So with privacy being a concern for everyone, especially in March of 2018 with all the recent Facebook stuff People have been asking me more and more about VPNs just in general. So I figured I would talk about VPNs I recommend a VPN service one that seems pretty good, but I'm gonna put some caveats out there for all of them first It's March 2018 I'm sharing the data as I know it in March of 2018 because something horrible could be discovered about this VPN company And then my views would dramatically change about them, but I have my 10-fold hat on about any VPN companies just so you know So the short answer with all VPNs is the same thing. You're just changing who you trust So you say I have my internet provider of Comcast I do not trust them not to sell my data So I want a VPN and what the VPN does is hide in a tunnel the data from Comcast Comcast can still see that you're connecting to a VPN and do what they want with that information But they can't see everything else you're doing So that's kind of what I wanted to talk about. So that means you're just moving who you trust PIA I reviewed them before we've done the PF sense before I like some of the things they're doing because they've also paid for like public audits of open-source software They're very forward and open company in general with a lot of the information they use Open VPN as the VPN Tool of choice. So those are all great things. They seem pretty straightforward as a company, but Any of these VPN companies they all claim they don't have logs And we have found out from some of them when they've turned over their logs or worked with authorities that they are clearly keeping logs I'm not going to go over each one of them I think I have a video or two I've done about those companies before So there's no matter what it is and some people said well, it's a US company so they're subject to US laws Yeah, but if they're a company in another country, how do you know that they've not decided to work with US authorities? It's not like they wave a flag and tell you So there's always and yeah, lots of information I did like someone tweeted the other day work with the Chinese companies because the Chinese companies don't interest in selling it to the American companies I I don't know the reality is the internet was not designed for anonymity. So take that for what it's worth That's all my caveats If you're running a VPN you just have to think about that now good things about VPNs The VPN can if you're in an open internet Make it harder for people as you're in a coffee house or somewhere with public Wi-Fi You don't want them to track you so you want a VPN you are encapsulating all the data from there So that does work for that scenario as well And if you're wondering what's on the screen here, this is my testing I am going to show you how I have this set up so we can show you kind of the difference between all the noise a Computer makes and I specifically chose a windows one because I mentioned the majority of you are running windows It's gonna be a lot different for Linux But this by the way is PA is supported in both Linux Windows and even PF sense And I've got a video on how to set it up PA up in PF sense as well So I've already done that video for those of you wondering I'm pretty sure even though PF sense is on a new version the video holds up Plus they have in they have documentation step-by-step on theirs so Because someone mentioned I think they moved to port on something but it's easy enough. They they will document their internet So this is our windows box sitting over here. This is yet by the way everyone likes to ask what tool I'm using for this This is free you can go download this So this is my crude rendition. This is my windows box at 192 168 40.102 This is my PF sense lab box at 192 168 40.1 as the gateway on the land side So the only device actually on this network is this this is just a lab environment The WAN side connects to my office network at the three network And then here's our main PF sense office and that goes out to the internet now I'm not running on top on this one because there's just lots of things in between and we want to Localize a single device on the internet So this is the segmentation of this and in case you're wondering these are both virtual machines And I've done a tour as well of my entire virtual lab and how I have that set up So this is how it's going to get out to the internet, but this box here We're going to be running the end top on so we can really take a look at what data comes out of windows And it's kind of interesting. So let me bring all this close this down and start bringing stuff over So this is not an RDP connection. Just so you know this connection is done via a Into the Zen server, I'll minimize it real quick so you can see I'm using the console And the reason for this is I want no other connections Interfering with it. So if I were to RDP into this or use any of our remote tools, we would be adding more connections So this is just going to show you the connections that are coming from there Now the first thing we're actually going to do is show you what it's doing now and what happens on restart So right now, this is just your generic install of windows 10. So I'm going to go back to full screen Generic install windows 10 and we're going to go and restart it while we're restarting I'm a drag a window over here for you guys to see There we go This is the couple things that's going on right now Microsoft has their data collectors inside of windows 10 for those who don't know and it's called something was it called vortex that when dated up Microsoft com and Breaks down the detail for things that are going in it. This is just windows 10 and it's it's telemetry system For say by the way, that's not blocked by VPN. What I'm showing you is not Is what a provider can see so end top PNG being as it sets right in there? Let's say end top PNG this particular machine would be the coffee house that wants to watch all your traffic This is what they're going to see So this is what traffic is going on now and what I find interesting. It's still restarting is when windows restarts How many more things it starts doing so me refresh it? Okay, nothing right now And here comes all the different connections that it makes So this is as it starts up it starts looking at more and more Microsoft stuff starts talking and Starts talking more This is just interesting in general to see all the data that starts getting sent in general as the windows 10 just on startup Look licensing that Microsoft comm and everything else, you know got a phone home make sure the licenses are good So if you ever just wonder how much data windows 10 does just as soon as you start it up It starts going to being I don't understand this one. I it connects to Twitter I don't know why I'm guessing it's part of the being So all I did was restart this machine and that many connections popped up This is someone related to this, but it's interesting. So let's go ahead and log in here. All right So we're logged in. Let me see if there's any more Any more data that Microsoft wants to send because I logged in Decent amount what we have 37 connections in here just for logging into windows for all the things I don't understand the Facebook one either. I don't know what on here is going to Facebook That's a whole another video. Maybe I'll do a packet trace on this But just give you an idea of all the things on there, but obviously you can see all of them So if I'm a coffee house, and I'm giving you free internet These are all the things I can see this is all the things Comcast can see is when your box connects online These are all the publicly available information now because the traffic itself is encapsulated in SSL You don't get to see inside the traffic. They only know where you connected to because of DNS That's how I can see what the connections you don't know because of SSL the Contents of that connection and that's also why I people ask me about proxies all the time And I'm like they're trouble set up because you have to add more trust to get inside the SSL certs, but Before I digress too far All those connections are doing here. Let's open up private internet access Yep, go ahead and say yes I didn't run through the install the install is a couple of necks and yes It's arbitrary to install this tool. I've already put my username and password in there And waiting for it start up now I told it not to run on startup But one of the options for private internet access is to run and startup So as soon as the computer starts it goes connects. It also has the option. Yep. You're disconnected Because I told it not to Cancel don't stop. I have audio. It's All right, so Go to settings most run through the settings real quick here Advanced settings so you can see so here's all the basic settings for a start application at login auto connect at launch Show desktop notifications. You can also tell it to kill your internet So you have no internet access until it starts up that's another way to being protected If you care about all that So we are going to leave it all the defaults here one nice thing of else they have here as well is the Request for port forwarding this comes up a lot When you want to port forward and you're running a VPN because you're moving where your public IP addresses People have to connect to that. They have to she support this It's limited because obviously with lots of people requesting ports. There's not like you can just have any port you want So you have to can work with the VPN provider and their tool has an ability to Request port forwarding on their end just so you know it is available. I've not done much use Much with it. I've had I've seen some people having some trouble with it If you're running a VPN generally port forwarding is not not really must I'm wrong I don't know how good it works. I haven't tested it a little while But I'm not going to really get into that it supports IPv6 leak protection enable debug mode other things It's kind of neat about them. They have some information under website if you say I want to use this for torrenting They actually have some work instructions for that with PA which is Interesting because normally VPN companies don't want you to do any of that and they're like oh, here's not only can you do it? Here's a work instruction kind of clever anyways, so Here's what it looks like save and we're gonna head and Close it and we're gonna go ahead and click connect We hit connect and you can choose where you want to be so that's kind of cool Got a bunch of different USA USA West USA East. Maybe you want to just choose somewhere close to you I'm gonna say USA East seems pretty close Connecting the USA East Alright, and we should see the little green guy here.  So let's see what my IP address is Where it thinks I am I Can assure you that is not my public IP address so It's on North American coax 173 pretty cool. So they definitely change your IP address You're not able to see the traffic, but of course let's get to the point of What do we see in N top PNG here? I see the connections die down. Here's all these connections now What you have to do with N top it takes a little bit before it drops all these connections So we're gonna go and force them by doing this Go over here and restart the N top PNG service it takes a second restart And that will when it restarts. It's gonna just lose all the connections. Yeah, it should fail Until it start again, sometimes it doesn't restart that's normal If it set us it just stops and I thought I maybe I didn't restart but not the look of the video All right. Now. It should ask me to log back in go over here to host Huh now much here Protocols unknown unknown unknown. Oh Yeah, that's what your ISP would see now So now we are back to simulating, you know ISP or that free coffee house as you're getting that and as you can see Nothing nothing in here at all the one connection that it's going here UDP because and the reason it says UDP just in case you're wondering Not as a seller something like that for the type of protocol is being used is specifically because that's the way open VPN works It just creates a UDP session and they can see this so we went from we can see everywhere You're going back to this nothing. So they move this out of the way. Let's surf the web a little bit Open up my website. It's got lots of stuff on it We track everything of course, you know, we got Google analytics on here. So it's making calls all over the place So there's my websites pulling up cool I'm not logged into Facebook here So we'll go to news.google.com. So we've pulling up all kinds of stuff Tesla's in the news cool. All right, there's Elon. All right, we went to surf some websites Let's go look at our coffee house or internet provider can see the amount of data used and that's it Nothing else. So it does in fact do a great job. Now. This is also testing for something else You noticed all the DNS requests that were in there before so this does in fact prove that PAA is Filtering all the DNS and not leaking any of it, which is nice, too I'm sure you could play with advanced settings and break it or misconfigure it But so just so you know it does work It does hide all of the protocols traffic everything from whoever the private is this is kind of important thing I didn't want to just say hey PA. He's cool. I like them. They didn't sponsor this video by the way I do have an affiliate link. So yeah, I get a couple dollars if you sign up That's that's as honest as I can be there's not any Other reason I have them they did not reach out to me to make this video or anything like that. Now. This is interesting I just seen one more Something went around it. Oh, that's interesting. I did not see this in my test before I did the video So where did this go? So Microsoft still had something that sent out a packet around it Let's look at that real quick. That was unexpected. I did this test before and didn't notice this And now it's back. So interesting even with the VPN running This protocol whatever is running here. It's just doing a standard HPS is going around the VPN so that's uh It's very I mean, it's two packets very very tiny amount of data But still interesting that apparently Microsoft is deciding to go around this now Just so you know as well and open up the adapter settings to show you I Disabled IPv6 so it's not even an option for to send data out in another method So as you can see right here the IPv6 is unchecked. So Microsoft sends a packet out Apparently to themselves because that is a Microsoft destination on there All right, I'm gonna leave you guys a link to this This is so I don't have to do a follow-up video because a quick Google search of that IP address landing me on this website And basically what someone did was they did what I talked about just doing a whole raw dump of everything that happens in Windows 10 telemetry. What's interesting to me is the fact that the VPN Is being bypassed by Windows 10 for this so and I and this isn't a believe any fault at all of Running PIA. I believe this is completely just a design of Windows 10 that it does not care that you have tried to force everything into a VPN Microsoft says no, we still need to collect telemetry data about you using Windows 10 So take that for what it's worth All right, I'm gonna move on from this topic But just in short from those articles that I will leave the links in the comments below These are just the Windows telemetry servers that is a trade for running Windows 10 They get telemetry on you. There's that article kind of breaks down what what we know is in the data or at least some of What we know is in the data.  We know Microsoft does quality feedback stuff But just so you know That doesn't go around the VPN, but even if it went through the VPN It's still Microsoft calling out whether it gets wrapped through the VPN or not It's still going to Microsoft either way. So this does not Stop any that like I said the focus of this is showing what data a ISP may collect about you and how a VPN will hide that Like I said, I don't believe it's any fault to them. It's a base of the operating system being Windows 10 issue All right, and the last thing I want to talk about is VPN speed testing. So Here's the speed breakdown that they have right on their site and they have it per They have a nicely grouped. It's a nice here So if you want to pretend you're in a protect Republic, here is what the speed limit is there if you want to say you're in Finland Here's what the speed limit is there That's one thing about VPNs first They're adding overhead because you're encapsulating all your traffic over the VPN and coming up somewhere else So there's a certain amount of overhead added for that The next thing is the speed test in general now. We have a 50 mag circuit here and I'm connected to their Chicago I think that's when I went. Let's look where I'm connected to Or did I just choose East? So if I go here Yep USA East So USA East is limited to that speed test there. So let's do a speed test real quick See what kind of speed we're getting There's just there's your ping test Yeah, 20 1819 not bad. I ran this test on another window just to make sure our speed is fine There's no one here because it's Saturday. There's not much data going across our network and I had no problem We have a 50 mag pipe and we pretty regularly get about 55 and any speed test Pretty pretty consistently. I got a speed test just not when I pause the video I did it and came back to it and yeah, so you're gonna lose this This is one other thing about a VPN. You are going to lose some speed But it's gonna get you around things like geographic restrictions if you happen to not be in the US but you want to appear to be in the US that's Option there. It's going to besides the Microsoft telemetry as we discovered which ignores VPNs apparently you're gonna hide from your ISP where you're going on the internet and In fact, all of our surfing did not produce any DNS leaks that we noticed when we're looking through the net flow data. So That that was a good thing overall. It's definitely Works as intended as as they said Doing all the surfing we just did like I said the speed test. I went right back over here to the flows That's it. The only other packets that got sent out the other couple of ones were these couple packets to Microsoft for telemetry, but Well, the net PA seems fine or whatever VPN you want to use is going to give you an idea of what you're getting with a VPN What you're hiding with a VPN and what the results are going to be? So that's kind of what this talks about. So like said if you ask a recommendation PA seems pretty good March 2018 That's what I believe. I don't know what the future holds for any of these VPN companies the bigger overall thing I want you to always think about the internet was not designed for you to be anonymous It's designed to collect data about you and that's how the advertisers when they find out how much data There is to be discovered about you ie Facebook and all the other related stories That's what they do for targeting and things like that So this is just to raise some awareness and kind of show you what it does and give you kind of an overall View of it, but that's it and we discovered with me at the same time to telemetry stuff I'll leave the links below so you if those you want to do a deeper dive on how Windows 10 does its telemetry Those articles seem pretty well written as far as they break down the TCP details of what what they know is in that traffic All right Thanks for watching if you like to content here like and subscribe if you want to suffer PAA as I said the beginning was not sponsored by Them, but I do have an affiliate link below if you're interested in signing up for them as a VPN company Thank you very much


Hey, hey, welcome to another episode of Talks with Tony. Now we are moving right along. Thank you all so much for being patient with me. And I know y'all realize, man, Tony is not like every other content creator. He'll give us a series for a couple weeks and fall off for a couple months, but hey, we keeping things suspenseful. Now moving right along, as y'all know, I do not pre-read these. We are reading these together, but what I do is scan it to see if it's enough details in it. And we have a decent amount of details in this email. It doesn't have a title from the writer, so I'll give it a title. Here we go. I'm sorry, I know this is a lot. I hope you can read it all. Hi, I recently started watching your videos and was inspired by them. They were very helpful to me and I know too many others, so thanks for that. Okay, so I don't know if this is really a question or if I just want to know if I made the right decision or did something wrong to get this outcome. I am now 38 years old. Hey, we the same age. And I have three children. I just recently separated from a 19 year relationship. My oldest daughter is 21 now, but she was two and a half when we got together.  Fast forward, we have had a journey to summarize the past. He used to be in jail a lot and I will be the one getting lawyers and taking care of bills and kids. He didn't really want my oldest daughter around her dad. Sometimes it was also physical abuse. So I kept my daughter and her dad separated. Something I did regret. Moving forward, it was always cheating as long as I could remember. But after his last time in jail, years ago, he got out, worked and we had our second child together. That was about three years ago. As time went on, I began to just get tired. I knew he was cheating again. He would deny it. When I caught it, he said he stopped. He later moved out of town with a girl and I found out I was pregnant. He kept telling me to get an abortion. I was going to raise my child on my own, but I just eventually did it. He actually came back the day I was scheduled. That bothered me for a long time. He would make up things and text me as if he was texting another man to make it look like I was cheating. I'll come home and ask, what is this? He would say I was playing. But I knew he was sending that to a girl to make it look a certain way. The next year, he was shot over 10 times. I quit my job to help him. I would handle the court and bond and try to be at the hospital every day. After that, he went to a family member's house. I was unable to travel that far due to me having to get another car because it was no longer safe in mind that he used to drive. I would use my daughter's car, but his mom would ask for me not to bring the kids. So that made me uncomfortable. I didn't let him move back because now I was woke. I felt like he endangered me and my children and he was cheating the day before his accident. About a year and a half has went by now and we were seeing each other. But I would say we're not together because out of the blue, he would now message my oldest daughter's dad and accuse him and me of being together, which was sick. He would do that with people that I didn't know and actually spread a rumor, not always to them, but to others. Then apologize to me, then do it again. So I would have to block him to keep my sanity. We found out I was pregnant again and then he started again. Now he would say to others that it was my oldest daughter's dad, baby. He would send posts off of social media from my daughter's dad's page that had nothing to do with anything. He also tried talking to his ex, talking to his fiance on social media, lied and got caught and said he did it because he thought he was talking to me. Mind you, I have no problem with my oldest dad. We just don't talk and I haven't been with him in over 20 years. It's sick, but he never wanted me to have social media. So I found out he had it. It was just a lot. Some words can't even explain. I got another abortion. It was too much. He would come back and say he just wants to prove himself to me and he's going to do whatever it takes. I'm like, okay, but I didn't let him move back. But I didn't let him move back for numerous reasons. I had lost enough and I had got to the point where I wasn't willing to lose anything else. So this year I would ask him, are you still messing with the girl you had been cheating with since my baby was born? I can tell I knew him. I had only been with him in 19 years. So I knew him. He would say no and text and call and say he wouldn't do that. I found out I was pregnant Mother's Day 2022. He was acting strange, but he was happy. We still weren't living together. I know he really didn't want to be at his family member's house, but I knew I couldn't deal with him flipping and starting stuff to get outside. And then I had other concerns as well. So I found out the girl I heard about was also pregnant. We had to be weeks apart. I also found out he moved with her and she was staying with his family member too. The same family member who would bring him to my house, my kid's grandmother, his mom. He denied it first, then said she's rich. She's supposed to be getting $3 million settlement. Is what I kept hearing. I would still try to work and take care of the kids. He would call our 14 year old daughter and tell her, your mom's sleeping with your sister's dad. Just crazy stuff. He would just say things that anyone who knew me wasn't true. He would say things I'm not doing for my kids. Just make up stuff. I ended up finding out my unborn baby had passed and I had to have surgery to remove it. I told his mom he found out and said me and my oldest daughter did something to it. And now we're old, we're old him and now we owed him. Just crazy stuff. The other girl still has no clue me and him were having another child that passed or that we were together. I will say that we're not together but that's because I didn't want the responsibility of a grown boy and all the drama hoping he will change. He now doesn't really see our children at all and recently texted our daughter. He's sorry and he missed me and I didn't respond but five days later he texted your mom know what she did and stated my oldest daughter's dad bought me things on Valentine's Day. Things he made up. My daughter bought me things showed him receipts and bank statements that he apologized for. She told him I showed my mom how she deserves to be treated because you couldn't. My oldest graduated with a 4.5 GPA as her own apartment and everything. I go over and beyond for my children. I have been working around their schedule since they were born. I also had put my career on hold for him but I just recently decided to make steps to get back in my field. I did have an order of protection but I dropped it after they couldn't find him. I let him know he can not pop up at my house. He is still blocked off my phone. Now he's blocked off our daughter's phone due to him not knowing how to talk to kids. I have asked repeatedly what day and time do you want to get your children or see them and he can't commit to it. So at this point I just left it alone. I haven't reached out to see or communicate with the other female because I feel I'm too old for that especially because she's my oldest daughter's age and it's not worth it. I am a God fearing woman who have a relationship with God so it's a lot of things I just won't do. But your videos and my support system and my faith in God and knowing that he would take you through a pruning season to get you ready for a new beginning kept me going. Oh he would tell me I changed. I told him yes I'm not a doormat anymore. If I knew he cheated or was being slick I would not let him stay and he had began to annoy me and I have kids. He felt like another one but now he's working and doing everything I wanted him to do that hurts but I used to say to him maybe God used me to mold you for the next woman. I used to tell him why do you have to lose what you have to realize what you have. So yes it's been a journey. I do believe the girl knew certain things about me because we were still living together when he started cheating with her and if he was around her he would just talk different and I'll hang up but she would just be quiet. So I guess I wanted to know if you were able to read all this did I do anything wrong and would he ever regret what he did to me and what the truth ever come out. I haven't seen him since before my surgery. My surgery was June 9th 2022 to remove our baby. He haven't seen my kids since August 20th. He also just recently had words with my oldest daughter he makes his thoughts reality. Then we'll flip it and say to my oldest daughter why are you hating on me you can be this and that if you try and karma is real and how and how he's doing so good. I told her just block him. He had just dropped off some things for our kids and for me for my birthday to my daughter. Obviously I gave the stuff he gave me to his daughter. It's crazy how far he goes. At first I thought he really believed these things but then I thought no he's just a liar that have to maintain his lie. Our baby was cremated also but I'm a lot better now. Some days I still say to myself is this real but I keep going but it's crazy because I'm normally the one who gives everyone else advice. LBVS but I do feel like this was another test that will be a testimony to others one day but I have powerful child support but I am surprised how he really doesn't see our kids especially our baby boy that loves him so much but it's fine. It just motivates me to work harder. Thanks for your time. Now that sounded like a voice to text honestly because it wasn't a lot of punctuation in there so y'all have to forgive me as I was reading it because she probably was speaking it into the phone or she was typing it really fast and so I know some details that was left out just for the sake of her trying to condense it because I really got lost because after she said she had three kids but I couldn't identify where the third one was born and I know the first one was two and a half when she got with this guy and then it was two or three abortions in there and this is see I would like to see if you know a guy and not just one guy well if everybody knows a guy then we'll see a lot of this but I would like for the guys that y'all know who have met a woman like this to email in to inbox at tonigaction.com because I'm trying to see something you know I'm trying to find a balance because a lot of times when I talk to men they're like oh women just worse as men women just worse as men but I never have seen or heard the stories of a woman doing a man like this like of a woman getting pregnant by a man and then choosing herself to terminate the pregnancy because she's mad with the man and like doing it over and over and over again and misleading the man and going out and getting pregnant by other men in spite of the man and living off other men but dealing with this man over here who's being good to her and loving her and giving her chance after chance and we know it has happened but I get thousands of these type of emails from women and it just kind of is sad to see that this type of man exists like it's very sad like I guess the Lord had to create good and evil so that we can have balance in the world but it is just absolutely insane but it also shows me how trauma plays into mental health issues because this guy is posting stuff on Facebook and to be honest with you he sounded like one of my family members I got a family member like that and as she was writing I'm like my goodness she talking about she talking about my family member I thought because I had a family member that does stuff like that and just cannot get right and just cannot do right by women has kids can't do right by the women can't do right by the kids get on Facebook and post crazy stuff he posting all kind of stuff he posting stuff that be family business and be posting kids business and stuff that then happen to the kids trauma the kids and experience and he'll post it trying to take a dig at their mama who is his family and this ain't even about ex-girlfriends or ex-wives or baby mamas that they be talking about and so this stuff the fact that I know it's real for real because I see it in my family is it's very sad to think of and and I'll be honest with you when you're dealing with this kind of man and if it's the inverse situation so if this is a woman out there like this too if you happen to be dealing with a woman like this if you're a man watching this or whoever this is very dangerous this is very dangerous because what I try to tell people and a lot of times this goes over people head but every man is a killer every man is a killer because every one of us could be drafted if they bring back the draft every man would be drafted into the army and if we got to go to war we got to pull a trigger unless we got a different type of job but every man has it in him and it doesn't matter how nice that man is it doesn't matter how what kind of job he has so I oftentimes ask men who have daughters because I don't have daughters and I hope the question doesn't freak them out or they don't think that I'm talking about what they would do to me if I did something to their daughter but I oftentimes will pull on the heart string of a man and say hey you know you got a daughter well I know they got a daughter and I'm like if a guy hurt her you know like if a guy did something to her would you kill for her and immediately like absolutely like without hesitation and this guy could be the most productive citizen in the world like he could be great job never went into prison living his life right and that always reminds me that every man has something he'll put everything on line for and I know that as a man and I got sons and I have a wife and in the right for the right reason I'll take a life for any one of them and that's what I try to tell women now these are men who that I'm talking about men who doing something out of you know love so if a man can do that out of love and I seen a guy do it his two sons were killed by a drunk driver and the drunk driver got on bail or something like that and the guy went and took the life of that man and the guy had to go to trial and he actually beat it like his lawyer he got off because of the reason he took this drunk driver's life it was because of his two twin boys I think got killed by the drunk driver in her car crash and he didn't have to do time so even the judge justified it and so when you see it on that side you also have to understand the other side because some men will do stuff just out of insanity or do stuff out of trauma or do stuff out of anger and self-hate so when a guy is showing signs that he is completely reckless and so you're dealing with a guy I can only imagine you know where y'all from this guy going to prison he spent a lot of time in prison you taking care of things you you there for him you doing all of this like it just sounds very y'all in some stuff that type of man who will do criminal activity to the point that he gets caught and has to go to jail for it that's the type of man you don't want to deal with that's the type of man you don't want to play with that's the type of man that he's losing it day by day he's going crazy and that is the type of man that you'll wake up dead you'll wake up dead that's the type of man will do something to his own children I just seen in the news not long ago a man's wife or a girlfriend I think he alleged she was cheating on him now the mind is so powerful it could be powerful in a good way and also in a bad way the guy could have had evidence the case didn't go that deep on the news or it could have been made up in his mind and so when you think about it just like how this guy is saying your other baby daddy buying you gifts on valentines and then your daughter had to show him receipts and bank statements that she bought the gifts and he's saying your baby daddy did this or you sleeping with your other baby daddy you doing all this and you kept saying over and over because you're talking to me anonymously you could have said especially after you told me about all them pregnancy terminations I know that you're a transparent person and you being transparent that's a telltale sign right there because you didn't have to mention that you've had multiple pregnancy terminations and then you also had a baby that died so it's a lot going on in your life and them fallopian tubes and just in your body you've been through a lot of trauma and for you to express that I know that you would have said I did cheat on him or not cheat on him or I am still dealing with my first baby daddy because I love him but you said I haven't been with him in over 20 years and it's sick and you said that two or three times so that lets me know you have nothing to do with this other man your first baby daddy and this baby daddy keeps making this stuff up and posting it on Facebook and sending it to you that this type of man he probably on some type of drug or he just got a really bad mental issue but he creating these narratives in his mind and we can get to the place where when our mind is gone and I done been there we'll create a narrative and we'll get ourself in trouble like we'll put ourself in a tough situation just based on what's going on between our ears and so when you identify that somebody is like that and you dealing with that type of person you gotta run you gotta cut all communication because when you're talking to the person who is like that mentally it's kinda like the jack in the box and it's like every time you talk to that person you take another wind and then you talk to him again you take another wind so it's really like you stringing them along like you winding them up and then one day boom it's gonna erupt in your face and you don't know to what level it could be just ramming you in the back of your car it could be running you off the road it could be kicking your front door down just to scare you and blow up on you it could be hitting you and it could be killing you and like I was gonna say I saw on the news the guy thought his wife was cheating or called her cheating and he took the life of their three children put the three kids in the back seat shot all three of them and then took his own life and it was really to have that woman have to live with that pain for the rest of her life but this man was so gone mentally that he had so much trauma, pain, or mental issues that his woman cheating on him pushed him to that place and it sounded like you got a man that could be close to that and so you gotta pick up on these red flags because it's a lot of men that we'll go through stuff with a woman we'll find some shady stuff if we go through our woman phone we may find some stuff we don't like but the majority of us is not gonna go on Facebook and post about it the majority of us not gonna take her life the majority of us gonna be like okay wow the next woman may pay for it you know by accident or she may not or the man just may stay single but when a man is showing you the signs he already a criminal he asks you to terminate babies he then blames you and then he talked crazy to children like he put your children into lies that he's making up not even the facts it's one thing to tell your child about the facts so that they clear on it it's a whole another thing to tell your child about things that your mind has created that you have no proof of that ought to say something to you so hey listen to me you cutting him off blocking him on your phone on your daughter phone you did the right thing you did the right thing and you gotta get as far away from him to be honest with you even with a man like that if you could move to another living space if you pan if you on a lease when that lease is up if you can move to an equal space if it's not possible don't worry about it it's not like he's an imminent threat right now it doesn't sound like but if you feel in your spirit that you need to get a new address that he doesn't know where you're at and can't find you then you wouldn't be wrong for that either so hey you did the right thing pay attention to the red flags pay attention to these signs and make sure that you don't play with it make sure that you see when someone is doing something that you would not do doing something that other humans you know would not do that lets you know you dealing with a special breed of a person and you 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Mae'r prydysgwch yn ystod yn bobl yn cam Cymran, maen nhw ddweud eich sgwyl yn gweld a'r ddweud? Mae'r ddweud, oherwydd mae'n gweithio'r cyhoedd yn ymddangos, felly mae'n ffroedd yw'r prydysgwch yn ystod. Yn ei wneud yn y prydysgwch, bod yn ei gydig o'r certhedol arall y ffroedd prydysgwll. Mae'r prydysgwll yn cael ei wneud ymddangos, fel ar y Llyfrgell Llyfrgellol Llyfrgellig Llyfrgellig, ac y gallwn isgwyddiol arall, yn ddechrau how mae'n rhan o'n gweld i'r piwn i'w tyflau cymryd cael bod y cynghori lleol o'r swyddo i niion sy'n cael ein ffrifolgylchedd, ac allan o'n yr unrhyw gŷl. Dyna iawn i'n gŷl ar ddigon ni, mae'n i'n cymryd mwyaf, nad yw dyfod hynny'n mynd hyn yn gweld. Dwyliwr yn y Llyfrgell Llyfrgell Llyfrgell. Wealth started off by asking a question really. Is there a business case for a sheared library management system across higher education institutions in Wales? What would that look like if we were to develop such a system? What benefits would we achieve through that? So, in terms of Wales, we're talking about nine higher education institutions, plus the National Library of Wales, The Welsh NHS Libraries, who already had a shared system which was managed on their behalf through Cardiff University, so came into the consortium through that route, really. In order to answer that initial question there was some work done, an initial feasibility study was funded through Mald, which is the Welsh Shun Government Museums Archives and Libraries Division, that reported in 2011. At that point it was decided that actually we needed to do some more work to really build the evidence for the business case. a wneud i mi ddechreu gyda Gysgr, a gweithio benedig ffrogell feddwl unrhyw unrhyw, flynyddoedd pan fydd ei bod ni'n bod i cwestiynau ddau o'ch bysig ar y cyfnodd cyhoedd.  Mae'r unrhyw gwerthau llyfriddor llyfridol yn ymgrifoedd, yr unrhyw yng Nghymru, rwy'n ymdweud Echslid Briths Almer a Primo. Rydym yn hynny'n meddwl arall o ffordd Llyfriddor Llyfridol yn y Llyfridol, gyda'r lles ymgyrch yn ystod yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn Yn Ysgrifennid 2016, a'r Llyfrgell Llyfrgell Llyfrgell a Llyfrgell Llyfrgell Llyfrgell. Felly mae'n amser yn gweithio'r amser o'r cyfnod o'r syniadol cyfnod. Felly, mae'n cael ei wneud hynny? Felly, yna'r cyfnod yma, mae'n cyfnod. Felly, mae'n cyfnod yma.  Ydw'ch gynllun ymcheg i'w rwy'n gweithio. Yn gallai gweithio i ddau'r hynny yn cael ei ddweud i ddweud mewn hynny, yn oeddem yn cael eu gwasanaethau a'r ffactor o'r hanfodol. Rwy'n cael ei ddweud i ddweud yn ymgyrch o'r strategi a'r mewn cyflawn. Rydw i'n meddwl chi o'r buser o'r dyfodol Llyfridogol, rydych chi'n meddwl i'r buser o'r dyfodol. Rydw i'n meddwl chi'n meddwl i'r buser o'r digwydd ar gwerthu Llyfridogol i Llyfridogol i Wales. ond ydy'r cyflinno cymaint ar ôl i'n gyllid i'r cyflinno cymaint ar y cyflinno cymaint. Mae ydy'r cyflinno cymaint ar y cyflinno cymaint am gynnwys a sicrhau ei ffordd o'r ddechrau. Yr ystyried ar fynd ymlaenau a gweithio a'r ysgrifennu erbyn yw ychydig a gweithio i ddweudio, y gallai fel sy'n gweld dros ymgylchedd a'r llyfr, cyhoedd ymgylchedd a'r ysgrifennu. So, ymgylchedd a'r cymaint a'r llyfr sydd yn gwneud. ..aeth o'r anodd rwy'r gweld yn gweithio. Mae'r gweithio hyn yn gweithio, yn ddarparu y cyfnodd... ..ynddw i weld bod gyda pan harnis... ..ynghyd i gyd yn gweithio. Gweithio, fel y ddysgu'r gweithio... ..y'r ddiwedd ymddangos o'r teamenedig... ..y'r cyfnodd lle i'r teamenedig... ..yna'r gweithio ar gyfer. Rydyn ni'n meddwl i'r meddwl... ..y'r meddwl i'r meddwl i'r team. ac we built that kind of shared understanding, that shared knowledge, very much a very intensive joint activity really to keep the project off. So it's easy to be brave behind a castle wall. So that's that's harlot castle. So what does this mean then really? I think one of the things that we had to do right at the outset of this initiative really was to get those fears out on the table, kind of share them and own them and then we could agree how to address them. So we had no kind of hopefully no kind of elephants in the room really. So it's a very early stage in the initiative. We focused on getting those risks and anxieties out on the table. We did an exercise around looking at potential barriers and risks to the project. We tried to be as open and honest as we could as part of that process until then to kind of really share those risks. So the kind of things we identified then were things like the political risk that we might have IT directors, for example, who might not want to give up local control over systems. So there might be political drivers there which would potentially derail us. There might be economic issues in this that it might not be possible to build a successful business case for a system, or maybe the business case would be undermined if the costs then for that system are potentially quite a lot higher than the current expenditure that each of those individual institutions were already committed to. Social kind of risks and anxieties here were around our staff and staff might be resistant to change, perhaps where staff were very happy with an existing system. There was a lot of buy-in to existing ways of doing things. Staff might not see the benefits and might be resistant to coming with us really. Technological challenge then was around the state of the next generation of library management system market at the time. Was it mature enough to enable us to achieve our aims? Might we go out to market and find out to you there were no products out there which really fit our needs really. And then kind of legal issues. We might be in a situation where we might not be able to break some current contracts perhaps to enable us to move to a shared system at the same time. And finally, I think this one was probably quite important particularly in the context in Wales at the time around potential for HE merger and a number of institutions did indeed merge at the start of this process. So possibly the institutional focus might just be somewhere else. We may not be able to get buy-in to look at library management systems because actually it's just totally focused on that effort that is created around institutional merger and how to take that forward really. So moving on then, starting the work is two thirds of it. And I think what this reflects really is just a kind of sheer difficulty in getting started really. The mountain of work really which needed to be achieved to agree a joint specification across all of those quite different organisations in many ways. And just the sheer effort in pulling that together to get to something where we could all buy-in to it. Our procurement teams could buy-in to it. Our IT teams could also buy-in to it. And really that that was something that was going to be robust to take us through a tendering process. So the specification had massive potential really to derail the project. We couldn't agree on what was needed. Then we were never going to get anywhere really. So the strategy that we kind of took to approach this really was that we identified functional leads for different areas of functionality for the LMS. And they took the responsibility of building or leading on that aspect of the specification and then achieving buy-in both within their own institutions but also across the consortium. So they very much took the lead for each aspect of that specification. That enabled us to share the work out but also developed some quite strong buy-in really for those leads who'd been obviously leading that process and working with other colleagues both within their institution and across the consortium felt a very strong commitment to those aspects of the specification. We had a number of very intensive meetings to develop the specifications The team basically took themselves away to a University of Wales conference centre which is in kind of mid Wales which is equally difficult for everybody to get to. And once you get there you're kind of cut off from the rest of the world really. There's fairly poor internet access, there's no public transport is very limited you can't escape and even kind of go to the pub really. You've got to stay in there and just get on with it. And I think that kind of really intensive close work really forms some strong bonds within the team as well. And it helps to continue to build that culture of trust engagement and a shared kind of commitment to success as well. So make haste slowly. I think in some ways this kind of reflects the difficulty of the geography of Wales. So this is a map from the Mabinogion. And the thing about Wales is that it's kind of very difficult to get anywhere really. So it's kind of from Cardiff to kind of Bangor University. You're talking about a good five hour kind of train journey really.  And that is a challenge for collaboration because just the sheer difficulty of actually bringing people together in a room does make it quite difficult. And that's another reason why we had to kind of have these events where we took ourselves away and actually spent a lot of time together quite intensively because there was less opportunity for that more kind of ad hoc, ongoing sort of physical getting together really, physical meeting. So, and what it also reflects I think make haste slowly is around the kind of sheer slog of the procurement process as well. So having pulled together that massive specification over 600 lines of requirements in there, we then had to go through a very lengthy procurement process which took I think the best part of 12 months start to finish. And that was after the specification was written. So we went through a pre-qualification questionnaire stage followed by an invitation to tender. We then evaluated the written responses from suppliers. We had onsite supplier demonstrations and reference site visits. So all of the kind of things that you would expect but again the challenge of that was magnified again by that geography. And the fact that really the suppliers did need to travel around the whole of Wales. We couldn't simply say well everybody's got to come to Cardiff because we would have lost our buying again. We really had to ensure that our suppliers went to North Wales, they went to Mid Wales, they went to South Wales and that they made that commitment to engaging with all of the partners equally really. So again quite challenging. But then having signed the contract, done the legal work and finally signed the contract I think at the very end of December in 2014, we then started to move very quickly after that as we moved into implementation. So with his breath in his fists kind of image of us kind of then running at our target really to try and get there as quickly as we could. So we broke then the consortium into three cohorts and cohort one had a very rapid onboarding process really. So as I said we signed the contract in December 2014. Swansea were the first institution to go live and that was in June 2016 so very tight timescale for them. And then with the National Library of Wales and Aberystwyth University following shortly afterwards. It was again it was quite challenging for the supplier as well really I think to work that quickly with so many institutions and to bring us all on board at a level of quality really. So big achievement really there for the cohort one institutions and for ex Libris as well I think. And what I guess what we then started to see from that is some of the accolades starting to come out in particular the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Award, which we run in 2015 for Outstanding Library Team was a joint wealth entry. And what I've also included here is a quote from one of our Welsh Assembly ministers, Ken Skates who at the time was had Libris in his portfolio really to show the kind of recognition that we started to receive at a national level in Wales as well really for the work that we were taking forward. So the strength of a nation is in its knowledge. This is Owen Glindore probably one of the last two kings of Wales really. So this is really about drawing on that knowledge history expertise and how doing that gives you strength really in terms of. In terms of the consortium. So really this is about the way that we actively shared experience and knowledge across the consortium. So we kind of bootstrapped really so cohort one having gone live then shared their expertise with cohort two and then cohort one and cohort two helped cohort three. So it was a very active cascading of that learning process really. And National Library of Wales provided the Welsh language translations of the interfaces for the others. So again an opportunity really for us to share expertise across the consortium so that we're not all doing the same thing and effectively reinventing the wheel. The way that we did that was through lots and lots of activities workshops what we call mini meets site visits getting stuff out to go and look at what's been done elsewhere, but also virtually as well so using communication tools very actively to share our experience. So things like Yammer, Skype, lots of video conferencing, Basecamp, which is the ex Libris tool. All of those really to enable us to share as much of that learning as possible and also to drive innovation really. And then finally learning from other consortia as well so learning about what others have done and again actively applying that to our initiative. OK so I think that's Welsh football not rugby I think it's football. I was wise once when I was born I cried. So this I guess really is the kind of realisation that having done all of that work and having got to the point where all of the institutions are live on the new system, there's still so much work to be done really. We've really only kind of touched the surface of it and this is where the real hard work starts I think. I think procuring the system and getting it live is relatively easy in comparison. So the kind of things we're now thinking and looking and actively working on really in terms of the next level for our consortium are around actively using the shared system to share real services across the institutions. So the first thing around that is having a shared discovery tool. So in addition to each of us having our own discovery interface we have a consortial view which enables our users to search across all of the collections now across research and HEE institutions in Wales. Single catalogue for Wales something we're working towards something that potentially would enable us to share catalogue records so potentially catalogue once use that record many times. We've talked with Exlivris extensively about what they call the network zone as a potential tool for enabling us to do that. We're also engaging with JISC and with OCLC around the National Bibliographic Knowledge Based Developments there as well. So trying to understand the best technical route. And then what else can we share really? How else can we use the system to enable us to share more things, offer better services to our users? We're thinking about things like sharing documents' cry, possibility for reciprocal borrowing. We're working actively on sharing analytics and metrics and reports, things like developing APIs. We've established a process for shared voting on the enhancements process. And then finally capturing the benefits of what has been achieved so far on what is to come. And I think the real challenge was there is around attribution. If you can show for example that the time you're spending less money on cataloging a book than you used to. Is that because of the LMS or is it because of something else altogether? And how we kind of tease that out is going to be quite challenging. But we're doing some work with JISC around that to develop benefits realisation framework which will enable us to track those and measure those benefits into the future. So finally just to finish a final proverb without perseverance talent is a barren bed which hopefully sums up our whole experience of this initiative.


Thank you. Thank you, Susanna. President von der Leyen, President Macron, Prime Minister Costa, dear Europeans. I am so proud to be here today as we come to this milestone in this unique exercise in active citizenship, in Europe building, in future-proofing our foundations. Among the many speeches we hear today, I think there is one message that we can take away today. Europe's future is yet unwritten, and our story depends on you, on all of us. This debate took on a new reality on February 24th, when President Putin ordered his army to invade Ukraine, an act of medieval aggression that has changed the world. The post-February 24th world is a very different one, a more dangerous one, and Europe's role has changed with it. We cannot afford to lose any more time. How we have responded to the invasion and how we must continue to respond is the litmus test of our values. The unity and resolve of our response has confounded critics and made us proud to be European. That must be the blueprint going forward. And as we speak here, Ukraine is still being invaded. Bombs are still killing indiscriminately. Women are still being raped. Millions have fled, and will continue to do so. People are still trapped in the tunnels under Mariupol. And Ukrainians look to Europe for support, because they know that millions and what millions of Europeans who were forced to spend half a century behind the yoke of the iron curtain will tell you there is no alternative to Europe. The future of Europe is tied to the future of Ukraine. The threat that we face is real, and the cost of failure is momentous. And I ask, how will history judge our actions? Will future generations read about the triumph of multilateralism over isolationism? The cementing of an interdependent relationship between nations and people who are proud of their differences, as Laura said earlier, but who understand that in this new world, the future can only be together? That is all up to us. That is our responsibility. And let me tell you here today that the European Parliament will fight for a stronger Europe and all of what Europe means. And that means freedom, it means democracy, it means the rule of law, it means justice, solidarity, equality of opportunity. And that means that we must listen more than we speak. And this exercise must be about you, about our project working for people and villages and towns and regions across Europe. Europe has a proud history. We have created the common market, ensured enlargement to successive states, embraced universal suffrage, eliminated internal borders, created a common currency, and enshrined fundamental rights into our treaties. Our European project has been a success story. It may not be perfect, but we represent a bastion of liberal democracy, of personal freedoms, of liberty of thought, of safety and security. And that is what inspires millions and millions of people in Europe and around the world. However, this conference also proves that there exists a gap between what people expect and what people and what Europe is able to deliver at the moment. And that is why we need a convention as the next step. And that is what the European Parliament will insist on. There are issues that simply cannot wait. That is true for defence. We need a new security and defence policy, because we know that we need each other, that alone we are vulnerable. And here we don't have to reinvent the wheel. We can complement, rather than compete, with existing alliances. It is true for energy. We are still too reliant on autocrats, where energy islands still exist, where we must support each other as we disentangle ourselves from the Kremlin and invest in alternative energy sources, where we understand that renewable energy is as much about security as it is about the environment. But we can only do that together. We can only do that together. This is also true for climate change. The challenge of a generation that Europe has proudly led the global charge on. It is true for health, where we must heed the lessons of the pandemic and make our health systems interconnected, share information and pool resources. When the next virus hits us, we cannot let it shut down our lives. Our first instinct cannot be to recreate the borders of the past. It is true for our economic model, where we must ensure enough flexibility without tying the hands for generations to come, where we are able to create jobs and the jobs that we need to thrive. It is true for migration, as we heard in the videos and the testimonies, where we still need a system that is fair with those who are in need of protection, that is firm with those who are not, but that is strong against those who abuse the most vulnerable people on the planet. It is true for equality and solidarity. Our Europe must remain a place where you can be who you wish to be, where your potential is not impacted by your birthplace, your gender or sexual orientation. A Europe that stands up for our rights, for women, for minorities, for us all, a Europe that leaves nobody, nobody behind. In all these areas and more, I want Europe to lead, because if it is not us, it will simply be someone else. Dear Europeans, this conference on the future of Europe involved hundreds of thousands of people across Europe. This has been an intense experience in the power of participatory democracy after months of discussions and powerful debate. I want to thank you for believing in the promise of Europe, and I want to specifically thank Giver Hofstadt and Dubraf Kasowitz and the different presidencies of the Council, Prime Minister Costa, Minister Klemambor here today. Thank you for leading the process. Thank you. I also want to thank our late President David Sassoli, who would be so proud. He would be so proud today. And of course, nothing of none of this could have been done without all the staff. And I ask you please to applaud the staff of the European Parliament and the institutions who really, really worked for this to happen. I thank you all for believing in this exercise, for fighting for Europe, for facing down the cynics. It is easier to be cynical, to be populist, to look inwards. But we should expose populism, cynicism and nationalism for what they are. False hope sold by those with no answers. Those who are afraid to forge the hard and long road of progress. Ladies and gentlemen, Europe has never been afraid. And now it is time to step up and not step back. We are once again at a defining moment of European integration, and no suggestion for change should be off limits. Whatever process is required in order for us to get there should be embraced. As a student, I got involved in politics because I believed my generation's place was Europe. I believe this still. We see no old and no new Europe. We see no big and no small states. We understand that ideas are bigger than geography. That feeling 18 years ago when 10 countries, including my own, joined the European Union is a moment that will remain with me forever. We counted the seconds to midnight on May Day. And you could feel the joy, the hope, the passion with which people believed. People today in Ukraine, in Georgia, in Moldova and still in the western Balkans are looking to us with the same sense of purpose. Of course, every country must follow its own path, but we should not be afraid to unleash the power of Europe to change people's lives for the better as it did for my country. Finally, we are gathered here on Europe Day during the year dedicated to youth. In the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, there is nowhere more symbolic of the power of democracy, of the power of Europe to take the next steps together. This is the moment to answer Europe's call. This is our time. Thank you.


Live from Nashville, Tennessee, it's theCUBE.  Welcome back to Nashville, Tennessee. This is Commvault Go, and you're watching theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman with my co-host, Keith Townsend. Happy to welcome to the program, Lauren Nelson, who's a principal analyst with Forrester. Thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure. All right, our first time doing theCUBE in Nashville. Commvault goes third year at the show. Have you been to the Commvault shows in the past? I have, not last year, but the year prior, first year. So you skipped a year. From two years ago, just from my own knowledge, Commvault's changed quite a bit. I mean, they had some pressures on them. They've been going through a lot of pricing models. What's your take on what Commvault's been doing the last couple of years? Yeah, a lot of focus on the show, on pricing model changes, packages changes, emphasis on selling through partners, and how to try and foster that in the actual village space. So how do you bring partners into conversations early on in a smoother way, and just looking around, you've got whiteboards on tables, you've got spaces, very change in terms of collaborative space right in the middle of the booths, rather than around the perimeter. So very, very interesting layout. All right, so Lauren, your research, one of the things that you focus on is cloud and cloud migrations, which is, of course, one of the key messages Commvault talks about, when I talk to users, you know, the multi-cloud strategy that they're figuring out, as I say, usually the ink's still drying, and it's one of those things that gets revisited quite often. What are you hearing from customers? What's your research showing of kind of the state of cloud and how cloud migration fits into it? Yeah, so you've got two really big topics right now in the cloud space. You've got the migration side, and you've got the multi-cloud side, and they are the conversations going on right now. First of all, you've got migration, which is not SaaS migration, but migrating an app to an infrastructure as a service environment, and that is something that is difficult. And a lot of companies that are talking about cloud migration don't always recognize that. They sum it up to SaaS migration, and often find that they're going to have higher performance when they move. They don't look at the challenges with the architectural changes from moving to vertical scaling to horizontal scaling. And it's this conversation where, well, if we hear one company doing it, then maybe that should be our entire cloud strategy. And first, a number of organizations, it is. Especially if you look at small, mid-size organizations, they're looking at cloud migration as a data center replacement method. If you look at the average enterprise, that's not the typical story. Unless they're in a unique moment of change, typically what they're looking at is a few apps, typically driven by location or app-specific support, that they're planning to get from their service provider of choice. And they're moving this app for specific reasons. If you look holistically, our latest stats, survey taken in August, shows that 69% of enterprises in North America and Europe are actually migrating workloads to the cloud. If you then ask about how their methods are all over the map, the number of total apps they're moving is far less than what we're made to believe in some of the more sensationalized or exaggerated stories. We're kind of unique use cases. When you look at the other side of that, you've got the multi-cloud story, which is all of a sudden with this migration topic, you get organizations questioning, should I be multi-cloud? Am I doing this wrong? Am I adding needless complexity? And we saw a bit of a drop in 2016 after GE presented at Amazon Re-Event on associating with the term multi-cloud, that that was their specific strategy. And we've actually seen that come back in spades. In fact, we've seen a number of organizations actually say they are multi-cloud, and then they have various definitions of what multi-cloud means for them. Multi-cloud is either public and private, private and some public cloud usage, multiple public, non-cloud plus cloud. It's all over the map. And so I think organizations are starting to take a step back, starting to think about how does my cloud strategy map to my larger organizational values? Should seem obvious. That should have been done that way from the start. But for a lot of organizations, it's a unique step that they're doing this year of being more pragmatic on how they should approach cloud, not trying to force fit deployment models, and look at the real opportunities that are there. And that includes all of these things. It includes private cloud and your on-prem data center for using it for specific workloads, for use cases that it just does not make sense to have that much change at once, or to force the economics. The other side, you do see cloud migration. That is very much a real thing. It is not the most exciting use case to cloud. You're moving an app that you're not changing at all in terms of customer experience to an environment it's not built to handle it that may suffer from performance. So it tends to be the less sexy side of the cloud strategies that we see today, but very much a part. And it is the use of infrastructure as a service for just that cheap infrastructure rather than some of its more compelling past services. So it's an interesting time. All of those conversations are emerging. In fact, I mean, I can't tell you how many research reports we have on Q on these very topics around just the one-on-one level, which I think is what we've primarily covered, just the grazing the surface versus some of the latest conversations around how do we have cloud-neutral past services that are abstracted from the underlying platform? Who will deliver those? What technologies will be standardized beneath that? How will we leverage Kubernetes and the many different types? So it's an interesting thing that I'm pretty passionate about, as you can see. Laura, let's talk about kind of that step to when I'm out talking to customers about multi-cloud. One, multi-cloud or even cloud migration that you're absolutely right, I see the same thing. They need to answer the why question, like why are we even considering that? And for multi-cloud, I think customers are starting to look back and really wonder, do I need that complexity? Is it really worth the effort? But the second thing that I think customers underestimate the complexity of is having a data strategy unique to cloud versus their data strategy on-prem. Are you seeing the same that customers are realizing, wow, I can't just take wholesale my data strategy, my on-prem data strategy, and take that to the cloud? Yeah, and it's a very, you know, the classic analyst response is, it depends. There's some organizations that are literally creating two different data hubs where they are having different access levels and different apps that you're allowed to connect to based on what classification is that for that particular data. It's this theme of zero trust model of how do you secure from the data out and simply put some data sets are more valuable than others. Some have security requirements that are far more expensive to meet. And when you try and problem solve for this, some people try and think, well, is the easiest way just to completely segment the two and be able to have control of how you access these two? Or is it more complex than that? Do we need different databases that we're leveraging? Do we need to look at migrating some days or replicating some data to avoid data out fees from some of the major service providers? Do we leverage a third party like a co-location provider that can provide some ease for us in terms of movement of data? So I think that's one of the big topics in the upcoming year is if I'm going to multi-cloud, if I'm going to take on that effort, why am I doing that? You know, why am I taking on this as an important app? Is it because of fear of lock-in and flexibility long-term? And if I do that, what are the implications in terms of data, both security-wise and cost-wise? And a lot of organizations, the challenges is, you know, you write out your cloud security or your actual cloud strategy map and you don't really understand the proof points or where that strategy breaks until you start getting into the details, testing out and trying to do this to figure out what are the actual costs of this scenario? So it's a challenging problem, but it's one that I think organizations are going to be facing for the next few years. Yeah, it's interesting. And I'm thinking through some of this. A lot of what we're talking about is infrastructure. And it's like, okay, my private cloud, how do I modernize it? How do I simplify it? The reason we have infrastructure is to run my applications and the most important piece there is the data. How much does the cloud strategies that companies are working on look at data and how they're going to take advantage of data, even more in the future? Yeah, it's a great question. And there's so many different sides of this. There's one, you've got GDPR, which is making them think about data in a whole new level, just from a security and compliance perspective and how quickly they can react to requests that are put in by a particular citizen about their knowing what's on file for them, as well as requesting it to be deleted. And being held accountable for our ability to complete that. On the other hand, you've got organizations that are trying to draw insights, that are trying to change customer experience, design new products, market to their organizations more effectively, leveraging data that they don't know where it is, they don't know how to use it, or even how to start thinking about it together. They have a shortage of data scientists. They have a shortage of tools and solutions that can help them try and piece together this challenge. So I would say companies have done very little of this so far. It is something that's on the roadmap. It's, you get some organizations that are in the lead that are testing the waters right now, but if you look at the average organizations, they haven't even gotten to this. They're trying to use public cloud for very low end use cases at this point. All right, so I want to ask you, when you talk about your research, of course it depends the customer by customer, what they're having, but what differentiates a customer that can really start kind of moving up the stack, being more strategic, having IT really answering to the business and doing things with their data versus kind of the laggers up there. Is there anything that you're finding when in your research as to what separates those leaders from laggards? There's a few things and I'm not the first so a lot of vendors look for changes in executive boards. So typically new folks coming in, trying to change the way things are being done, kind of fresh innovative talent. That's a good flag that they're ready for it. Other organizations, there's a classic they're threatened by others in their industry or believe they'll be threatened soon. For some organizations, it happens to be the right place the right time. They have a leader that they can trust that they believe will lead ahead this cloud strategy and that can tackle some of these challenges. For a lot of organizations, there's a desire, there is some action, but oftentimes the action is delayed. They face very stagnant cloud strategies, they face very stagnant data problems because they're either missing cash, they're missing the ear of their executive board or they have the wrong individuals that are trying to take the torch forward. And so it takes a lot of critical self-reflection as an organization that isn't easy. So let's talk a little bit about that silently within organizations. A lot of times I'm seeing multi-cloud, cloud migration, cloud efforts being driven by not just IT, but infrastructure organizations within IT. Are you seeing successful efforts being driven from kind of that I call that bottom up versus whether if it's even some VP or above driving the effort from a business perspective? I think it varies. So there's some organizations where it's, our VP is bringing a cloud-first policy to our organization and then you have to figure out what that means to that particular executive. It may mean we are going to go AWS, completely all now. For a lot of organizations it's a progress of we're going to include all things that could be possibly labeled as cloud technologies, which doesn't really describe much. If it does anything it's to describe change is on the horizon. We are going to do things differently than we previously did. For a lot of companies they have been tasked by their executives of you need to tell me what to do for the cloud strategy. And so they're trying to figure out how do we problem solve for cloud from our perspective. And I think that's been one of the biggest problems of the cloud industry for the last seven years is this bottom-up approach or top-down approach with very little thinking about where's the value. So bottom-up, typically you get folks thinking about how do we have more efficient infrastructure? How do we modernize? How do we add in automation and build the best private cloud in the world? And oftentimes overspending, oftentimes delaying and having no self-service access for developers for five years into their strategy. And from that you see a lot of organizations trying to redesign their cloud strategies to deliver real business value up front early on and then look to see how do they modernize, how do they mature to help support and scale that effort. Whereas the top-down approaches are very fruity, high-level, shiny objects. And so I think a lot of organizations that are trying to change that are trying to get individuals in the same room together, figure out let's start from our business strategy and work our way into how cloud serves that greater purpose. All right, Lauren, when Forrester talks to customers, this space of data protection, secondary storage, whatever you call it, it's pretty crowded. Are there things that, specific things that customers are calling out or that Forrester gives advice as to how to differentiate in the marketplace or what they're looking for? And along those lines, what are customers looking for down the road to even expand more and get more value from vendors in the future? Yeah, so I tend to focus on the cloudy questions. So when I'm looking at data protection, I'm looking at it as a module of how you manage multiple clouds. And when you look at the hybrid cloud management space, it's a very busy space. It tends to focus on orchestration, template building, occasionally some compliance and policy, tags that can be applied, and then cost optimization. Very little has been done on the security side so far and very little has been done in the data protection side. So when you look at how do you differentiate, there's not a lot of players in this market yet. For as many security players as there are, it has not been aggressively tackled as heavily as the classic management providers have been attacking other management challenges. And you look at the cloud cost optimization space, it's done very well. It's the first cloud challenge that organizations are trying to solve is how much am I spending, who's spending it, how do I integrate with my billing system? The next challenge is how do I problem solve for data? They see that as a potential huge cost escalator if they don't get this under control. For many reasons, compliance from data out costs. So that's the next beach head. So I would actually argue that there's not a lot that's been done specifically around cloud in this space yet. All right, well, Laura Nelson, really appreciate you sharing your insights and customer views with us. My pleasure, thank you. All right, for Keith Townsend, I'm Stu Miniman. We'll be back with more coverage here from Commvault Go in Nashville, Tennessee. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


is dedicating them back today with another video. Shout out to you for tuning in. If you are not subscribed, do me a favor and smash that subscribe button. Also, go ahead and give me a thumbs up. In today's video, I'm gonna give you guys my honest observation of the Delivered app. Delivered is spelled D-L-I-V-R-D. Now, I did post a video where I did an interview with the CEO and founder of the Delivered app and he told me some information. The information was, the more orders you take, the better orders you will get. So in today's video, you guys will find out my honest opinion on what is going on with the Delivered app. But we do have two orders. We're about to go out here and get an order. Order number one, about to go out here and get the job done, have us some fun and get these funds. The pickup location is pinstrikes but to get our pockets tight. We are gonna drive 22.9 miles. The order cost is $220 and we'll receive a payment of $26.45. It's a great time to be alive. Now, in my opinion, is this order worth it? Absolutely not, it's a terrible order. 22.9 miles for $26.45. It's terrible, baby. So, let's go in here and get this dough and skull. Get it popping like crisco, let's go. And we are here at pinstrikes to get our pockets tight. Let's do it, let's do it. Extra heavy, baby. Let's join it. Have the door. How you doing, sir? Quick question for you. So, I have an easy catering order to pick up. I'm not sure who I'm supposed to talk to or where I'm supposed to go. You got a catering order? Yeah, an easy catering order. What was the name of the order? Physicians immediate care. Okay, give me one second. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you for your help. This is everything? Yeah. In one bag, that's what I'm talking about. Thank you very much. You have a great day, sir. Let's go.   Because this bag is too big and I think that, honestly, it might slip and fall. But we have to do what we gotta do so we can ball and not stall. You know what I'm talking about? This is hot, boy. This joint is sore or shim. Let me take this out. Put this over here. Right there. That joint is hot. Right here.  That right there. Bingo. Tracing everything. Take it out of this. Pull that joint up. Zip, zip, zip. Zip, zip, zip, zip it up. Zip, zip, zip. Zip, zip, zip, zip it up. Gotta be careful because y'all saw I put my other zipper so. That right here. Wham-ski. That's right there. Right here. It's just like that. It's time to get our pockets on the floor with this. Go. Love it everything. Cook.  Y'all got the whole set up. Have a great day, sir. Well, not really, but it's okay. So after we got done with that order, two things happened. The first thing that happened is right after we pulled out the parking lot, this popped up. That right there, baby. Your delivered order, JT4RTW, has been updated. The projected earning is now $49.45. Yeah, baby. That order is now worth it. So instead of $26.45, we were actually received $49.45. So they gave us $23 tip. So a huge shout out to the customer on that one. I don't know if they did it or what happened, baby. He asked me, do I get a tip on the order? I said, not really. The tip wasn't really that big. Before, it was only a $10 tip for $220 worth of food, baby. So they must have gave me an extra tip on that. So huge shout out to them. The second thing that happened is this popped up. Right there, baby. Right after that, this popped up. A order for tomorrow morning at 6.20 a.m. The pickup location is IHOP. The order cost is $1,090. We're gonna drive 10.9 miles and receive a payment of $100.45. Enough money to pay the rent. Now, I honestly believe that everything is going well. I'm doing exactly what he told me to do and I have been getting orders. I literally got an order every single day of this week. Monday through Friday, I got an order. Every single day, baby. So I don't know, man. Comment below and let me know what you think. But huge shout out to my guy, Chris, for giving us that info. Now it's time for us to get going. Let's go, let's go. And we are here at IHOP. We're gonna keep getting to this money when we gonna never stop. Let's see if they got this joint ready. I'm definitely super early. It is now 5.57. We don't have to be here until 6.20. We're trying to get to this money. 2,000 years later. Hello. I have an easy catering order to pick up. Girl, I'm trying. They got a full order back there. Yeah, I have an easy catering order to pick up. Yes, you do. What's up, bitch? We're here. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is for you two. Oh, hey, you two. You can have it right now. Okay, cool. So you wanna help us? Yeah, they told me to pull up to the back door. Yep. I have the van. So I'm gonna come around to the back and then, so I knock on the door or you guys just... No, the door is open, I got you. Okay, I'm drone. All right, drone, I'm down. All right, thank you. I'll see you later, man. Oh, they about to get right. They ain't coming in. They ain't playing no game. They about to do their thing. Baby, we're out here to get this money like it ain't funny. Bank number three, angle line. This joint heavy, baby. This joint is heavy. You got big eggs in that joint. And we are back with another one. We're back with another one, baby. I think we got one more. I'm kind of finessing for these eggs. It is the thing of syrup. Sipping them to syrup. He's just a butter right here. It's a little thing of eggs. So I can probably, I think I'm just gonna put in another bag, man. We got the last bag. We gotta get to this bag. Don't be hating baby, man, baby. Dang, one, two, three, four, five, six bags of food, baby. This is the most bags I've ever used on food. And just like that, it's time to get our pockets on the floor. Let's go. We are here at the drop off location, which is Amazon. I'm gonna show you, I'm a Don. So they're supposed to bring a card out here for me. You can go ahead, sir. You need some help. No, okay. She's supposed to bring a card out for me. I'm not sure exactly where I'm supposed to go. She said she's gonna bring everything down. So I'll just start sending stuff right here. Y'all ready to unload all this stuff? Yeah, here. Let's do it. It'd probably be better to keep them in the, we'll give you back. Oh, okay. I do have to take a picture of it. So I'll just take a picture of when it's up there. Alrighty, I'll be waiting for you. Sorry about that. No, I don't know. I already know it's a lot of food. Y'all about to eat good today. Yes, sir. No, I'm okay. All right, thank you very much. You have a good one. And just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Let's get into it. My honest opinion on what's happening with the Deliver app. Honestly, I'm doing what Chris said and it has been working for me. I don't know if you guys have been trying this in your area. If you have, comment below and let me know. But honestly, I had two terrible orders this week. That one that, that pot belly order, I actually had like two or three pot belly orders. But one pot belly order was terrible. It was a very low payout. And I'm also starting to notice that usually the lower payouts are going to like hospital or physician places or stuff like that. But I kind of got to take that back because the last one we just, the first order we just did on this video was actually pretty good after they added that extra tip on there. So I don't know, baby. I do know that I had some good orders and I had some bad orders. I took every single order that they have gave me. And honestly, it has worked out for my benefit. I'm just telling you guys what's going on with me, baby. This is my experience. So comment below and let me know your experience. I know that sometimes you have some bad orders and literally that first order that we did in today's video, I had to drive like an hour out to do that. So it was critical on top of critical. So, hey, sometimes you got to do what you got to do so you can get that dough so you can scope. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you are not subscribed, make sure you smash that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads and lock in tomorrow because we get back to this bag. Why we get back to this bag? Because 2023 is big bag season. We don't keep on giving the reason. I'll see you guys on the next one. We going, we going, we flowing. You already know it. It's DDK and I'm on my way.


i think we got it figured out okay hey guys it's julia and welcome back to my channel there's going to be weird lighting in this video jeez because it's early um i hope it's okay honestly we're praying for it i'm not religious k great today's video i'm about to be doing the goodreads chooses my makeup challenge thingy ma bobber i'm gonna put on my little cat ears and get ready to do my makeup and stuff um we already got braids going so my hair looks half decent we got a bunch of makeup stuff i already looked up what it was so i'll put a screenshot for you um oh what this video is you should probably know that basically this was created by ola and you go into goodreads and you type in your initials this is my strizer you type in your initials and it's like okay great initials cool and it gives you a book so i typed in j s and a different twilight came up in a different language so i'm like okay great great um so then you can look at the different editions and see what you want to do do you want to what kind of cover do you want to mimic in your makeup you know so twilight's very black and white um on the covers there's a little bit of red pops in there my nails are red so i'm kind of just being like hey my nails are red it's fine um so that's that this is primer i will link i will list not link because i don't know um i will list all the products i am using down below in case you guys are interested this is all my products are cruelty free so i'm gonna start off with the eyes so i'm gonna do more of like a smoky look you guys have seen me do the similar or something like very similar to this before so this is the naked smoky palette so i'm going to be taking one side of the brush going into password which is like a light gray putting this into my crease for like more like blue or like goldy like i don't know what exactly i want to do yet because this eyelid can go two ways it can go more than two ways but you know oh yeah i was tasked to do this by clara from clara reads books she's a sweetie thanks for tagging me i kind of fell behind in doing things i'm tagged in so since i have to do get ready anyways this was perfect for me um i'm going to be tagging people so i'm going to tag them now because why not um i'm going to be tagging richard denny and peter from pedo likes books and see how they do with this if they want to do it cool um now i'm going to go in with the color dagger and taking this all over the lid so what's new with you guys i hope you're doing well um i'm okay thanks to the person who pointed out that i was shaking him on my video that's a lot of caffeine and because i don't sleep i drink a lot of coffee which results in me shaking a lot so in case you're wondering about that that's why no offense to the person who commented because it's like i get some people that kind of worry um like girl you good like why are you shaking like that but yeah even now i'm probably shaking do not mind that it's sleep deprived julia okay also you guys are seeing to be wondering like what's gonna happen with my shells like because i have no room um great question i put books way up there so like you can't even see it but i had to put books up there uh where this is the color black market and we're gonna see what happens there we're going with that um going again with smolder and black market i'm gonna put that in the outer kind of the and yeah for current reads i don't know when this is gonna go up but i'm currently reading the apocalypse of ellen and dosa i'm really enjoying that one actually it's quite good so far there's um it's about a girl who's like born a virgin birth and it's kind of like the opposite of shatter me so instead of like her touch being lethal like she can heal people with her touch which is really interesting um i'm enjoying it so far it's pretty good i know dylan talks about all the time and it's the book is not disappointing so far so that's good um then i'm gonna start the black witch soon for the event that i have coming up which you guys will hear about um what's september release are you guys excited for there's some like for september releases what are you excited for um wild card is like my main release like i'm probably gonna do some videos about that one well i am not probably like if you want to know my video plans like i am going to be doing some videos on wild card um so there we have the eyes now i'm going to go in with like a more blending brush now we're going to be taking a shimmery shade so we're gonna get out this we're gonna spray this brush with a little bit of i'm throwing things with this peach stuff um this is setting spray but get it a little dip um go in with one of the silver shades so we have slanted an armor i'm gonna go in with armor this is nefri by jeffree star i'm gonna go in with this and put a little bit of it on the center i'm gonna be taking the kat Von D tattoo liner this is like some exclusive one that they had it's like a gold packaging i don't know it's super cute though um just gonna be doing like a thin line i don't know what i'm supposed to talk about in this video just like makeup stuff like how i do my makeup i guess i'm gonna take the two face better than sex mascara put this on the upper and lower lashes now i'm gonna go wet my beauty blender i'm going to be using the this is the naked skin by urban decay i am in the shade 3.25 if you care um this is great i quite enjoy this stuff um i've read heretics anonymous recently holy shit you'll hear more about that in my reading blog but i really enjoyed that that was a fun book um and it was set in a catholic school which i go to a catholic school so i'm like finally i can relate to this book um there was people of different religions there there was um in the book there was a pagan which i personally loved there was um someone who was jewish and our main character was an atheist we also had a very like strong catholic in the group as well or yeah a catholic in the group as well and it was just a very good book emma books has been hyping it up a lot and like she's she's right it's a good read i agree with her i'm gonna be taking the cat von d loose setting powder and i'm just going to be tapping some of this out baking a little bit setting i'm going to do my eyebrows if i could find my brow pencil it would be very helpful or not you know that's cool oh there it is wait um if you're wondering how i do my brows i brush the hairs up fill the bottom that looks half decent that i'm gonna be going with some anesthesia brow gel oh yeah and the eyebrow pencil was by them as well people say anesthesia but i'm pretty sure it's anesthesia because i'm ruPaul's drag race they say that anesthesia Beverly hills cosmetics do do do do do wipe this off and then we're gonna go in with some contour just a little bit um more bronzer than contour but we're gonna be taking the same shade i always use next i'm going to be taking some blush so we're gonna take half of my tart blush this is in party cute put this on cheeks then we're gonna be taking the same highlighter i was using earlier this is in nefri by jeffree star going in with this one then we're gonna be taking a lipstick this is in christmas cookie by jeffree star as well look shit let's see i mean i've looked worse it's fine everything's fine everything's great everything's perfect amazing she says peach stuff spraying this i'm gonna take off my cat ears undo my braids get dressed in proper clothes because i slept in this Marilyn Manson shirt and then we'll end this video off and there we have it that is the complete makeup look um this was so that concludes the Goodreads chooses my makeup tag challenge whatever um i already tagged people at the beginning of this video so i'll have their links down below as well thank you so much to claire again for tagging me um let me know some requests for tags that you guys want to see down below because i've been tagged in a lot of things and i just don't know what you guys would want to see and i thought you would probably want to see this because beauty videos are usually requested by you guys but anyways without further ado i will see you all super soon with a new video bye


You don't get all of the edges. You've got to close to the edges. Questioning this because I saw you in the tweet that they want back to you asleep. Yeah, nice. That's cool.