes. For many of them, this is just another way to make a difference and give back to the community. I think it's important that we we can do some of this stuff for the community members and try to put us in a better light and so that's why it's important for me and I know that these guys appreciate us being here. For the athletes, having law enforcement alongside them leaves a good feeling and is a great inspiration. Like before I kind of like came like did this I was kind of like okay I don't know if I want to do or not want to so I mean it kind of gives me a lot of confidence to come out here and do this tonight today. Encouragement support behind this as we represent when we go down the cities this week and that our the police force is supporting us and cheering us on. Even if the summer games don't start for a few days, today's torch run is an important partnership and will leave its participants with a lasting impact. Athletics are so transformative. They're such a powerful thing for so many people and being able to compete at a state level tournament is a really exciting thing and having our whole community behind our athletes is really exciting. Walking or running these athletes and local police and sheriff's deputies will take each stride together and bringing the athletes another step closer to the big summer games. With this week's community spotlight in Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


What's going on it's your man Kory welcome to the Digital Dash where I'll be giving you tips on how to market your songs and get those numbers booming now today. What I want to do is give you my music marketing predictions for 2020. Now last year did a very similar video with my music marketing predictions for 2019 and I'm not the type to brag man I'm pretty humble God but if you go look at that video I was riding a couple of things. I decided just to give you guys some insight into what I'm looking forward to in 2020 based on conversations that I had with Arius or just based on information that we've seen here at Brandman or just with clients that I bring through through my agency and hopefully some of these things will start to help you figure out how you're going to plan out your 2020 and maybe there are some couple of things that you can stumble upon that might help you cross some of those goals that you were trying to reach in 2019. Now before we get into all of that come and follow me on Instagram I'll make sure to put my name on the screen come talk to me come engage with me come give me some video ideas all of that good stuff now with that being said let's get right into it. Now my first prediction for 2020 is that TikTok would become a major force and if you've noticed recently we've been going hard for TikTok and artists migrating to it over here on the channel and that's for great reasons currently it is the only social media platform that is completely audio driven meaning that the viral content on the platform is being powered by the sound and the music that is behind it that is completely unheard of and in my opinion it sounds like the perfect social media platform for any music artist or anyone making any type of sound that's stuck. Now on top of that TikTok is slated to release its on streaming platform in mid 2020 and we're looking at it like it's going to be a serious competitor to Spotify to Apple Music to title in all of the major streaming platforms that we think of now and you may be wondering Corey how does a lip syncing app that is dedicated towards teenagers how would how are you guys expecting that to compete with Spotify and let me paint this picture for you think about this when TikTok creates its streaming platform it will be the only streaming platform the only streaming platform with a built-in influencer base meaning that any artist who comes to TikTok when TikTok decides to start doing campaign release plans for artists very similar to what Spotify does when they put people on the cover and stuff they can go directly into their base hit these influencers go you you you you and you you're promoting this song boom you the artist now have instant 10 million 20 million people reach and that's something that Spotify Apple Music entitled can't quite deliver to people yet now on top of that TikTok is the only social media platform right now but you can get more views and more engagement than you're following like I've seen artists on there who have 10 followers and they get videos with 10 to 20 thousand views and you can actually grow pretty fast on there and get a lot of natural engagement that you just aren't seeing on any other platform right now and then on top of that if I have to bring it back to the marketers world what you know we use it for on a day-to-day basis is the influencers the influencers on TikTok are cheap because most of them are teenagers who are not used to being asked what are their promo prices so I'm getting bad prices from influencers with millions of followers to hundreds of thousands of followers who are charging me a hundred dollars two hundred dollars three hundred dollars maybe even a thousand and the prices that I'm seeing for these influencers coupled with the natural engagement that they get because TikTok is not limiting its reach like other social media platforms makes for an interesting combination of influencer campaigns that can be done on TikTok and like I said I don't see TikTok going away anytime soon I think it's going to get bigger I think it could potentially become bigger than Instagram and Twitter at least in 2020 and if nothing else it's going to become the go-to platform for music artists because like I said it's the only platform that's based around music and based around audio now my second prediction for 2020 is that there will be an increased value and long-form content from the artist to the consumer now if you watched my video from last year my music marketing predictions 2019 one of the predictions I made was that we were going to start to see more long form content from mainstream and no cracking into mainstream artists and that's because most of these platforms are starting to advocate for longer form content YouTube is advocating for longer content and it's even starting to emphasize videos that are over like six to eight minutes Facebook is emphasizing long-form content with its Facebook watch and the ever so popular Instagram has been emphasizing long-form content by going really hard for IGTV so what does that mean for you the artist that means that you are no longer subjected to trying to tell your story in a three minute clip or a two minute music video or a 15 second Instagram story you now have the freedom and the willingness from the audience to put your story out into a 15 minute vlog or a 20 minute Craig digging video that shows you making beats or even more interesting long-form content that you can create that may not even have anything to do with your music thank Kenny beats the cave and how he kind of brings in artists that he doesn't normally work with fans are looking for content like they're from artists and part of the reason why is that because we are now starting to look at artists like content creators which they're basically the same thing but now the public is starting to treat them like the same thing meaning that if I you know a fan of my favorite content creator and expecting this high quality long-form content over whatever consistent periods of time I'm now starting to expect the same thing from the artist that I look at because at the end of the day music artists are no different than TV networks you have to figure out how to entertain your audience with different various pieces of content that makes sense for your brand and the message that you're trying to push but what I'm telling you is that now the world actually wants to hear long-form content whether they be vlogs like I said Craig digging videos podcasts or whatever people actually want to hear from you for an extended amount of time and my last music marketing prediction for 2020 is that there will be a decrease in Spotify play listing or a playlisting as a whole for artists you may be wondering Corey why do you think there's going to be a decrease in play listing what have you seen that will make you think that a lot of this is just speculation but some of this stems from policies that Spotify has recently made so this past year 2019 Spotify has went really hard at trying to crack down on bot playlists and fake playlists that have been like running amok on Spotify so if you've ever tried to do a place and campaign yourself you know how crazy it gets with the bot playlists and how they are on Spotify now because of this Spotify is now starting to attack and deem any playlist curator that charges money for their playlist or that they don't feel like it's favorable they start to treat them like scam playlist bot playlists and get them shut down accordingly what this is starting to cause is a distrust amongst artists and curators there's a distrust between curators and Spotify because it's like hey if I'm not an official Spotify playlist you can just shut me down at any time whether or not I'm using you know good or bad marketing tactics to grow my playlist you're going to treat me like a bad playlist anyway so what you start to see is the good curators right the curators who are actually using good traffic methods to grow their playlist they're going to get fed up they're going to get tired of being treated like these scam playlists and they're going to want to eventually transfer to something else some of the platform that treats them a lot better or stop doing it overall right and what does this mean for the artist this means that you will have to start to rely on a lot more foundational marketing things to grow yourself out then just play listing what I've noticed is that a lot of artists like to do play listing because it's instant number get into a playlist tomorrow you have 20,000 strings it looks nice it feeds the ego but on the back end play listing is a black data hoe 20,000 people hear you from a playlist you have no way to talk to those 20,000 people couple that with the fact that Spotify may shut down your most reliable playlist the one that's bringing you the most traffic and then you just end up being ass out and just left out to Spotify's mercy with nothing to do so what I've been recommending to artists is that you should stray a little bit more away from just doing play listing there are more marketing tactics out there that will work better for you in the long run than just play listing focus on paid advertising focus on your content marketing focus on creating viral content on some of these other platforms and then figuring out how to funnel and systemize that traffic onto Spotify so that you don't have to rely so heavily on Spotify playlist because I'm telling you telling him telling him telling you it's going to get so much harder so much harder and then the fact that we already see that mostly major labor artists get onto the Spotify playlist trust me it's only going to get a lot worse so just start figuring out now how you're going to be ahead of the curve so the one these other artists are still like Spotify playlist and it's not working for me you're on to some other stuff that you know is working out for you so there we have it those are my music marketing predictions for 2020 now like I said I would love to hear if there's anything that you think is going to be different from 2020 what have you been seeing marketing yourself whether some tactics some trends that you see working out for other artists you think are going to spill over or carry over into 2020 and would you these things are you looking to implement into your music marketing strategy and putting yourself out and side note going back to the tiktok stuff if you're an artist who's interested in figuring out tiktok you just really don't know where to get started we actually released a tiktok course over on the brand man network if you're interested in checking that out I'll make sure to leave a link to that in the description below now as always if you feel like you're learning anything today please like and share this video hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you to miss anything once again my name is Calvary and I'll see you next time


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. Are you tired of bagging leaves every fall? Would you like a healthier lawn, more beautiful flower beds, and nutrient-rich soil for your garden? Would you like to own pet worms? If you said yes to any of those questions, then I have some good news for you. Composting news, that is, the compost outpost in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden wants to teach you just how easy it is to compost right in your own backyard. The compost outpost is a new revision of a compost outpost we already had, just in a new home. We wanted to bring it into a place where it would be more visible, more accessible, as well as it ties into the things that we're doing here at the backyard vegetable gardens. Worm compost bin is a new addition to the compost outpost. We do have classes in what it's called vermicomposting. A lot of people actually have bins that are underneath their sink that have the worms in them. It sounds really kind of gross, but it really isn't.  But here we actually have a bin that has been dug into the ground, and so you put the compost in it, if you build it, they will come. Classes will be held in the new education pavilion. Right here at the compost outpost, we do offer a class that is the second Saturday of the month from one to three, March through May and September through November.  It's free. You don't have to register. You can just show up and get information about composting. The compost outpost also offers compost tea. I actually brewed a cup in. I'm really curious to find out what it tastes like. We also do have the compost tea brewer. Right now it's being kept in a shed, but what we're going to be doing is we'll have days where we brew compost tea, where people could come in and get compost tea and take it back home and put it into their garden. Pretty much what compost tea is, you're getting kind of an intense version of the liquid form of compost. And so you brew it into a batch and then you go and you kind of spread it along your soil and it brings in those helpful nutrients, the bacteria and things that are going to help your soil become more fertile. For more information about compost outpost, visit their website or just visit the Botanic Garden. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.


Thank you Dutch for the $10 change. Perfect. And Eric, you have a 2003 2500 diesel? Yeah. Yeah. So how many kilometers do you have on it? 540. 540,000 kilometers. That's pretty awesome. And how's it treating you? Good. Awesome. Glad to hear that.