Hey guys I'm in Houston Just kind of night crawling supposedly Harvey's about a couple hundred miles away from us just hit land We're supposed to get major flooding I'm just gonna kind of drive around and see if we see any action any damage any flooding I mean rain on and off. It's about 1 a.m. Here. There's nobody on the road. It's like a Dead city here in Houston. You can see some debris in the road But nothing Out of the ordinary really it's like there's something brewing my area floods really bad So I can't sleep. So I decided to roam around town and see what was going on Not much No real damage here nothing real crazy because usually I'll be honest with you You see all the crazies at night. There's a place called Corpus Christi, which is about two hours away They're in direct storm. Let me show you a picture here.  I have to explain to them what I'm doing Filming filming porn, sir. Now That little orange dot That's where I am. That's us Houston And as a result of that big hurricane I mean look man It's one of the worst to hit the coast in ten years. I've been through a lot of hurricanes I've actually helped out during hurricanes and went to help out Louisiana. I'm pretty sure Corpus Christi is really bad I mean, we're known to flood After eight or ten hours of good rain. We are probably gonna flood if it rains for three days here Popular bar there are two people in there unless they're gonna make out with each other They are not getting any tonight You know what I mean? So like here in Houston, I guess we buy all the water we buy all the bread that we give five or four So I have we buy all the alcohol so no need to come to a bar pretty much Remember guys, there's only 18 people here, but it's not Size and number it's girth. That's me Why am I crazy? It's not play. It's not bad yet. It's not gonna. I don't think it's gonna start I don't even think I'll wake up in the morning and it'll be bad flooded Couldn't get in my neighborhood. So Parked at the supermarket next to me. This is the Houston area though Corpus Christi's probably Already went through hell You can see the damage thank God these homes have not got hit by water yet if it stays like this and real water recedes Neighborhood will be very lucky if it keeps going this will be their Fourth flood in five years. Oh I got to cross over the street. I hate this part pretty bad down the street It's not my first time walking through floodwater Just my first time recording and I have to say the first time I walked through floodwater It was a little bit more exciting. I was a little bit more stranded. I was further away from home I wasn't know like 15 minute water trying to get home to see if I can watch that McGregor fight Hopefully somebody on periscope has got it on or something. This water is pretty high here Most of the houses here have been raised due to floods already. It's just pretty cool The water is so high Why it might be better for me to go Let's sneak across here So there was a car that went down the street that I was gonna go down and it flooded Because he went down that street.  I'm not too far from my house. So I will call you back guys Thank you for watching Nalligator come up at me or something you know now. I haven't thought this through but There could be a chance that I get home in my house this way. This is the deepest water I've been in so far This is up to my waste What's up guys? Hey, what's up, man? I live on The next street, but I just put the car over at our rent proger You think we'll be okay? It was just a little bit of effort on my part. I should have done it earlier. Oh, yeah, there are people out here Great people. This is one of the best the people that have raised homes didn't get any water so they would go around to the one-story homes and Ask the people if they need help doing laundry or if they need a place to sleep or if they need them to cook and food like The neighbors here really pitched in And unfortunately that last flood happened like a year and a half ago. That was their fourth one in five years that one Drew a lot of good people out of this neighborhood It was sad to see people that I had known that lived in this area for like 10 15 years and My street is flooded. I was high as the other one, but it's high This is my street Need a good shower. I don't know if I'll have water. Oh It's so deep here. Oh, and it's colder It looks like My part of the street is dry coming up on it. What a walk Yes, I probably have like a hundred more steps and it's dry. Yes Yes, come on guys. Oh my god, probably like 50 more steps dry I guess this house is under construction, so I stepped on something Something oh again. Oh man. We made it Certain intersections down there comes up to your waist already, but nobody has water in their house. Nobody on the lawn yet That's good. We got some movement here. I would not tell this guy to drive anywhere That guy maybe I wouldn't drive in that one Nothing You're stuck dude. That's it. It's over You're stuck Maybe that truck I Tried to get into the neighborhood with my car. I left it at Kroger and I walked. There's no way There's I walked all the way from it's no way out.  I just left their program off Good luck guys. I don't think they should go anywhere either Hey seal you get my dad or no Cartagena already floated They called me It's bad fatso It's bad But I want you guys to do a periscope and show me how it looks outside the house over there Just up here in my attic pretty much lost everything, you know like not family and friends and House I guess personal belongings at five o'clock in the morning This is what happened I managed to get up there There's more tornado threatening emergency stay put is safe call not one for life-threatening emergencies only stay put it Well, there was a moment there that I was thinking about calling them, but I'm pretty healthy I can swim. No needy pin it My house right now Everything everything in my house was bunkered down in the attic for a while. I don't need assistance I'm okay. I think the water is going down. I Might need some help. I don't know emotionally financially, I don't know What's my bathroom Completely flooded. This is my living room I could walk out of here There's been people that going around on boats like nice boats and the slow paddle boards that they have in California and stuff And you know at any time I could jump on one of those and bail out of here. I'm just worried about my car Yeah, I'm not gonna go drive my car or anything like that I'm just worried about it see if it flooded because it's my means of income I have no food pretty much only in my boxers. It's about it survived the storm Think that might be a military vehicle because there's usually not vehicles that high up Yeah, see you hear Is that it?  I gotta go guys if I needed help I don't need help but somebody here is screaming for help. Hello Hey, are you okay? Where are you? What's wrong? Where are you guys? Oh, you're there? Oh, you're on the roof Yeah, there's some guys going around on a boat. There are a bunch of young kids They're going around the neighborhood on a wakeboard You need medical attention Anybody have any ideas how I can help these people does anybody have a boat? Hello, is everybody okay? That's with you though Marlene what I would do is I would I would shoot a text message or something to Local Fox 26 news give him my name on periscope and tell him this is where I am they called the National Guard You got to get the news in on this Fox 26 or something I hear other people screaming over there that they need help, but I don't know if I should walk over there Maybe I should get on the roof. Should I get on the roof Marlene? What should I do? Should I go around the corner to see if they're okay or should I stay put? I don't know why the mayor said to stay You know, I guess they're thinking the eye of the storm ain't coming here The storm is 300 miles away, you know now don't mention Gators. Okay. I'm standing in the water right here Let's not talk about Gators or snakes Okay, or even sharks Okay, don't even mention sharks now.   I'm pretty sure They don't need to waste their time helping me. I'm getting out of here guys.  Keep it trying Yeah, I like your idea, sir. Put it in a trash bag. That's what I'm gonna do My girlfriend's calling me She's also watching this Something about a computer put on top of a fridge Yeah, I that's in the back of my Mercedes in the trunk. Yeah You know Well, that's her that bag is coming with me. I don't know if you're watching periscope. Is this the bag you're talking about? Yeah, yeah, this is coming with me. I don't think the water will go up that high That's not for you. It's cuz it's got my stuff in it, but I needed to get out of here That's it. That's all I'm caring Everybody here on Periscope is telling me to bail right now while it's dry.  I'm gonna go look. How am I gonna save somebody? Huh, I'm trying to get out of here Go to Kroger, but I know you're 49 10 Glen Meadow So when I get somewhere the first thing I'm gonna do is say go to 49 10 Glen Meadow And if I can I'll come with them Be nice to step on their steps Get dry for a little bit, but now we just impede my progress Where am I going to dry land? I know where it's dry. It's gonna take me an hour The wind is just one inch this way one inch that way pushes me water. No, it's pretty warm I've been in colder water. I Probably will be sick every time I've stepped in floodwater two three days later. I got sick every time You need to get a stick to check the water depth well to make you happy I am a water stick I'm about 5 10 The water is about 5 5. Where's your water stick? I don't know if I'm doing the right thing Just keep going. I could go a lot faster if I wasn't on Periscope dry land I Know how to get there just getting really high here I should have okay. It's getting too high here. I gotta get off my land. I was going through this water I think your name is Tom Thomas Thomas your name Jacqueline your name Richard Richard. Hey surfer. What's your name? Liam, how you doing Liam? These are the guys that saved me. They also rescued him. What's your name, sir? Okay, and and we got two beautiful children We're coming back around Who's got helicopters in the room? These kids right here man are just going non-stop. I've seen them since the morning when I first saw them I didn't ask for help. I thought they were I was okay But they've just been going non-stop back and forth picking people up that helicopter is just in Get people off the roof Like unreal driving a boat. Yeah through the street, right?  He's never flooded. They got water today It's like everybody has you on what you raised it like a lot. Yeah This area is done. That's it. It's done. That's it. That was this was it All the Glen Meadow they need help they're stranded on Glen Meadow Okay We can drop you off at Kroger Yeah, I would not stay anywhere in this neighborhood Let's go to this don't have don't have supplies. They'll have water. They'll have everything they have them They just can't get it to us being helpless those the worst feeling in the world And I can see it.  You need a ride. Yeah, I'll take you Thank you. No, but like you guys do not know how we are panicking inside our houses You do not know Okay Hey bring that laughter down to those guys everybody's panicking man keep to keep to keep it up man. Keep it going People there are panicking Push it back push it back this way guys, but you do not want to see When you make a right turn you can't really tell right now, but there's about one two three Four five They're from San Antonio They're all from San Antonio This is crazy They're coming to help because I guess they're scared that we're the people out there that are looting are organized You know and I guess we can't keep up with it They're going house to house that Is that what they're doing? I can't get by because of the car they survived Yeah So this was the house that had the aqua damn This was a big talk in our neighborhood to see if this was hold up And if it did hold up a lot of people were gonna go ahead and purchase this But as you can tell by the marks on the house, it got over these people use the fire hydrant here They got some employees. This thing was lifted up all around the house But they still still still took on water. I can tell from inside. I don't feel right stepping on people's property, but It's a great idea this aqua damn, but we just got too much water and I've seen it work before People are still not fully back yet. There's a lot of houses Unfortunately, nothing you can do and that's my house. My bird has been acting nuts ever since we evacuated from Hurricane Harvey Very loving bird, but he bit me here. He bit me on my nose. That was a couple of days ago as soon as I came back From the storm pretty much within that 24 hours. I was bit like three times He won't stop screaming. He won't stop yelling. So my idea is to take him back to the house And show him like hey, dude, this is why we're not going back Just me and her So I think this is the last pretty much the last part of the house We have left this in the laundry room back there and maybe a closet This room is pretty much cleared out. We just got to get this table out of here and that little desk dresser We did the carpet today We did the carpet today in here and all this stuff in there We got these two bedrooms.  We don't even want to start We got these two over here. We're gonna keep going. This is the progress. We've been making so far This is the one employee I've hired. We've been at this for five days We got to keep going because she's got to go back to work again on Monday And I can't have her coming here every day after work and working here for another three hours It's just been me and her It's progress, but it's a little bit of progress You know survivor of Hurricane Harvey he refuses to abandon his cage. This is one of his cages kind of lopsided here You can see missing a wheel But tie is a trooper tie does not want to leave. This is his first time being back He has not been here since the storm. He's a couple of more of his cages I think they're all salvageable. Just need a good cleaning detox every time we're home He just screams non-stop Like crazy over we feed him we give him whatever he needs He's just not settled. He just won't relax. I don't know. Maybe it's because of the storm I thought he would come back here and be traumatized, but no He seems okay kind of like back at home. Nothing really seems to bother him. My wife wanted to bring him here and For those of you who kind of want to understand off-topic Yeah, we got about four feet of water in this house all throughout the neighborhood Everybody's pulling out everything, but tie is safe.  These guys are working here, and they requested the therapeutic tie to the rescue It's gonna come help them out a little bit. There's a little thing right there You can see that that'll spin over after they're done filling it up completely and Cover it tarp it over. He's not working right now because it's focused on ties So we're slowing down the neighborhood, but it's for a good cause You guys want a picture or anything? Where's your phone? Hi, we brought him to meet all the neighbors because it's been very antsy He's loving all the attention No, he's the only one This is tying action doing his therapeutic things.  She is living in this neighborhood that just flooded Not too long because her house in Bel Air Is that so she's here as a renter the renters insurance doesn't cover flood She lost everything in the fire. She bought everything new Bring it here Now everything flooded Took some time out to play with time So here's your shoe Yeah, sure is right here and he does leather and he says my couch has actually had pretty good leather So he's gonna be able now I feel bad throwing away these couches But at least I know this guy here now is gonna salvage some of it and make personal use out of it. Yeah No problem. We'll pay for it Yeah What else you make that's nice Houston has a lack of supplies to the hurricane Harvey. This is a focal synagogue Right down the street You just look But the amount of stuff that arrived today, we needed manpower and hours Time this is the man in charge Hey, Betty, where are we located? Where can people get supplies to have a case of everyone is welcome to come here? Habbag my land minion you OS


I don't know what time it is it continues to be list season whether it's top 5 this top 10 that Love looking at people's lists different players from different teams how they feel that they should be ranked Where they got them placed that and all that good stuff But this list has had a lot of people talking a whole lot of people talking now y'all know me I don't like to create lists. I don't like to say oh, I think that this is the top five This is this is the top 10 that but somebody who didn't mind saying it was former Baltimore Raven and current Las Vegas Raider Darren Waller titan for the Raiders and Again, you're welcome You welcome Raiders for the Ravens converting him to a titan Because you know they they ain't know what to do with a receiver. That's over six for very way Shout out to the Ravens for making that switch because the Ravens must have known like man We we like this guy. He got some good speed got some good size But at wire see we just don't know what to do with him But we want him to be on the field so bad You know what? Let's make a switch and that switch worked out for Darren Waller in the long run So it's been an amazing thing to just see how his career has blossomed. I love it Super happy for him, especially knowing what he had been through in order to get where he is now so shout out to him, but he was on a podcast the other night and He was asked who are your top five tight ends in the league right now Now we know Your top five this top five that is debatable Is to to everybody's own personal judgment and discretion and how you feel about it yourself and that's fine But widely around the league widely around fan bases widely around just a lot of people who talk football Most people in their top three to five they'll have a combination of Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, Mark Andrews, and Darren Waller and However, you list them at one through four Whatever, it's you could throw it up in the air and it could be a fair list, but With this list from Darren Waller, I just I got no problem with a lot of the stuff That's in here, but there was just one that just threw me off in the placement of that one that threw me off I was like what? Let's go over this list. So Number one, Darren Waller his top tight end in the NFL. He believes it's himself. Hey, I respect the confidence I respect you believing in yourself and I'm he is a baller as we all know I mean if you're Ravens fan and you weren't familiar with Darren Waller being a baller Then I think you need to go rewatch week one of last year alone. That's the only game. You even need to watch Because he was going off. He was going off But anyway, he has himself at number one. All right, cool number two Travis Kelsey, I believe Travis Kelsey has like the record for most like thousand yard receiving a thousand yards Thousand reception yards by a tight end and have X amount of seasons in a row something like that Some crazy number like that. But anyway, Travis Kelsey is also a beast number three George kiddo. He is like a super shredder a wide receiver playing a tight end position The dude is big. He plays with a lot of power At tight end and George kiddo. He is a monster as we all know now number four Fast speed is there Even even cracked a thousand yards last year as a rookie Came from Florida tight end cow pits Again rookie rookie last year rookie last year the tight end cow pits He is at number four and then following cow pits following cow pits top top top five received I mean, excuse me top five tight ends in the league right now According to Dan Waller and again, I respect everybody's opinion. I sure do. I don't have to agree with it But I do respect it. But number five is Mark Andrews and I was thinking like huh that just That had me a little perplex. I'm like, man. How can you put cow pits Over a Mark Andrews the one through three No problem, whatever again Like I said, if you throw those forest those four tight ends that we named you throw a bunch of names in a hat You pick one out randomly That could be the list as far as it goes for Dan Waller, Kelsey, Kittle and Andrews And I don't think many people would have a big problem with it because I feel like those top four is just so close I feel like it's so close and I feel like if you put any one of those top four and I mean including cow pits to in another one of the team's situation because They are relied upon heavily. I feel like anybody would ball out any of these tight ends will ball out in other Situations, but these guys just they just got some extra but back to the subject at hand cow pits over Mark Andrews Now, what is this based on? Is it based on how he feels the potential is the potential certainly there and he again to get a thousand yards at the Tight end position in your very first year But let's look at if it's just based off of last year long because you know, that's what some people do I mean, he was a rookie. So he's only had one year in the league, but let's just look at last year alone. So Cow pits had 68 receptions. Okay, and had a thousand twenty six yards. Okay So he averaged fifteen point one yards of a catch his longest catch was for 61 yards. Oh, that's long right there And he had a whopping one touchdown Wapping one touchdown now, we know Falcons last year were in for really for the longest I think really ever since the Super Bowl They've been a big yikes ever since their Super Bowl against the Patriots. They've been a big yikes So they really haven't been doing much of anything, but Yeah, that's so though those numbers are those numbers are nice as far as the catches and the yards and the average Touchdown. Yeah, that's gonna improve over time but Let's just look at Mark Andrews numbers just just last year alone. We're not not his career, but just last year alone last year 107 catches 1361 yards now his average was lower than cow pits It was 12.7 yards per and we know the quarterback situations or whatnot, but no, we don't care We ain't getting tall that this is what his numbers are And we don't know but don't tell the host but this is what the numbers are. So we going by that His longest reception was 43 yards. I'm sure Georgia which game was that in I don't even remember, but anyway touchdowns he had one two three four five six seven eight nine So he had eight more touchdowns than one cow pits So I just If you just base it off a last year alone, how can you put? pits over Andrews that's that's my only gripe with this list that that's my only way and again Like I said, I know everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect it. I respect it like crazy But again, just because you respect something you don't have to agree with it and that's fine. That's fine So that's the part that had me really scratching my head now To take it on another level This is something that I was thinking about You see with Mark Andrews, and I mean you could say the same thing for George Kittle too Because I feel like it's something that really Propels those guys up even more when you really really really just think about it Mark Andrews plays for the Baltimore Ravens What are they known for on offense?  That's what they've been known for That's what they've been especially over these past ever since Lamar Jackson They like they were always a run team, but after Lamar Jackson got there. They went run crazy with it so for Mark Andrews to still be Considered one of the top tight ends. It ain't cuz of blocking. I Mean his blocking hasn't proved over the years, but he ain't one of the top tight ends cuz of blocking It's because of him making plays in the passing game So for him to put up the numbers that he puts up in the passing game As a tight end in a run first second third fourth fifth offense That elevates him even more in my opinion. It really does Because you look at a Travis Kelsey Chiefs now chiefs are the exact opposite of the Ravens They are a past first past second third fourth fifth sixth, and they are past first team by far The Raiders They are a past heavy team as well They try to run here and there then they'd certainly try to run more than the Chiefs I think everybody tries to run more than the Chiefs do well Maybe accept the Beatles maybe but they certainly do their fair share running, but they they pass that ball for sure And the 49ers they they are run first. They pass more than the Ravens. I think everybody passed more than Ravens, but You see what I'm saying So I think that um That allows you to make a case for Mark Andrews even more Based off of his situation and the fact that he has continued like every year He like elevates himself He continues to ball out like let's just look at his numbers real quick. I got him pulled up 2018 34 catches 552 yards three touchdowns. All right, cool. That's his rookie year and we know that that draft class was Anyway, 2019 64 catches 852 yards 10 touchdowns So he went from three to ten touchdowns from his rookie and rookie he didn't even start all the way So rookie he just getting a feel for the NFL. He's like, oh, okay. I think I can do this boom 10 touchdowns And in 2020 58 catches 701 yards and he has seven touchdowns What happened there? Why would a number so low there? Hmm? That's interesting. I really don't remember. I know somebody in the comments section I know y'all got a better memory than me though But anyway, and then last year he just went crazy with it He was like, oh Ravens paid me. Oh, you know what? Let me show them Let me show them that they getting way more than their money's worth We're crazy with it 107 receptions 1300 yards and nine touchdowns So Mark Andrews has continued to improve his game Over the years and again, like I said earlier to the blocking the blocking has improved too But again, you could really make a case for Mark Andrews Like I told you you could put those four names Kittle Andrews Kelsey and wall you could put them in a hat and draw out randomly and put them in top In the top four list based off of that But Mark Andrews can really he's really made a case for himself why you could propel him even higher But I know where Kelsey a lot is based off of the situation Where Kelsey putting up the numbers that he's continued to put up to see why he's up there with walla And just like I said everything not just everything that he's been through with everything that he's done As a as a tight in for the Raiders and then him being on that steel of a cut like a steel steel of a contract It's crazy. And of course George Kittle the same thing cow pits first year. Good job. And that's only the start So again, this was not to to the down cow pits at all. That's that's not what we about But this is just more so we're just wondering how Why he placed cow pits Over mark Andrew, even if it's just based off of last year alone So anyway, that was that I love y'all team keep it clean if y'all find any lists Y'all know send them my way


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From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering VMware Radio 2019, brought to you by VMware. Hi, welcome to theCUBE's exclusive coverage of VMware Radio 2019, Lisa Martin with John Furrier in San Francisco. This is an internal R&D innovation offsite that VMware does, lots of innovation going on here from engineers from all over the globe. We're pleased to welcome Joe Bagley, a CTO from Amia from VMware. Joe, welcome to theCUBE. Hi. So we've been having some great conversations this morning about this tremendous amount of innovation and the potential is massive, not just from radio, but from all the other innovation programs that VMware has really speaks very strongly to the culture of innovation that VMware has had. But of course, all this innovation has to be able to be harnessed to deliver what customers need. Talk to us about that. You're in the field, field CTO. What is that connection with the innovation that happens within VMware? How do customers help influence that vice versa? Yeah, I think we're very unique in the structure that we've put around that to drive that innovation over the years. So my job as field CTO is, I call it sort of 50-50, so 50% is chief technology officer, which is this kind of stuff at radio, and 50% is chief talking officer, which is out with our customers and presenting it in conferences, et cetera. But the general remit is connecting R&D in the field. And so for eight years now, I've been connecting R&D in the field at VMware. I actually did it in my previous company as well. And what we've done is we've built a series of programs over the years to do that. And one of the biggest ones is the CTO ambassadors. And so that was, you get to a point, you get to a growth size, I've been here eight years, and suddenly you need someone else to help you because I can't be everywhere. And the original role was, back in the day, I was hired to scale Steve Herrod because Steve Herrod couldn't be in Europe all the time. I was like, you know, mini Steve Herrod that could be there when needed. But then eventually I can't be in every European country in our major regions as we get bigger and bigger. And we've grown dramatically. So the CTO ambassadors is to support that. And that's really, we've got 140 of our top customer facing techies from around the globe in this program called the ambassadors. And they have to be customer facing. They have to be individual contributors. So you know, like a pre-sales manager and something doesn't count. And they're a massively active community. There's a whole bunch of them here at radio as well. And their job is really that conduit, that source of information, and also a sounding board, a much shorter range sounding board for R&D. So if R&D want to get a feel of what's going on, they don't have to ask everyone. They can bounce off the ambassadors, which is part of what we do and that makes it easier. So like a filter too. They're also filtering input from the field, packaging it up for R&D. Totally. Yeah. And when you're at an organization of our scale, filtering is really important.  It's just, it's never going to work, right? I mean, another radio project there right there, a machine learning based champion CTO to go through all the feedback. Yeah, so I mean, I started my career, I started my previous company doing that. I was the filter. So, you know, I'd get 100 questions a day from various people in the field and 99 of those, I'd bounce right back cause I knew the answer. But there was the one that I was like, ah, then I turn around to R&D and ask them. But the great thing was that R&D knew that if I was asking, then it was a real question. It wasn't the other 99. So the CTO ambassadors and what we do in octoglobal field is really a method of scaling that. I want to ask you about that because that's a great example of where reputation comes in because your reputation is on the line when you, if you go back and pull the fire alarm, if you will, send too many, you know, lame requests back, you're going to be lame. So you've got to kind of check balance there. So that begs the question, how do you do the filtering for the champions that work for you? Is there a high bar? Is there a certain lines?  These are criteria. Is there a certification? Take a screen. So the filtering there. The ambassador program is a rotating nomination system. So essentially there's a two-year tenure.  And essentially it's a democratic process based on your peers and on other people in the company. And then after you're allowed a maximum of two years and then two tenure, so you get four years if that makes sense. We're not confusing you. So term limits. Yeah, there's term limits, right? We have term limits. And after two terms, you have to go out for a year to give someone else a chance because otherwise we'll just get, you know, it'll just, you know. You turn in the US government. Well, I'll go there. But no, it's important to maintain freshness, maintain diversity and all those kinds of things in that.  The reputation is massive of the CT ambassadors. I mean, when we started this sort of six years ago as a program, there wasn't, you know, most of R&D were like, who are these ambassador guys? What value are they going to add? Now, if you're an R&D, one of the best things you can say if you want to get something done is what the CT ambassador said. I mean, literally it is, you know, you can go in and we have. So the team approach to that. Talk about how you guys add in a new category. So for instance, Kubernetes, you know, we saw this years ago when KubeCon was started, the Kube was there, President of Creation, and that trend, we kind of got it right away.  So that would be an example where we need an ambassador. So do you like just create one or how does that work? They create themselves. That's the best thing. So we have an annual conference, which is in February held in Palo Alto, where we all get together along with all the chief technologists, which is, you know, the level below me, and the principals, which is the most senior field people. So literally the best of the best gets together. It's about 200 plus get together for a week. And we are an hour and a half, one-on-one with Pat, for example. So Pat's there with all of us in the room and this. But one of the sessions we do is the Shark Tank, and there's two of them.  And the other one is the Acquisition Shark Tank. And so there we get the M&A team, including our East Staff sit in, and the ambassadors as teams will come in and present. We think we should acquire, because that's making a big difference. And the great thing is, you know, so about nine times out of 10, probably seven times out of 10, the East Staff are going, yeah, we know about them. And actually we can't really tell you what's going on, but yeah, we know about them. But there's the two or three times out of 10, people are like, oh yeah, so tell me more about them. And it might be a company that's just coming up. It might be, you know, 2013, and there's this company called Docker that no one's heard of, but the ambassadors are shouting about Docker and containers are big, you know. So there's that sort of thing. So white space is too emerging. You could see, it's a telemetry, literally feedback from the field to direct management on business strategy. And our customers are pushing our field in directions faster than maybe R&D get pushed, if you know what I mean. But you guys deserve a lot of credit because Pat Gelsman was just on this morning with Lisa and me, we were talking about that. He just came back from the sales president's club cruise and one of the comments he said was the sales executive said, hey, who does strategy? Because everything's fitting together beautifully, which kind of kind of highlights how radiance all progresses, not like magic. This process here and this kind of points to your job is to fit that pieces in. Is that correct? Yeah, people always say, you know, as a CTO, do you all sit down once a week and talk about strategy? And that's not what you do. There's a hive mind. There's a continual interaction. There's conference calls. There's phone calls. There's meetings. There's get-togethers of various different types, groups and levels. And what happens is, you know, there's themes that emerge over that. And so my role specifically as the Amir CTO is to represent your Middle Eastern Africa's voice in those conversations. And maybe the nuances that we might have around particular product requirements or whatever to remind people that maybe sit in a bubble in Silicon Valley. I'm sure you raise your hand on privacy and GDPR. Just a couple of times. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, now and again. But I think, you know. Well, the canary in the coal mine is a really big point that helps companies if they're not listening to the signals coming in. What you do, and you see a lot, there's a lot of the tech companies that I see. It's often defined as the sort of three bubbles. So you're Massimo Raffae, who's now at Amazon when he was here, did this fantastic blog post talking about that the first bubble is Silicon Valley and the second bubble is kind of North America and the third bubble is everywhere else. And so you kind of watch these things emerge. And my job is to jump over that, pop into the Silicon Valley bubble before something happens and say, no, you should be thinking about X, you should think about Y. You know, at an event like radio, I've got a force multiplier because I've got 40 plus ambassadors with me all popping up with all these little booths you see behind you and the shows and the talk. And the goal here is not to be a bubble, but to be completely one hive mine. And the diversity at VMware just blows my mind. It really does. I think a lot of people comment on it quite often. In fact, I've been asked to be a non-exec director of other companies to help them advise on their culture, which is not in tech on culture, which is quite interesting. And so the diversity that we have here is really enthusing people to innovate in a way they've not done before. It's that diverse set of opinions really helps. Well, it does. And this, from what we've heard, radio is a very, there's a lot of internal competition. It's like a badge of honor to be able to respond to the call for papers, let alone get selected. Touch on the synergies, the symbiosis that I feel like I'm hearing between the things that are presented here, the CTO ambassadors and the customers. Like maybe a favorite example of a product or service that came from, maybe CTO advisor, ambassador to radio to market. Yeah, I'm just trying to think of any one specific one. They're always bits and pieces and things here and there. I said, good, well I should have thought that before I came on really. I think what you're looking at here is, it's much more about an informed conversation. And so it's those ideas around the fact that, and also quite often, someone will have a cool idea and they'll go to the ambassadors, can you find me five customers that want to try this? Bang, we've got it.  Maybe it might be before, we don't have things called flings, it might even be before it's made a fling, you've probably heard from Mornay how that process goes. Then engage fast, because you're probably getting that conduit direct into the core of R&D. So a lot of the features that people see and functions and products, et cetera, that people see. So, you know, stuff we're doing with, a lot of the work you see, we're doing with the next version of VRealize, our management platform. A lot of that has been driven by work that's been done by ambassadors in the field and what we're doing there. There's some, all the stuff you'll see, I've got my jacket over there with nano-edger in on it. A lot of the edge stuff that you see, a lot of the stuff around the ESXi on ARM, a lot of the stuff around that is driven specifically around particular product range. So a really good example is a few years ago, probably about four, myself and Ray sat down and had a meeting in the Enwell Barcelona with a retail customer.  They didn't say that at the time, but that's how we kind of got to it. So that started off a whole process in our minds and then I went back and the easiest actual way for me to do it was to then get a bunch of the ambassadors to present that as one of their innovation ideas, which became nano-edge. I originally called it VX Nook, because we were going to do it on Intel Nooks, but unfortunately the naming committee wouldn't allow VX Nook, so it became nano-edge. And that drove a whole change within the company, I think, within R&D. So if you think up until that point four years ago, most of what we were doing was, you know, how do we run things bigger and faster? Like how do we get, you know, it's all like monster VM, remember that, all those kind of things, right? How do we get these SAP HANA 12 terabyte VMs running? And really nano-edge was not necessarily a product per se, but it was more of a movement driven by a particular individual, Simon Richardson, who got promoted to principal as a result through the ambassador program, that was driven through our R&D to get them to think small as well as big, you know? So next time you're building that thing, how small can you run ESX? How small can we get an ESX? Can we get it to- Small at scale, which is edge, right? And, you know, so you get small at scale, which was edge and so suddenly everyone starts talking about edge and I'm like, hang on, I've been talking about this for a while now, but we just didn't really call it that. And then along comes technology like Kubernetes, which is how do you manage thousands of small things? And it's kind of, these things come together. But yes, totally. You could almost say our edge strategy and a lot of the early edge work was done and driven out of stuff that was done from CTO ambassadors. This is one of the examples- What are some of the Kubernetes service mesh? Because if you, you know, one of the things we heard from Pat, and we heard this before, but most recently a Dell Technologies world in the last couple of weeks was don't look down, look up, which basically means we're automating the infrastructure, blah, I get that, we'll cover that in our museum. But looking up the stack means, you're talking about Kubernetes app developers, you've got cloud native, you've got service meshes, microservices, new kinds of challenges around instrumentation. How are you guys at an inside radio looking at that trend because there's some commercial impact. You've got Heptio, you've got, you know, Craig and the team, some of the original guys. As well as you have a future state coming out with state, pun intended data and a stateless. These are things, these are new dynamics. Yeah, yeah. What's the R&D take on this? Well, so there's two ways that I really talk to people about this. And the first one is I've got a concept that I talk about called application chromatography, which sounds mental, but you remember from high school probably chromatography was where you had that really special paper and you put the dot of liquid on it, it spread out into all its constituent parts. That's actually what's happening with our applications right now. So we've gone through a history of re-platform, you know, mainframe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right, so then when we got to x86, everything's on x86, along comes cloud and as you know, John, for the last 10 years, it's been everything's going to cloud because we think that's the next platform, it's not. But then everything's not going to SaaS, it's not all going to PaaS, it's not all going to functions, it's not all going to containers. What you're seeing is those applications are coming off that one big server and they're spreading themselves out to the right places. So I talk to customers now and they say, okay, well actually I need a management plan and a strategy and an architecture for infrastructures as a service, containers as a service, functions as a service, platform as a service and SaaS and I need a structure for that on-premises and off-premises. So that's truly driving our R&D thinking. It's not, how do we help our customers get from one of those to the other? They're going to all of them. It sounds like a green screen for media. It is, and then the other side of that is I've just had a conversation, some of the best, you know what these events are like, some of the best conversations are, you know, in the water cooler, in perception, in the hallway. In the hallway, yeah, exactly. I've just had a fascinating conversation with one of our guys that's been talking about, oh, it's really cool if we got Kubernetes because I could use it right down at the edge. I could use it to manage thousands of tiny edge things. And as I'm talking to him and sort of saying what he's doing, I suddenly, well, hang on a second, how does a developer talk to that? He's like, well, I've not really thought about that. I said, well, that's your problem. We need to stop thinking about things from how can that framework help me, but how can I extend that framework? And so a lot of that- Or moving beyond just standing up Kubernetes for what purpose? Or is that what, you know, the why, what kind of? So if the developer's there, it shouldn't be, I'm going to use this new framework to solve my problem at the edge of an R&D person would, but people like myself are there to drive them to think of the bigger picture. You know, so ultimately at some point, a developer in the future is going to want to sit there and through an API, push out stuff to a SQL server, a bit of Mongo over here, some stuff on AWS, go and use a service on Azure, at the same time pushing stuff into their own data center and maybe push a container to every store if they're a retailer. And they want to do that through one place. That's what we're building.  And it's dynamic, it's not static. So it's not like provisioning the old way. You've got to track what's being turned on and off because how do you log off? What goes turns on?  If you look at a theme of really, I suppose, not only radio, but our industry over the last few years, people have always said, it's that cliche, change is constant, right? Oh, change is constant. Yet still, architects build systems that are static, right? You know, you can think, I'm designing an architecting this new system for the next three years.  What you need to do is design a system that you know is going to change before you've even finished starting it. More or less started going halfway through it. So actually, you know, as I see, I was in a fantastic session yesterday with the architects around ESX and vCenter, which might be boring to most, but we're re-architecting that for scale. Well, I think that's the key thing. I mean, this is, first of all, we love this conversation because if you can make it programmable with APIs and have data available, that's the architecture because it's programmable. It's not static. So you let it morph into however the application, because I think, you know, I mentioned green screen, you know, chroma keys as we have those concepts here. But that's what you're saying. Apps are going to have this notion of, I need a nap right now, and then it goes away. Services are going to be provisioning and turning on. There's a transience. There's a transience to infrastructure. There's a transience to applications. There's a transience to components that traditional mechanisms aren't built to do. So if you look at actually, what are we building here and what's that sort of hive mind message? It's how do we provide that platform going forward that supports transience that allows customers to come. I mean, people used to use the term agile, but it's been overused and it's not right. It's the fact that, literally, it's a situation of constant change. And what you're deploying onto, it's constantly changing. And what you're deploying is constantly changing. So we're trying to work out how do we put that piece in the middle that is also changing, but allows you some kind of constancy in what you're doing, right? So we can plug new things in the bottom, a new cloud here, a new piece of software, a new piece of hardware there or whatever. And at the same time, there's new ways of doing architecture coming on top. That's the challenge of us. The software defined data center is almost like an operating system for clouds or the future operating system for all apps on all clouds in all locations. It's just some stinking for sure, absolutely. Yeah, great point. Let's put your chief talking officer head on for a second. If I don't be doing that for the last 15 minutes. As we look at... You're a great cube guest. We'd love to have you. FBM World 2019, which is just around the corner. Any cool Amia customers that are going to be on stage that we should be excited to hear about? We're not. So actually I was having a meeting yesterday morning about that, so I can't really say, but there's some exciting stuff we're lining up right now. We're obviously now's the time we start thinking about the keynotes, now's the time we start thinking about who's on stage. Myself and a few others are responsible for what those demos are. You know, the cool demos you see on stage every year. So we literally had the meeting yesterday morning at radio to discuss what's going to be the wow at FBM World this year. So I'm not going to give anything away to you. I'll just say make sure you're there to watch it because it's going to be good. We're also making sure there's a big difference between what we're doing in Moscow now and what we're going to be doing in Barcelona. And when we expand theCUBE outside the United States, certainly we'd love to have you guys plug in and localize some of these unique challenges. Like you said, I agree. Bubble, now the west of the world that has different challenges. Definitely. You know, I think to that end, multi-cloud is probably more of a thing in Europe than it was necessarily in North America for a longer time because those privacy laws you talked about before, people have always been looking at the fact they maybe had to use a local cloud for some things. You know, a German cloud run by German people in a German data center and they could use another cloud like Amazon for other things. And, you know, we have UK, we have UK cloud who provide a specific government-based cloud, et cetera. Whereas in America, there was, you know, you could use an American cloud and that was fine. You know, so I think actually in Europe, we've already been at the forefront of that multi-cloud thinking for a while. So, you know, it's worth watching. It is worth watching.  Definitely, any time. All right, we look forward to seeing you at VMware. And we thank you for sharing some insights with John and me on theCUBE today. Cool, thank you. For John Ferrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's exclusive coverage of VMware Radio 2019. Thanks for watching.